How I became an NPC...
16d ago (edited) in Good Content📹
How I became an NPC...
I was kinda in building mode the last year
and today I woke up to this view:
(attached below)
Yeah it looks beautiful I know, and no, this post won't be about some bullshit of work hard or anything like that.
The truth is I was afraid to come to Bali, I was in "monk mode" for so long, and not the 2-8 week sprint type of monk mode, it wasn't even monk mode anymore it was just my life...
I consumed so much self-improvement and business content that everything has to be filtered thru the question:
is this beneficial? Will this make me better?
and when I mean everything I mean EVERYTHING, I was afraid to come to Bali because I knew I had this filter
and I wanted to do stuff here that I just love to do and it doesn't necessarily make me "better"
I forced myself into this optimizer identity and I lost my creativity, personality and playfulness towards life.
But this made me stuck...
I stopped having great ideas, that aliveness left me and I even forgot what was the reason I was working for.
One day on my YouTube feed some random channel came up about some guy documenting his "monk mode" I was curious about the video and I made a prediction about the guy's personality before clicking:
"he will probably lack aliveness, will have that sleepy voice and will talk about his routine" I said to myself
and I was 100% spot on, I knew this because practically this is how I lived...
but the truth is that after a while it started to have diminishing returns, not even diminishing returns it's just practically got me nowhere.
so I decided to reverse engineer the times when I achieved the most, made the most money, had great connections and was the most fulfilled and I realized that at that time I was just being myself, sharing, consuming and creating stuff that I just enjoyed.
I think now I understand what Naval meant by saying "escape competition thru authenticity"
he didn't mean make "raw reality of making 10k pm" videos
rather the fact that you can't win other people's game, when I was playing the Great Online Game in my own way, I was winning, than I got exposed to the way the game should be played, and now I started to lose
because I went from doing what I was good at and existing in my zone of genius to entering into the same field everyone else was playing in, and now the competition was massive.
I just became another agency owner... who was the parrot of the current authority in the niche
I had to change, the monk mode, the dumb optimizer way of living wasn't working anymore
what I needed in my business wasn't hustling but rather better ideas and more uniqueness
What got me from 0-1 is not what will get me from 1-10
we are living in the age of infinite leverage and one great idea means more than 1000 bad ones
if I produce a video that gets 1000 views and you make 10 videos that get 5 views who is more productive? When everyone has infinite leverage it's your taste and judgment that matters. (you can't develop these things by just consuming content all day and being in monk mode)
so that's nice and all but how do we develop taste and uniqueness?
By playing more
Monk mode killed playing and having fun, it says everything has to have a reason, and this is why so many people lack creativity in monk mode, they restrict their brain from playing, and creativity is achieved when you just play and follow your curiosity and do stuff for fun, not everything has to be beneficial and "because it's fun" is a perfect reason to do something.
this is my sales letter to my brain to convince it to have fun in Bali
also if you are by some chance also in Bali feel free to send a message!
thx for reading
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