I forgot who pointed this out, but Netflix has a subtle feature that regularly inspires you to get rid of the couch and live the life you really want.
Whenever an episode of the show you are going to watch and the next one is lined up, there is a moment on the screen that goes dark to give you a glimpse of your reflection. When you see your tired, expected face, you’re about to invest 47 minutes of precious life psychologistyou have a short chance to save yourself.
Whether you’re a reveler or a Doom, or another type of timer, the following is true for most people who read this book:
- Some of the things you want to do that you don’t.
- You know these things are worth it.
- You know these things are possible.
And you know what they are. You want to start your own business, write a book, learn Japanese or play Moonlight Sonata Perfect.
Then why not do this? You want your friends and family to pursue their wishes, so why not go by yourself?
If you ask yourself this question, the mind has three standard deflections:
- I don’t have time.
- I don’t know how.
- There will be better times.
These answers are false. You don’t have time because you don’t have time to have such things. Time is born short. You can’t own it, nor can you hoard it for later use. Time is simple occuryou have always used it according to your actual intention.
Of course, you don’t know what to do. If you don’t know how, then all you want is to learn how. Part of doing anything is learning how to do it. There is nothing to happen first.
“There will be better time” is sometimes correct – usually like a broken clock anyway – but usually incorrect. Longer delays are usually harder. The same is true for age.
These phrases cannot understand reason because they are not the cause, they are deflections.
There are things in human mind that are just afraid of new realms: new situations and new feelings. This fear is designed to protect you from new forms of pain, but it can dominate and prevent great things from happening, which can be even more painful in the long run.
As long as you hear this fear, you will stay. You will grow old and your wish will never happen. You find yourself telling young people to grab the day and do what they love because you know how easy it is to fool yourself and ultimately use your time as a way of life.
A way to exit time
This fear of the new territory is a built-in dream killer that tends to strengthen as you get older. You need to develop strategies to compete with, at least before you are ready to give up.
The best way I found is to pause our usually boring adult pragmatism and think about the goal pursuit in a stranger way. If you want to truly achieve your wishes, I recommend treating them as tasks, not goals.
You can read the full reason for this post. Essentially, using the goal as a “task” makes the whole process better. If you are seeking pursuits, you will know that you will enter an unfamiliar territory – in this new territory, fear and unexpected challenges feel appropriate and even exciting.
The goal is usually just to feel like you want to be somewhere else, but you haven’t. You are trying to get a prize and everything on the road is unwelcome.
Individual expectations in tasks can sometimes feel unprepared or confronted. You want to test. You want to have time and you don’t think you will do it.
However! All along, when you are willing to travel through new areas, you feel like you are becoming stronger and more skilled, Quickly. That’s what travels on the new territory – it accelerates adaptation. You will learn and build skills at the speed of ten times faster as you travel in a familiar area.
Suppose you are trying to finally learn Photoshop. On the first day, it was frustrating to try to figure out how the layers work. They don’t behave the way you want it to be. You can’t even make the simplest images, and the number of commands you don’t know is overwhelming. You have the urge to exit and return to stock photos using la feet.
This is a great place! New areas have changed you.
By day three, you know how the tier works. Your confusion about this little bit has become knowledge, and your sense of inadequacy has become ability. Next thing.
By 30 days you can teach people these things that you will know for the rest of your life.
Now – that month, you completely changed the skill – you can stay completely in a familiar field, watch replays, and basically learn nothing. Photoshop is still something that others can do, and you can’t.
Imagine you are used to small, focused exercises like this – how fast the experience will add up. You can develop new skills by going to new land regularly and open new doors monthly.
New Territory as a Way of Life
We’re in A big victory Program. Everyone chooses a task and then follows a simple roadmap to complete. The idea is to pursue a manageable size and do it in small pieces (we call them blocks) over eight weeks. The rest of us are there when you need help.
No matter which mission you choose, it will take you into new realms, and if you let yourself move on, that realm plays a role in your magic of change.
If the task has a particularly daunting part – combine verbs in French, or hit “post” in your first blog post – we call it dragon.
When the dragon wins, it is to scare you so that you can quit and go home. If you show up, you will rarely beat you. Many people find that it only took their dragon about an afternoon to overcome it – sometimes only half an hour (!), even if it scares for many years.
Once you kill the dragon, you will get its treasure: new skills, monetary rewards, organized houses or financial life, new identity as a writer or programmer – no matter the dragon keeps you away. The field is now yours and you can do the task elsewhere next time.
To me, this represents a whole new way of life – in principle, delving into new areas. I wish I could start doing this sooner. Life only adds up quickly in smaller ways.
Join the third round
If you want to do the first task, it is a new queue A big victory Registration is now open.
You may have thought of something. Learn Photoshop. Start a website. Write a story. Clean the loft. All old baseball cards for sale. Repair every broken thing in the house.
Setting up on the right tasks is part of the course, so don’t worry if you’re not sure. (If you scroll to the bottom, here is a list of tasks.)
A group will begin their mission on April 14, 2025. You can start on different dates if you like. However, you don’t have to clear the schedule or wait until “there’s time”, we’ve already considered that.
Please note that the amount of space is limited, some have been said. Don’t wait too long to register.
OBW is growing, and this will be the last queue to be only offered to fierce readers. It is still in beta and for courses like this, the price is still low. So, before I get it public, here is a chance to get into the ground floor. (You can access course materials throughout your life.)
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