If Your Life Is Spiraling Out Of Control, Here's The Solution To Feeling Lost

The Fastest Way To Ruin Your Life

00:00the fastest way to ruin your life do what others want for you never question what you're told take the route that seems safe on the surface but is the least safe of them all avoid the essence of life trial and error and close yourself off to the profound the deep and the meaningful the greatest mistake is not making any mistakes at all this is the life of the masses they bounce around on the surface they live the same day over and over again they only learn what they were taught in school clock in clock out and fill the rest of your day numbing your mind from the thought of

00:34what will happen between tomorrow the path out of meaningless living is already available to you it is deep in your core it is something that we all have access to and it is called Nature's

Nature's Compass

00:46Compass if you don't know what you want you will be told what you want and you will believe it that is a very popular quote from my book The Art of focus that illustrates what Nature's Compass is in one short sentence if you don't know what you want you will be told what you want and you will believe it and what I mean by that is that as we are growing up as we are going to school as we are getting a job we are given assignments this is what I call something that is assigned to you you don't question and you continue doing it and before you know it you have so many

01:20responsibilities that you can't really do anything with your life all of your time is taken up to the point where you don't have the money time or resources to create a better life for yourself and it it is so much more difficult to actually change when this happens this is why young people are blessed is because they don't have so many responsibilities yet they can explore the world they can do things they can build for a number of hours a day the future that they want now of course we've talked about this many times before but it's not like you're doomed

01:51it's just that you have to set aside one hour for building your future and actually build it every single day how to do whatever you want do what you want but don't ignore the consequences of your actions you have to do what you think you want to realize what you don't want you have to remove what you don't want to do what you really want it is impossible to know with absolute certainty what the future holds this is why the masses flock to secure jobs and belief systems it's an illusion of certainty to avoid struggle you can't skip making mistakes mistakes are your

02:23light in the dark mistakes reveal problems to be solved problems are the limits on your mind and as Einstein once said you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it most people skip that part they think they want the nice car the nice job or to travel the world but once they do those things the shine The Superficial shine wears fast so they continue convincing themselves that that's what they want are the nice things but they never use those nice things as a portal into something deeper they never dig deeper and let the material object shine a light on on the

03:00true problem that they're trying to solve so they bounce around they get the nice car they get the cushy job they go on fancy vacations they get they acquire all of these things but they never seem to evolve or push deeper or realize what their nature really wants what they really want not what their ego wants to get what you want out of life pursue what you think you want realize what you don't want become aware of that problem sit with it study it dissect it expand your mind to Beyond it solve the problem to evolve one level repeat the process until you reach the essence of life

03:36itself the thing here is is that there is absolutely no set path that someone can give you to achieve this to get what you want to forge your own path or else that's an assignment it was assigned to you it wasn't created by you now the thing here is is that I see assignments as a stepping stone so meaning I see schools and jobs as a stepping stone I don't see them as something to avoid or something that's absolutely EV evil people often think that that's what I think when it's the complete opposite case I promote entrepreneurship and forging your own path and diving into

04:08the unknown and solving problems and living the good life and exposing yourself to new experiences and not getting locked in a repetitive day-to-day mindless routine that comes from schools and jobs so those things are helpful people can give you advice people can give you tools you can use them for Direction but inevitably you're going to reach whatever that destination was and it's not going to be as nice as you wanted it to so you have to course correct learn from your mistakes and start to pursue your own path you have to eventually take the training wheels

04:39off and the thing here is is that you don't know what you want out of life because you haven't tried anything outside of what's been assigned to you you haven't experimented with new domains you haven't learned outside of high school or college you haven't dug into a lesser explored crevice of reality that isn't taught in schools so it's no wonder you don't know what you want with your life because you haven't exposed yourself to the thing that would expose yourself to make you realize what you want out of life it's like I don't know that starting a business is a

05:08possibility for me until I start learning a skill that I have the desire to learn to increase my value for a job so it's not that you just start exploring and you immediately find it you find one thing that's interesting for your current use case or your current situation and then you find the next thing and then you expose yourself to a new potential and then you find the clarity and education that allows you to get to that potential you're not getting results because you don't have the skill required to get those results you don't know what's possible CU you haven't

05:36exposed yourself to the perspective that makes it possible what you want right now may be completely different tomorrow or next month or next year nothing lasts forever meaning is found in Endless problem solving until you drill so deep you find what you're looking for let's

