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Jack Jacobs
Oct 16, 2024
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The Pursuit of Excellence: Perseverance, Humility, and the Power of the Pack

Excellence. A word thrown around so much it almost lost its meaning, right? But here’s the truth: you don’t chase excellence, you create it. You forge it in the fire of presence, in the relentless, gritty moments of perseverance. That’s what makes SpaceX tick, and that’s what makes it thick among the media consumption zombies. It’s not just Elon sending rockets into the abyss of space—it's the tribe that lives and breathes a mission larger than their personal legacies. It’s explosivity bottled, a hundred "no’s" and one undeniable "yes." Perseverance, baby, this is the groove of excellence. This is Elon’s true impact, and This is the message we’re sending to you.

It’s your duty to yourself, family, nation, and planet to stay curious and tethered to innovations in the realm of human experience. Stitch your email here.

Here’s some vastness to empty and refreshen your mind.

Ready?

Here’s the rub: humility. Because, listen—without it, you crash and burn, even if you’ve got the best assets on board. Thanks to the courtesy of The Romance, I screened Thor last night. Here’s the relevance on a platter: Think Thor and Mjolnir—Thor's worthiness isn’t just raw strength. It’s humility and growth through the wins and losses of lightning and thunder. . We can get into the metaphorical dynamics of a storm another time, like knowing when to show off, and how the right elements in the right quantity make the whole thing seem so effortless. You know, the patience of The Storm and stuff. Know this though, the hammer doesn’t just choose fire and muscle, it chooses character. Now this is where it get’s frosty in a good way. New to Character Development? or perhaps it’s just been a while since you’ve sought to improve? (*cough* IKIGAI).

Here, ride the bifrost to the refresher course. Basically, you build character through Human Experience. It is through the spine-first immersion into the realms of Art, Athletics, Academia that One unlocks his true mission: himself. If only there were a team of gut-healthy, harmonic entrepreneur youths creating such places where this curriculum could be fully engaged within society! Oh well!

Alrighty, so we covered Thor, and touched on what it takes to be worthy of swinging the Hammer. (You should be comparing yourself to Thor and team, and feeling about what your “hammer” is and does, no matter what age you believe yourself to be). For example, the team players laced into Divini (Canned Gut Health and Way of Life), The Saber Papers (Media that makes you think and reminds you of what really matters), and Plasmastyl (Personal Brand Embodiment of “the curriculum”), are OBSESSED with the Evolution of the Human Experience - Welcome to class.

Now I invite you to consider Johnny Appleseed (if you’ve been around here for a while, yes, AGAIN)—one of the American OG’s of legacy forging. That’s the mark of legendary legacy, one style, I add, that this generation has completely forgotten. The “Global Local” way of life. Picture the glory of being a genuine and beneficial hobbit, travelling and being a value adding asset on the global stage. And that is the secret sauce to building anything worth having; It’s applicable to the human race as a whole.

“don’t forget how little it takes to live like a king” … and then give this to more people through your “hammer”

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So, here we have the fruit of knowledge story once again. We “know” so much, and this we have access to. You know, internet and therefore dopamine/focus problems. Therefore, we have the question of ‘STYL’. We’ve built ourselves quite the fruit of “knowledge”, but perhaps we’ve lost the way of how we eat the apple (wisdom, curation, truth).

So, me, being the Creative Director of my own life, yet also the ultimate drink brand, DIVINI, I want to highlight this aurora borealis of travelling appleseed style, planting these apple pie flavored Jun seeds. Can you see the wave? We’re healing America. Drink this, but most importantly: LIVE THIS.

Maybe that’s why it’s called DIVINI. (italian, and therefore elegant, for Divinity).

Ask yourself, Are you Livini Divini? (youthful, capable, ikigai-ing, innovating)

Join us in sowing a legacy.

We're spreading Divini the way Johnny Chapman spread orchards across the Midwest. He didn’t just plant trees; he sowed legacies—something future generations could consume, literally and metaphorically. Same with us. Right now, it’s just apple pie Jun, but soon, it'll be an orchard of cultural impact. You get it.

We’re unrushable. We’re playing the long game, just like the Paragon Hobbit of American ideal, Chapman. Cultivating something pure, something that’s going to nourish, that people will stumble upon years from now and feel like they’ve rediscovered a lost art. Divine craftsmanship starts with a dedication to the craft, and this with gut health. Because when you’re guts right, your mind’s right.

So you want excellence? Dip into the fray, stay humble, and build with a crew that believes in the stuff that matters. As Lance Adams used to, and probably still says, “Dirty Hands Clean Money”. That’s the formula. You’re welcome.

Stay Organic

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