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Here's how you get ahead of 99% of people in 6 to 12 months: become brutally aware of two things.
Learn how to get ahead by mastering deep work, creating a vision and anti-vision, and eliminating distractions for long-term success.
Key Takeaways
- Clarity about what you don’t want helps define your true goals.
- Creating an anti-vision fuels motivation through negative energy.
- Discipline and consistent daily habits are key to mastery and success.
- Removing distractions frees mental energy to focus on meaningful work.
- Long-term commitment and patience are necessary; quick results are unrealistic.
Summary
- Become aware of what you don't want and where mindless actions lead to avoid negative outcomes.
- Create an anti-vision by writing down everything you want to avoid, then use it to clarify your positive vision.
- Develop a detailed daily and weekly plan to prevent entropy and chaos in your life.
- Eliminate distractions, bad habits, and toxic influences to focus mental energy on your goals.
- Adopt boring fundamentals and repetitive practice to build mastery and long-term success.
- Accept that meaningful progress takes years and embrace trial and error as part of the process.
- Use negative emotions productively as motivation rather than suppressing them.
- View life through the lens of your future self to maintain focus and alignment with your purpose.
- Understand that deep work is essential in a world full of distractions and overwhelm.
- Build a sustainable system that supports your vision and prevents mental and life entropy.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction: Getting Ahead by Awareness
- 05:27The Power of Repetition and Fundamentals
- 10:51Creating Your Vision and Anti-Vision
- 21:47Eliminating Distractions and Mental Energy Management
- 33:00Mastery Through Patience and Trial & Error
- 41:26Aligning Daily Actions with Your Future Self
- 51:56The Necessity of Deep Work in Modern Life
- 59:28Sustaining Success with Systems and Discipline
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The first is what you don't want. The second is where you will end up if you keep doing the same things in life.
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Observe the masses and see where mindless action leads. It's not pretty at all by any means.
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When you do this, when you observe the masses, sit with your thoughts, think them through.
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Don't just close your mind off and take what you see on the surface and accept it as reality.
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That's not how this works. That closed-minded, surface-level living is what got you into this situation in the first place.
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You need to think deeper. It's easier to know what you don't want from experience and observation than it is to know what you want from imagination.
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And just thinking and having all of these grand ideas for your future. And don't get me wrong here, I'm not writing those things off.
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Those things are good. They are not bad. Do not label any of what I'm saying as good or bad.
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Test it through your direct experience. Many of you know that I'm very big on creating a vision for your future, but the best way to do that is by also creating an anti-vision, having a negative thing, something that you despise,
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something that will get you angry because negative energy is very, very potent. It can be used and transmuted to actually achieve what you want in life.
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It's like when you're going to the gym. I'll be walking on the treadmill as a warm-up and I'll just think of what my life would be without the gym.
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Where could I end up if I don't put my all into that workout? And somehow I just get very, very pissed and I can feel that energy. Not being pissed isn't bad.
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Negative emotions aren't bad. They exist. They are what they are and they should be used, not suppressed, but used for good.
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So to create your anti-vision, sit down with a notebook, become a mad scientist, draw out everything, sit with a notebook for 30 minutes and just draw out everything, your entire future.
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But start with the anti-vision. Write down every single thing that you do not want in this life.
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What do you not want to look like? What do you not want your future to be?
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What do you not want your day to look like on an everyday basis? And from that, it will be much clearer to you what your vision will actually be, because it's just the opposite of those things.
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And so when you look at your anti-vision after creating it, or as you're writing it, you should feel uncomfortable.
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You should feel very uncomfortable with the possible idea of where you could end up in life if you do not take control of your life.
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And so with that discomfort, you should laser in on one big goal, laser in on your vision for the future.
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And this should be meaningful because your anti-vision is usually meaningless. It comes from mindless action and comes from not doing anything and letting entropy take hold and just drag your life into chaos.
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That's what entropy does. That is the supreme law of the universe. If you do not create order for your life, you will decline into chaos.
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So in that same notebook with that vision for your future and your anti-vision, plan out, be the mad scientist that is going to work on the project of your life.
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Create a plan, create a strategy for exactly what you are going to do on a day-to-day basis, week by week.
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Every single thing you're going to do for the next week and write it out, get extremely specific, create the order so you do not be a victim of entropy.
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Next, disappear. And whenever I say disappear, like disappear for six months, people take it literally.
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Almost everything I say is metaphorical and exaggerated to get the essence of the message across.
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I'm not saying disappear like your physical body is just going to disappear. I'm saying disappear from the things that don't belong in your life.
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Cut them out. This can be people, games, apps, or even bad habits. Just become aware of the things that are holding you back.
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And there are multiple ways to do this. But with the process that we've discussed and what works best for me is to just rip the Band-Aid off, get rid of them all.
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You don't need to explain yourself here to other people that are going to be missing you.
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Hey, bro, where'd you go? Just disappear. In other words, break your addiction with feeling like shit.
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Because that feeling, feeling like shit, has one cause, and that is, well, it has multiple causes, but we're talking about mental here, not physical, which would be attributed to something like nutrition or food, but mental, mental energy that you are spending on people
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and things that don't give a fuck about you and direct that mental energy that you now have into your vision for the future.
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Because you have created a system that will prevent entropy in your life. The thing that will take you from anti-vision to vision, the system there, and to maintain a system to prevent entropy, you need energy, in this case
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mental energy to actualize or manifest that vision, if you want to call it that last.
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Make a habit of the boring fundamentals, but realize that the boring fundamentals are not boring because most successful people, they take the same repetitive actions on a day-to-day basis in a game, in like a game that mimics the real world, you are logging on
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and you are repeating the same thing over and over to slowly level up over time, right?
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You're killing monsters. You're going through dungeons. You're doing the same thing to stack experience.
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So you need to transfer that into the real world and move the levers that will actually take you towards your goals.
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These are fundamentals, these are principles. These aren't tactics. And so understand that these are not boring.
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They seem boring on the surface when you look at someone else doing it day in, day out, like, this guy down, he writes for 30 minutes every morning.
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That seems so boring. But it's mastery over misery. It's like how sushi chefs, they take years to perfect the preparation of rice.
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And it comes in stages like a tennis player. You first learn how to hold the racket.
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Then there is a very specific way to do that well, and then you move up to the next stage, which is how do you angle the racket, how do you hit the ball?
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And you have to practice these things over and over and over again, like how you were learning to walk until it becomes effortless or unconscious.
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So you open up more mental energy to move on to the next thing that will take you ahead of the people that are trying to just get a result that would usually take ten years to get in two weeks.
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That's just not going to happen. And so the question that everyone asks, like when you start something new is, okay, when will I see this result?
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Like a tennis player? When will I be able to compete? And stop asking that question.
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Because you're going to get an answer that you don't want to hear and it's going to throw you off track.
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It takes years. It takes an entire lifetime of trial and error to create a project.
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As I said, become a mad scientist. The essence of science is trial and error.
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So to perfect a project, your life that you are building out, it is going to take a lifetime.
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Get comfortable with that thought. So this entire process that we just went over of realizing what you don't want, creating a strategy and launching yourself into the opposite direction and prioritizing long-term success and mastery is the origin story.
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You will hear this in every origin story of a successful person. So flip the switch inside of you. New Year's is coming up.
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Flip the switch inside of you and build a foundation that will carry you into the life you want.
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Have you ever had a taste of the optimal human experience? You know that feeling when nothing really matters, you feel extra confident.
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You feel like you could take on the world and you feel like you were immersed.
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You are at one with the task that you are completing, whether it be a sport, a game, or just writing at your computer.
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Some people call this
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You lose the sense of self-consciousness and self-centeredness that leads to anxiety or boredom or just suffering in general, as many of the spiritual teachers in ancient masters would say.
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So when you tap into this state, you cease to care what other people think.
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Become one with the task you are engaged in and know exactly what to do next, how well you are doing and gain a deep sense of satisfaction from it.
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So as we'll talk about later, pertaining to self-consciousness and self-centeredness, leading to anxiety and boredom, the way that you end this kind of suffering is by learning to control your attention, which is heavily influenced by the ego or the self.
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So when you become self conscious through attention, you notice something and you become self-conscious because you're comparing it to something, you tend to highlight the differences between your self and the thing that you are comparing it to.
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And so this split in attention causes you to use precious mental energy, which could be focused directly on the task at hand or whatever you are trying to accomplish.
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Like when you see a pimple on your skin in the mirror and then an idea, you don't even have to be in direct contact with someone who has clear skin to have an idea of what clear skin is and the perception of clear skin,
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and then the desire popping up to want clear skin, but you not being able to have it because of the pimple on your face.
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So you start to compare ideas of what should be rather than accepting things as they are and refocusing your attention.
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So the question is, how do we gain control of our attention? And the answer is by treating life like the game.
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It is so my generation and other generations, but mostly my generation, from what I've noticed, is notorious for transferring obsession from video games to real life or just business success because games, business or just constructions of the external world.
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In other words, the Matrix, they present a desirable hierarchy of goals. They have a structure that frames your attention.
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They introduce a challenge to narrow your attention further, and they require a player to have the skill that meets the requirements to play the game.
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So what few people understand is that you can create a game out of any situation in life as long as you can mold your mind to create the certain aspects that a game entails.
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And if that game is fun to you, then life becomes more enjoyable because you start playing rather than being played.
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And so the importance behind this is that we're in a world where it's create or be created.
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So if you can't mold your mind to create your own reality or create your own game that you play and you have fun playing in life, then your mind will be molded.
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And it already has been molded to play external status games that society has created for you.
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And these are things like going to college, getting a job, or just taking another structured approach to life that someone else has laid out for you.
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But that may not be the best fit for you, and it just leads to unnecessary suffering and pain and just not enjoying your life because you're living you're following the steps that someone else has presented to you and that may not align
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with the goals that you personally have in this lifetime, because that's just the thing sovereign living or autonomous living or just being independent and building your own thing, your own way of survival is difficult.
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It's uncertain, right? And the mind craves order. It craves certainty. So if there is a path that is easier or more certain or more secure for someone to take, that's where the masses flock.
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That's where 99% of people flock. And so the purpose of this video is for awareness.
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I know a lot of you have similar values and goals as mine, and that is to build your own thing, be independent and break free of the matrix if you want to frame it that way.
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But to just live an enjoyable life on your own terms. So let's dive in by talking about the macro game of life.
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So when you're playing an open world strategy game like World of Warcraft, there's a few patterns that we can recognize.
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The main ones being stacking gold, choosing a profession, leveling up your character in the progression that goes along with those things.
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But those are just the common ones that everyone kind of knows that you've heard the metaphor of life being a video game before.
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So let's take it a bit deeper and let's really paint a picture here of what's going on.
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The system is rigged. You can't change it, but you can learn it. That is how you rig yourself in the systems favor.
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So the conventional path to success has already been programed into the collective psyche before we know it, due to the curse of knowledge, humans wanting to know more and learn more and learning being the foundation of the human experience that what we
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that's what we do as we age, as we just learn new things over and over again and we don't question those things.
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So before we even know it, we're already in pursuit of winning the game that other people have laid out for us, and that is usually in favor of maintaining the game itself, right?
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Being trained into the game to keep it going. And 90% of the time it just doesn't work out that way.
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You think that the secure path is secure, but 90% of people or however many percent of people just end up with way too much anxiety, way too much stress, way too much overwhelm.
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And and they get trapped in this jail or prison of their own doing. And so why is this or this video important?
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Because times are changing. They're clearly changing. More people are going remote, more people are choosing to do their own thing.
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The flaws in the system itself are revealing itself and the programmers can't patch the game fast enough.
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Who are the programmers? I have no idea, but that just school curriculums in general can't keep up with the creator economy who are giving out.
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They're educating people on how to do their own thing and not get trained into the conventional employment system that the school is directly tied with and other things like banking, like whatever your beliefs are about Bitcoin or crypto or decentralized currency, there's a problem in the system and somebody saw that.
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And so now they are individuals and small teams are building solutions to create a better banking system for people or just a better financial monetary system.
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And then the same thing with like huge agencies where freelancers who have a great skill set and understand digital tools and skills, they're coming in as freelancers or contract workers and big companies and just random people in general are hiring them to do those jobs rather than just hiring them as an employee.
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So there's those the people that are actively trying to solve the problem of this faulty system.
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And then there are those that in a video game would be classified as an NPC or a non-player character.
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They're the people that just do what they're told. They go along with the system.
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They never question it and they kind of just are there, right? So in a video game, it's the townsfolk.
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It's even like the environment people. So the bosses in a battle and just others that keep the game interesting for players, it allows it allows the game to maintain its structure and keep on going.
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And then the people that question the system and understand it from a big picture can actually play the game and navigate the game and have their own success within that game.
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So that was one thing where the game is already there, the game is already out there and programed onto the collective psyche or the hard drive, right?
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But the next thing is that there are infinite paths that you can take in an open world strategy game like World of Warcraft.
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So here's a graphic, and I thought it was pretty clever creating this where on the left you have birth, on the right you have death in the middle line you have now.
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And so you can see the path that you've taken up until now, and that is your experience.
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And then the slightly darker circles that have all the different paths on the right, those are the paths that you can take to hit that green little dot that I've labeled as success or winning the external game, winning the game of the external world.
