Dont be the midwit
why the middle of the bell curve stays stuck..
This meme will forever remain undefeated.
This meme describes how life works in so many ways, without a single word.
The infamous midcurve midwit bell curve meme.
Even as a blank template, this meme speaks volumes. To the left, we have a satisfied and happy retard. No cares, no stress, not just surviving, but thriving. To the right we have our hooded high IQ jedi. The man who has seen it all, been through it all, and has come to terms with how simple things really are in the end.
And the middle?
We have the midcurve midwit.
WHO IS THIS MIDWIT?
He’s stressed. His cortisol has been spiked, through the fucking roof. Mogged. Mogged in every fucking domain. And he has no idea why. How could this happen?
He’s educated.
He keeps up with the “current thing”.
He planned.
He read the studies.
He did what the media told him was right.
He did what his teachers told him to do.
He got lots of upvotes in his reddit echo chambers.
This is the trap you need to avoid at all costs. Don’t ever be the midwit.
In simpler terms, the midwit is the normie. The NPC. The person who needs to be told what to think, when to think it, and how to feel about what they were told to think. That life is black and white. That grey areas don’t exist, or they are “bad” because something else told them before they could form their own opinion on it through self experience. They need permission to do nearly anything. Someone other than them, who they have dubbed as more important or intelligent, needs to grant them the hall pass to make a decision.
And that decision?
Well, we just covered that. That decision was never their own. Their “ideas” have been planted in their subconscious by minds and influences other than their own.
The midwit lacks the ability to critically think and question things. Either that, or they are scared to do so and deviate from the approved narratives. They lack the self awareness to be able to step back and observe the world around them through a lens they’ve created through their own lived experiences and independent opinions. They view the world through a lens that is largely formed through the approved sources, i.e. mainstream media, mainstream finance, mainstream health, or whatever else the government deems as acceptable. They are unable to see that their best interests will rarely, if ever, align with those of a government or multi billion to trillion dollar corporate entity.
Our retarded friend to the left?
He simply doesn’t care. Most things fly over his head. He doesn’t think too much, he thinks just enough to get by. He wants to start a business? He starts one.
He wants to try something new? He just fucking does it. He sees a stock or asset that he has identified as something valuable? He buys it, and keeps buying despite what other people think. He doesn’t overthink, he just executes. Retardmaxxing at its finest. Simple as that.
Our Jedi to the right? He realized long ago that overthinking gets you nowhere. That over planning on its own produces no results. In fact he clearly sees that over planning is just another form of mental masturbation. A better term: mental gooning. He’s been down that rabbit hole and realized it gets you nowhere in life. He can perceive that no institution or government cares about him, and that nobody is coming to save him. He’s seen through the veil of motivation porn and the endless self-help dopamine trap. This trap is particularly dangerous for a very large amount of the population.
Why?
It’s simple. You crack open a book. Something relevant to an issue you’ve been struggling with. Maybe you’ve hit rock bottom again (be careful here, a true rock bottom doesn’t exist) and you’re trying your best to find a way out. You crack open a self help book. Throw on some Alex Hormozi content. You listen. You read. You feel good. Finally, you’ve found the keys to success! A secret library of knowledge. The stuff that was neglected to be taught in schools. You begin to see the veil, but you’re still trapped within one of its many layers.
You listen. You read.
You listen. You read.
You listen. You read. Maybe you plan a bit.
But then you listen, and you read.
And it feels great. You cap off your day with some motivational content. It paints a pretty picture in your mind’s eye of what your life could look like.
But what are we missing here?
Execution.
There is no action. Nothing is actually happening. You are consuming content designed by default to spike your dopamine and trick your brain into thinking you are making progress. You are essentially laying around, jerking yourself mentally, thinking you are going somewhere.
The reality? You are going in circles. Thoughts without action will never materialize. A goal without action is just fantasy. Write all the affirmations in a journal you want. But if that is ALL that you do, how can you expect anything to change?
The hard truth for many to accept is that no amount of morning routines and motivational videos will save you. It doesn’t matter if you spend the first three hours of everyday:
Waking up at 5AM
Sitting in the sauna
Doing a cold plunge
Sitting in the sunlight
Doing your stretches
Going for walk
Journaling
The list goes on...
Because you have done everything, except for the thing that actually pushes your progression forward. You have avoided the hard thing, by stacking easy things. Yes, staying in shape and getting up early is easy. That is the bare minimum. You’ve done what every human should be doing, and have taken zero risks. This might be a hard truth for many, but that morning routine garbage is just more mental gooning.
