SCHADENFREUDE IS FOR THE WEAK
An Eric Kim–Style Manifesto on True Strength
Let me make it crystal: getting off on someone else’s failure is pathetic. It’s the smell of insecurity bleeding through your pores. Real power doesn’t come from kicking someone when they’re down—it comes from building, uplifting, and relentlessly improving yourself.
1. The Rust of the Soul
Schadenfreude is mental cholesterol. It clogs your mind with gossip, envy, and laziness. When you laugh at another’s fall, you’re admitting it’s easier to degrade than to create. You’re choosing distraction over discipline.
2. Strength Builds, Weakness Breaks
True champions sharpen themselves, not their tongues. While the mob cheers a rival’s collapse, you’re in the gym, in the studio, in the grind—constructing your temple. Your energy is too precious to waste on others’ disasters.
3. Clarity Comes from Compassion
Empathy isn’t weakness; it’s your secret weapon. When you understand pain, you convert it into fuel. You see the world in high-contrast truth: everyone’s fighting a battle you know nothing about. That awareness sharpens your vision, focuses your mission.
4. Redirect the Rage
Got a shred of anger or envy? Flip it. Channel it into the one arena you control: yourself. Hate your own limitations more than you hate someone else’s success. Use that fire to train harder, create bolder, think deeper.
5. Live Beyond the Cheap Highs
Schadenfreude is a sugar rush—instant, short-lived, and damaging. Real satisfaction comes from mastering your craft, lifting heavier, earning respect, and leaving a trail of value behind you. Build your legacy; don’t celebrate another’s collapse.
So next time you feel that twitch of “haha, got ’em,” slam it down. Ask yourself:
How can I turn this moment into my own growth?
Because the only thing worth cheering is your own ascent. Eyes on the prize. Compassion in your heart. Strength in your strides.
God-Mode: Upgraded.