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Because in World of Warcraft you have a series of choices that you get to make, what your character looks like, what kind of player they are, like a warrior, mage, rogue, etc., what profession they want to specialize in the quest path that they want to take to level up,
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whether they play solo or with a group, what guild they join to help them level up faster, and a series of other personal choices that allow them to play the game in an interesting way.
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Right? It's like people choosing what sport they play when they are growing up or people that are trying to start a business, what skill they learn or what business model they choose.
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They're all viable, but they take a different skill set and they lead people down a different path.
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That's like I always say, with the one person business model is that your brand is your goal in life, right?
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So if my goal is just the good life or financial freedom or something big and broad like that, my unique path is what makes my brand unique, right?
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How I'm going to achieve that goal is going to be vastly different, vastly unique.
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My story is going to be my brand. It's going to be what separates me from everyone else, and it allows me to create my own personal monopoly or mental monopoly, as we'll talk about in the next video.
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So it's like if five people were standing at the bottom of a mountain and life being infinite mountains, so five people standing at the bottom and they reached the first peak.
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Well, first they look up and they all draw different paths on how they're going to reach that first peak.
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And then there's just infinite mountains to climb. But once you reach that peak, you can look down and you can help people navigate that path up in a better way, right?
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That's what business is, is helping people solve their problems or climb the mountain in a faster way to achieve their desired outcome, which is reaching that peak that you've reached.
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So the next thing that was there, you can take infinite paths to achieve success.
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But the next one is that leveling up increases the complexity of the self. So in the real world, the main spiritual problem is that people never change.
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They identify with their beliefs. Their jobs are just another finite aspect of the external constructed world.
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And then once they reach that point of just like static, not wanting to change, they don't learn anymore.
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They don't stack more skills, they don't level up to the point of more opportunities being available to them.
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So by improving your skill set, by learning and executing and taking on challenges, it allows you to take on higher level challenges.
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And by taking on higher level challenges, you give, you open up room to take on a lot more or have a lot more opportunities because that knowledge and experience expands your awareness of what is actually possible.
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So in a video game, it's you level up to a point. Eventually, let's say you reach the max level, you can navigate the world freely, stress free, you can do whatever you want, you can fly across the map, you can teleport, you can do all this crazy stuff.
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Now, this is all metaphorical pertaining to the real world, but just by consistently learning and increasing your skill level and taking on challenges in like going up the ladder of challenges, then you're able to take on you're able to do so much more in this world and pick your battles from then on.
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So as you develop yourself, you gain more ability to create order from chaos. You have the power to create a game out of more situations in life.
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And so that overall structure that we just talked about, all of those things, talking about it in terms of like World of Warcraft or an open world strategy game that represents the macro game of life, but it goes a bit deeper
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and we can talk about the micro games of life on like a situation to situation basis.
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So the first thing we need to do is set a hierarchy of goals. So games present the big goal of winning, but then they also have clarity on how to reach that goal with sub goals like quests.
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Because if there was only the one goal of winning and you had no idea how to get there, then the game wouldn't be fun.
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Because as humans we have the ability to aim with our minds into the future.
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Like monkeys. They can they can throw their poop, but it's usually hurled just like straight at the ground.
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They usually don't hit something that is straight in front of them. But humans, on the other hand, with skill and practice in time, someone can throw a football 50 yards out and hit a bull's eye on a target.
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Now the same is very similar with the mind in creating a vision for your future and then slowly leveling up until you are able to create that vision so we don't want to be poop hurled at the ground like our monkeys do.
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We want to have a vision that we can build towards? But if we don't want to get overwhelmed by this grand vision for our future, then we have to create some goals in order to get there.
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So I would recommend that you sit down with a pen and paper, or you can use my power planner, which is free link in the description to create the first iteration of your vision.
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Understand it's an iteration. It doesn't have to be perfect. Then create a ten year, one year and monthly goals.
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Again, these don't have to be perfect. Just get the first iteration out and you can come back to it.
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Have a place for weekly direction and reflection, and then align your daily priority tasks with those.
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And now with these written down. This is important and most people don't understand why because they've never done it.
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But it's important because writing these things down, it's like an anchor. We talked about two videos ago, how I remember everything I learned that you should learn and build in unison.
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You need something to build so that you have something to apply your learnings to, and then your awareness starts to register more opportunities for what you're building, right?
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Because humans compared to animals that survive on a physical level, we survive on a conceptual level, right?
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We try to survive our beliefs and other things that we've identified and attached with.
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So it only makes sense that we would try to survive a project or we would try to survive our vision for the future.
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And because of that, since that is at the top of our mind, we are going to notice things that we can apply to that vision and then clarify it further and continue striving towards it.
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So that was setting a hierarchy of goals. But next, we need to understand the frame of the game.
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So your perspective or your worldview is the frame in which you view reality. It's like a camera.
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So the field of view, even if the background is blurred, constrains what registers in the frame itself.
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So by molding your perspective in any situation, you allow yourself to perceive what used to be a huge problem as a minor road bump.
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Because if I'm so dead set on the hierarchy of goals that I've created, my vision for my future and the goals related to that and my attention is narrowed in on that, then it's going to be difficult for a distraction to register
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in the camera itself or in the perspective itself. So in a video game, there are two things that help create order or order consciousness or create this frame of the game, something that you need to focus on in narrowing your attention on.
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So the first thing is rules. Every single video game has a set of rules that you must follow.
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And when we play the game, this allows us to use our limited conscious attention or focus to remain focused on the here or now while keeping our vision or the end goal of winning in the back of our head.
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This is important because in psychology, when you are kind of projecting into the future or you have a desire, something that you do not have, that is when dopamine spurts into your brain, but when you are focused on the here and now,
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that's when the here and now chemicals like oxytocin, serotonin and other neurochemicals like that, that's when those spurred into your brain.
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And so if you read the book The Art of Impossible by Steven Cutler, it doesn't say this directly, but it mentions that flow the flow state is kind of a neurochemical cocktail of all of these different neurotransmitters going to your brain.
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And this can be accomplished by exactly this. So in the real world, your rules are your values, right?
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That's on the macro scale. And the micro scale, you can create different rules, like when you're going on a walk and you do this, you set rules to never step on a crack, right?
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Or to walk 2500 steps or something like that. And so in terms of values, when you act in alignment with those values and you constrain your attention to the things that are in alignment with those, life becomes a bit more enjoyable.
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And so on the micro scale of everyday situations, clarity comes from eliminating environmental distractions, right?
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And that pretty much means creating a frame. So like when you're trying to do deep work and the common advice is to close your browser tabs, set a timer like Pomodoro, have clear steps for your work, and use things like noise canceling headphones.
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And so like how I mentioned with creating rules for going on something like a walk because I used to hate going on walks, even even though I knew how healthy it was for me to do so.
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You can create little rules for that to either turn what used to be mundane situations into enjoyable or to just gain perspective and start enjoying situations that you would normally hate.
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Because let's say you hate watching sports. I don't like watching sports, right? I just don't like football.
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I don't understand it. And that is the exact point. I don't understand the game.
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If I knew the game and was able to manipulate my attention to follow what's going on in the game, then I may be able to enjoy it.
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Or if your spouse or your wife or your girlfriend, she likes going out and looking at antiques just on like a Saturday afternoon.
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And you don't want to do that and you're just dragging your feet the entire time and you're like, I don't want to be here.
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I don't like doing this. But she creates a game out of it. She's like, I like the price on this one. I like the look of this one.
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And she's in there having a very enjoyable time in some degree of a flow state.
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And you can do the same thing if you just zoom out, gain some perspective and create your own game out of it, whatever that may be.
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Even if it's as simple as like finding the stupidest rock you can find or finding the stupidest antique, right?
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And then you both have your own fun playing your own game. So that was rules. The second thing is mechanics.
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So if you haven't played a game before, it's not going to be that fun.
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Your arm is going to suck. You'll have to practice on low level challenges and you're going to look at top level players and you're going to be awestruck about how good they are playing the game.
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So every game has a specific way for you to channel more of your senses, thoughts and prior experience to play it better.
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So in a video game, it's pressing a series of keys, buttons or mouse clicks in board games.
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It's the effectiveness, creativity or forward thinking that goes into your strategy. In sports, it's the conditioning of your body and how you move it in accordance with the goal and all of the above.
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It's your perception of the situation or your frame of the game that allows you to choose in a way that moves you towards winning.
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And so another form of information is feedback. Feedback is important here to know how well you're doing in the game, because all of this games, etc., it's ordering our consciousness, it's giving us structured information to pay attention to and our mind likes that.
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And so if you do something and you know that it was the wrong move or you made a mistake, then your perspective or your frame widens to the point of allowing distractions to penetrate that field.
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And then if you give attention to that distraction, then you're going to be off the game and you're not going to enjoy it as much.
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And so how do we improve our mechanics or just our skill relating to the game?
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And it's practice, of course, right? When you're playing a video game like World of Warcraft, people log in every single day to perform a repetitive series of tasks.
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They go and form for gold, they create their armor or they mine for or they Farm XP by going through dungeons over and over again.
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So you have to program the specific mechanics in your brain to the point of where you're getting results with less effort.
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In other words, habit formation. So if you can automate to an extent the decisions that you make on a daily basis that are conducive with your hierarchy of goals and achieving your end vision, then success kind of becomes inevitable.
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So we've talked about setting a hierarchy of goals and creating a frame for the game that you're playing now.
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This is arguably the most important part is the delicate balance between anxiety and boredom.
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So here's another graphic. This one is adapted from me. High tech set me high with his books Flow and the Evolving Self.
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Highly, highly recommend you check those out. But you can see here that in the top quadrant there's anxiety or self-consciousness.
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In the middle, there's flow or selflessness, and then the bottom there's boredom or self-centeredness.
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And on the right axis there's skill level. And on the top, I mean, on the left access there is the challenge level.
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So the skill challenge match is extremely important here. So when you start playing a game, especially when you haven't read the rule book or you've never played before, is it going to be fun?
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No, of course not. And even if you knew the rules, it's still going to take time for you to grasp what's going on in the game.
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So this is why I always recommend just starting, right? Just start something. If you don't know how, you just start with what you know and then you learn on the go and get real world experience.
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Do not get trapped in tutorial help. This is one of my less popular videos, but it is the most important is how I remember everything I learned.
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Because if you were a level one in World of Warcraft and you were fighting a level 50, would it be fun?
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No. You'd lose immediately. But the thing here, as we know, is that you can create a better frame for that game, right?
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If you just have to if you're a level one and you have to play against a level 50, how can you mold your perspective to create a better frame for that game?
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Like if you instead of beating the level 50 as your goal, what if the goal was to see how fast you could lose against the level 50?
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Then it'd be kind of fun and you'd be interested in playing the game. And it's the same thing with something like chess, right?
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If you are just starting out playing chess and you're going against like your friend who's been playing for years, or like you decide to enter a competition for some reason without having ample experience and years of practice under your belt, it's just not going to be a good time.
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So the lesson is, if your skill is high in the challenges low, you're going to get bored.
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And if your skill is low and the challenge is high, you're going to get anxious.
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And the boredom stems from self-centeredness. Your focus breaks from the task at hand, and something else comes to mind that you'd rather be doing another desire, right?
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So if you're bored at work, it's usually because you're not immersed in the task that your work presents and you're sitting there bored, thinking, self-centered Lee about the better things you could be doing with your time.
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And the anxiety comes from self-consciousness. So if the challenges are too high and your skill is too low, your attention is going to turn towards the concept of self.
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And again, you're going to allow distractions or problems to penetrate your awareness or your conscious field, and then you're attention just starts going downhill from there.
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So as an example, it's like if your skill is too low, you're going to start thinking these thoughts where it's like, Wow, I'm not as good as I thought, or Wow, I really need to work on my back swing.
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Or in a more practical situation. It's like that girl is way out of my league.
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Do you see how this is more self-conscious here, where you are paying attention to your current skill level in relation to the skill that is required to play the game?
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So how do we prevent this? It's like the very start of the video. Video where I mentioned that people don't change, they don't evolve, they aren't constantly learning and constantly building.
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It has to happen. If you want an enjoyable life, you need something to immerse your attention in and continuously progress at that throughout life and develop yourself into a complex being that can take on bigger, broader and bigger and broader challenges
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and just have more opportunity in the world that you can pick and choose and play games.
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At this point in our history, it should be possible for an individual to build a self that is not simply the outcome of biological drives and cultural habits, but a conscious personal creation.
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Me high to accept me high. So I remember the first time I downloaded World of Warcraft when I was a young kid, probably like 15 years old, and I spent a straight 2 hours just creating my character and playing around with how I wanted them to look
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while also considering the game itself. So I think about the minor details of what race I can be.
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We don't really have that choice, but metaphorically, paint a picture for yourself. What race I would be, what class I would have.
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Was I going to be a warrior, a mage, a priest that I want to be a tank, a damaged character, a healer.
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How did I want my hair to look? How did I that I want to be a human?
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Did I want to be an orc? Did I want to be something like that?
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And then also, while I was paying attention to that, I was also paying attention to how it was going to favor my personality or my playstyle in order to actually win the game and the challenges associated with winning the game.
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And it's the same thing like when you hit level 15 or something and you can start like riding a horse or you can choose your profession, right?
