The Cure To A Mediocre Life (Become Multidimensionally Jacked)

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00:00For some reason, I've always had the drive to max out every area of my life. I saw life as a video game. My mind, body, spirit and finances were the traits that I had to gain experience in. I wanted to become multidimensional, jacked, maybe because I started questioning the default path early.

00:19Maybe because I noticed how unhappy, overweight and miserable people seemed. Maybe because I observed how people limited their opportunities by taking a specific path in life. It didn't make sense to follow what most people do because that would lead to a life that most people have, and that isn't pretty.

00:36The problem with the default path in life or your trajectory that you are set on and conditioned into since birth is compartmentalization specialization in niching down. We are trained to focus on one dot instead of the lines that connect the dots.

00:52In school we learned biology, chemistry, math, literature and more. We go to individual classes that don't connect the dots between them all. It lacks holism, creativity, and the kind of practicality that gets abnormal results. After school, we narrow our minds further on what we think we want to be for the rest of our lives.

01:10We're expected, as teenagers, to choose one of infinite paths in life when we haven't even started our real life. How can we know exactly what we want? There doesn't seem to be a greater recipe for misery than to focus on one thing for the rest of your life.

01:25This strips our curiosity and creativity from us. It leads to a world where warriors lack brains and intellectuals lack balls. A philosopher will ignore the practical aspects of life simply because they identify as a philosopher. They are an intellectual, not a warrior.

01:42But the main question of philosophy is how does one live the best life? And so if a philosopher can't build a business or manage their emotions or create fulfilling relationships, then their philosophy means absolutely nothing. And the same thing goes for something like the reductionistic approach to science, where you throw a frog in a blender and you observe its parts, but that lacks the holistic nature of the frog, that limits the discoveries that can be made rather than observing the frog in its environment and how it moves.

02:12Even if you put it in an environment that you create that still there's no frogs interacting with it. It's not able to travel, it's not able to do its own thing. And so observing and studying and taking every single piece, taking the universe into account and like a cone coming down from the sky.

02:29This is metaphorical analogous, where truth is this big picture narrowed in on one small aspect of reality and making discoveries that way. Like a spotlight, the effects of compartmentalized learning destroy

The Modern Renaissance Man

02:44our individual potential. So now we need to discuss the modern or the digital Renaissance man. So here's a graphic where the digital Renaissance man is self-educated. They pursue their curiosity. They build digital leverage, they embark on physical training.

03:00They are health conscious, they socialize, they dedicate time to purposeful work, and they are spiritually inclined because at birth we are prescribed a certain way of life. Go to school, get a job, find a partner, try to squeeze in activities that make life good, retire at 65 and never work again.

03:17When work is a necessary part of life, that should involve investing our attention in what we deem enjoyable. In school. We're told to pick a major in business. We're told to pick a niche. So we neglect the other areas of study that make those things work better and our results suffer because of it.

03:31Creativity is the path to wealth, mental and financial and creativity requires a high level of understanding focused on a specific problems like the cone. We are smack in the middle of a second golden age. There is so much information on the internet that it becomes overwhelming.

03:47There is no way you can learn everything, but you can learn quite a bit. People still live in a paradigm where they have to get very good at one thing because in the past that's what the environment required for success. Now success is reserved for the value creator, the specialized generalist, the new Renaissance Man, the digital Renaissance man, somebody who can study diverse interests, create value from them, and sustain an enjoyable lifestyle like I teach in digital economics.

04:13So before we dive in, I have an announcement. I am running one last solopreneur sprints before the year ends, and this may be the last one simply because I'm building a new software business and we're going to transfer the sprints over to that.

04:26There's going to be different topics. So this is the last time the sprints on the one person business model will actually be a thing. So if you're interested in creating your niche of one, building a name for yourself and creating profitable career and business opportunities, writing about your interests and hopefully discovering your life's work, I would encourage that you at least check it out and enroll before the closing date.

04:47The link is in the description Solopreneur Sprints. We live in very interesting times where there is an overabundance of information, but it's only overwhelming to those that don't have goals and intentions behind their learning because that's how you learn everything as you filter signal from noise in every single piece of information that you process in alignment with the conscious goals that you set for yourself, not the goals that someone set for you.

05:10Because when you are born, people are just projecting goal after goal after goal. That shapes your behavior and what you do. And so you perceive life through that lens and you attempt to survive to achieve those goals. Those goals are how you survive and you interpret information and learn in that fashion.

