Prioritizing Long-Term Success and Mastery

Become aware of what one doesn't want, envision the opposite, and prioritize long-term success for personal growth and mastery.

### Building a Foundation for Success: A 6-12 Month Action Plan
* 💡 Become brutally aware of what you don't want in life and where you'll end up if you **continue on the same path**.
* 🔍 "It's easier to know what you don't want from experience and observation than it is to know **what you want from imagination**."
* 📝 Create an "anti-vision" by listing everything you don't want in life, then use this to define your **positive vision**.
* 📅 Create a plan, create a strategy for **exactly what you are going to do** on a day-to-day basis, week by week.
* 🚫 "**Disappear**" from things that hold you back, whether they are people, habits, or distractions.
* 🔄 Embrace the "**boring fundamentals**" and understand that success is built on **consistent, repetitive actions over time**.
* ⏳ Accept that mastery and success take a lifetime of trial and error: "**Get comfortable with that thought**."
* 🌟 "Build a foundation that will carry you into the **life you want**."

Here's how you get ahead of 99% of people in 6 to 12 months: become brutally aware of two things. The first is what you don't want. The second is where you will end up if you keep doing the same things in life. Observe the masses and see where mindless action leads. It's not pretty at all by any means. When you do this, when you observe the masses, sit with your thoughts. Think them through. Don't just close your mind off and take what you see on the surface and accept it as reality. That's not how this works. That close-minded, surface-level living is what got you into this situation in the first place. You need to think deeper. It's easier to know what you don't want from experience and observation than it is to know what you want from imagination. And just thinking and having all of these grand ideas for your future. And don't get me wrong here, I'm not writing those things off.

Those things are good. They are not bad. Do not label any of what I'm saying as good or bad. Test it through your direct experience. Many of you know that I'm very big on creating a vision for your future, but the best way to do that is by also creating an antidote and having a negative thing. Something that you despise, something that will get you angry because negative energy is very, very potent. It can be used in transmuted to actually achieve what you want in life. It's like when you're going to the gym, I'll be walking on the treadmill as a warm up, and I'll just think of what my life would be without the gym. Where could I end up if I don't put my all into that workout? And somehow I just get very, very pissed, and I can feel that energy. And not being pissed isn't bad. Negative emotions aren't bad. They exist. They are what they are, and they should be

used, not suppressed, but used for good. So to create your anti-vision, sit down with a notebook, become a mad scientist, draw out everything. Sit with a notebook for 30 minutes and just draw out everything your entire future. But start with the anti and write down every single thing that you do not want in this life. What do you not want to look like? What do you not want your future to be? What do you not want your day to look like on an everyday basis? And from that, it will be much clearer to you what your vision will actually be, because it's just the opposite of those things. And so when you look at your anti-vision after creating it, or as you're writing it, you should feel uncomfortable. You should feel very uncomfortable with the possibility of where you could end up in life if you do not take control of your life. And so with that discomfort, you should laser in on one big goal, laser in on your vision for the future.

And this should be meaningful because your anti-vision is usually meaningless. It comes from mindless action and comes from not doing anything and letting entropy take hold and just drag your life into chaos. That's what entropy does. That is the supreme law of the universe. If you do not create order for your life, you will decline into chaos. So in that same notebook with that vision for your future and your anti-vision, plan out, be the mad scientist that is going to work on the project of your life. Create a plan, create a strategy for exactly what you are going to do on a day-to-day basis, week by week. Every single thing you're going to do for the next week and write it out. Get extremely specific, create the order so you do not be a victim of entropy. Next, disappear. And whenever I say disappear, like disappear for six months, people take it literally. Almost every of much of what I say is metaphorical and exaggerated to get the essence of the message across.

I'm not saying disappear like your physical body is just going to disappear. I'm saying disappear from the things that don't belong in your life. Cut them out. This can be people, games, apps, or even bad habits. Just become aware of the things that are holding you back. And there are multiple ways to do this. But with the process that we've discussed, and what's work best for me, is to just rip the Band-Aid off, get rid of them all. You don't need to explain yourself here to other people that are going to be messing you. Hey, bro, Where'd you go? Just disappear. In other words, break your addiction with feeling like shit. Because that feeling, feeling like shit, has one cause, and that is, well, it has multiple causes, but we're talking about mental here, not physical, which would be attributed to something like nutrition or food, but mental mental energy that you were spending on people and things.