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What was I going to be? Was I going to be a blacksmith? Was I going to be an armor creator?
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Forget what they're called, but like you create armor. Was it going to be a leather worker, a cloth worker for a tailor, or was it going to be like those people that, like, put gems together and make other cool weapon power ups?
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And so once I made that choice, it opened up a series of talents and traits that I was able to choose after that.
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And then once I had leveled those talents or traits to a specific point, I was given more choices that weren't originally available to me, right?
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I was able to do more dungeons. I was able to trade with my friends.
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I was accepted into certain guilds because they had certain requirements for what they needed.
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Did they need a healer? Did they need more damage? They Did they need a tank?
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What level or experience were those people and what were they accepting? And so touching on this again of how learning is the foundation of the human experience.
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When we are young, we don't know any better and we learn these things just through repetition.
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They are conditioned into our psyche and a self. A concept of the self is created that we didn't really have much control over.
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So learning through any medium influences our thoughts and our thoughts influence our behavior, meaning that anything you learn or consume is going to impact either directly or indirectly how you act and move within this world and what opportunities you perceive as available to you.
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So winning the game of life business or any present moment situation you are in is dependent on how your character perceives and acts within that specific situation.
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So if we want to achieve or create the life of our dreams, then we have to create the character or the player that will lead to that outcome.
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So how do we create our character? First, it's by integrating everything that we've talked about in this video.
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You need an intrinsic hierarchy of goals. You need to understand how to frame not only your life on the macro scale and the micro scale in everyday situations and creating rules for you to narrow your attention and focus on that.
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And then you need to consistently learn, practice, learn, practice or learn, build, learn, build in order to increase your skill set and take on higher challenges.
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And then the second thing is through self-education and self-reflection, because thankfully we live in an age where all information is at the tip of our fingers.
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If you have a problem, you can usually find some form of a solution to it on the internet or just in a book or something like that.
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And so you find these ideas as you're creating a better life for yourself and encountering problems on the way by just consuming valuable information and not getting distracted.
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And sometimes you have to sift through dirt to find gold. You have to read things that you weren't necessarily interested in, and those that get bored doing those things will normally just distract themselves instead because they aren't interested.
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And so with that self-education or just consistently learning self-reflection is how you guide future decision making, because it is impossible to have 100% certainty in the actions you take now and how they're going to impact your future.
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Right. Cause and effect. You don't immediately have the effect of your actions. You just have to take them.
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And then when you do take those actions, the only way you can know if they were good or bad.
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You can know if they're good or bad by taking advice from someone else or kind of comparing it to someone else's results.
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But the only way you're truly going to know for certain whether they were good or bad actions is through self-reflection and then pivoting from there.
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Because even if you took advice from someone else or you know what your actions are going to leave lead to, you're operating from a completely different worldview in a completely different environment from whoever gave you that advice or wherever you learned it from.
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Right? If you're taking advice from Socrates, from hundreds of years ago, for right now in this environment where money rules the world, it may not be as practical as you think, and you still need to filter through direct experience.
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So let's do a quick recap on what we talked about. Games are a way of ordering consciousness to the point of obsession.
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When you're obsessed, you stop caring what people think and play to win according to your values.
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Games are enjoyable and every situation in life can be mentally molded into a game.
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If you want to avoid mental turmoil, your skill needs to match the challenge that any situation presents.
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Your perspective will determine the information available to you, and if it's not structured, you will misperceive it yourself.
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A concept is the player with time you want to create the character that can win the games that it is best at.
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So I hope you all enjoyed this video. I had a lot of fun with this one and yeah, let me know what you think about life being a game and if anything resonated with you in the comments.
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Be sure while you're down there to like subscribe. And with that, I hope you enjoyed this video again and have an absolutely incredible rest of your day piece.
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When I was in college trying to become a fitness YouTuber of All Things, I came across a popular book title by Tim Ferriss The Four Hour Workweek.
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I'm sure every single one of you know that I've never read the book, but when I first saw the title, I interpreted it as the four hour work day.
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And so ever since that the idea of a four hour workday stuck in the back of my head throughout my life, college experience, business failures and everything leading up until this point.
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So along the way, my subconscious mind was kind of munching on creative problems because I anything more than 4 hours of work a day as a problem.
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And this alone changed the direction of my life. And really everything I do and all of the decisions that I made.
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Now, when I say that 4 hours of work a day or anything more than that was seen as a problem, I don't mean like it was the end of the world.
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I just mean that I knew that I was able to achieve some form of success with only 4 hours or less worth of work per day.
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And so my mind naturally wanted to come up with solutions relating to that whenever my work extended beyond 4 hours of work a day.
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So in business, as I've talked about many times before, it's like when you just start out and you're getting into freelancing or you start an agency or you learn a skill, it's very wise to start a service based business first, something where you are
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in direct control of the outreach, right? You aren't reliant on an audience or paid ads or something like that to drive traffic to a product.
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And instead you have a skill and you create a valuable offer and you iterate on that with time until you can charge more and more and more.
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And eventually you reach out to people, you start landing clients, maybe you're building an audience along the way and then that is able to fuel your client acquisition.
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But it gets to a point where you have an audience that's large enough to productize right and systemize so that you can still maintain a four hour workday.
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But if you continue landing clients without doing that, you can see where the problem starts to arise, right?
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Because then you've built yourself into some form of a new 9 to 5 where you have a bunch of clients, you're making a good amount of money, but there's still a cap, there's still a limited amount that you can make without just working 16 hours a day.
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And so this is what I mean by perceiving it as a problem and consistently working to evolve which we'll talk about soon and systemize that.
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So when I got to a certain point where I realized, okay, it's time to start moving in a new direction, because if I keep like I can't just take on unlimited amounts of clients, I have to be able to deliver and do other things.
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So that's what I did is once I reached a certain point, I took on less clients.
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I productize my service and I had built an audience to the point where I could sell that product and that required much less work on my hands.
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So in business it comes from systems ation of your workflow so that you can work faster and more efficiently.
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And it comes from eliminating things that just don't make too much sense to do, or delegating or outsourcing low leverage tasks and working on the things that you actually want to work on, right?
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You can outsource the things that you hate and so for the past three years, I would argue that 90% of my days were under 4 hours of work a day.
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I'm not saying that this is absolutely foolproof and that you're not going to go over 4 hours of work.
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You're going to be able to or you can work as long as you want, right?
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I like to like right now I'm probably working 6 hours a day maybe, But I do see that as a problem.
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It's not affecting me in a negative way, but I know that at some point I'm going to have to systemize in order to maintain a specific baseline while working four a day.
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So as an example of that is if I'm making $20,000 a month or let's say $10,000 a month, and then I hit a new high of $20,000 a month because I saw an opportunity and I started adding on more work, let's say 6 hours of work a day.
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In order to reach that, then I have to systemize and come back down a little bit.
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So then you keep moving your baseline up so your 4 hours of work are going a longer way and making more money or whatever the end goal is, whether it's money or not, to the point of you being able to make
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a lot more money while only working 4 hours of work a day. It's like bulking and cutting when you bulk in your eating in a caloric surplus and you're in a state of growth and in this case business growth.
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You're going to tack on a bit of fat in your business, the things that kind of bog you down and make you have to work more.
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And so when the cutting season comes and you want to cut back to, let's say, 15% body fat in business and be able to sit there comfortably while 4 hours a day that is necessary, you don't just get stuck
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at one single part of the journey, you evolve. And so to preface before we dive into some evolutionary psychology and philosophy, before we get into the Ten Commandments of the four hour workday, I want to preface that if you have a job, this is mainly for people that are creators, right?
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And they have more time on their hands. But if you have a job, this is going to have to be limited to like one hour a day and maybe 4 hours on the weekend.
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If you have that time. And if you just don't give a shit about starting a business right now, you can use this for your work as well.
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When I was working a job at a web design agency, I would usually knock out my work like 2 to 3 hours and then I would just screw around or work on my business for the rest of the time.
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So all of this is about saving time on the things that you're working on to free up more time, the more priorities in your life.
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So why is this important? There are a few things, and the one being that there are a few qualities that separate humans from other beings, like one of them that has fascinated me is how humans survive more so on a conceptual level, while animals survive on a physical level.
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Like you wouldn't see a giraffe getting offended because it doesn't have the same beliefs as you.
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And so if you are trying to survive the idea or belief of the four hour workday, that is going to be much more powerful for actually making it happen, right?
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You kind of have to identify with it in a good way right. This is what spiritual teachers tell you not to do.
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Words do not attach your identity to something because that becomes a part of your self and you're going to work to survive it.
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And if that is static, then it is going to cause some form of unnecessary suffering in your life.
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But this can be spun for good and you can create a positive identity that is going to lead to a better future.
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And the struggles and pain that you face are going to be learning experiences for creating a system that is better, for better and more conducive for reaching your desired lifestyle.
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And so that's the first thing. The second thing that fascinates me about humans versus other beings is their depth of focus.
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Our depth of focus is crazy, and it goes a lot deeper than I can go into in this video.
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But so in psychology there is the task positive network of the brain, which happens when you are focused on an external string of tasks.
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This is good for productivity. There's also the default mode network, which happens when you take your focus off of the external.
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So something like work and you focus, you bring your focus to the internal and this opens your awareness and allows better ideas to fill your brain or negative ideas.
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But this is good for creativity. And so this balance between narrow external focus and more internal open focus, we can look at a graphic that I've made before called the Focus Matrix because there are negative aspects to focus, right?
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It's not all productivity and creativity. There's unconscious, narrow or open focus on the left, which you can see leads to stress, anxiety, reactivity, annoyance, feeling loss, feeling uncertain, feeling overwhelmed.
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And then on the right there's conscious, narrow and open focus, which is more efficient, task oriented.
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So see what the flow state present creative, relaxed and joyful. So keep this in mind as you're going about all of this, because it's a helpful guide when you become aware or conscious of your current state.
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So if you feel lost or you feel stressed or you feel anxious, there's a reason behind that and you can work towards moving your focus in the other direction towards something positive.
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Usually by eliminating distractions and focusing on the task at hand. Evolution is forced on us by the fact that systems fall apart with time unless they become more efficient.
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We can't stop and remain in the same place. Even to remain still, we must advance.
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So this is another reason why this productivity system is important is that humans, we have a natural desire to know more.
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The curse of knowledge. We have an endless thirst to learn things that will aid in our survival.
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And so, with our unique minds and with this knowledge, we build systems to solve problems that lead to better outcomes in all domains of life, society, culture, personal life, whatever it may be.
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As an example, it took a lot of energy, physical energy to carry water in plow fields.
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So we used our creative ability and our minds to create a solution like a tractor and a system for being able to use that energy more efficiently.
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So let me introduce you to the supreme law of the universe, which is entropy.
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Some call this nature's tax. And in brief, entropy is the measure of disorder in a system.
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So you have to understand that the productivity system that we're going to be creating here is important for the survival and evolution of our work, because we create systems to aid in evolution.
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So a system has an end goal or an outcome, and then it has a process or steps in order to reach that outcome.
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And systems, unless fueled with a specific energy or the energy, has to have specific qualities to it.
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So in your body, you can fuel your body, the system of your body with junk food.
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But that energy isn't very quality. It doesn't really meet the demands that your individual body needs.
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And so when you fill it with clean foods or whatever healthy diet that you can fill it with and give it the proper nutrients through that energy helps upkeep your body.
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So when something like productivity is when you're trying to reach the outcome of a stable and revenue generating business, then you are going to have to fuel that system with the correct energy in the forms of focused, prioritized action.
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And so another fun fact is that the systems lay over each other. They're just layers upon layers, right?
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Like a paragraph is a goal to the system of sentences, and words are a system that create sentences.
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So we'll dive into this more in a future episode. But start thinking of everything as a system. Notice the goal.
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Notice the steps on how they're going to get there, and then notice the energy required to maintain that system without it falling apart.
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So an example would be a Librarian, right? You have a library, they have a system for organizing books and making them easy to find, and then they have steps for themselves or the employees to continuously rent out, take back in
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and organize the books in a way that makes sense and reduces that system from tending toward disorder or chaos.
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But if you have a home bookshelf and you take out one book and then another and they end up scattered around the house, and you never put the energy or effort necessary to maintain order in that system.
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Or if you don't have a system for organizing it all, then the attention, the mental energy as well necessary to maintain that system in the order in your mind is going to fail.
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So this isn't only the system that is external, but it is how your mind interacts with that system, because that's how you order consciousness, that's how you bring clarity to your mind and allow yourself to act.
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All right, so let's dive into the four hour philosophy or my Ten Commandments for focused work.
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Okay, So let's talk about the four hour philosophy in short, we already mentioned this, but humans survive on a conceptual level.
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So if you identify or you hold the idea of a four hour workday in the back of your mind somewhere and associate yourself with being able to work 4 hours a day, then you are going to try to survive that identity.
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You're going to feel threatened when something threatens that belief or that system of yours and you are going to work to try and survive it and be able to make better decisions in a way that allows you to productize, systemize or just maintain 4 hours of focused work day.
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So why 4 hours? One, these conceptual systems or beliefs or ideas that we're trying to survive with our mind.
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They require mental energy, they require attention. And at the start this is going to be very draining, right?
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You aren't going to have a way of organizing your mind to the point of being able to act on this consistently.
