Florian Bador

• 37 years old (updated automatically)
• Los Angeles, CA
• French born
• Compose Music
• Coder and multiple SaaS business owner
• Lover of Capitalism and grateful for its beauty (more about this here).
• Completely apolitical, more interested in discovering how reality actually works than formulating opinions about it (although in recent years I started considering moving to Florida to escape communism. It is very likely to happen at some point.)
• Reader (of carefully selected books, not friends recommendations — See list on GoodReads below). I have no TV, there are bookshelves instead.
• Health, fitness & superfood freak. Strict Vegan since 2010 (not even a single drop of honey in a food bar in all these years). 17/7 intermittent fasting daily. 2 intense workouts a day (never missing once no matter what — See spreadsheet below). Some (few) people might train harder than I do, but I'm quite confident that nobody eats better (see Badass Smoothie recipe below). As a result of compounding all the little things for years I am simply NEVER sick, not even once in a decade. "But how do you treat yourself?" the person who makes sense of mediocrity will ask... With health, that's the ultimate treat. I do not outsource my health to industries that have been keeping people sick for decades. I don't have a "primary care physician" because I know my body better than anyone and trust habits and discipline more than quick fixes or one-and-done solutions. I don't need a mask, I want the natural dirt that keeps my immune system strong. Despite only buying organic I don't need this label because I only buy vegetables that have bugs on them. I trust the bugs more than any label that compromises. Bugs know better than the FDA.
• Time Trial cyclist (see Strava)
• Martial Artist

Now for a quick label-based description of personality:

• Sigma Male. Intense and quiet at the same time. Lonely and bored in the crowd but in great company alone in silence or with the carefully selected .01% who all have these three things in common:
  • 1. They are brutally transparent, what is in their mind is exactly what you get in its raw version as they have the courage to prefer REAL over pretty and represent this idea in practice daily. I always loved those who told me bad things that were true and always hated those who spoke pretty words that were not. I can usually read straight through them anyway.
  • 2. They are very reliable. If they say "I'll be there at six" you can start worrying at 6.05. The rest of the world will text you "ETA 25 min" at 5.55 and I find it very difficult to respect these people.
  • 3. They are more interested into getting to the next level than into making sense of where they are. In other words they are in constant creation and ownership as opposed to victimhood. This mostly comes down to holding themselves to very high standards.
  Unfortunately, 99% of the population does not make it through these three filters. They would say they do but their actions reveal that they clearly do not, and it is one of the reasons I prefer to spend most of my time alone. I am intentionally an extreme example of these three things and I fail to understand why most of the world has so little appreciation for them.
  Personally, I'd rather be great than "cool". Being cool has never been on my goals list, but looking back from the death-bed and seeing CREATION, having created great things and leaving the world different than I found it has always been on the list and pretty much the only thing I ever care about. Everything else is a distraction.
• Believer of extremes where excellence lives, far from overrated "balance" where all mediocrity is found.
• Poor tolerance for mediocrity, average, neglect, lack of standards or poor work ethic. Mediocrity and average are one, this is why the percentile curve of anything is far from linear.
• Greatest strength: self-discipline. Greatest weakness: dealing with people (although excellent at reading them).
• Full personality test here (1/2) and here (2/2) (7 screenshots). INFJ at the Myers Briggs.

LINKS

Email
Photos
Twitter
Facebook (for future use)
Instagram (for future use)
Vimeo (will move all videos to florian.club soon, and on the long term will turn this into a platform where I share a lot of content, produced with the help of a full time staff, running it just like any business for maximum expansion)
Since Jan 1st 2022 I track every workout in This Public Spreadsheet
Tips on the psychology/mindset of working-out consistently (3 pages)
Strava
GoodReads (All Read • Favorites • Please pay attention to my 5 stars in the "Rating" column, and click "view" for my review)
This is how I break my fast every day at 1pm (since 8pm the previous day). I would highly recommend that you search all these ingredients followed by "Nutrition Facts". Make sure to come back once in a while as I never stop improving this recipe year after year and will keep this document up-to-date. 3D-printed scoops

MUSIC

2022 : new music "Amniotic Tone" coming soon.
2021-08 Diary of the Stars
2020-08 B-612
2019-06 Birth of the Solar System
2019-04 Draw Me a Sheep
2019-01 Medley of 2018 Songs
2018-10 Ibiza
2018-08 Funky Improv
2018-03 Ey Yoga Mat!
2018-01 "Extended" version of The Flight of the Dove
2015 Hymn to Grandpa (orchestra)
2015 The Flight of the Dove (orchestra)
2012 Solemn Lullaby (orchestra)

FAVORITE QUOTES

"Almost everything comes down to instant gratification versus delayed gratification, in other words brain versus spirit. We take the marshmallow test every second of our lives." - Florian Bador :)
I believe in this so much that I intentionally made it everything that I'm about. I wired my brain over the years to identify instant gratification as the ultimate enemy in every situation, and the people who promote it are very unwelcome. They usually do so to feel better about themselves having sold their soul to it, if only we could join them... but I never will.
 
"Sign here and you'll go free" > "But I'm already free" - Franz Jagerstatter in the movie "A Hidden Life" by Terrence Malick, probably my favorite movie of all time.
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - Shakespeare
"God made man because God loves stories." - Elie Wiesel
"We don't need spiritual followers, we need spiritual leaders." - Michael Beckwith
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." - Emerson (Self-Reliance)
 
"God's work will not be made manifest by cowards." - Emerson
"Only in our doing can we grasp You. Only with our hands can we illumine You." - Rilke (The Book Of Hours)
"My prayer is action." - Grant Cardone
"Don't let your learning turn into knowledge or you will become a fool, let your learning turn into action so you can become wealthy." - Jim Rohn
 
"To really feel alive, you've got to fu**ing push yourself. That's just the way of things." - Tom Bilyeu
"A lot of people have a nice resume, but they're one-timers." - David Goggins
"^$#**ck&~* f%}^?#** {@$$^#*!!!" - David Goggins
 
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
"Life is short, so remember to be super serious, take everything personally and be outraged on a daily basis." - Chad Hurley
"Some men see things as they are and say why, I Dream things that never were and say why not" - George Bernard Shaw
"Walk by faith, not by sight" - John
 
"The kingdom of God will not appear in visible signs, nor shall people say Lo Here! or Lo There! because behold, the kingdom of God is within you." - Jesus (Luke 17:20)
"Cut wood and I am here. Lift a stone and you will find me." - Jesus (Gospel of Thomas)
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
"Do you want a drink?" someone asked - "I'm making my own" replied Deepak Chopra (meaning from within as opposed to desperately trying to change ourselves from without like most people do)
"Wherever you are, be there."
 
"You must make your future Dream a present fact by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled" - Neville (The Power Of Awareness)
"Conquer the mind and you conquer the world."
 
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain
 
"Great minds discuss ideas, Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
 
"Mastery is being brilliant at the basics."
"People are rewarded in public for what they've practiced for years in private." - Tony Robbins
 
"Broke people are selfish." - Grant Cardone.
"Find out what poor people read and don't read it." - Jim Rohn
 
This story of the farmer and good news/bad news.
 
From the Tao Te Ching verse 38 (Lao Tzu) :
"A foolish man tries to be good, and is therefore not good [...]
  When the Tao is lost, there is goodness.
  When goodness is lost, there is morality.
  When morality is lost, there is ritual.
  Ritual is the husk of true faith, the beginning of chaos."