that don't give a fuck about you, and direct that mental energy that you now have into your vision for the future. Because you have created a system that will prevent entropy in your life. The thing that will take you from anti-vision to vision, the system there, and to maintain a system to prevent entropy, you need energy. In this case, mental energy to actualize or manifest that vision, if you want to call it that last. Make a habit of the boring fundamentals, but realize that the boring fundamentals are not boring because most successful people, they take the same repetitive actions on a day-to-day basis in a game, in like a game that mimics the real world. You are logging on, and you are repeating the same thing over and over to slowly level up over time. Right? You're killing monsters, you're going through dungeons, you're doing the same thing to stack experience. So you need to transfer that into the real world and move the levers that will actually take you towards

your goals. These are fundamentals. These are principles. These aren't tactics. And so understand that these are not boring. They seem boring on the surface when you look at someone else doing it day in, day out, like, Oh, this guy down, he writes for 30 minutes every morning. Oh, that's that seems so boring, but it's mastery over misery. It's like how sushi chefs, they take years to perfect the preparation of rice. And it comes in stages like a tennis player. You first learn how to hold the racket. Then there is a very specific way to do that well, and then you move up to the next stage, which is how do you angle the racket? How do you hit the ball? And you have to practice these things over and over and over again, like how you were learning to walk until it becomes effortless or unconscious. So you open up more mental energy to move on to the next thing that will take you ahead of the people

that are trying to just get a result that would usually take ten years to get in two weeks. That's just not going to happen. And so the question that everyone asks, like when you start something new is, okay, when will I see this result? Like a tennis player? When will I be able to compete and stop asking that question? Because you're going to get an answer that you don't want to hear, and it's going to throw you off track. It takes years. It takes an entire lifetime of trial and error to create a project. As I said, become a mad scientist. The essence of science is trial and error. So to perfect a project your life that you are building out, it is going to take a lifetime. Get comfortable with that thought. So this entire process that we just went over of realizing what you don't want, creating a strategy, and launching yourself into the opposite direction and prioritizing long-term success and mastery is the origin story. You will hear this in every origin story.

of a successful person. So flip the switch inside of you. New Year's is coming up. Flip the switch inside of you and build a foundation that will carry you into the life you want. So first off, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. This is a much shorter video than I normally do. Many of you know that I was saving. I'm saving along the longer I have a lot of good videos coming. The long, in-depth ones coming next week. I just didn't want to post it around Christmas because I want to give those videos the hopefully attention it deserves. So first let me know if you like these shorter videos because I can work in one of these every single week along with the in-depth videos. And if you guys like them, I'll keep them coming. So with that, leave a comment. Let me know. Like subscribe while you're there. Links in the description for skill acquisition courses and other things like that. Just check them out and enjoy the rest

How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People (In 6-12 Months)

Dan Koe

Harnessing the Power of Negative Energy for Personal Growth

Becoming aware of what you don't want and where your current path leads is crucial for personal development.

It's important to deeply analyze your thoughts and not just accept surface-level reality.

Utilizing negative energy can be a potent force for driving change and achieving your goals, similar to how it can fuel a powerful workout at the gym.

To create your vision, start by outlining everything you don't want in your life, which will clarify what you do want.

The discomfort of your anti-vision will help you focus on a meaningful and purposeful goal.

Plan out your future in detail to create order and avoid falling into chaos.

Remember that the advice to "disappear" is metaphorical, aiming to emphasize the message's essence.

It's important to eliminate things that don't belong in your life, whether it's people, apps, or bad habits, in order to focus on your future.

Breaking the addiction to feeling negative is crucial and redirecting that mental energy towards your vision is key to preventing entropy in your life.

Successful people understand the importance of repetitive actions and boring fundamentals in achieving long-term goals.

The Path to Mastery and Long-Term Success

Mastery in any field requires consistent and sometimes repetitive practice to make tasks effortless.

The journey to success is a gradual process that takes a lifetime of trial and error, requiring a shift towards long-term priorities.

Prioritizing long-term success and mastery is essential in the origin story of any endeavor.

Building a Foundation for Success in the New Year

The speaker sends holiday wishes and explains the reason for a shorter video.

He asks for feedback on the shorter format and promotes his upcoming in-depth videos.

The audience is encouraged to comment, like, and subscribe, and to explore the provided links for skill acquisition courses.