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You have to test and refine and iterate and from personal experience and anecdotes from friends and just scientific studies, it seems like three, four or five, 3 to 5 hours of focused work a day is what humans can have before they need to just give their focus a break.
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Because as with everything, literally everything you need to train, it's like a muscle. Focus is a muscle.
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You're not going to be able to do it very well at the start. You're going to be able to focus for like 20 minutes and then you're going to have to take a break and come back and train that with time until all of this becomes habit.
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Because one thing that I forgot to mention earlier about systems is that once they are refined, once they have been repeated or conditioned into your head and formed those grooves in the neural networks of your brain, they become automatic.
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They become routine and normal to you. And that's kind of how you automate the path to the good life is just by continuously layering system over system in your life that is going to lead to a better future.
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And so another thing is that when you limit yourself to only 4 hours a day, that kind of acts as a pseudo deadline, right?
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It's not as powerful as having like a real world deadline that you actually have to meet, but just limiting yourself to 4 hours and knowing that you don't have to work more than 4 hours, it will shrink time.
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And according to Parkinson's law, where work matches the time or whatever it is, you're going to try and fit your work within those 4 hours.
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So that was why 4 hours. The second thing is vision and identity. So this is for a future video entirely because it's such an important topic, but you need a vision for your future.
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And the way that I like to paint this is that you need a minimum viable vision, like a minimum viable product in business.
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You just need to get it out so that you can make connections when you have certain experiences and are able to associate ideas with that and make it better with time, you can do the same for your vision for the future.
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So write out the following and be as specific and detailed as you can. Who you want to be, what you want to do for work, where you want to live, what your ideal day looks like, how you will contribute to humanity, what people you will surround yourself with, network and social circle.
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And feel free to let the stream of consciousness keep going with this. And so the point here is to set the foundation for the goals that you're going to try to be achieving on a daily basis with your productivity system, what you're going to be working towards, because that's a huge
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problem, is that people just don't have an intrinsic goal that they're trying to achieve.
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They go and they adopt the goal of someone else because it's clarity that someone else has created, like a job or something else.
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And then they give their mental energy to that and align their work with that.
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And then eventually they're so deep in this metastasized called society that their attention is just enslaved in that and they don't have any time to go and create something for themselves.
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So it's going to take a lot longer. So commandment number three is to outline three priority tasks.
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So this is situation dependent. I can't tell you what your lever moving tasks are going to be, but what you need to do is you need to understand you're trying to achieve from a very big picture, not technical details.
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So if you want to start a creator business or a one person business like I've talked about multiple times, you could go and watch my videos because they are big picture rundowns and then you can start testing from there.
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And so in terms of my levers for my stage in business, again, this is context dependent and situation dependent based on what's going to move you, to move you towards your goals, dependent on what stage you're in, stage of development you're in, in business.
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So my first priority task is always writing content. I wake up and I write my newsletter and tweets and threads for 45 minute blocks each.
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So about 245 blocks, 90 minutes total, 45 being my newsletter and then 45 being like tweets, threads, posting to other platforms, etc.
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because writing forms the foundation of literally everything I do. If you want to learn how I create content and how I script things, how I write tweets, how I grow other things like that, check out the two hour writer link in the description.
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The second priority task is generating traffic because with content, what I'm doing is I'm creating content, I'm attracting people, I'm putting media on the Internet that will hopefully bring people to follow me and then potentially buy my products and just dive deeper into the free content that I give out.
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But generating traffic, because this is true with any social media platform that you start on, you're not going to have much traffic at the start.
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Nobody's going to see your content. So you need to focus most of your effort on just generating traffic to content, whether that be networking in the DMS or making friends with people that will potentially share your posts or just replying to big accounts.
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Like if I went and replied, I set bell notifications for every single YouTuber that has a high subscriber count and I went and commented on those every single morning and blocked out time to do that in my focused work.
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Then I'm going to be moving a lever because I'm bringing traffic to my profile and my content.
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Over time. And so right now I'm doing this on LinkedIn and sometimes other platforms like sometimes Instagram, mostly LinkedIn, because that's my the platform that is lagging the most for me.
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And so I'm putting more effort into growth rather than just monotonous content creation there.
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So number three is promoting my products because I have to make an income if I want to do this full time.
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And so with consistent traffic being generated from the content and my efforts into growing those actual platforms, then I can start to lead that traffic into either free products to build authority more and just give out free value, or I can lead them into something like that.
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You are a writer or digital economics or modern mastery for those that want those things and specific.
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And my products are good and I put a lot of time into them, so it only makes sense that I promote them so more people get results from them.
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So at my phase in business, those are the three things that are most important to me.
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And of course there are auxiliary tasks that I have to complete, but those are usually towards the end when I have like an hour to spare before my 4 hours of focus work are up.
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So commandment number four is to gain clarity on those lever moving tasks. Most people think they need motivation when in reality they need clarity.
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And so every weekend, let's say Saturday, Sunday, I usually swap a few of my lever moving tasks for clarity, generating tasks.
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So on Sundays I outline my newsletters, I'll plan my week, I'll do things like that.
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All write down ideas for tweets, ideas for threads, ideas for content, what I need to do to keep things moving with my products like Modern Mastery.
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What's the content going to be in there? And a bunch of things like that.
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And then outside of those that are hard scheduled, I usually go on multiple walks a day, which I use for clarity.
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So in the afternoon at like 11, I'll go in a 30 to 45 minute walk and I'll just listen to lectures and I'll generate ideas for content.
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And then sometimes I'll even write on my phone, right? If I'm not in a busy area, I can just go on a walk and like outline stuff on my phone.
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And so I talk about this balance a lot in my filmed use video, which will link here.
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That's about my whole daily routine rather than just focus work routine. And so the main question I ask here is how can you use 1 to 2 hours of your week to set yourself up for seamless work?
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Sessions So commandment number five is time blocks and breaks. So the Pomodoro technique is very popular because it's very good, but I found something different that works well for me.
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So at the start, before any of this becomes habit, you should very heavily consider writing this on your calendar.
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You need to make it real. You need to take it out of your mind and you need to put it somewhere physical, whether that be on your calendar, in a notebook, on a sticky note on your computer.
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You just need to make it known because you're forming a new habit here. It's going to take some work.
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And so what I like to do is I usually like to schedule things in 90 minute blocks.
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And so what I'll do is I'll sit down with my priority task. Let's say it's writing content and I'll set a timer.
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I have one back there. It's like a little kitchen timer. I'll put 45 minutes on it and I'll press start and then write without any distraction.
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That timer, when that timer is on, there's no tabs open. It's just like, what I need only to get the writing done.
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And then once that timer goes off, I'll reevaluate. Okay. Did I complete this? What's next?
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Then I'll set the timer for another 45 minutes. And then once those 90 minutes are done or go or get up, I'll go walk outside, either 30 minute walk or if I'm not feeling like doing 30 minutes, then I'll go for 10 minutes.
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The main thing is to just get up and realign and bring your and attention to a new priority tasks.
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So commandment number six is to manipulate deadlines. Deadlines narrow your attention, and the more narrow your attention is, the less likely distractions are going to register in your awareness.
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And it's the same thing with the negative side of the spectrum. We saw the Focus Matrix graphic earlier, where on the left unconscious focus, when it's narrow, when you're narrowed in on a problem, nothing else is going to distract you from that problem.
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No other problems are going to pop into your head unless you like see one problem, then that leads to the next and you're like, no.
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And then your focus starts to open up and you're drowning in all of these problems.
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But on the positive side of things, when you have clarity on what you're trying to do and you are narrowed in on one specific task and no distractions can penetrate just because you're so immersed in it, that's when you start to kick into flow.
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So you can see the deadline as a challenge as well. And so 4 hours of total work and then 90 minute time blocks with those 45 minute timers, those are kind of like pseudo deadlines.
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Those also narrow your attention. You can also put something tangible on the line when you really need to get something done.
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So one thing that I've done that just works miracles is public deadlines. Another reason to build an audience.
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Whenever I launch a product, I'll usually do it presale. And then what I'll do is I'll have it all mapped out, of course, but I'll put a promotion out and when I get the first sale, that means like, okay, it's a fucking go time.
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And if that deadline is like a month out, then I have a month to get everything done and usually closer to when that month comes, that's when I'm spending like 12 hours a day just on broken focus for my computer getting shit done.
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And so get creative with this. It's going to take a bit of thinking and creativity, but how can you add a deadline to your important work?
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So commandment number seven is to manipulate your environment, so your environment and everything leading up to your focused work sessions need to come into play here.
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Or at least you just need to be conscious of them. So if you're doing focus work in the morning, which I recommend, which we'll get into, are you setting yourself up to be undistracted by the time that you get to your desk?
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Do you have a routine of, okay, I'm going to do this brush my teeth, take out the dog, make coffee and get straight into work, because when you have that, that allows you to get out of bed so much easier because you're not sitting there wondering, okay, what should I do?
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I have 30 minutes to spare until I start working. I'm just going to sit here and then I'm going to waste time and then I'm going to be over on my work time, etc., etc..
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And so that helps reduce decision going into the work itself. But then when the work itself comes up, you have to make sure and prepare for potential distractions.
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So if it helps to put your phone on the other side of the room, do that.
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That helps to wear a hat to narrow your attention, which actually does help wear a hat that helps to wear noise canceling headphones.
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Try it out, test it. None of this is set in stone and it's life is a process of iteration and growth and evolution.
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And so as long as you're working to make this process better for yourself, you're going to be in a good spot as long as you're becoming aware of the problems that are preventing you from working in efficient 4 hours
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and working to change and improve those problems, then you're doing fine. So the question is how can you manipulate your environment to conserve mental energy for your priority tasks?
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And now commandment number eight, which is my favorite, is wake up before distractions, because there seems to be two main perspectives when it comes to like the hustle and grind culture.
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Just waking up early is that some people are very pro, waking up at like four or 5 a.m.
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and then some people are very pro. I get up whenever I want and then I start working and then it gets done and you can do whatever you want, try it out.
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But unless you try waking up early, I wouldn't talk smack about it or just like write it off entirely.
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The hours of like 5 to 7 in the morning are sacred. There is nothing that can just distract you. It's very peaceful.
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Even if you're a night owl in your brain is in more of that default network open focus state because you're very sleepy.
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You can set priority tasks related to creativity rather than just being hyper productive during that time, because in those sacred hours, no one's going to be calling you, no one's going to be texting you.
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Even if they are. It's so early that you don't feel obligated to respond. The day isn't going to be started.
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You're not going to be getting invites to lunch. You're not going to be really pressured to eat because you're like, I haven't eaten breakfast yet or I haven't eaten lunch.
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I need to get that done and then I'll come back to work. So wake up before the distractions.
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Commandment number nine is to prioritize rest. Quality work does not exist without quality rest.
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It's that simple. But as we've discussed previously, rest is not the modern notion of self-care, the thing that is perpetuated by mediocre people online.
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So rest does not mean Netflix, Wine and Bubble Bath. Those have their place, of course, but rest equals regenerating mental energy through non-work related activities.
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An example of some of these are going to the gym, going on a walk, socializing with friends, writing in your journal, reading a good book, or just trying out a new hobby.
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Whatever takes your focus off of work and allows you to bring it more intrinsic to the things that you want to do.
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So in reality, anything that doesn't support your work or mediocrity or achieve dopamine addiction.
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And so another important thing here is that when the 4 hours are up, you stop working dead, stop.
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You do not work any longer unless the priority tasks move over or spill over.
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And then you're working to systemize that back in the 4 hours of work. But if it's just busy work and you going on your computer to accomplish a little task here and there, that can wait, you need to get into the habit of stopping work and not focusing on work.
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This is so much more important than I can make it seem in this video, because if you're constantly focused on work in that stressed survival state, you are not going to open up your mind for creative problem solving or any of the spiritual things in life that make life good and enjoyable and living in the present moment.
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If you're constantly focused on work, by definition you are not present. So if you have to work more than 4 hours or else your business will explode and fall to the ground, then that's a problem.
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Fix it with systems and commandment. Number ten is to make your process more efficient.
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So if you have a problem, whether while you're working or if you're working over 4 hours, then those problems should try to be solved with creativity and system ization.
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This is another important thing. Why it's so, so, so, so important to not focus on work when you're not working.
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Because then you open your mind to the ability of creative problem solving. That's when your subconscious mind sends the insight or idea to your conscious mind and you have that moment.
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It's like in the shower when you're having a shower thoughts and you have the best idea in the world.
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It's because you're not focused on work. So let's take, for example, when I had a lot of client work and I couldn't make my work was spilling over for hours.
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In that case, I had to build a larger audience. So I had more traffic, create a product that doesn't require my time, promote and improve that product until it's sustainable and take on less clients with my new free time.
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And you would be correct in assuming that this is an incident. Nothing that I talk about is instant.
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Life isn't instant. You have to be patient with this and you have to be on this path for life.
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So a bonus number 11 is to leverage digital tools. We live in a world where we're so blessed.
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We're extremely blessed because once you have the money to invest in automation software or just a software that will make your business a lot easier, I highly recommend doing so.
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It's like instead of sending manual DMS in order to reach out to people, you can build an audience, fuel your email list, and then buy a software that allows you to create email sequences that mimics what sales outreach would look like in the DMS.
