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0:00This video is going to piss some people
0:01off because it's for a very specific
0:04type of person and I'm going to sound
0:06extremely inconsiderate to most people,
0:08but that's the only way that I can get
0:10the severity of this situation across.
0:12So, with that said, consider the nuance
0:15of my normal videos turned off as of
0:18right now. The people who get angry with
0:20the brutal honesty that's about to come
0:22are often those who have pretty terrible
0:24lives. They haven't grown past the age
0:27of 20 to 25. They are the people who
0:30have not yet realized that the best way
0:34to make the most of your 20s is to make
0:37them your worst. Because you really only
0:39have two options. The first is to use
0:41your 20s to become the person that you
0:43were meant to be. And the second is to
0:45repeat the same 6 months for the rest of
0:47your life. If you don't nearly max out
0:50your potential in your 20s, you can
0:52simply observe society and see where
0:55your life will probably end up. In
0:57essence, you get stuck in this loop of
1:00anxiety and overwhelm, and you just
1:02attempt to live your past peak
1:05experiences. You go to the same bars and
1:07the same raves, and you play the same
1:09video games. When you turn 20, you start
1:11having the best peak experiences of your
1:14life because you're old enough to try
1:16new things now. But you haven't yet
1:18realized that those should be and are
1:21the lowest peaks of your entire life.
1:24And so what happens is people register
1:26those as, oh, these are the good days.
1:29This is the peak experience. This is
1:31where I feel amazing. And they try to
1:33repeat that over and over again. And
1:35when they're not doing that, they crave
1:38the peak experience. They want the
1:39euphoria that they associate with
1:41happiness when happiness is not
1:43euphoria. So the result of this is that
1:45you just fill your entire life and it
1:47becomes your routine to engage in these
1:50extremely shallow activities that aren't
1:53leading to a good life. And eventually
1:55it becomes your identity. It just
1:56becomes second nature. You shut your
1:58mind off and you're just automatically
2:00doing these things and it's very hard to
2:02get out of. Most people plateau around
2:04the age of 23. And then when you start
2:06to ask them like what are you doing with
2:08your life in a genuine way? You're
2:10asking like hey like what are you doing?
2:12Are you improving your career? What?
2:14You're just talking with them. What are
2:15you doing with your life? They
2:17confidently say that I'm just living
2:20life. Like they they label what they're
2:22doing as living life. And these people,
2:25they haven't come around to the
2:27ramifications of staying the same
2:29because they don't realize that there's
2:31no such thing as staying the same.
2:32There's only you get better or you think
2:35you're staying the same, but you're
2:36actually just getting worse. And that
2:38worst doesn't show up until years later.
2:42So, as you can tell in society, most
2:44people turn 30 to 40 years old with the
2:47emotional maturity of a 15-year-old. The
2:49world rapidly pushes forward and it's
2:51continuing to push forward even faster
2:54while your mind, body, spirit, finances
2:57stay in the same place when in fact
2:59they're you're just digging them all
3:01deeper into this hole. And the deeper
3:03you get into this hole, the light at the
3:06top is more difficult to see. And if
3:08you're stuck in this 30foot deep hole,
3:12how are you going to dig yourself out of
3:13that? So, the purpose of this video is
3:15to show you that your 20s are the
3:18tutorial phase. They're not the main
3:20game. They're the preparation, not the
3:23main event. So, I just want to give you
3:25three traps to avoid and three things to
3:27do because I've been in this position,
3:29right? I'm talking [ __ ] about these
3:31people who get stuck and stay the same
3:33for 6 months at a time when I was that
3:35person. And I can confidently say that
3:37my life has gotten substantially better
3:40since I made the decision to stop doing
3:42that. So, I want to help shine a light
3:44of awareness in a way that can shift the
3:46beliefs in your mind that allow you to
3:48notice new opportunities and change
3:50certain aspects of your life so you can
3:52continue to get better. Not in a
3:54self-improvement dopamine junkie kind of
3:56way, but in a way that makes sense. If
3:59you can set yourself up in your 20s,
4:01your quality of life will only continue
4:03to increase. And that's even when your
4:05youth is no longer on your side. So, the
4:08first trap is don't listen to anyone who
4:11doesn't have the life you want. Because
4:13the people who have the life you want
4:15are extremely rare. They're less than 1%
4:17of the population. And the other 99% of
4:20people are those who just blabber about
4:22how you should live your life when they
4:24wasted their own. And if you listen to
4:26them, then you're probably going to
4:28waste your life as well. These are the
4:30people where they are adamant on
4:32convincing you that you should do
4:34something in order to live a great life
4:36because that's what they did and they
4:38don't know what a good life could have
4:40been for them. They're adamant on
4:42convincing you that the greatest things
4:43to do are the greatest things that they
4:45did and those things aren't that great
4:47at all. If you bring them your goals
4:49that sound close to impossible, they'll
4:52tell you to be more realistic. They'll
4:54tell you to create a budget. They'll
4:56tell you to invest your measly savings.