Do you think the real operators, the real money printers, the guys that actually build successful enterprises or have risen to the top of their craft or companies are actually following that garbage, day in and day out? That those activities are the reason for their success?
Fuck no.
They’re probably getting out of bed. Having a smoke. Chugging a cup of coffee. Taking a few minutes to analyze the highest leverage activities of the day and just getting to fucking work.
The ones that do have those 3 hour morning routines are the ones that have already made it. They have access to leverage, support, money and systems they have built over time that you currently don’t. Once you hit the top of your game or business, you have things running 24/7 in the background via assistants or systems you’ve built through trial, error, pain, wins and losses, and the money is flowing… feel free to do some mental gooning for hours a day.
Otherwise, you have some fucking work to do. That hard stuff you’ve been avoiding.
These high performing operators and money printers are both the jedi and retard in many aspects.
The midwit is mentally gooning with his journals and sauna sessions accomplishing nothing, but feeling like they are doing something.
The jedi and the retard are out in the trenches, ruthlessly executing their plans, giving zero fucks, learning as they go and adjusting plans as needed.
As you can see, this mental gooning is a very dangerous trap.
The retard to the left avoids this by default. This is his hidden superpower that allows him to coast through life largely unscathed by the optimization trap. The jedi is smart enough to see through the bullshit and apply leverage, time and money to the areas that count.
Unfortunately for the midwit, he is highly susceptible to it. As much as some of the typical motivation content messages do ring true in life... most of it is just another form of porn ensnaring endless amounts of midwits. Just one more video, right? The next one has the key they’ve been missing.. That one ingredient that will finally make things click. The plan just needs one more thing before executing... thats all, right?
THIS APPLIES TO EVERYTHING IN LIFE
This isn’t just about entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs trying to get a business off the ground or currently in the day dreaming stages drowning in motivation porn. This meme, or lens which you can view life through, applies everywhere.
Fitness and health is a prime example.
How many times have you seen someone that drops hundreds to thousands of dollars on supplements, tries all the trends, applies “science” based lifting, tries to time protein intake, and appears to be a living and walking encyclopedia that can recite 20 PubMed studies off the top of their head?
Only problem is... they’ve looked the same for years. Or they don’t even look like they’ve touched a weight in their life.
Enter the fitness midwit.
You’ve seen them everywhere. They’ll proudly proclaim that science based lifting is cutting edge. That their kinesiology degree taught them the secret sauce. That the BCAA kool-aid hits hard. Instead of just taking testosterone, they’ll double down on SARMS or they actually believe that peptides build muscle. He just thinks he needs to be taking peptides, without realizing they have specific use cases (i.e are you injured?). Or maybe, they are one of the delusional naturals high on imaginary pride. They argue endlessly about what their PubMed studies say, despite having little to no skin in the game or a physique to reflect their body of knowledge.
He’s turned his diet into a religion. There cannot be a middle ground! The greats that came long before him with real results are all wrong, including the monsters in their own gym..
They just get fucking nowhere.
Our retarded friend? He shows up to the gym 3-5 times a week. He doesn’t really listen to the noise. He’s not concerned with the current fitness trend. When he’s sore and beat down, he takes a day off. His body is telling him something, so he listens. Runs a solid bro split. Why? Because it feels good. He likes the pump. When he can, he throws an extra 5 or 10 pounds on the bar or stack. He’s largely done the same exercises for a long time now, sometimes switching them out from a pool of other ones he thinks feels good and he performs well. He eats lots of protein by default. Tries to avoid processed junk, doesn’t stress out about it. He just slaps on his headphones and throws some weight around for a bit and he’s out. If he’s enhanced, he’s never even heard of a SARM. He just pops some dbol and blasts a little bit of test. Mogs over half the gym by default. Just happy to lift. This is how he escapes. A friendly well known giant who’s always around to spot you on the bench. A living embodiment of keeping it simple.
The jedi? He does damn near the same thing. He’s read the same PubMed studies the midwit did, but he can tell these studies don’t truly extrapolate to real life. Why’s that? He understands the nuances, and gets that hands on experience in any domain will forever count more than some data captured in books and studies. He operates from a fusion of good data and real results, applying what works and ignoring the rest of the noise. He understands that fitness influencers are basically recycling the same base concepts with shiny new wrappers to confuse the midwits and profit from it. Maybe there’s a nugget of gold here and there he identifies, and he pulls it into his routine. He’s tried all the diets, and realizes they are all tools with specific use cases, but that they don’t need to be followed as gospel. The Jedi is the friendly monster that will help the newcomer or midwit separate the signal from the noise.