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And then you can focus so much more of your attention on building actual leverage through content and then fueling that newsletter and email sequence to the point where you don't have to send in DMS to get clients or make sales.
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And then when it comes to systemize and scheduling content, you can use something like tweet Hunter, which I use to schedule my tweets, and then those get turned into other content.
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So that's a way of scheduling and me just being able to go in to my phone, type in a tweet and schedule it immediately and then forget about it.
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I don't have to go back and post or even get on Twitter. And one thing I do highly recommend is to write all of this out in notion.
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If you aren't using notion, you just start now because it's going to take a long time to learn or just get used to the structure of it, and you're going to have to go back and refine things here
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and there, but just create a new page, right? Create a new page and write down what you're going to do tomorrow for those 4 hours of work that is going to be your first system, right steps and then the next day come back, refine It what didn't work?
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What do I have to do differently today? Do that for a week and then no common patterns and you can turn it into a weekly system and then abide by that and refine it with time.
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So my challenge for you to end this video is to actually apply this information.
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You may be watching this YouTube video to learn something or just for entertainment or whatever it may be, but four hour workdays are more than possible.
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I've proven that. And there's many people that leverage the power of the Internet to do that.
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And you'll be you'll only be able to discover whether you can or not through direct experience.
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It doesn't matter what you think is possible about a four hour workday or not.
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You if you think it's impossible, you don't have the awareness or experience that allows you to believe that it's possible and make it a reality for yourself.
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So that's the main thing. Go back through this. You can find the actual written version of this video in the description under the co letter, you can take note of all ten of these commandments.
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You can write them down in motion with your systems and just start tinkering. What are you going to do for the next day, week, whatever it may, gain clarity on it and start acting.
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Here's how to do a hard reset on your life in 30 minutes. This is a process that I run through when.
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My life gets a bit too messy. It's those times when I start to think back of when life was better, like when things just get bogged down, you don't feel like you're living the same life that you were.
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Or when you aren't making as much progress as you previously were. And you're thinking like, What am I doing different?
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Like, what's going on? Why do I feel this way? And your routines start to fall apart and little tasks work their way in unconsciously and you're you just feel like you don't have any time or are unable to do the work that you used to do really well.
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So the first thing we're going to do is take note of how we feel throughout the day.
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And for all of this, you're going to have to pull out a piece of paper or a notebook.
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I recommend buying a journal, just having one on hand to write things down is so, so, so important.
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You can download my free power planner and print that out if you want to use that to help, do this and plan your weeks.
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But you're going to note two things down. The first thing is exactly what you are doing on a daily basis.
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Every single thing. Just write it down as you're going about the day. What are you doing?
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What are you thinking about? What do you feel like you have to do, etc., etc..
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And then the second thing that you're going to write down is exactly how you feel during these times, right?
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And you're going to get very specific with this because you're putting your mind on paper.
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Your mind is very complex. And if you don't have accurate data on your paper, you're not going to be able to move on to the next step in a way that allows you to do it very well and effectively.
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So the next step is to prioritize, remove and restructure, because the reason you aren't getting results or the reason you feel like life isn't as good as it once was is because you either feel too pressed for time, which is usually the cause of stress, right?
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You're in this very narrow state and you just feel like you don't have any time, but in reality you're just sitting there thinking you don't have any time when you could actually be doing the thing that you're putting off.
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Second thing is that you just don't have the energy to get results. Living in that stressed out state takes a lot of mental energy to actually, like narrow your focus in whether you're paying attention to just random thoughts or other.
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It takes a lot of precious mental energy that you don't you weren't structuring in a way that is conducive to getting more results.
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And then the last thing is that maybe you've just stopped doing the things that get results.
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I see this all the time in business. It's like, Hey, I'm not reaching out to get clients, why am I not getting clients?
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And it's like you kind of are answering your own question there. You're just not doing the thing that actually gets results.
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And so look over what you wrote down in step one. What can you change?
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So with this, you're going to kind just create your own structure here and you're going to like circle things that will get you results or you're going to write down the things that get you results and you're going to prioritize those, and then you're going to remove the things that snuck in.
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There were the things that snuck into your day and don't deserve to be there.
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It could be draining mental, monetary or even physical energy. And then you're going to restructure specific tasks and obligations.
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So get the chaotic structure of your mind onto paper and reorganize it. And then step number three is to create a week long plan, because as we talk about in many videos, the supreme law of the universe is entropy.
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It comes into play in almost every situation in your life and that is why you are in this state of chaos is because of entropy, the organization of your life, and therefore your mind.
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The thing that you have to keep organized and used to move throughout life tends towards disorder.
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If you aren't performing this whole mental housekeeping thing of writing down everything that's on your mind restructuring, reorganizing it, literally taking your mind, putting it on paper and ordering it in a way that makes sense and allows you gives you clarity to execute.
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And so by not doing this, it's because you can pick up bad habits along the way.
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And so bad habits are difficult to break. And that's for another video or by a book on habit formation.
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But you can make the process eliminating these bad habits a lot easier with clarity, just prioritizing clarity in your life.
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So take 10 minutes and on a new page you're going to write down every single thing that you're going to do over the next week.
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And this shouldn't sound crazy or difficult. It takes 10 minutes and it will help you so, so, so much.
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But just doing this alone reduces the friction that allows you to make better decisions.
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So write out exactly what you're going to do for your morning routine, what tasks you're going to complete during your focused work routine, what you other specific tasks and obligations that you have to get done, like meetings and how those are going play out in your day, and then write out exactly what you're going to do
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in between that time and your nightly routine. And with this, as with almost everything we talk about, like this isn't a quick fix, this isn't an instant thing.
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Like you're not going to be some people will write this down and they'll have a great time and it will work really well.
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Other people, you're going to have to experiment, you're going to write things down, and then as you're trying to execute on it, you're going to hit a problem and then you're going to have to deal with that mentally and you're going to have to go back to what you wrote down.
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Change for the next day to something that you think will work better, trial and error.
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And then over time, throughout the week, you just get into this flow by solving the problems that come up along the way.
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And then you have a system that over the next month you can just do every single day and it becomes that much easier.
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And then eventually that becomes habit. And preferably you are doing the things that move you towards your purpose or your vision or the highest version of yourself.
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And so that's really it for this one. I thought this would be helpful. Come with the start of the new Year.
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I'm not a huge fan of New Year's resolutions, but I do think that now is as better time as any to actually start doing this.
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But setting a New Year's resolution or a goal or just anything when you decide to make a change, it isn't going to be sustainable unless you have absolute clarity too, on how to reach that goal, unless you have a system that you can repeat
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daily and make it a part of life and base your identity around it in alignment with the higher version of yourself.
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So you're working to try and survive or actualize that highest version because human survival on a conceptual level and we try to survive the things that we identify with.
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So if you identify with the highest version of yourself or your purpose and create a system that allows you to act in alignment with that, then eventually that you become that.
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If you can spend 8 hours building someone else's dreams, you can spend one hour building your own one of the most powerful ideas I've been thinking about recently is bringing your ideal future into the now.
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And what I mean by that is performing the same actions you would in your ideal lifestyle, but on a much smaller scale.
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So let's say I want to write for 2 hours every morning for the rest of my life.
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Then what I'm going to do. I already do that right now. But what I did in the past is I am going to start writing for 5 minutes a day, 15 minutes a day, 30 minutes a day, one hour
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a day, and slowly increasing over the years until I can sustain the two hour a day writing lifestyle, because, frankly, it doesn't make sense to wait and put off what you're already going to be doing, because I'm assuming what you're going to be doing
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is going to be directly attributing to the work are going to do or your life's work.
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And so if you're not already doing those things, then you it's going to be much more difficult when you decide to finally start doing them.
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And already you're already going to have to start small and taper up. So if you don't have the time right now to write for 15 minutes every day, you're not going to have the time in the future if writing is going to be what you're doing for work.
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And so the way that you dissect what actions you should be taking is what we're going to talk about soon.
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This whole videos dedicated to deep work and actually executing on the tasks that you're going to be doing, but slowly tapering up until you can do them longer.
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And so the reason I want to for the rest of my life is just that, right?
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I realized my ideal future and I realized that I'm going to have to be writing anyways if I want to continue writing into the future.
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I also realized that writing was not the first thing, right? You have to try things and start to execute on fundamental tasks in order to understand what it is that you want, right?
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Because at first my desires were selfish. They still kind of are, but I knew that I had to make money somehow in order to sustain or build a future lifestyle for myself.
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And so with that, I started on social media. Before that I did freelancing and other things.
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And through that trial and error and realizing, okay, I don't like client work, I don't really care for web design anymore.
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I did at the time, but I outgrew it and now I'm getting into this writing thing and I'm wondering all about it and I love it, right?
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And I would have never stumbled on that unless I had already been working towards my ideal future.
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So whether it you start writing for 15 minutes every single morning or you just start working on the things that will bring you closer to your ideal future, that way you can figure out what you don't want and allow that to act
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as a self corrective compass into figuring out what you actually do want. And then once you find that that's the best place to be, right, then you can just execute, execute, execute until you can make it further part of your day because it becomes seamless at that point.
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Right when I came across writing and understood that it is the foundation of all media and it is how I get my products and services in front of people and build a name for myself.
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I also realize that it helps me clear my mind. It helps me harness my creative ability.
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I started stacking wise behind this one action so that when I woke up it was almost automatic that I just got straight into writing.
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The next thing is that when you bring your actions from your ideal future or the things that are going to actualize your ideal future into the now and start executing on them, you begin to invest mental energy in a goal through focus on that goal.
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So you are investing energy in that ideal lifestyle that you were trying to create.
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And the more you do this, whether it be 15 minutes a day or an hour in a day or 4 hours a day, you're investing energy or currency in a metaphorical sense here.
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And so the more you do it, the more you feel obligated to do it.
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That's how you build momentum and that's how you find passion. You don't just find an action that you're super passionate about.
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Instead, you start investing mental energy into a goal. You do the actions that are required to get to that goal, and then you cultivate passion along the way because you discover things that you wouldn't have discovered without that direct experience.
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And so when you don't work on this goal, you will feel as if you are wasting that currency, you're wasting that investment.
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And so then again, your body and your mind are going to tell you, Hey, I need to get back to doing this goal.
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I can't get distracted or else I'm not going to feel the progress, the momentum, the passion that I felt before.
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And that's how you sustain a passionate, fulfilling and momentum, full life and another thing that comes into play here is my lore of conceptual survival.
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Conceptual survival is the human phenomenon where our survival instincts have transcended the physical realm and are in the mental.
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We work to survive ideas, concepts and beliefs that form our sense of self. So if you identify or you create this goal that starts to form your perspective and how you view the world and start acting in alignment with it and investing mental energy into that goal
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or your future identity, you start to slowly build that identity, right? And by conceptual survival, we are trying to survive our concept of self, and so our actions are going to align with that.
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The more that we do these things, the more that you are consistent with the deep work that we are going to talk about here.
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And so with this, when you view your daily situations from the lens of your future self or from the lens of the goal that you are working towards, you are going to see life in a completely different light, right?
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You're going to be scrolling on social media and a post that you normally wouldn't have stopped and looked at is going to stop your scroll and it is going to help you in the actualization of that goal, like a fitness post is going to grab your attention more than some mindless, cheap entertainment post.
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And the same goes with conversations. You're going to listen from the lens of your goal and be able to filter what say from that so you can spot the things that actually help you move towards that goal.
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So the main lesson here to end this little section of the video is that if you aren't working towards your ideal future, you're working towards someone else's, because either way we are goal oriented creatures and if you do not create your own goal and start to invest energy in that identity,
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you're going to invest energy into the identity that is assigned to you. Like being a college student or having a corporate job title, or being a retired at 65 years old.
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Dude, and your actions are going to follow to survive that belief, whether you are conscious or want to frame it as this whole conceptual survival thing or not.
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And so next we're going to talk about the holistic daily routine. Fill your brain in the afternoons with books, learning and socialization.
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Empty your brain bed with journaling, planning and meditation. Use your brain in the morning with creation, output and focus.
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You need dedicated time every single day for creativity, productivity and experimentation. That is what's going to help you achieve your goals because you need the mixture.
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It can't only be productivity without experimentation and being able to refine along the way, or you're just executing on tasks that have been laid in front of you.
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And so the first objection that comes to mind here is that you don't have enough time.
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Dan I don't have enough time, and that's fine. I'm not asking you to spend 4 hours a day on this or 6 hours a day or 8 hours a day.
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I'm asking you to spend the minimum amount of time you can, because if you don't, then you aren't creating your future life.
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Like if you aren't dedicating time and actually blocking out and focusing for that time in order to move levers towards your ideal future, then you're not going to create it.
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It's that simple and you don't. You shouldn't feel like you need to 3 hours at the very start of your journey, like a young dude who has no responsibilities.
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If you have a wife and kids, then yeah, you're going to have to start with 15 to 30 minutes and work up from there and.
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It's going to take a bit longer because that's the thing. A lot of people don't realize this or notice this is that your psyche isn't wired for modern life, right?
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It's not wired for being under fluorescent going in, sitting in a cubicle. Right. Think of it like a monkey in a cubicle.
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I know you're not a monkey, but a monkey would suffer in a cubicle because it's psyche is not wired for that.