4:58They'll tell you to go out and have fun
5:00and make the most of your 20s when they
5:02have no idea what making the most of
5:04your 20s means. And then they will tell
5:06you that during that time to set
5:08yourself up in this boring mechanical
5:11life through a thing called a job doing
5:13work you hate until you turn 50 as if
5:15that's some like twisted right of
5:17passage, right? That that's all they're
5:20focused on because they have this
5:21industrial mindset. It's like, okay, you
5:23need to go to school, get a job because
5:25that's what your grandpa and great
5:27grandpa and great great great grandpa
5:29did. And they don't understand how
5:30technology is changing career paths and
5:33that you can actually do something
5:34different. So, when you go and you take
5:36that to them, they it doesn't even
5:38register in their brain. It it puts them
5:40into survival mode because they're
5:42afraid that you aren't going to survive.
5:44Many people say they want the best for
5:45you, but in reality, they just don't
5:47want to feel inferior to you. So you
5:50have my permission and you should give
5:52yourself permission to ignore most of
5:54what these people say. Just practice
5:56deliberate ignorance. You can entertain
5:59the thought, but don't let it into your
6:01mind. You need to do your own
6:03independent research and you need to
6:05actively search for the less than 1% of
6:08the population that have the life you
6:11want. And you need to listen to their
6:13advice. Take it, experiment with it.
6:15still don't take it as law, but you
6:17eventually need to take the best parts
6:20of the people who have the life you want
6:22and you need to turn it into your own
6:24through trial and error. Now, the second
6:26trap is to get your taste of
6:28distractions fast because most people
6:31treat their youth as a currency instead
6:34of investment capital. They party and
6:36they smoke and they watch Netflix at
6:39night and they just lounge around all
6:40day. And those things aren't necessarily
6:43bad and they aren't the end of the world
6:45in and of themselves, but they destroy
6:47the benefits of being young where you
6:50have time, you have energy, and you have
6:52focus. Now, I was a dumb college kid,
6:54too, but the distinction there is that I
6:57was always working on something that
7:00would somehow buy my freedom. I didn't
7:02know what that was. I was just working
7:04on various opportunities that I was
7:06researching and coming across in terms
7:08of starting a business or getting
7:10healthy or learning how to master my
7:12mind. I was always into
7:14self-improvement. Not what
7:15self-improvement has become, but in
7:17bettering myself because I knew at such
7:20a young age that I didn't want to end up
7:23overweight, obese, low energy,
7:26financially unstable. I wanted to take
7:28control of those things fast. And I can
7:30tell you just by like trying just an
7:32hour a day, even when I was in college
7:34and I was partying and I was doing all
7:36of these things, I still felt the desire
7:39to set aside time to research and try
7:43things and build things. And even though
7:45most of them failed, when you actually
7:47try something, when you do something in
7:49reality, that's when you learn. So if
7:52you continue to do it over time, try and
7:55fail. It doesn't matter if the business
7:57doesn't take off because you stack all
7:59of these skills that lead into something
8:02working in the future when all of the
8:04right pieces come together. So, I'm not
8:06telling you to get rid of these
8:09distractions altogether. I'm not telling
8:10you to stop partying. I'm not telling
8:11you to stop smoking weed or doing
8:14whatever it is that you do that is
8:15draining your time, energy, attention,
8:18focus. But it would be wise to get your
8:21taste of them quickly. That way you can
8:24recognize them as mistakes, but you
8:27won't recognize them as mistakes unless
8:29you have a goal that you are actively
8:32working toward. Because in order for a
8:34goal to have gravity for you to be
8:36disciplined or motivated to achieve that
8:38goal, you have to have some form of
8:41energy invested into it. You need to
8:43spend a month working toward a goal so
8:46that you actually feel the pain of no
8:49longer working toward it or you can
8:50register the smoking weed or being lazy
8:54or eating junk food as a mistake.