The Macro Cycle Of Life – Why You Always Feel Lost

05:50talk about why you feel lost right now by understanding the macro cycle of life problems never stop there will never be a day when problems go away there will always be another don't stress Don't react don't expect it to be any other way the joy of life is to train your creative ability and swim not drown in this beautiful black hole of problems you feel lost because you don't know what to do next it's obvious you don't know what to do next because you don't have a goal you don't have a goal that you care about because you aren't aware of a problem that demands your focus

06:24stop worrying about setting goals until you become aware of the next problem in your life that you want solve a problem creates a goal stop focusing on the goal because if the problem isn't strong enough or apparent enough or aware enough to add gravity to the goal that makes you actually want to pursue it then it's kind of useless to set the goal and you end up like the 99% of other people that never achieve their goals life unfolds in chapters phases and Cycles your life is a story your year is a story your day is a story each of them have a series of goals problems

07:01highs and lows that may repeat themselves as time passes and there is one macro cycle of life that I've found through my observation and reflection on my own experience and once you understand it you can identify which part of the story you're in on a bigger scale so your life or your year on a smaller scale or your day and once you're aware of the situation and you can make sense of it from a higher perspective then you can start to deconstruct it figure out what the problem is and start solving it and have purpose as a result in your life so the macro cycle that we're talking about

07:34here is composed of three phases first you feel lost you don't know what to pursue next you've solved a problem achieved a goal and thought it was the end second you become curious you experiment with different topics interests and ideas until you become fully aware of the problem you want to solve third you become obsessed you dive deeper into the crevice of reality of your choice and you can't stop learning and building toward your goal so there's three three things to notice here first you feel lost okay what do you do you become curious you have to embrace

08:04curiosity and try a bunch of different things while being detached from the outcome of immediate results and then once you find that thing which may take years or weeks or months who knows nobody and then you become obsessed so you find a new goal and then you begin actualizing it and then once you hit that goal the cycle repeats you feel lost because you didn't realize that that goal was not something that you that would like sustain itself the high wouldn't sustain itself when you achieve that goal so when you feel lost here's just the Practical steps of what we're

08:37going to do you have to force yourself to experiment in two different directions the first is to experiment inward rest nap Journal walk Embrace silence observe and deconstruct your thoughts attempt to catch a signal of opportunity follow your thoughts to a Rude problem second is to experiment outward learn read scroll build try new things refocus on the only things that matter in life health wealth relationships happiness experiment with techniques that invest energy into a goal any goal during the experimentation phase you are trying to accumulate new experience until you can see the next

09:16quest in the game so it's like a video game when you're lost you're at a point where the next Quest is not available to you you're like this far from hitting the next level and you can't get to the next Quest until you hit that level so you need to gain experience you need to just try things you need to kill a bunch of monsters and do a bunch of random side quests in order to in our case gain the clarity on what to pursue fully and get into that flow state that game provides by pursuing a quest and doing a quest now the thing here avoid labeling this as shiny object syndrome this is

09:50potentially the best thing you could do I would argue that I had a like 2 to threee experimentation phase at failing at seven different business models but that was the only thing that allowed me to gain Clarity on what I'm doing now and actually pursue it full force and you're also not just like trying things and then leaving them you're trying you're learning you're getting skills you're actually doing things you're buying courses take my course if you want to right you don't have to I'm just like that's one option that comes to mind is like try to learn writing even

10:21if you think you're not a writer go buy a web design course go buy a web development course learn something get the skill because in the Digital World in the second Renaissance I promise that those skills are going to come in handy down the road for in Whatever and Ever you do and during that time as well you're increasing your awareness surface area this is a very important concept to understand is awareness surface area when you have more skills you have more education you have exposure to different opportunities you can identify more profitable problems and opportunities

10:53that you can solve and go into but now when you find your obsession experimentation doesn't stop stop because it goes from Lost to becoming curious so experimentation and then becoming obsessed which is the season of intensity or Obsession so step three is to experiment downward the secret is to try everything until you find that one thing that you can't pull yourself away from when you find that one thing this is when you go deep right we've been experimenting Inward and outward we've been creating span which we're going to talk about in the second Renaissance video which is coming up about

