CL Palmer distinguishes hustle from grind: hustle is short-term survival effort that gets you from A to B, while grind is vertical, long-term practice that moves you from level 1 to 3. Aligned intelligence stacks ideas on top of each other, each one begetting the next, guided by something divine. Without alignment, ideas scatter.
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Now, let me break down one way that you can look at aligned intelligence. It's like the difference between a hustle and a grind. The way I look at it, a hustle is horizontal. It gets you from A to B, but a grind gets you from level 1 to 3. It's vertical. Now, the thing about it is doing both requires you to use intelligence, but the hustle is born out of survival mode. Is looking to get only to what they could physically see or sense coming. That's why it's in the morning to tonight, from today to tomorrow. But when you're on the grind, whatever type of grind it is, you're putting in time consistently. You don't actually know when the thing is going to pay off. You just know you have to keep showing up. And that's the thing about aligned intelligence., it's going to allow you to build something. Without aligned intelligence, ideas scatter. They go all over the place. But with aligned intelligence, they stack on top of each other because one good idea stacks on top of another good idea that begets another good idea. And that's the true essence of what aligned intelligence is. It's about the way that you are taking in the ideas and the things that are given to you from that divine source and how you are holding them to your life.