8:56Because if you aren't, let's say, going
8:57to the gym as a goal, then the alcohol
9:00isn't going to take away your
9:02performance at the gym. If you are not
9:05working on a business, then again, the
9:08alcohol, the partying, the weed, it
9:10isn't going to affect your mental
9:11clarity for making more money inside of
9:14the business. Most people aren't working
9:16towards meaningful goals. So, all of the
9:19distractions that they're engaging in
9:22aren't distractions to them. So, the
9:24third trap is to do everything in your
9:26power to not get a job. And this one is
9:28more personal to me because this is what
9:30I did and it drastically changed my
9:33entire life because when I was around
9:34the age of 15 years old, I just had this
9:37insight. I don't know where it came
9:39from. It just came to me. The insight
9:42was that if I got a job like most
9:44people, I would end up like most people.
9:47And when I look at most people's lives,
9:49I would understand that right as I
9:51accepted the job, a third of my time
9:53would be taken from me. That that's
9:56insane. a third of my time that I could
9:58use to better myself, do what I want,
10:00other things of that nature, create a
10:03type of work that I enjoy so that I
10:05don't hate a third of my life. It just I
10:08I don't know how that doesn't register
10:10to certain people. But then on top of
10:11that, another third of my life would be
10:14spent in this low energy state right
10:16after work when I'm drained from putting
10:19in energy to something that I hate. And
10:21you become what you focus on. So if you
10:22focus on something that you hate, you're
10:24going to become something that you hate.
10:25and the other third of your life when
10:28you get back from work, you're just
10:30drained. You don't want to do anything.
10:31I remember when I was working uh as a
10:34web designer at my 9 toive job. I I had
10:37been in the gym for my entire teenage
10:39years. It was very important to me. And
10:41that was the only time that I've ever
10:44started skipping the gym, right? I
10:46didn't want to go after work because
10:48that would just extend how much less
10:52free time I had to myself. I would go to
10:54work from it would take an hour to
10:56commute. So I'd get I'd leave at 8, get
10:59there at 9:00, clock out at 6:00 because
11:02an hour lunch and then that doesn't
11:04count to your towards your 9 to5 and
11:07then it's like okay I'm going to drive
11:08to the gym 10 minutes work out at the
11:10gym maybe an hour drive back home an
11:12hour and then I just have to go to bed
11:14if I want to get my sleep and actually
11:16live a healthy life and being healthy to
11:18me was a value then that sounds
11:21horrible. Now, the reason that I put
11:23this section at this point in the video,
11:25because if you've reached this point of
11:27the video and you agree with most of the
11:30things that I've said, you have similar
11:32goals, then I don't feel bad about
11:35saying this or prescribing this as a
11:37piece of advice and blanketing it. But
11:40the piece of advice is that you need to
11:42start a business. I know what type of
11:44person you are. You need to start one
11:46right now, and you need to begin working
11:48on it, and you need to make it a
11:50success. You're not the type of person
11:52that's going to go furiously in the
11:53comments and say, "Oh, not everyone
11:55should start a business because you are
11:57the person who wants full control over
12:00their time, energy, focus, and money."
