Be Lost for a While

This letter is a continuation of The Method. I highly recommend you read that before this but there’s a summary for the entire series at the end of this letter.

Let’s get straight into part 5 of the Mastery Method.

5) Reinvent Yourself

Think of your mind as the digestive system of reality.

If you eat too much or don’t move enough, you won’t metabolize that experience.

If you eat too little or move too much, you get hungry and agitated.

When you eat just enough, you create an environment that is conducive to mental muscle growth. You trek through reality toward your goals. You enter a season of pure progress, and the feeling is incredible.

You’ve already created the boundaries, limits, or clarity necessary to launch fairly far into the unknown.

With a vision, goals, and projects you are primed for an entirely new life.

All you have to do is take the leap.

Launch yourself into a new physical or digital environment.

Move across the country.

Unfollow everyone online.

Follow people aligned with your future.

Change what you wear, where you shop, and who you see.

Drown your mind in the books you’ve been putting off reading.

Align all information, or reality, with who you want to become.

You will feel threatened at the start until you expand into your new identity.

Your old identity will die because it is starved of the information that reinforces it.

Hold strong during this extremely difficult yet extremely meaningful turning point in your life.

6) Nature’s Compass

People are so afraid of making mistakes that they make the biggest mistake of them all: not making mistakes.

You can’t avoid making mistakes.

They are Nature’s Compass.

People who don’t make mistakes don’t give themselves a chance to achieve successes.

Imagine a self-driving car.

For years, it has received negative feedback that refines the system that shapes the mind of the car.

It can navigate roads with ease and may be arguably safer than a human driving the car.

Even though we often don’t think of it like this, the self-driving car made millions if not billions of mistakes before it could actually reach a meaningful destination.

You must act in alignment with your big goal to form new systems that your mind operates on through the negative feedback of mistakes.

Make a habit of forcing yourself to adopt the perspective of the highest version of yourself.

Allow this lens to unveil new opportunities that you can act on.

When you make a mistake, because you will, use it as direction for your next choice.

With time, you won’t even realize that you have become an artist in whatever skill you’ve chosen to develop.

You will be able to achieve what most people think are difficult goals like you are able to walk (while most are still crawling).

7) Self-Experimentation Solves Problems

Your life and the projects that compose it should be treated as science projects.

To solve the problems that achieve your goal:

Hypothesize an outcome (from your goals)

Experiment with techniques (for skill acquisition)

Document the process (as a project)

Double down on results (as a solution)

Now, you have experience, skills, a project you can turn into a business product, and a solution that you can charge money for in the creator economy.

Self-experimentation is the only way to solve your problems for good.

Let’s say you have the goal of achieving a six-pack.

You are in search of a solution, they tell you that veganism will solve all of your problems, and from an unenlightened state you:

Clean up your diet

Follow their advice as if it were law

See the results they mentioned

Then, you attach to that diet ideology and become a prophet. You attribute results, that others have gotten via different modalities, to veganism and demonize anyone that questions you.

This is dangerous, obviously, and is the definition of low consciousness.

In reality, what happened is independent of veganism:

You ate more nutrient-dense foods

Your actions worked to survive your vegan identity

You had clarity (not chaos) by following a disciplined nutrition regimen

Veganism, in this case, was simply a modality for ordering your mind (sustained degree of flow state) and allowing you to follow the principles of health – but you attributed it to a method.

Now, if you were to try veganism for a month, carnivore for a month, keto for a month, and flexible dieting for a month, you would:

Make connections between the diets to reveal the fundamentals of health (pattern recognition = dopamine).

Pick and choose certain methodologies that you enjoy, meaning they will bring sustainable results.

Refine a system that fits your individual nature to perfection.

Then, once healthy living becomes effortless, you can do the same for your finances, social life, romantic relationships, spiritual endeavours, or any other domain of life.

If you’re going through problems in your relationship, hire a therapist, watch a YouTube guru, go on a retreat, and experiment with options until you find the right solution.

If your business isn’t growing, buy a course, hire a coach, test a new software, zoom out, and create a new strategy.

There’s always a way to solve your problems, and you strip yourself of that power when you latch onto one solution (that probably won’t solve the problem for good).

Think of each domain of your life as both a project and a skill in which you collect techniques to master that domain.

The Mastery Method: Summarized

This is how you achieve goals so fast people ask for your cheat code in the game of life:

Expand your mind with a vision generation session. This perspective will allow you to create new goals and discover new potentials for your life (so you can break out of your narrow mind and achieve more).

Create a hierarchy of goals to bring clarity to your life. You need to bridge the gap between where you are now and where you want to be with practical goals.

Turn your goals into projects so you can build and learn in unison. Projects are goals that are measured, tracked, and improved.

Don’t learn skills, acquire techniques. Your skill level depends on the amount of techniques in your toolbox that can solve challenging problems.

Reinvent yourself with information overload Change your physical and digital environments to force an open mind and discovery of new potentials.

Treat mistakes as negative feedback in your system. You have no other way to test something that gets better results.

Treat your life as a science project. Become obsessed with experimentation in fitness, business, knowledge, and relationships.

Thank you for reading.