11:28generalist versus Specialists right it's not about becoming a generalist or a specialist it's about becoming both it's about becoming a generalist and then diving deep and becoming a specialist in certain areas but having that general knowledge so you can be a more powerful specialist and you can easily become and transfer your specialty or your specialization into different domains because you have the general knowledge you have the general principles that make almost everything work so when you find that one thing go deep and learn everything about that domain study

11:59everything read every book you can read every course you can watch every video you can it's going to be hard not to do this you're going to be drawn to it dissect all perspectives and avoid becoming dogmatic about one in nutrition collect truth from veganism keto carnivore rapat flexible dieting and other ideologies until you are confident enough to create your own that is closer to truth truth is a process not a commandment in business collect truth from e-commerce freelancing software and other models until you note the principles that bring Clarity to your

12:30own Endeavors self-experimentation is the only way to solve your problems for good people can diagnose and prescribe or assign a solution to your problems but that lacks regard for the difference in perspective goals and experience from those prescribing the solutions now you've gone deep now we have to build up so step four is experimentation upwards experimentation doesn't stop that's just it's the it's it's Nature's Compass it's experimentation in this case it's testing persistence and iteration in building something of value with the depth that you learn and dive into with

13:09your obsession it's you get the value and then you distribute it so you can profit from it persistence and iteration because I'm assuming that once you found your obsession you want to make it a sustainable part of your life that means you're going to have to earn a living from it in today's world that means building a project to help others solve their problems teaching public to attract people with those problems selling your project so you can continue pursuing your obsession improving your project as soon as you learn what can only be learned through feedback and

13:38evolving to a new project when you've reached the level that can only be reached through business there are many ways to do this that's why you have to experiment but I can tell you with confidence through my own experience that the Creator economy is the most true model that you can follow while doing this especially considering human nature post- labor economics and the the

The Digital Renaissance

13:58future of work now you've done all of this experimentation and we're going to talk about the second Renaissance and generalist versus specialists in a future video but I want to talk about the digital Renaissance which I've talked about a few times before but with all of our experimentation we're learning so much we need to learn how to apply that and turn it into a creative income for ourselves become a nobody become everything become a designer writer marketer socializer Runner bodybuilder philosopher scientist psychologist and polymath who knows how to sustain the obsessive curiosity the

14:30universe rewards those who don't impose their own limits we are living through a second golden age and it belongs to those who value self-education self-experimentation multi-disciplinary study digital leverage skill acquisition and building their own thing if you want to thrive become a digital Renaissance Man here's what you do the first thing

Join The New Society

14:51is to join the new society and when I say new Society I mean emerging Society because that's what ideas do it's not like well they do eventually just pop up and then you have it and it's a new idea they evolve they come from something like they emerge over time the new Society is already here but it's taking time to transition in whatever way it's going to go over to it and the old Society is clearly dying and phasing out as it has been social media is not just an app on your phone it is a decentralized public school Marketplace and Podium but only for those who value

15:24personal responsibility you aren't forced to be a part of this Society and that's why it's important you no longer need startup Capital to start a business you no longer need a job board to find a career you no longer need a publisher to launch a book you no longer need a record label to make music you no longer need a formal education to become an expert you no longer need religious institutions to feed you meaning the centralized authority over learning meaning and earning is only a thing for those who are still asleep all you need is an internet connection social media

15:55account and the courage to teach fail improve and pursue this is what I teach in 2hour writer or digital economics so

Become Valuable

16:02now let's talk about becoming valuable everyone tells you to become valuable but nobody tells you what value is value is the relationship between what you do why you do it how you do it and who benefits from that equation value is composed of four parts there's a problem which is a limitation or challenge that creates pain when unsolved there's a solution an impactful end result that allows the recipient to evolve beyond the problem there's Clarity which is a creative system that breeds knowledge skill and awareness to bridge the gap between problem and solution and then

16:33there's people the amount of people that suffer from the problem can benefit from the solution and are ready to receive the clarity to act now I want you to think about those four parts there's problem solution Clarity and people that's what value is that's what products solve or that's what products earn money for is you're solving a problem with a solution and Clarity in between and you're Distributing it to people value is experience Exchange value is the impact of your story because it's the same thing as a story problem solution what's the path in between the highs and lows and how are

17:07you going to navigate that that's called Clarity then other people resonating with that story so to make a creative income our job is to gain experience by solving the problems that prevent our Evolution and pass down the condensed wisdom to those who are ready to receive it so here are the steps to becoming valuable now that we understand what