12:04You understand that the good life and
12:07flow states and anything good in life
12:09stems from an increasing level of
12:11challenge that is matched by an
12:13increasing level of development in your
12:16mind, body, spirit, finances, etc. And
12:18at 99% of jobs, I'm not talking about
12:21the 1% that 99% of you aren't going to
12:25get. At the 99% of jobs, the level of
12:29challenge just stops after like 6
12:31months, right? You get used to the job.
12:33You've gone through the tutorial phase
12:35of the job. You're working on the task.
12:37It becomes normal to you. And then you
12:39just get into this repetitive routine of
12:41wake up, go to your computer, go to the
12:42office, wherever you go, and just do the
12:44same thing day after day. And that's a
12:46great way to waste 40 years of your
12:48life. It psychologically castrates you.
12:50And if you don't believe me, just
12:52research psychology for a year and you
12:54will understand exactly what I'm saying.
12:56Now, if this is one of your first
12:58businesses that you're starting, it
13:00doesn't really matter what kind of
13:01business you start. Because what you do
13:042 to 3 years from now will be completely
13:06different. You are simply starting a
13:08business and trying to make money
13:11because you aren't going to learn how to
13:13make money or start a business until you
13:15do it. There is absolutely no world
13:18where you're going to watch 40 hours of
13:19YouTube and read 10 books and magically
13:22within a year build a million-dollar
13:24business. It isn't going to happen. You
13:26have to go through the trial and error.
13:28You need to start whatever it is and
13:30then learn along the way to overcome
13:31roadblocks and you pivot along the way.
13:34you're going to start with a personal
13:36brand or a software company or an
13:37e-commerce through drop shipping or
13:39whatever the flavor of the day one is
13:41right now. One thing I would recommend
13:42is just doing something that is popular
13:44on YouTube because it if if it is
13:46popular, that means that yes, even
13:48though it's saturated, it works. So,
13:51just keep a finger on the pulse of the
13:53newer business models that are coming
13:55out. And if you actually commit to it,
13:58which 99% of people don't, then you will
14:00probably make 10 to 100K a month if you
14:04actually have a bone in your body that
14:07can improve and iterate and not quit
14:09after 2 weeks. Those who are not in the
14:11game just don't understand how little
14:14competition there actually is. Just
14:16because you're scrolling on social media
14:17all day or you see all this success,
14:19these successful businesses popping up,
14:21it's like 10 to 50 people that you're
14:24seeing. That's it. maybe a 100, maybe
14:26200. Out of 7 to 8 billion people on
14:29this planet, the echo chamber that
14:31you're in is so incredibly small, it's
14:34actually mind-boggling. The only
14:36successful people in an online business,
14:39as one example, are those who just don't
14:41care if there's competition and know
14:44that they can grab their piece of the
14:46pie, too. Now, on to the first thing
14:48that you should do. We just went over
14:50the three traps. Now, we're going to go
14:51over the three things you should do. The
14:53first is to set goals that [ __ ] scare
14:56you. And when I was mapping out this
14:58video, I I felt like this ball in my
15:01chest of emotion of thinking back to the
15:04time where you think to yourself like, I
15:06can't believe how far I've come. Right?
15:08You don't see how far you've come until
15:11you reflect on it and look back and see,
15:12wow, I've actually accomplished all of
15:15these things. When you're an executor,
15:16when you're an action taker, you're a
15:18doer. You just do things, right? It's
15:21just a part of you. It's what you do.
