When Life Uppercuts You in the Teeth...

Imagine you're drowning in debt…

…and your ex just posted pictures with her new man (who looks like a Greek god had a baby with a Fortune 500 CEO)...

..and your boss just told you your position is being "restructured."

You may have heard the advice "stay positive" like it's some magic pill.

But this is more of a kind of insane, unhinged positivity.

Even if you are sleeping on a mattress that looks like it survived three wars, eating ramen noodles while watching your bank account bleed dry - don't just "stay positive."

Become positively deranged.

Every morning, you should look in your cracked bathroom mirror, your unwashed face staring back at you, and grin like a madman while declaring:

"I'm so grateful for this character-building opportunity to live like a medieval peasant! Soon I'll be so rich, Elon Musk will ask ME for business advice!"

Is it rational?

Hell no.

Would your neighbors think you are losing it when they hear you laughing maniacally at 5 AM while doing pushups in underwear?

Probably.

But when life kicks you in the nuts, rational thinking is not really the best strtategy.

Your circumstances want you broken?

Show them your teeth.

They want you depressed?

Dance naked in your kitchen.

They want you to give up?

Laugh like a supervillain and keep pushing forward.

Rock bottom is just the solid foundation from which absolute lunatics like us build empires.

Be irrationally, stupidly and criminally optimistic.

After all, what's crazier: believing you can turn everything around while you're at your lowest, or accepting that this is all life has in store for you?