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We need to hunt. And in this age, what I mean by hunting is novel dopamine sources or meaningful dopamine sources or importance.
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Something new in your life. Discoveries, creativity. That's what hunting is, is being able to find something new, Take it, create something it.
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And that feels so good. And so many people don't have that benefit in their life.
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So if modern life has become normal to you the repetitive non-PC automaton lifestyle, do you know that automaton is like a little robotic doll thing?
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That's what most people are. If this modern life becomes normal to you, you are by definition trapped in the matrix, which is a metaphorical term for you are just enslaved and a slave to routine and.
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Many of you are familiar with how I structure my days, so I will keep this brief.
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You need three activities to pursue your goals full force, one that fills your mind.
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You need education, ideas, and novel resources. You can apply towards your goals. This will lead to intrinsic motivation, one that empties your mind.
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You don't want to be trapped in a chaotic bubble of thoughts and useful ideas.
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That's exactly how you make zero progress. Write things down one that uses your mind.
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You need a vessel to focus your efforts with your ideas and the clarity to execute build your future.
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So this video is going to be focused on that last point using your mind with deep work.
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Now, I've talked about that entire process before in my previous video, the three step productivity framework.
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It's about the fill empty use framework. So check that out if you're interested, who you are, what you think, feel and do.
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What you love is the sum of what you focus on. Cal Newport So now we're going to talk about the need for deep work.
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Cal Newport is the author of the book Deep Work. I have it somewhere out in my living room.
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I've never read it, but I have been doing my own version of deep work for the past ten years.
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Really? I'd say price six years. Actually. Productivity is about getting the most effective work done in the least amount time possible.
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Productivity is not about seeing who can work the longest and then where that as a badge of honor that they can show their friends, coworkers and peers that's just a status game.
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In a world of notifications, ample options and overwhelm deep work is frankly no longer an option.
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It is a necessity. You have to block out time to work on your future or to work on your business, or just to avoid conversation, notifications or distractions as whole.
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Need to sit back. You need to channel the creative firepower that you've gained through your consumption or your education or your skill acquisition.
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And you need to focus that into a vessel a.k.a a business to actually to reap the benefits from that business in the form of money, connections and just resources in general, and then be able to have that as currency that you can trade up towards a better life for yourself.
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Deep work is how you build out your dreams in record time. So now we're going to talk about the priority ladder.
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And with this, with the priority ladder, you can drastically change your life in six months with one hour a day of focused work.
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One hour, that's it. Do not think that you need anything more than one hour, one meaningful project, one at a time.
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So with the priority ladder, it's pretty. It's just that it's a priority ladder where there's priority one, two, three and four, and they are all not only decreasing in challenge but also increasing in the amount of distraction potential that there is.
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Right. So priority one is just absolute laser focused on building out your vision with through a project.
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And then priority four is something like maintenance tasks where you are responding to emails, responding to messages and doing other things like that, where you are more open to actually potentially being distracted because there's nothing after that, right?
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There's no creative work that you have to do. So we will start with priority one now, Priority one, this is this pretty much built my entire life, right?
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For as long as I can remember, even into my younger years, I always had one project that I was working on pretty close to first thing in the morning.
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Now it's always first thing in the morning. Like right now I'm writing my book because that is a new project, but it is not something that I have to consistently work on right now.
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Like it's not something that I have to maintain or update always. It's something new.
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And so that's what the first priority should be, right? So if you have not built anything and you only have one hour a day to spare, this is the one hour time block that you use.
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This is where you're focusing your efforts on the levers that are going to lead to creating your vision for the future.
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And then once that is done so for beginners, it's probably going to be something like starting a social media brand, learning how to write with mind to a writer, digital economics course.
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And then as you break through the perception threshold that we talked about in a previous video where it's very difficult at the beginning but slowly more pleasurable with time, where it's going to be difficult and your mind is going to perceive it as more difficult than it's going to be.
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And that perceived this difficulty is going to increase. And you until you hit that breakthrough, right.
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And then you're able to systemize things and then it just flows a lot smoother and then you can fit so much more into that hour, Right.
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Your first of focused work isn't going to be that focused. You have to stick it out and refine your system with time.
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And then once you start seeing results from that first hour of work, then you move that into the second priority time blocks so you can start working on something new, right?
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So then when we move into priority two, that's where your lever moving tasks go.
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So in this case, for me, it's like replying on social media or creating content, mostly creating content because that's like how feed my system, right?
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And it's creative work. It's something that I do not want to outsource. And then what people before, when you move that up to the second priority, you're going to start something new in priority one, because that is what's going to keep
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meaningful dopamine flowing and that is what's going to maintain momentum along this path until you systemize that and then you bump it up another priority.
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Right? So for the the next thing that most people should do after starting a social media brand and once they start seeing results with that and it becomes a lot more efficient for them to keep up with that, then you're going to start building a service or a product so that you can monetize.
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And then once that's done, you move that up and start reaching out to people, but then you can start building out a funnel or something else.
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And then all of these things slowly like build on each other over time. The third time block is also for lever moving tasks or creative tasks or meaningful tasks, right?
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So the things that you don't want to outsource, I will never my writing, at least I hope I won't.
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Maybe I will. But in terms of like just writing in my day, I'm not going to outsource it as a whole.
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The third time block is just to continue keeping the momentum going on, whatever you're building.
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And all of this can also apply to like a corporate job or just any work that you have.
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You have to structure your days with this method. And so the fourth time block or the priority for is for maintenance tasks.
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And for me, that's like checking messages, responding to messages, checking emails, responding to emails, checking the modern mastery community, interacting there.
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This is where I expose myself to people, right? It sounds kind of weird to say it that way, but if you expose yourself to messages or your phone or notifications way too early in the morning, that one rogue thought that you get from it
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that you think isn't of importance when you first see it, like I can touch my phone in the morning and work just fine.
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No, you can't. It's going to pop up. And then that alone is going to split your focus and then that opens up room for entropy, where your mind starts going to all of these different thoughts without you knowing it.
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That's the thing. You probably think it's normal right now for you to do that, and you think that you're doing the best, most efficient work you are, but you're not.
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So you push back all of the conversational and maintenance tasks to the fourth priority.
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And now with all of these like to structure these anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes long time blocks for priority one, two, three and four each, and then in between, I'll take a break or make breakfast or make lunch or go on a 30 to 40 minute walk
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and listen to something in my ears, usually closer to the last ones. But in a nutshell, that's really it.
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There's no reason for me to go over exactly like all every little hack that I do, because the entire joy of all of this comes through experimentation and creating a way that you like doing and just testing different techniques.
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So that's a technique that I'm giving you that you can test and then you can pull some of the good from it, put it into your own day and slowly refine that over time until you live a completely self-made lifestyle, if you will.
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So if you enjoyed this process, first I encourage you to implement it. Second, I encourage you to like and subscribe and comment comment If anything stuck out to you or what you're going to implement.
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Because I'm curious to hear which parts stuck out the most there. Early last year I came across an American philosopher that was touted to be the most conscious man alive.
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This guy's name is Ken Wilbur, and since then I picked up a few books from him, including A Brief History of Everything and Cosmic Consciousness and a few others.
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I've skimmed through them and I was instantly hooked. He has teachings on holism, consciousness in general, and just his integral theory really made a lot philosophical concepts click for me.
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And as I researched more, I found something interesting. Many of you know David Data, the author of The Way of the Superior Man, and Mark Manson, who is the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.
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So both of them were former students of Ken Wilber and David Data. Clearly went on to use what he learned to help explain modern sexuality and masculinity in his books.
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And Mark Manson had a more interesting story where he saw the rise and fall of Ken Wilber.
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I read on his blog, you can probably find it somewhere. It's called The Rise and Fall of Ken Wilber.
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But Mark Manson was an adamant student of his. He was really loving what he was learning.
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He was supposed to go to some seminar or workshop and out of nowhere, Ken Wilber kind of turned on his audience.
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He said some weird, questionable things, and then he kind of just disappeared from the scene.
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And the long, long story short of Mark Manson's article on this is that even the most conscious beings are still human.
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We still have egos. And so Ken is now back in action. He's showing up on some niche podcasts.
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I would recommend you go and give some of them a listen because they are very intriguing and I feel like if you like my content, you'll like there's quite a bit.
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It's a lot more stimulating than mine is just because I haven't reached that level of thought or articulation yet.
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And even though Ken Wilber did make some questionable remarks and he turned on his audience, there's still a lot that we can learn from him.
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It's the same thing with Alan Watts, where like Alan Watts, many of you know of him, but some you don't know that he died or he was a victim of alcoholism.
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Right. So he drank alcohol. And a lot of people have different perceptions and perspectives around alcohol.
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But the point is, is that the medium and the message are separate and that even spiritual people are too.
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And they have their vices and they're battling with them. And in my opinion, Alan Watts's alcohol problem still aligned with his philosophy.
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And so without going too deep into this, I would encourage you to research these things for yourself.
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Follow your curiosity and question things don't form heart set beliefs on these things that most people would label as bad because we live in a world of relativity and there are no absolutes except for the absolute.
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And so the purpose of me framing this entire video this way is that I want to introduce you to a concept of Ken Wilber and what he calls a hold on each hold on a whole on is the unit of everything.
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It is both a part and it is a whole like how an atom is a whole in itself, but it is also a part of a molecule or how the molecule is whole, but it's also a part of a cell.
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And then going all the way up about humans and how they are holes in themselves, but they are also a part of society, society, a whole part, a culture, culture, a whole part of a nation, nation, world, world
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galaxy galaxy cosmos cosmos God. And so they span an infinite directions. And this really helps paint a picture of what some people call relativism or relativity, where everything is connected, right?
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Everything. The that joins these whole lines together is relationships. So as Alan Watts would say, existence is relationship.
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And you were smack in the middle of it because humans are not only a of society, but I'm a part of this room, I'm a part of a family, I'm a part of friendships.
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Wood is not only a part of a tree, it is part of a chair is used to build houses.
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And so we can start to paint a picture here that whole lawns or really anything ideas, figments of consciousness, units of thought is what Alan Watts would call them.
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These are the building blocks of creative problem solving. And this is not only limited to things that are material or tangible ideas are also homelands, thoughts, emotions.
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They are whole lines. They are part of a whole, in a whole in themselves.
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And this is how humans make sense of the world. We create limits or distinctions.
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So in this case, they're called whole lines. And how these distinctions work together and how they're very context dependent or goal dependent, and they're very useful when you start to actually notice these distinctions or whole lines like with an emotion,
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how can you follow that relationship to its source and understand it on a deeper level so that you can overcome that emotion?
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If it's like a negative one? And so this is best understood through philosophical contemplation, just letting thoughts trigger thoughts and going down a rabbit hole of curiosity and discovery.
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So this is a practice that you can do on your own, but we can do one right now.
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Let's say the whole lawn that I want to choose is honey. So if I want to dissect that or just understand it on a deeper, bigger picture level, I can use my mind to follow it.
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So there's the process of making honey the bees associated with pollination. The beekeepers, if they are making a living wage, whether any harm is being done to the bees, the manufacturing and distribution process of the honey.
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How the honey impacts human health when consumed and onward toward infinity. You can take any single one of those words in that list, even the bullet points themselves and just start connecting dots.
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And so in business, as an example, one person business that we talk about, you are a whole that includes your interest, your interests are part and all of you, but they are also a part in a whole of your niche.
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And then your niche is a part in the whole of the market. And then markets are kind of parts and wholes of social media.
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And so if you're struggling in any domain of life, that usually means there's a problem, right, that you're struggling through.
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And you can usually pinpoint that problem and you can start to zoom out and see the bigger picture of how it connects with other things.
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And so this why multi perspective? Well, understanding and open mindedness is so important is because it allows you to solve creative problems by connecting the dots.
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This is something we're going to go a lot more in-depth into in the next video, which is going to be called like the greatest trap of the 21st century, which is closed mindedness, cheap dopamine, distraction, etc.
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So now let's get into the interesting stuff, which is modern enslavement or society as a pyramid scheme.
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Nobody. I want to be trained into a job I hate work for 40 years and get angry at a TV until I die.
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90% of the population does exactly that. Wake up, It's not too late. So notice how hollonds are hierarchical.
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They transcend and include one another, like how humans or the emergence and they emerge as well.
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So something emerges and then it transcends and includes what is under it. So a human, for example, transcended and includes animals, right?
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We include the physicality and survival nature kind of in a metaphorical sense. The physicality, yes, but the survival is conceptual.
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In our case, of course, we have physical survival, but we also include conceptual survival and spirit emerged, right?
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That is the main difference is is spirit emerged in humans have the ability to sense it, which is pretty much the connection minds through the intangible, like how a sports team has team spirit and they share that spirit or energy going into a game and it allows them to win.
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Like if they have low spirit, low team spirit, and another team has high team spirit.
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You'd be surprised in how much the game can be swayed in any direction of winning or losing.
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So everything is structured as a hierarchy and there are two types. The first are dominator hierarchies, which is what gives the word hierarchy a bad reputation.
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So these consist of pyramid scheme esque structures. And then the second are natural hierarchies or actualization hierarchies, which is in order of increasing wholeness such as particles to atoms, to cells to organisms, or letters to words, to sentences to paragraphs.