Both the retard and the jedi are the biggest boys in the gym. They both keep it simple, and either aren’t aware of the noise or they simply ignore it. They just know what works.
Let’s expand a bit further here.
This ironically applies to money as well...
You’ve probably heard the old saying “the best investors are the dead investors”. Why? Because they aren’t around to second guess themselves. Nothing ever changes. They made their bets, and the portfolio never changes. It just appreciates in the market due to time and inflation factors.
This is exactly how our retarded friend invests. The retard finds something he likes. Or maybe he was given knowledge by a friend who would be found the right side of bellcurve. He got told to double down and dump money in the VOO or SPY. Ignore all the noise. Every paycheque, dump a portion of it in there. No research required. He concentrates all of his capital into the easiest play that will still on average out perform most money managers. He’s on autopilot. He might not even know how to sell. Its just another savings account for a rainy day. Nothing changes. Every 7 years his money doubles. Feels good man. He’s probably doing it in a tax shelter without realizing it. Ironically, the retard probably owns some bitcoin too. Why? It’s the most valuable one. It just keeps going up. Buying memecoins and bridging through defi protocols is too much. Easier just to smash buy the orange coin. Orange coin is number 1. Orange coin good. Orange coin can be bought everywhere, including his brokerage accounts via proxy by ETFs now. Easy and simple. The retard doesn’t really watch the news. He doesn’t care.
The jedi winds up following a similar strategy. He identifies single stock plays that have potential. No need to complicate it. He concentrates his wealth into a few large bets on single stocks. No need for diversification. A few good plays with large upside is all you need. He gets it. The jedi has seen through and experienced the raw brutality of the crypto shitcoin casino trenches and understands that it’s all gambling outside of bitcoin. He quietly hoards bitcoin as well. Its just a simple bet on supply and demand at the end of the day, with the biggest first mover advantage and network that will never be replicated. Like the retard, he keeps it simple and maintains high conviction. He understands that the media endlessly spreads FUD and are largely owned by a system that does not want the average person to build wealth. He ignores the media understanding it as an artifact of boomer brainwashing. He verifies things himself, through his own lens, not the one of others.
Now the midwit....
The midwit really struggles here. The midwit follows every finance account he can on X. He is drowning in a surplus of information, mostly regurgitated AI slop he is unable to detect. He’s subscribed to all the right subreddits. He routinely quotes Warren Buffett, or Charlie Munger thinking if he emulates them enough he’ll somehow wind up billionaire without understanding the nuances of a rapidly changing economy and a rapidly depreciating dollar over the past 100 years. The midwit takes his low five figure sum.... and diversifies it into over 10 stocks and ETFs. He didn’t choose these assets either. They were preselected by CNBC and the Wall Street Journal. He is incredibly risk averse to the point where he is actively shooting himself in the kneecap before embarking on what is essentially a decades long marathon to build wealth. If he’s into crypto, he thinks bitcoin had its run, it costs too much and he’s suffering from unit bias. The only way to win is to gamble shitcoins.
So many influencers on X made it with shitcoins! The midwit doesn’t realize how easy it is to manufacture bullshit or that many of these influencers or KOL’s are simply building a base of other midwits just like him for exit liquidity. He can jump from chain to chain, reads whitepapers and thinks his shitcoin will solve world hunger. He roundtrips his bags. He’s so diversified with stocks, his portfolio barely budges and slowly drowns as inflation continuously grows. The midwit doesn’t realize it’s not just death and taxes that he can’t avoid, but inflation as well.
JUST DONT BE THE MIDWIT…
As you can see, the right and left sides of the bellcurve reap the rewards. The retard and jedi are similar because they either don’t think, or know when to stop thinking and execute. They don’t see the noise, or they just ignore the noise. They are both willing to take risks. They don’t need to read hundreds of studies to feel smart and productive. They either don’t read them at all and form an independent opinion, or they take the useful bits they read and apply them to their own real life experiences.
Keep it simple. Take risks. Just fucking do things. Make your own decisions and have conviction. If it doesn’t work? Cost of tuition, on to the next play. Execute and learn, or learn and execute.
You might be thinking the midwit is dumber than the retard to his left. This isn’t true. The midwit’s problem isn’t in his intelligence. He lives in the middle of the curve. There are some wheels spinning in his brain. The midwit’s problem is his blind obedience to anything that has been deemed as an authority figure. The midwits obedience has shut down his critical thinking and ability to question things on his own. His thoughts, feelings and opinions have been outsourced.
The retard never listened in the first place.
The jedi has learned to stop listening.
The midwit can’t stop listening.
Don’t be the midwit.