15:22You can't wake up and not make some form
15:24of progress. And so when you look back,
15:26you're like, "Holy crap." Like, I
15:28actually made it that far. I published
15:29two books and it doesn't even feel like
15:31I published two books. Like, I feel as
15:33if I've made my younger self proud
15:35because little Dan never would have
15:38freaking guessed that I would have
15:39actually written two books or been the
15:42CEO of a small and scrappy startup
15:45company or built such a wide influence
15:47on the internet. Like, he wouldn't have
15:48even thought of that. Now, the problem
15:51with this is that the pursuit of
15:53greatness is often shot down by people
15:56who never do anything great. They see it
15:58as shallow or materialistic or they see
16:01getting rich or achieving goals as just
16:03that. They they only pinpoint it. They
16:06put a spotlight on that and they're
16:07like, "You're a bad person because you
16:10want to make money or you want to be
16:13famous." I don't want to be famous, but
16:15that's like I don't consider myself
16:16famous either. I think I have a pretty
16:18large influence, but that's the
16:20byproduct of creating value in the way
16:23that I'm creating it, such as a YouTube
16:25video. But these people don't understand
16:27that there is something there. There's
16:30something deep. In my personal opinion,
16:33the deepest and most meaningful things
16:36come from the pursuit of materialistic
16:39or shallow things. Because you can only
16:41reach the depths once you've scratched
16:43the surface, once you've started digging
16:45down. And by not pursuing anything but
16:48the domain of spirituality, which that's
16:51only one domain. There's also the
16:53material, the money, the mind, the body,
16:55the health, etc. You you have to do all
16:57of these things if you actually want to
16:59become a well-rounded individual. And
17:01the thing with pursuing these goals that
17:04scare you or even scare your younger
17:06self or that your your younger self
17:08wouldn't have even conceived is that it
17:10it just that alone is a source of energy
17:13that is so potent that even the world's
17:16strongest stimulant just can't compare
17:18to it. It feels so good. And that's not
17:20sustainable. Don't try to sustain it.
17:22But I'm sure you felt that when you're
17:24pursuing this big grand vision that is
17:27just a massive source of intrinsic
17:30motivation. It's like a cosmic pull that
17:33is just calling you to become your
17:36higher self. It's your calling. It's a
17:37self-imposed calling. So to replicate
17:39this, I want you to pull out a sheet of
17:41paper and I want you to write at the top
17:4410 goals 10 years. And I want you to
17:46write down 10 goals that make you
17:49physically uncomfortable for one year at
17:52a time for 10 years. And then you're
17:55just going to focus on one massive goal
17:58per year. Why? Because your mind expands
18:01to fill the goals set for achievement.
18:03It's like Parkinson's law, but for
18:05goals. And because building a $1 million
18:08company takes almost as much effort as
18:11building a $100 million company. And if
18:14you don't believe that, you don't
18:15understand it. You don't understand that
18:18when you set a massive goal, it changes
18:21the actions that you take. If you're
18:23trying to build a $1 million company,
18:25you're going to take $1 million actions
18:27because that's your goal. If you try to
18:29build a $100 million company, you're
18:31going to go down a pretty different
18:34direction in order to get there. And you
18:36only have 8 hours of work in you a day.
18:39It takes the same freaking amount of
18:41effort. And one could even argue that a
18:43local coffee shop owner or a restaurant
18:46owner works so much harder than someone
18:49who has started an online business and
18:51they make so much less because the goal
18:55of it is much smaller. The opportunity
18:59in it, the leverage in it is much
19:01smaller. Now, there's lots of context
19:03missing there and there's obviously ways
19:05to build chains of these coffee shops or
19:08other things of that nature, but we live
19:10in 2025 and for most people, starting an
19:13online business is a lowerc cost way to
19:16go with a much higher upside. And with
19:18the internet, it's a lot more common now
19:20that hard work doesn't lead to much in
19:23isolation. You can spend 10 years
19:25writing a book and that doesn't mean
19:26that that book will get you rich. It
19:28doesn't mean that people will read it.