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The whole on one level becomes a part of the whole of the next. So you can see the wisdom in how society kind of mimics this hierarchical structure.
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But society would fall under the definition of a dominator hierarchy. And of course this is context dependent.
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But in like when we think of society, this is what we think about. So societal entities like public schools or the parts that make up the whole of society, like public schools, government, corporate jobs, and even some religious institutions, which is more culture but still part.
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And all those are also structured in this way. So it's hierarchies within hierarchies. And the main thing with this is that there are more people with less power at the bottom and then there are less people with more power at the top.
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And so in a true pyramid scheme, there are investors at the bottom that enable all this power distribution, so you climb this ladder in any given situation, if you're trying to climb the ladder like some people aren't trying to climb the religious ladder.
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Right. A lot of people aren't trying to become pastors, but in the sake of like a corporate job or going to school, you're taught to climb the ladder through hard work and manual labor, just hard, hard work.
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But it's going to be close to impossible to reach the actual top of the pyramid.
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If you go about it this way, you're usually going to get stuck in one level because if there's ten people at the top and a million people at the bottom, how are you?
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Those are just bad odds. And so the people that want to break out of this pyramid scheme structure have to create their own right.
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They have to start their own business. They have to start their own actualization or create their own actualization hierarchy to escape a dominance hierarchy.
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Because the thing with this is that these are created every single day, right? They transcend and include after creative emergence.
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And so in these pyramid schemes, yeah, money plays a role, but money isn't the biggest problem.
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The people at the bottom of these societal pyramid schemes are not investing money. Some of them are, but they're investing attention.
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So since humans survive on a conceptual level, and if you identify a or you like all that, you know, and all that you believe is, let's say the job title that you adopt, you're going to work to survive that identity with your attention, right?
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Like, for example, it doesn't exist unless there is enough attention to give it life.
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So in the case of like religious ideology or business model, like there could be a business model out there that we have no clue about because no one has actually done it or spread the word so that there is attention
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given to that business model to make it seem like it exists and it is something tangible that other people can go into.
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But when people identify with their job title or their religion or something else, it is upheld through attention.
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And if that attention is threatened, like if you if the attention is threatened, then the existence of that thing is threatened and you are going to threatened, like if someone says, I don't like your sports team, and you get threatened like you actually have a physical survival response is what I'm saying here.
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That is I mean, and you're going to defend that belief over and over and hardwire it into your brain when in reality, if you just zoom out, gain a bigger picture, those problems mean absolutely fuck.
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So it's safe to say that power in our modern world comes from attention. We're talking about external power, but we're also talking about internal power.
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So being able to actually control your own attention. And so another pattern to note here that we've talked about before is that these hierarchical structures also present a hierarchy of goals that help frame our attention or focus our attention or order our mind.
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And with just a world of overwhelm, uncertainty and like insecurity, the masses flock to the thing that is going to be most likely to heal that uncertainty or order their mind, which is usually one of these external hierarchy of goals like climbing the corporate ladder.
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Because they don't have clarity on anything else they can do. They haven't been exposed to another potential path that makes sense and have been given clarity how to actually reach that goal and take action on it.
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So they either believe it's impossible or it's just not a possibility for them. And so they go to the thing that has just been ingrained in our minds of what we should do and focus our attention on throughout the entirety of our lives.
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And so this is the definition of modern enslavement. I don't believe that like someone at the top is just planning being a puppet master.
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I just it's it's just human nature and how nature is structured in this hierarchical manner and how we plan to focus our attention.
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And over time, these things becoming more and more normalized or conditioned into our brains to the point where we are born as slaves unless we take it on ourselves to free or break those chains.
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Because social conditioning since the day you were born narrows your mind to see the world the same as everyone else.
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People have to be on the same page, and so it becomes automatic for us to invest or psychic or mental energy into these hierarchy of goals, not only to help maintain them because all no society collapses, then we all collapse.
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It's not just going to collapse out of nowhere, but see, what I mean is that it's like, well, someone has to do this job, someone has to do this.
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And it's like, this is what creative problem solving is for. If people actually woke up and wanted to create a better future for themselves and they decide not to go the traditional route, then they're going to have to solve the problem.
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And if enough people do this, then the universe will correct itself. We may go through some bad times, but from a universal perspective, when you look down, it doesn't really matter.
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It's just a part of the process of life, birth and death. The collective societal vision for your future is to get good grades, maybe get a high paying job, watch TV, to ease your mind and maybe retire happily at 65, both with the unconscious seeking of status, survival and approval.
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And so eventually, with the social conditioning or just conditioning in general, all this stuff becomes habit and we go on to mimic others, right?
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We become a product of others and we chase these status schemes. We spend our money on the fancy cars, we invest our attention all day to make that money back.
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And we never think to consult or create and then consult our own values, vision, wants, needs and potential impact on the world.
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So we escape this modern enslavement. One by becoming aware, which I'm making you aware of right now.
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And then the second thing is by creating your own actualization hierarchy to order your mind and create a better future for yourself and those around you.
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Because that actualization hierarchy will present a series of goals which are problems and increasing in creativity along the way and fulfillment and impact along the way that will potentially spread to other people throughout the world.
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So you have to work your way up. And those the goals imply problems, solve the problems over and over again, and that is what you invest your attention in to help not only change your own life, but then let that go on to impact other people as a whole.
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And so you can opt for doing nothing. You really can. You can be a sheep, you can be an NPC whatever however people label it, you can opt for doing nothing.
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But you have to understand that you are a human and that you are not going to escape survival.
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If you opt for doing nothing. You are automatically a slave. You don't have to tie a negative connotation with slave, right?
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That's not necessarily a bad thing. In certain cases. It can be. It can't be.
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Just don't take what I'm saying as absolutely literal in the same interpretation that everyone is going to have like a slave from a thousand years ago.
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We're talking metaphorically here in terms of the mind, not physicality. So I've been working on this for a long time.
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This is going to be called the focus formula and it is how you take back control of your life.
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So let's look at the graphic I made for this one. I'm proud of this one, but we'll dive into all of these steps right now.
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Just screenshot this if you want to have a way of remembering what we're going to talk about right now, if you don't know what you want, you will be told what you want and you will believe it.
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So unless you have dissolved your ego completely, entirely, it doesn't exist. And you plan to live out in the woods like a monk with no human connection whatsoever, then you're going to need a purpose.
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And even then, humans still have a purpose. Your purpose then, is peace, and you are just doing that.
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So since success is relative and dependent on a hierarchy of goals, you need to create your own.
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So let's create the structure to order our minds and create a good life for ourself.
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So the first thing we have to talk about is purpose. And the reason I'm creating this mainly, and a lot of why I do what I do, is because what most people say in books and stuff, it just doesn't really sense, right?
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It doesn't make too much sense when people say, you need a purpose. There's no like, how how do I find my purpose or something like that or like, you understand what a purpose is, but you don't really understand what it is, you know what I'm saying?
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So for the sake of simplicity, purpose one there is not only one purpose, you don't have one purpose, right?
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So there are lesser and greater purposes, and you have to you have to achieve one purpose in order to unlock the next.
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So to make this as simple as possible, a purpose is a goal, and a goal introduces a problem.
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And so your purpose is the most pressing problem in your life right now. If you have done absolutely nothing with your life, your purpose is not to spread love and be selfless and good to the to the world.
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It just doesn't work that way. If you haven't self-developed and self transcended, then it's impossible to be truly, absolutely selfless.
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So sit back and think, What is your purpose right now? What is the problem?
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Or the pain that you have been avoiding confronting If you're overweight and you need more energy and that's really dampening your life, right?
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Like you can't walk down stairs, you can't walk and keep up with your friends.
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You can't even work a job like specific jobs in order to make more money, then that is your purpose.
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And you need to laser all of your attention in on that and solve it with what we're going to talk next.
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But that is the thing that is your main goal. That is your North Star at the moment, and all of your actions will be aligned with that, whether it the food you eat or just the choices you make, whether you go on a walk or you sit on the couch.
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And the thing with this is, is that you really have to sit and understand how that problem or pain is spreading into the rest of your life.
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You have to become conscious of that in order to get absolutely fed up with where you are.
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And then that energy that purpose will be much easier to one, it will fuel you in the morning and you want to get out of bed, but you have to get to that point.
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You have to sit with it and marinate in it and stop ignoring the pain in your life.
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Or just another example is like mine. I don't know if this was my first purpose, but I as a kid, I feel like a lot of you can relate.
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I was just tired of not being able to get girls even though I wasn't trying.
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Right? That's like every young dudes. Thing is, you want to get girls and so my first thought, like when I went through my first breakup, it's like, okay, I'm going to get back at her for and just go to the gym and get jacked, right?
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And so that's why I went to the gym is because the pain in my life was as a kid.
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It's funny now, thinking back on your past purposes, but that was the thing is I went to the gym because there was a big pain in my life and I wanted to solve that.
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And the thing with this is, is that's a lesser purpose. But once you start solving that and once you do eventually solve that just with time, it's not even immediate.
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You may not know if it's solved or not. Then the next purpose presents itself because you're just slowly and consistently solving better problems for yourself.
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So remember this is that one problems don't ever go away. They just get better and they get more fun to solve, right?
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That's all we're doing. That's all we're doing here is we're just constantly solving problems or avoiding problems.
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That's the cause of pain. So we're either leaning in to the battle, the conflict, the problem, or we're sitting back and we're marinating in it and we're just not moving or aside from those two, we are in the present moment or we are meditating and we are practicing
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and getting ready for that next round of heat, which is problem solving. Life unfolds in chapters like a book, and each chapter presents a purpose that the next chapter leads into and you will feel lost heading into new chapters of your life.
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Your purpose isn't just going to be read readily available during the next like after you solve the first one or after you completed the first purpose, the next one isn't going to show up.
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You're going to feel lost. We've all gone through this and it's normal. You just have to sit with it.
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And this is a time where you would practice presence and other things in preparation for that next round of intensity.
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So if you aren't making progress, then you are preparing for the next round of making progress and you have to be okay with that and you have to sit with it and self-reflect to understand, okay, what like getting hints at your next purpose?
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It's like pieces of the puzzle, right? Because you only know you don't exactly like know what a problem is right away maybe bugging you for a bit and you don't know what it is unless you self-reflect on what went wrong and what went right in your life.
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It's like I may not know where I want to move next, but if I reflect on my past and think about the places that I've been on vacation to or I've gone and visited, and I can get a little inkling of like, okay, I want to live in a place that's a big city.
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I want to be able to walk in some places. This is how you create a vision for your future as you reflect and you start to piece together piece of the puzzle based on your past mistakes and based on what went well.
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So from your mistakes, you understand, Okay, I don't want to make that mistake again and you can move in a better direction.
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Like if I blow a bunch of money on a compulsive purchase, like a car, and then I can't afford anything for, like, three months, That was a mistake.
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And then it also presents a problem that could potentially be your next purpose or something that you need to solve. Right?
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So if I can't afford the lifestyle that I want to live, then I need to make more money.
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So I need to start a business, right? I need to do it or I need to increase my skillset in order to get a better job.
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Right. It allows me to make progress on something that I want and can be enjoyable if I have clarity on how to do it.
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And so if I start a business or I and then those present subsequent problems and then you have to solve those, you have to lean into them.
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If I don't know how to build a business, then need to learn. If I know and I haven't done anything, then I need to act like all of this stuff is so simple.
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If you just get out of your head and understand, here's a problem. I need to solve it.
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I need to also learn how to solve it, and then I'm going to solve it.
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And so the next time around that like there are no right or wrong actions here, right?
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Where if I want to do something so surface level, so status based, like starting a business, making a lot of money and getting a good car, then I'm going to do that.
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But then I have to self-reflect and see if that was a mistake because I can always come back and correct it.
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I can sell the car, I can make a better decision, I can restructure my business, I can restructure my lifestyle.
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I just need the control to do that. And if you aren't able to do that, then that's a problem.
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Solve it. If you have a job and you don't have any time on your hands, that's a problem.
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Start a business, do what you have to do. And so if you're absolutely lost, you're just absolutely lost with this whole purpose stuff, then you need to ask better questions to yourself, because questions dictate the quality of answers.
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Quality of answers dictate the quality of your life. And so use these questions below as attention anchors. Right.
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Hold them in the back of your awareness, because these answer, these questions are answered with time.
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I don't think any questions are answered almost immediately, at least meaningful ones where you actually gain knowledge because you have to make mistakes and let struggle and pain lead to answers.
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So ask the questions to yourself as we go about them and then experience life, self-reflect, and see okay in alignment with these questions, what answers are starting to piece from what I just experienced in life?
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What do I really want out of life? What is important to me? What is the highest version of myself?
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What does my ideal day look like? What do I have to accomplish in order to get there?
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Does that solve a problem in the world? And what product or service with both?
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What is the next phase of my purpose? Write this down. So after purpose we have process.
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We need to gain clarity and understand how to achieve whatever purpose we have. Repeat the boring fundamentals.
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That's how you get results, but realize they aren't boring. A sushi chef spends years perfecting the preparation of rice.
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A tennis player obsesses over the angle of their serve. Mastery sets you apart in a world that can't see beyond the surface.
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So what is the process that is going to allow you to achieve your goal?
