We live in the age of the loudest voice.

Where action is secondary to opinion, and those with the least skin in the game feel the most entitled to critique. The internet, for all its brilliance, has given rise to a culture of commentary, a digital colosseum where anonymous spectators heckle the fighters from the stands.

But here's the rule:
Never take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.

Simple. Sacred. Liberating.

Because most critique today is noise... not rooted in wisdom, but in boredom, bitterness, or projection. A man who’s building doesn’t have time to tear others down. He’s too busy sharpening his sword.

The Stoics had a phrase: Res non verba, meaning: Deeds, not words.

In a world flooded with opinion... what you do, how you live, how you train, how you speak, how you show up, is what matters. Not the commentary. Not the peanut gallery.

Think about it.
Would you take diet advice from someone overweight?
Business advice from someone unemployed?
Spiritual counsel from someone in chaos?

Then why let their criticism penetrate your mind?

The mind is shaped by what it accepts. And when you internalize opinions from unqualified sources, you short-circuit your own momentum. You doubt yourself for no reason. You sabotage progress before it can compound.

The cure?
Stay focused.
Move in silence.
Let your results speak for you.

Let the critics talk while you keep building.
Let the spectators guess while you live it firsthand.
Let them post. You train.

Because at the end of the day, the man who moves with intention, who lives in alignment, who builds his body and his life with discipline—he doesn’t have time to argue.

He just wins.