05:28The creator economy emerged and it started condensing information into actionable courses on things like business, health, wealth, relationships, etc. Content courses and books are like zip files for your mind. In the modern world, it no longer takes 4 to 12 years, $40,000 and a piece of paper to make a replaceable income.

05:47But this implies personal responsibility. Nobody is there to hold your hand. So here's what you do.

I Am Nobody

05:53The first thing is that you have to become nobody, become label less, become everything, be a designer, writer, marketer, socialize a runner, bodybuilder, philosopher, scientist, psychologist and polymath that knows how to sustain their obsessive curiosity.

06:07Subscribing to one's skill, ideology or identity limits your potential in every situation. The universe is a shapeshifter. It is in constant flow. The oceans evaporate, condense in the clouds, rain down into puddles and the water inevitably finds its way back.

06:21Nothing is permanent. Your cells are completely different from just a few years ago. Your interests are allowed to change. Your mind is allowed to change. You are allowed to change. Become the universe.

The Curiosity Compass

06:33Point number two is the Curiosity Compass. As a kid, people would discourage going through a phase. Now I had my email phase in high school. I had my bodybuilder phase, I had my raver phase, and all of them have shaped who I am today because evolution is about transcending and including.

06:51And so you transcend and you pull the good parts up with you. Where I have learned different things throughout my life. When I went through those phases and was obsessively curious and experiencing life in those domains, whether it be the Jimbo phase, the EMO phase with different music and even the raver phase, and meeting people, meeting interesting people at raves.

07:11But that's the thing, is that there's absolutely nothing wrong with experimentation. There is absolutely something wrong with conforming to the whims of others. And this even goes for something like going through a phase where you just have to consistently check in with yourself and make sure that you are thinking independently and not completely relinquishing your autonomy just because you want to fit in with that specific group.

07:33Prescriptions, roadmaps and long curriculums are not that, but they narrow your mind on a specific outcome with specific advice to reach that goal. This is useful but should not be treated as a one and done type of deal. That's how you get trapped in a miserable life.

07:46There is one pattern I've noticed in both myself and those I aspire to be like. They don't limit what they learn to. One thing everything connects by pursuing what you're curious about. Not only are you motivated to learn, but pattern recognition increases meaningful dopamine in the brain to help you solidify high level knowledge.

08:04Focus on one thing is good advice, but only if that one thing is a massive, unrealistic goal that requires you to focus on a plethora of skills, interests and experiences to achieve that goal, or at least make it close to achieving that goal.

08:19It is wise to become obsessively curious with a skill for 1 to 2 months so that you can add it to your toolbox. And then when you move on to the next one, you do it from a place of better experience and you're able to notice more and you're able to acquire skills faster.

08:33And all of them combine and culminate into this very unique skill set that nobody else has because you're pursuing curiosity and nobody has the same curiosities as you. By pursuing curiosity, you are separating yourself from the competition because you are creating something truly unique, not only a skill set, but what you are able to produce in terms of like a product or service for someone else so that you can earn an income from it.

08:57Or just when you communicate, you don't want to be the same as everyone else. And so the best way to do that is to diversify through curiosity. And even in business, when you niche down for too long or too far niche down, then you just become a glorified search engine.

09:12You lack depth, you lack depth and personality, you lack the thing that the future will require. People have explored the niche areas of life enough, right? You don't have to subscribe to one little path like, Oh, I'm going to be a biologist, I'm going to be a chemist, I'm going to be something else.

09:27You can become everything nowadays simply because the learning is available with courses, content, books, etc. so readily available information and your ability to really do anything that you want. You can write content, you can build a readership.

09:40It's it's all pointing to the creator economy and just distributing the value that you've cultivated over time. But most people don't cultivate that value. So the people that do and can pursue their curiosity for one or two months on end obsessively for the thing that they discover through experimentation, because there's going to be certain things that don't resonate with you.

10:00But when you actually do that, then over the course of one or two years, you launch ahead of 99% of people.

Invest In Your Education

10:08And so that's the third point here, is that you have to invest in your education in this life. You own one thing, your mind, everything else can be taken away from you. There's one thing that the school system did get right, which is consistent daily education in hopes for a better future.

10:21But schools don't prioritize curiosity, so most people hate learning by the time they graduate. Learning is the foundation of the human experience. And once you stop, you die hammered into your head that you have to be learning something, anything, every single day, no matter if it's 10 minutes or 3 hours.