19:30It doesn't mean that it's good. Now, the
19:31second thing to do is to make as much
19:34money as you can. Why are we trying to
19:37make as much money as we can? Are we
19:38doing it because we're bad or because
19:41we're evil people who just want to make
19:43a lot of money? No. We're actually doing
19:46this as a way to supercharge the growth
19:50and development that we have throughout
19:52our 20s and our 30s because money is
19:55tricky, right? So many people don't see
19:58it for what it is because it's so
20:00intimately tied with our self-worth and
20:03our morality and our survival. So when
20:06people try to make money or hear about
20:09money, they have all of these beliefs
20:11about it that they don't think they can
20:12change or they register those beliefs
20:15that were conditioned into their head as
20:17truth. Your parents tell you to save
20:20your money. Your pastor tells you to
20:22shun money or not worry about it. And
20:24your culture that runs on money tells
20:26you it's not important. And so you
20:29listen to all of these things and then
20:31you just get piled into the ground
20:33because you have these bills stacking
20:35up. You can't get what you want in life.
20:37And you feel guilty or bad for pursuing
20:39something that you want in life and you
20:41start to think that you can't make money
20:43and be a good person at the same time
20:46with that is just categorically false.
20:48So am I telling you to make a bunch of
20:50money and be evil? No. I'm telling you
20:52to develop yourself, develop your mind,
20:54and develop your finances so you are a
20:57well-rounded individual who can make
20:59their own decisions when it comes to
21:01money because you've experienced it.
21:03Very few people actually decide to see
21:06beyond the virtue signaling that is
21:08rampant on social media and everywhere
21:10else and form their own opinion about
21:12what money is and what it can do for
21:13you. I do not care how spiritual you are
21:16or how intellectual you are. If you have
21:19a poor psychological relationship with
21:21money, you are not as developed as you
21:23think you are and you are not living as
21:25good of a life as you think you are
21:27because money is involved in almost
21:30every single decision you make. And if
21:32you have a poor relationship with it,
21:34then your life is going to be pretty
21:35terrible. And we don't live in
21:37pre-industrial times anymore. No, you
21:40are never going to go back and live like
21:42your ancestors, not in a modern world.
21:45You aren't going to go back in time. And
21:46so the objection here is okay but Dan
21:49what if I just want to make as much as I
21:51need and that's perfectly fine but again
21:53you are limiting the level of challenge
21:56that you can take on in any domain of
21:58your life. You can be mostly happy and
22:01satisfied and that's great. A lot of
22:02people live great lives, but for those
22:04listening to this, I think you will
22:06resonate with the fact that you don't
22:08want to reach a point where you relive
22:10the same 6 months over and over again
22:12for multiple years for the exact reasons
22:15we stated at the beginning of this
22:17video. And there are very few things
22:19that you can continue to progress at
22:22that aren't your work, your mind, your
22:24body, your spirit, and all of those
22:25things are intertwined and you need to
22:28survive. Entrepreneurship and value
22:30exchange is an infinite game. Now, as
22:34dangerous and as evil as money can be,
22:37you can't build rockets or feed the
22:39world without it. Money is a globally
22:41accepted form of value. And if money
22:43just ceased to exist or people started
22:45making less, the world would get bad
22:48very fast because people don't work when
22:52they aren't motivated with a reward.
22:54That doesn't have to be your only
22:56reward, but that's why people work. Now,
22:58we're going to talk about this in like
23:00two videos from now. The next video is
23:02going to be on the three decisions that
23:04will make you rich. And then after that,
23:06it's how to learn anything in two weeks.
23:08So, with that, making money is a skill.