Unveil Problems With An Anti-Vision

17:26value is Step One is to unveil problems with an antiv Vision it's easier to know what you don't want from experience than it is to know what you want from imagination so create an anti vision for your future keep a running note that you will add to As You observe life what do you not want to look like how do you not want to feel what does your worst day look like what qualities do you not want in your friends customers partner and co-workers how much money isn't enough to survive how does everything above spread into each area of your life and prevent you from doing what you want hit

17:59on the things that matter health wealth relationships and happiness those are the Eternal markets in business if you build a creative solution for a problem within those domains you won't have a problem making a living from your experience this is what everyone's doing go and look online what am I selling I'm selling in the wealth domain I'm selling career opportunity with writing because I've solved that problem in my life and now I'm selling the solution step number

Identify Solutions With A Vision

18:25two is to identify Solutions with a vision because now when you create your anti- vision you have a plethora of problems that you can solve pick one solve it move on to the next meaning is found not in the achievement of a goal but in solving the endless string of problems that pull you deeper into the nature of reality now to increase your desire to solve the problem create a vision right out the opposite of what your anti Vision was and you want to treat this as a minimum viable Vision to start meaning that you don't have to worry about it being perfect or complete

18:58you can add to it over time because you're not going to think of everything you want now you have to experience life to be able to have the idea of what you want in the future so before we go further do you see what we're doing here we identified problems with an anti- Vision we created Solutions with a vision when we actually solve the problems and move towards the vision we're improving ourselves we've created a marketing strategy of transformation and we've created a product which is the system that you used to reach those goals through education skill

19:31acquisition and action so you're killing three birds with one stone this is

Learn & Build For Clarity

19:37self-improvement other Improvement now step three is to learn and build for clarity because we have problem solution now we need Clarity and then we need people to round out the value equation don't learn to build build to learn you've chosen a problem that you want to solve in your life this could be related to Fitness finances Freedom or anything else that is preventing you from living the life you want with that problem in mind laser in on one big goal but remember goals don't start out magnetic you probably don't care about the goal you must invest energy into the goal

20:07until you feel as if you are wasting resources for not achieving it your goal must frame your perspective for enough time to register reasons to continue pursuing it you don't develop an intrinsic philosophy in one day you develop it through conversations reading listening and filtering reality until you stack enough wise to hold you accountable you will fail and that is the only way to realize what you need to

Attract People With Your Story

20:29do next now step four is to attract people with your story be a failure launch the project to a crowd of crickets publish your thoughts and get called a fool start the Venture and watch people criticize your first moves everyone else did it you aren't a special case invest in your portfolio of failures until you can afford to succeed your portfolio of failures is your story and like a movie people are interested more in the lows than they are the highs the lows set up the scene for the highs right people are interested in the negativity and the drama but you can

21:05present that in a way that allows them to actually change and improve and re receive some form of value from it you attract people in profit to you when you have the solution to a problem in your

Distribute Your Value

21:15life now the final step is to distribute your value because that's how you earn a creative income doing what you want based on the interests skills and everything else that you experimented with to learn I'm not interested in giving you this step-by-step business model because that's not what the Creator economy is it's the one that you create it's the one that you discover it's based on your interest and your skills in multi-disciplinary study your success is dependent on being a polymath and Renaissance Man the greatest skill is writing because it forces you to

21:45articulate your value it is the foundation of all media it can be repurposed into any other medium and any other skill you acquire enhances it it brings immense mental Clarity learn to write it takes some time to realize that writing is the highest leverage work you must synthesize your value into impactful ideas that live in the heads of others rentree and influence their thoughts and behaviors you do this by writing emails content guides and products with persistent and iterative effort writing is the foundation of communication communication is how you distribute value Distributing value is

22:18how you attract people if you don't attract people you will never have someone else in the value exchange process this isn't a job where someone hands you a paycheck for completing mechanical past that will be replaced this is a purpose that must be shared by another in order to earn a creative income I've discussed all of this in previous videos like the oneperson business playlist on my YouTube channel aside from that if you want to become a synthesizer or a value Creator or start your digital career consider joining cortex University it is our University level education for synthesizers

22:51creators marketers anyone that wants to build and sell things on the internet as a meaningful way of life not just a shallow job so thank you for watching like subscribe check things out art of focus my book first link in the description if you want the deeper philosophy to all of this aside from that enjoy the rest of your day thanks for watching again bye