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So, how was it?

How was your 2022?

Out of 100, how would you say your year has been?

Of course not everything is perfect in our world and in any of our years, but how would you rate it among your best years?

Whether it’s among your best or not, how would it be to have a method to get the best from your year?

And use it to best set yourself up for next year?

Best movie ever

There’s lots of ways that you can best review your year and best prepare yourself for next year.

Over the years we’ve experimented with many methods, and this is the best that we keep returning to.

Ideally, every day you’re already focused on the details of what you’re doing to keep making things the best they can be.

And here we’re focused on doing something simple, fun, and incredibly effective for looking back on the best of your year.

Now, this isn’t to say that you never reflect on things that didn’t go best.

But if you do, you never want to dwell on that stuff, and ideally you want to see how you solved it, or otherwise powered through.

Because the point here isn’t watching every twist and turn.

You’re showing your brain the best of this year and giving it a map for making 2023 your best too.

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Many of you loved last week’s article on The Simulation.

I love that you love it.

Because I love this topic more than just about everything.

It’s the most important topic in this world to me.

Where I really started all this work 22+ years ago and where it will dead end.

I want to know all, everything.

And I want to keep sharing.

But

I feel that last week I failed in well enough conveying my most important point.

This isn’t about The Simulation at all—

It’s about you and your best life.

What’s happening in your body and brain and what this means for EVERY single moment of your life.

This is the single most important discovery of my decades of work.

Perhaps to some people it sounds pathetic and a waste of your life to never stop going deeper on this subject.

Yet I perceive that nothing is more important to living your best life than your ‘will and skill’ to choose how you think, feel, take action.

It is the master key to living your best life as many seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years as you can.

Let alone to uplifting all of humanity.

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Have you wondered why someone with so little can be so happy?

While someone with so much can feel so poor?

Why one person can be content with what they have?

While many others achieving more, more, more will never be fulfilled?

What’s going on here?

Two lives

It might be obvious to you.

But it wasn’t always obvious to me and it’s not always obvious in our society and in our own brain.

The life that you see outside of you is ENTIRELY different to what you experience inside.

While you expect that a “better” life out there causes you to feel better inside, ultimately they are independent variables.

Hence why someone can have a heavenly life but be living an internal hell, and vice-versa.

They might as well be two different lives.

It’s like dreaming at night.

What is happening outside of your sleeping body is ENTIRELY different to what you are experiencing inside.

In our school of transformation, RST, we distinguish these as your External Life and your Internal Life Experience.

So even if a person has a fabulous External Life, like Kanye West they can have a terribly sad Internal Life Experience.

This is the cause of ALL problems in our world.

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My favorite scene in The Avengers is right near the end.

After Earth’s mightiest heroes have been divided and conquered by the evil deceiver, Loki, they are assembling in Manhattan.

With a grotesque alien army streaming through a hole in the sky they are humanity’s first, last and only stand.

Then, just as the scene is getting even worse, the final Avenger rolls up on a motorcycle.

It’s Bruce Banner, aka The Hulk, looking worse for wear after crashing down into an abandoned factory somewhere.

“So, this all seems horrible,” he says.

The unflappable Black Widow casually responds, “I’ve seen worse.”

I’ve seen worse

You might know that this work began for me in a horrible time back in Silicon Valley.

Bright eyed with the gold rush of technology, I’d landed a plum transfer to Goldman Sachs’ Silicon Valley office right at the top of the market.

By the time I was boots on the ground, however, the first shoe had already dropped.

Those of us in Silicon Valley will always remember March 10, 2000 as the end of the internet bubble, and start of the pop.

But it still wasn’t for another year or so that the other shoe dropped.

The not so great financial crisis in 2008 had the same footprint.

Investing in distressed companies at Carlyle, we were patiently prepared in 2007 when the Bear Stearns first shoe dropped.

But it wasn’t until Lehman Brothers collapsed some 9 months later that the legs cut out.

In both cases, round after round of layoffs later fewer companies and people were left standing.

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“But how can you feel your best about heading into a recession?”

That’s a question we got from this article last week on stopping being consumed by the debilitating fear in our world.

It’s a great question.

Few of us feel our best about heading into a recession.

And even fewer of us feel our best fearfully focusing on the future.

Besides, how many of us feel our best anyways?

Don’t you wonder why we are less than a shiny, happy species?

I wonder if it has anything to do with being served fear as an all day happy meal?

Food for fear

Our society is food for fear.

We’re apparently mystified by our worsening “mental health crisis,” which is exactly what you expect from this 1-2-3—

1. 1. Incessantly fill your head with mostly negative information
   2. Focus on unknowable things that feel bad that you can never influence
   3. Repeat as many seconds a day

About as mystifying as our obesity or loneliness epidemic, right?

Is this how it’s meant to be?

How your brain is supposed to be used?

You’re taught nothing about using this most magical machine, so perhaps this is right?

It’s a machine for filling with fear to be fear filled for the future?

Yet even if that’s right, I’m still thinking that some of us want to feel good about the future?

Heck, maybe this is taking it WAY too far these days, but perhaps even EXCITED?

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This is how I’m feeling these days.

Rocketing into the stratosphere.

We’ve gone supernova.

Hahahahaha.

I’m just playing around here.

But in many ways it does feel this way.

It’s very exciting.

Leap to hyperspace

This feeling for me started a couple months ago when this article from a couple years ago kept getting hit on the website.

It’s from my September Man upgrade that is now a continuous upgrade.

When I read it I cringed a bit.

It takes a pretty aggressive frame but it also does lay out a method for leaping to hyperspace.

Back then we executed this leap, btw, to tremendous effect.

And I feel it building again.

Leaping hyperspace.

Living supernova.

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