23:12You just it's so tied in with your
23:14identity that you don't see it as
23:15something that you can practice and
23:16improve. We're going to talk about how
23:18to learn anything in two weeks in that
23:20video. But for now, just understand that
23:24making money is like learning a language
23:26or learning how to play the guitar. The
23:29difference is that when you try to make
23:31money, one, you need another person
23:33involved and you usually need to
23:36interact with other people. That means
23:37that your ego is going to come into
23:39play. Your values and beliefs are going
23:41to come into play. When you're playing
23:42the guitar, it's pretty obvious. You
23:44just pick a song, you try to play it,
23:46you look up how to play that specific
23:48note, then you continue learning how to
23:50play the notes, and then eventually you
23:52can play the song. And then you picked
23:53up techniques, and you go to play
23:54another song, and then it's easier, and
23:56then it's easier, and then it's easier.
23:58The thing is that with instruments or
24:00video games, so many people are okay
24:02with playing video games and getting so
24:04good at them. But with those, there's no
24:06risk. It doesn't matter if you fail.
24:09With making money, it matters if you
24:11fail. And that's exactly why it's
24:13important to do because that's how you
24:15practically overcome caring about what
24:17other people think or managing your
24:19emotions. Entrepreneurship and making
24:21money are deeply spiritual because you
24:24experience more negative thoughts,
24:26negative emotions, negative experiences
24:28that you can work through. When you're
24:30stuck meditating all day or you're only
24:33worried about these minor irrational
24:35things in life, you're not actually
24:37putting weight on the bar. You aren't
24:40bench pressing 315 pounds with your
24:43mind. You're lifting a five pound
24:45dumbbell because you're upset that
24:48someone cut you off in traffic. That's
24:50not a high magnitude. That's not a high
24:52weight that you're training with to
24:55build more mental muscle to make
24:57yourself more capable. Now, the third
24:59thing to do or to focus on is to
25:02self-actualize. Because if the
25:04overarching aim for the entirety of your
25:07life is not to self-actualize, then it's
25:10to self-sabotage. So every single action
25:12that you take should align with the
25:15purpose of self-actualization. And if
25:17they don't, then I would assume that you
25:19don't have a deep reason behind why you
25:22do what you do. And it's extremely
25:24difficult to explain the gravity of this
25:27because most people don't think about
25:29the outcome of their actions. They have
25:31a myopic focus on short-term pleasure
25:34that slowly beats them into a pulp
25:36without them realizing it until decades
25:38down the road. That is the worst
25:40possible place you could imagine
25:42yourself. Health issues that caught up
25:44with you, a mind that can adapt to the
25:46changing technological landscape. The
25:48actions you took were never a fully
25:50conscious choice, so they never led to
25:52anything great. I shouldn't have to
25:55explain the decades of psychological
25:57research that have amply dissected human
25:59needs and development. I shouldn't have
26:01to explain that if you don't
26:03self-actualize, you will experience a
26:06world of unnecessary pain and you won't
26:08know what to do about it. So for your
26:10own good, you need to train your mind to
26:13zoom out. You need to make it a habit to
26:16adopt the perspective of the highest
26:19version of yourself and consult with
26:21them before you make a decision. It
26:24needs to become more than second nature.
26:26It needs to just become the thing that
26:27you automatically do that when a
26:29decision comes up that is important, you
26:32consult with the higher version of
26:34yourself. Who do I not want to become?
26:36Who do I want to become? Or what life do
26:39I not want to live? What life do I want
26:41to live? And then you allow your
26:43decisions to be shaped by those answers.
26:46And you don't need to be perfect. You
26:48don't need to make every perfect
26:49decision in life. You just need to
26:51understand that most people never make a
26:53conscious decision in their life. and
26:54that if you simply do that, you will
26:56live a better life than them. Now, if
26:58you want to read more about human
27:00potential or becoming future proof or
27:02learning AI and business and internet
27:05stuff, subscribe to my Substack. The
27:07link for that is in the description.
27:08Other than that, thank you for watching
27:10this video. I'll see you in the next
27:11one. Bye.

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