10:37Your future depends on it. It really does. There is no other way to discover a new potential for your life so that you can actually move in a new direction that wasn't assigned to you because you can't act on opportunities that don't exist to you and you can't even register specific opportunities because you have to get to a specific level by doing your own thing enough to actually be able to note that because you have the skill to do so.

11:02If I haven't even started a business, I'm not going to be able to see someone, let's say, on the Internet and be like, Oh, this guy has this business, I have this offer, he's going to be able to pay me this much. I'm going to reach out to him in a way that I know how to do and then eventually systemize that into a way that consistently gets me those clients.

11:20You don't know what to do because you haven't started doing anything. When you stop learning, your life stops progressing. You stop growing The psychological benefits and feel good. Chemicals start flowing, life gets mediocre and repetitive.

11:32You become mechanical and robotic. And so we've talked about learning a lot through curiosity, education, becoming nobody, doing everything but learning means nothing without building.

Become A Builder

11:42So in my new book, The Art of Focus, which I am launching a keepsake edition, a keepsake box, this won't be a normal book launch. There is an updates link in the description if you want to join and get updates on that. But in the book I have a section on the philosophy of the builder because one pattern I've noticed in my life is that I've always carved out time to build something of my own schoolwork, client work and projects assigned to me at a job were necessary but didn't get me the fulfillment I was looking for.

12:10My life was the Mega-project project that was built through a series of personal and business projects. Projects Frame your attention and learning when your focus is on that which you are building. All information that you are exposed to is filtered through that lens.

12:24As long as you remain focused on the project, the source of learning is struggle, not memorization. You must encounter a problem, discover the solution to that problem and integrate it into your life. To identify a problem, you need a goal to solve the problem.

12:37You need to create a solution. To create a solution, you need a project to invest your attention in for the next 1 to 6 months. This is what I do every single morning. This is what I mean by I've always had a project to build with my focused work and deep work.

12:50And for our workday philosophy, the first block of every single morning was that high level project that I was building out that would lead me to the life that I wanted. And even when I was working a 9 to 5, I still had that hour every single day that I was building something.

13:05I was making progress no matter how slow it was. And when I say project, I mean something that is measurable and documented and it doesn't have to be something like a physical product where you're like, you think a project and you're like, Oh, I need a hammer, I need nails, I need wood, I need to like arts and crafts.

13:21That's not what I mean. It can be as simple as having, like a weight training log for going to the gym and tracking your food, tracking your weight, and researching and learning about fitness information along the way so that you can correct your actions along the way because you're not going to be able to actually register a problem when you are consuming the education that you're trying to learn because you weren't doing anything that would make you realize you have that problem.

13:45It's just going to go in one ear and out the other. And so the same holds true for businesses when you are building a product or when you're building a brand, you the project consists of levers that you are moving every single day and it has milestones, it has different things, components of the project that you have to piece together.

Big Irrational Goals, Small Rational Steps

14:01So let's start there. The first thing you need is big irrational goals, followed by small, rational steps. Again, we have the cone shape that dictates truth. One habit to build your mind, one habit to build your body, one habit to build your business experiment until you can find the ones you can stick with for life.

14:19In five years, you won't be the same person. Big goals are better than small goals because they give you the vision, motivation and long term focus necessary to see them through. Because I get more excited about wanting to build $1,000,000 business in one year instead of sending ten networking emails a day.

14:37I get more excited looking shredded on the beach this summer than I do meal, prepping for the week, or having the weekly goal of meal prepping. So to embark on the journey of becoming multidimensional jacked, you need to create a big goal for each pillar of your life.

14:53The first is mind. How do you want to handle emotions and stress? Do you want to have the same mediocre mindset as everyone else? Second is body. How do you want to look and feel? How does that impact other areas of your life, like how others perceive you and throw opportunities at you?

15:07The third is Spirit. Do you feel like life lacks meaning, wonder and fulfillment? Do you feel like life is happening to you or that you are flowing with life? The fourth is business. How much money do you want to make? Why do you want that money to come from purposeful endeavor?

15:22Unlike 90% of jobs? And the problem is that most people stop here. They mentally masturbate over their goals and they tell people about it, which is scientifically shown to increase dopamine levels in the brain as if you achieve that goal and you end up never making any meaningful progress towards them.

Outline A Project For Each Domain Of Life

15:38So the second step is to outline a project for each domain of life. The goal is the what the vision is, the why in the project is the how. Now that we have a vision and motivation for our goals, we need to gain clarity. Projects have a goal, process and priority actions to knock out on a daily basis.

