This is the document members sign. It is deliberately short, deliberately unglamorous, and deliberately impossible to reduce to a slide. Read it before you read anything else on this site.
Your body, your attention and your reputation compound faster than any index and cannot be bought back once sold. Treat the portfolio as second. When a decision threatens the asset to improve the position, you decline, even when the maths looks good, and it will look good.
Buy the thing that pays you monthly before the thing that photographs well. Members are asked to know, to the pound, what arrives and what leaves each month. Most people who feel rich are simply liquid; most people who look rich are neither.
Programmes you can hold in year eight beat programmes that break you in week nine. Strength, then conditioning, then aesthetics, in that order, because that is the order in which they survive a busy quarter. Bloodwork twice a year. Sleep is part of the programme, not a reward for it.
If you cannot do it in a hotel room in a foreign city on four hours' sleep, it is not your programme. It is your hobby.
One block, defended violently, before the world is awake. No messages, no meetings, no music with words in it. The remaining hours are for correspondence, coordination and the ordinary maintenance of a life. Anyone who tells you they work sixteen-hour days is including the hours they spend looking at a screen with their mouth open.
A leased car in a rented driveway filmed on a borrowed phone is not wealth; it is set dressing, and the audience is you. Own equity, own property, own your distribution, own your time. If a purchase only makes sense when someone else is watching, it does not make sense.
Three dishes, executed calmly, held in memory. The ability to feed people in your own home is the most underrated form of social capital in existence, and the only one that cannot be bought at short notice. Wine is part of this. So is doing the washing-up before anyone offers.
Same hour, seven nights, including the ones after a good dinner. Coffee before the work and never after one o'clock. Alcohol is permitted, encouraged and accounted for. Half a glass tasted properly is worth more than a bottle consumed absent-mindedly, and costs you nothing the next morning.
Your revenue, your debt, your weight, your resting heart rate, your best lift, the last time you called your mother. Vagueness is where failure hides. Members publish four numbers to their cohort every quarter and are held to them by people who have no financial interest in flattering them.
Attendance is cheap and forgettable. Hosting is the act of taking responsibility for other people's evening: the table, the timing, the introductions, the moment you notice someone standing alone and fix it. Party hard, by all means. Then be the one still standing at the end, clearing plates.
Pay properly and early. Answer the message from the person who cannot help you. Teach the thing you just learned to someone six months behind you. This is not sentimentality. It is the only compounding asset with no drawdown, and every genuinely wealthy person we know arrived at it eventually. Most of them wish they had arrived sooner.
Nothing dramatic. Your cohort of eleven notices, because they see your four numbers every quarter and they know what you said last time. You will be asked about it directly, in a call, by people you respect. That is the whole enforcement mechanism and it is remarkably effective.
Members who go two consecutive quarters without reporting are refunded pro-rata and removed. We have done this fourteen times. We would rather have a smaller academy than a decorative one.
Now read how it's taught