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So every goal is you. If it's not like immediate, like me saying this next word as a goal, if it's further away from you, then you need to gain clarity by attaching a string of goals to it, like a quest
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and a video game that helps narrow your attention, block distractions and gets you obsessed with solving it.
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It gives you clarity, orders, your mind. And so from those deconstructed goals, from your purpose, let's say my purposes, I need to just get fit in the gym.
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Then what's the process? Goal number one is I need to learn how to go to the gym.
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Goal number two is I need to understand what I actually need to do. What food do I need to eat?
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What equipment do I need to buy? And if my goal is specific. Right, which we'll talk about in a bit like gaining £20 of muscle in my first year.
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Right. I have to learn in order to understand and gain clarity on that goal and understand what's actually possible and then align all of my actions with that goal and execute as a process.
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Repeating the boring fundamentals. So you need to study the principles of these things in order to actualize or achieve your goals.
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And so you also have to understand that this process is going to change with time.
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And as you learn and experience more because the process of mastery or just anything like acquiring a skill, it comes in stages of beginner, intermediate, advanced and possibly even more in between.
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That like a beginner in the gym is not going to be doing the same workouts as an intermediate or an advanced lifter in the gym.
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Same as with business. Not going to be hiring employees as a beginner, you're going to be acquiring skills, learning, direct outreach, learning, direct response, marketing, understanding how to grow in social media, understanding what you want to talk about, creating your niche, etc., etc.
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And then intermediate is more so like maintaining that We talked about stage one through three creators in the one person business roadmap.
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So That's an example. But you see what I'm saying here. And so every stage will have its own lever moving actions that you need to take on a daily basis in order to bust through your purpose.
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And if you need help with this, use my power planner. It's free download in the description.
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It'll help you take your vision for the future, break it down into yearly, monthly, weekly and goals with priority tasks.
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And that's what we're talking about. Next is priority making better decisions. So the best way to frame your actions, whether it be on a daily or even like a higher goal, like a monthly goal, is performance versus vanity.
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So we're favoring performance here. So instead of trying to gain 50 followers a day, which if you've been in the social media game, you know that as a beginner that's kind of like iffy, like it's it's not guaranteed, right?
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You don't have control over it, so your mind is much more likely to become disordered and overwhelmed and anxious about actually taking action.
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So what you can do instead of trying to gain 50 followers is writing 1000 words a day.
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And of course this has to be aligned with what you're actually doing or it can be right three high quality tweets a day or one Instagram post a day and 20 replies under an account to get more followers to your actual page.
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And so this is such, such such a big realization is that you, at this moment in your life, are manifestation of your past choices.
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All of them have compounded into who you today and your future self is going to be a manifestation of the choices you make from this moment on until then.
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And so making better decisions comes much easier. You have a purpose and process to frame your attention into and make decisions in alignment with.
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So the first thing you do to start making better decisions is to bring your purpose.
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To the top of your mind. This will help you filter signal importance from noise distraction.
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So if it isn't conducive to achieving your purpose, then it isn't important unless you've been convinced that it is by someone else.
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So the next thing you can do for making better decisions is gaining multiple perspectives understanding.
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So you can do this in many different ways. And we've talked about this before and we'll talk about it more in the next video.
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But for the sake of brevity, because this video is already getting really long, is to adopt the perspective of the highest version of yourself.
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Right. What do they look like? What do they want to do with their life?
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You have to have a vision for your future and you have to adopt the perspective of that person.
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You have to transfer your consciousness into that person and see what decision would they make.
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Like if I'm a bodybuilder, I can pretty much understand why a bodybuilder would decide to eat chicken and rice.
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Aside from going out, it's because they have a goal to achieve, a meaningful goal, to achieve a purpose.
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So how can you view the situation that allows you to perceive it in a way that is conducive to action and that's the thing, is to perceive a situation in a way that allows you to act in alignment.
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Your purpose problems are only problems if you interpret them as such. From your narrow perspective.
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If you don't feel like getting out of bed, zoom and see your problem for what it is.
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There are some people that don't have legs. They have to be let out of bed are like they don't give a fuck if you don't feel like getting out of bed, they can't even get out of bed.
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There are people that don't even have a bed or food to cook and eat in the morning.
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So you have a purpose to actualize and you need to perceive the situation in the way that allows you to act, to actually actualize it.
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So do that. So a note about this, the focus formula, the little graphic there that we created is that this does not only apply to your life, this applies to every single goal you plan to actualize.
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If you're working on a project, right, or you're writing an article, it's the same thing.
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You need a purpose for that article. You need a process for writing it, and you need priority actions to take.
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This is like a global framework for framing your attention and eliminating distractions and not having all of these problems that are unimportant.
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Their noise distract you from what's important in your life and actually impacting the world on a deeper level.
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So this is that image is your reality. Okay? You need to internalize and you need to sit with it and marinate in it and understand the good and bad of not achieving it.
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You have to understand what is going to happen if I do not achieve this purpose.
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And it's not pretty at all. Observe, just just sit and follow Rabbit Hole into the worst possible scenario of where your life could end up and then also do the opposite.
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Flip side of the coin. What is the best case scenario of if you actually actualize this purpose and then the next, and then the next and the next, What will happen?
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Where will you be in life? And then dance between those two as you're going about life?
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And if something else pops up to try and distract you, then you need to sit with it and you need to filter it through a purpose filter and understand, okay, is this important and how am I going to act according to this problem that just showed up?
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And so typical distractions like social media, the news and other things, they don't fucking matter in your life.
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And the reason they matter to a lot of people and they base their identity around that is because they do not have a purpose to bring their attention back to.
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They do not have a hierarchy of goals to frame and structure their attention, to create a better life for themselves.
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The harsh reality is that how you spend your twenties will make or break your future.
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Of course, there are outliers. But for the vast majority of people, this holds true.
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Dopamine and modern comforts have become so normal that 99% of the population is docile, just way too comfortable and heavily risk averse.
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The solution is simple. So here are three steps to future proofing yourself by the time you turn 30, life hits you like a truck.
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It is not hard to observe this fact in society. Your time dries up and your habits compound.
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They're much harder to break. If you didn't take care of your health, it will catch up to you and you will lose more time If you didn't start a business, you need more effort to get out of a job.
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It will take longer to get out. Your mental peak starts to decline in your thirties.
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You don't have the knowledge and experience that comes from forging your own path. People miss out on that one a lot I'm 26.
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I can only speak so much here, right? I'm not 30 yet, so why am I even talking about this?
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But I can attest to the fact that people have told me that I am more wise than 50 year olds or other people that don't have the experience.
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Like how much can you actually learn and know if you just do the same thing every single day for 50 years of your life?
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And of course you have commitments. So a house spouse work and possibly children and this isn't the case for everyone.
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And if you are in your thirties, don't let this discourage you right face reality.
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You will have to put in more effort for a longer period of time than a 20 year old would have to.
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It is what it is. Start doing it now. But being young presents the most traps.
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So there are social conditioning. In other words, you may not even realize the trap that you've dug yourself into by the time you're 25, 26, 27.
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You may not have watched a video like this or some other video of people trying to make you aware of the life you have not lived yet.
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Your life in another trap is, of course, the dopamine laden entertainment. The stuff that we naturally gravitate towards. Right?
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When you're bored, where does your attention go? It goes to your phone. You open up Instagram, you don't even know it.
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5 minutes later, you're just scrolling and you're watching some random reel. And then, of course, there is Comfort's new modern comforts like video games, Netflix, and just other things that cross over with the dopamine.
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Cheap entertainment that make people not want to branch into the unknown and discover new things and find new opportunities for themselves and become aware of their potential.
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So thankfully, the solution is simple but not easy. The first step is to build your body.
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Most successful people that I've talked to have always started with some form of exercise, right?
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I started in the gym. That was my first obsession. I did it for vanity reasons.
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I wanted to get jacked. I wanted to look good so I could get women.
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And that's what almost every single at least dude that I know started with that are now business people and vastly successful in more areas than just good looks.
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The gym specifically teaches you that you have to put effort into reality in order to get something out.
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It teaches you that you are not entitled to fucking anything. The gym is literally the opposite of cheap dopamine is meaningful dopamine that you see through progress, effort, hard work and you get results because of it.
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And so the other thing is that looks matter whether you think it's fair or not, right?
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I know there are people that are less fortunate. They have there's genetic outliers there's other things like that.
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Do what you can. But for people that are fortunate to be able to improve their looks to the absolute maximum, why are you doing that?
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It's the same thing with business, right? Attention grabbing attention is the first step to being able to display your value, right?
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So you have to catch attention with content in order to convert into money. In the real world, you have to catch attention with your looks, your demeanor, how you present yourself to the world, and then that's when they discover who you are and your skill set and other things.
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And if you don't look good, you're taking a big chunk away from what can introduce you to new opportunities in the world.
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People just respect you more when you look good and you've put effort into your body, regardless of if you're still objectively ugly, right?
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If you don't look good, but you've put effort into building yourself up, people recognize that you attract more attention from high level people.
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And of course, there is a line where vanity can hurt your self-image, right? You can get trapped in that mental thought loop.
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But that's just an aspect of living with purpose. And that can learned and overcome through a mindfulness practice, right.
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When you're pursuing anything, whether it be looks, money, whatever, there's there's always something you can prepare yourself to when you're moving forward and making progress in the world.
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That is where suffering is borne out of desire. And so you need to learn to manage that.
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It doesn't mean you just avoid it completely and not expose yourself to experience through actually moving through the world and making progress.
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You have to do both peace and progress practice both skills. And lastly, you can look good and not be a narcissistic fuck.
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And we start with building the body because you can start right now. You don't have to wait until.
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I have this certain skill set in order to make income from my business. No, you go to the gym right fucking now and the benefits of it transfer over into clear thinking.
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A strong mindset and just more physical energy. When you prioritize your body, your mind and finances follow because you're improving the vessel from which those things come.
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So the second thing after building your body is to build your mind. Your level of mind dictates your quality of life, right?
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Your level of mind is pretty much your perspective how high and open of a perspective you have from which you interpret the problems in your life.
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If you have a low level of mind and you are focused on a problem within that level of mind, like paying the bills and no, you're trapped in this mental thought loop and then you don't learn the skills
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and gain the experience necessary to increase above that to view. The problem from a lens that does not bother you, right?
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Because your problems don't go away. You just get better at perceiving them. And with this you don't need to understand every single part of a nice car in order to have a nice ride.
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But with the mind it doesn't work like that. You have to understand your mind in order to use it and in order to drive it.
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And that alone will dictate the quality of your human experience in and of itself.
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So schedule time to study philosophy, study spirituality, study metaphysics, study psychology, study epistemology, study stages of ego development, study spiral dynamics, study the mind.
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This is a lifelong of mastery. You will become powerful. So on top of that, we need to use our mind to make progress in reality.
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So we adapt to the modern landscape by creating a vision for your future, deconstructing it into goals, acquiring knowledge and skills, and making small daily improvements.
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Focus on your health, wealth and happiness. I also have a video called Society Is a Pyramid Scheme How to Take Back Control of Your Life, Something like that.
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But that's a great video for breaking that process down. More now. Step number three We built our body.
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We're building our mind. Build your business. That's step three. Entrepreneurship is for everyone. I just went on an entire ten minute rant in the last video, so go watch that and I can handle objections all day about this.
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But entrepreneurship is for everyone. You are an entrepreneur right now. You have value to provide.
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You provide it to some people. All you need to do is put that value on the internet or in front of people with a price tag on it and boom, you're an entrepreneur.
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Strip your mind of the limiting beliefs what you think entrepreneurship is and just start contributing to humanity and getting paid for doing.
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So that's entrepreneurship by helping other people. So business is how you channel your interests, skills and expertise to impact others at scale.
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And as Alan Watts would say, sensible people paid for doing what they enjoy doing.
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And if you want to live a fulfilling life, you need to leverage all five intrinsic drivers curiosity, purpose, passion, autonomy and mastery.
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You need to create and have full control over the lifestyle you wish to live.
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Business is how you get there. And no, you don't need to start $1,000,000,000 company.
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The has leveled the playing field for skill and knowledge acquisition and just being able to build a product and put it in front of someone.
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Evolution has led to this point of us coming full circle to how our ancestors were entrepreneurs and we're just you just all work in your little community and it's like a little utopia that you live in.
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And now it's much more larger scale and global. So you don't need a $1 billion company, you need a one person business, you need a specific set of skills that you learn, the ones that you want to learn.
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You generate traffic on social media by putting yourself in public as a personal brand.
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And it's as simple as this. You create a product that would have helped your former self right or would have helped you get to where you are faster because personal development is about solving your own problems.
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Business is about solving other people's problems. So if you solve your own problems and you create something to help you with that, like a planner, if I need mental clarity to create a plan or a journal and then I'm just going to sell
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that to others, set a goal, find a problem, learn how to solve it, document how you solved it, distill it into a replicable process, give it to others that want to be helped.
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Do it offline. And it's called growth. Do it online and it's called business. That's it.
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So in your twenties, to make the most of them, you realize your potential by becoming aware of the that you are digging yourself in just by the default state of humanity.
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That's how you're born, where consciousness is chaotic. Unless we order it. Don't waste your twenties.
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Build your body build your mind, build your business and like comment or subscribe piece.
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