15:54So what can you do every single day that will move the needle toward your goals? What aspects of your goals do you need to educate yourself on to make better decisions? How can you document your progress in a way that keeps you motivated to come back tomorrow?

16:07So in a notebook where hopefully you wrote down your goals, I hope you're not just watching this and learning without building. I want you to create a simple project for each goal. So first thing you write down is the milestones. So write down tangible milestones with realistic timelines.

16:21The second is variables. Write out each variable that will help you achieve the goal for health. It's nutrition, training, sleep for business, its product, traffic generation content, etc., etc. You can figure that out. The third is principles, the priority actions that will move the needle forward.

16:37And the fourth is the skills, the skills you have to acquire to actualize that goal. This brings even more clarity to changing your life.

Start, Then Learn

16:44Now, the third thing we need to understand is that you want to start. Then learn. If you want to learn faster, don't start learning first, outline a project second, start building it out. Third, Learn Along the way, too many people get trapped in tutorial hell, stacking up useless knowledge as brain fog start encounter problem and experiment with different techniques to solve that problem.

17:05And when I was learning Photoshop, I would try to learn everything before even using the software. And when I did start using the software, it was starting over from scratch. I didn't know anything. I had to supplement with specific tutorials and videos that were like, Create with me or Here's me building out a piece in Photoshop, and I had to figure out just what to do along the way where if I had a problem and I watch a video, then that problem is in my head and I'm going to see what the other person is doing and I'm going to remember that much, much more.

17:34And I'm going to be able to go back to my project and fix it. And this is why you need that constant balance of learning, building, learning, building, learning, building. You can't have one without the other. You can't have output without input.

17:45So as you can tell, I would highly recommend a general education habit. Literally just 10 to 30 minutes of day of listening to a YouTube video that interests you, or a podcast or reading part of a book or reading like a short form summary, like with the app, short form or really anything like that.

Lifestyle Design Through Habit Formation

18:01Just learn something. The last and fourth thing that we have to touch on here is lifestyle design through habit formation. Build your mind with books, self-reflection and writing, Build your body with the gym, long walks and nutrient dense foods, build your business with skill acquisition, problem solving and self-promotion, becoming multidimensional.

18:19Each act is the path to the good life. The difference between you and who you want to become are the habits that compose your lifestyle. Think about it. Do mentally, physically or financially. Jack people just wake up with the best mind body in business one day?

18:31Or do they have tiny actions they take on a daily basis that maintains their progress and builds towards a better future? And most people will tell you to stop playing video games, to stop going out and to stop distracting yourself. And I agree, but I don't.

18:44I still play video games here and there, maybe like 4 to 5 hours a week if that. Maybe like 2 to 5. It varies, right? It's not habitual. And I still go out with friends and stay up late, but that's like every 2 to 4 weeks. It really just depends.

18:57I have other things to do. I have my priorities straight, and so when the time comes up, I can actually think critically about that and make a good decision. And so the reason I outpaced 95% of people is that I frontload my mornings with needle moving tasks between 5 a.m.

19:15and 11. Am I going to run 3 to 4 days a week? Otherwise I go on a walk. The other day is to maintain that habit of going outside. I write my newsletter and content for one hour. This sustains 95% of my business. Remember principles. I build out a new project.

19:29Right now it's my book launch and software company. I hit the gym 6 to 7 days a week. I take walks in between all of those activities. I cook nutrient dense meals that take 10 to 15 minutes to prepare and eat out for dinner quite a bit. I'm hovering around 4500 calories a day.

19:43This is a picture of me right now just to throw that post physique, show proof that I'm not just like hiding in an oversize tee right now. And I understand that not everyone can do this because of time constraints, but there is something you can do.

19:59There's some part of your life that you can change. And once you start believing that you're fucked and you may not be able to do it right now, but you can do what you can right now so that you can do what you want in the future. And as you get results from your efforts, you become more efficient at what you do.

20:13Time will free up since that should be a sub goal for almost every goal you set. It's a great way of measuring progress. When in doubt, waking up an hour earlier unlocks the distraction free time that will solve most of your problems. That's it for this video, my friends.

20:26I appreciate you watching of AutoFocus. Coming soon, check the links in the description for solopreneur sprints that is starting on September 12th. Enrollment will close that date if you want to build the foundation of your one person business and productize yourself and talk about your interests and just create meaningful work for yourself, hopefully your life's work, other things in the description as well.

20:48I appreciate you, my friends. Peace.