Rocket to the Top Like Musk and Bezos

What is working on the future now?

Back in 2018 riding up 6th Avenue I remember my buddy saying this to me.

He was my training partner and a prominent member of Silicon Valley royalty.

We were headed uptown for violence training which is a different story altogether.

And he said, “Below $6,000 you’ve gotta buy as much as you can.” I looked at him strangely.

Years earlier another future thinking buddy in Vail had been buying Bitcoin in the hundreds and I was mostly just watching!

Investing in future

A client told me about a YPO forum where they went around the table and asked their biggest regrets.

More than a few members regretted never investing in the early rounds of Uber! It all looks so obvious in hindsight, doesn’t it!? It’s easy for your brain to look back at opportunities “missed” in theory with perfect information you can wish you’d made a different decision.

I’ve never been that way. I’ve made enough good and less good decisions and have seen enough cycles to know you can never decide on future outcomes. You must make your best decisions at each point in time and keep moving forward. Never regret, learn.

And I’ve learned to invest nearly zero time thinking about financial investing because what goes up does come down and so too things can go around and around like as we say on Wall Street never let a good trade turn into a bad investment.

Instead nearly all my time is focused on the one investment that pays off all day every day all year every year all the time all your life!

How he keeps rocketing… and you do too!

His friends warned him to avoid starting.

One even forced him to sit down and watch videos of rockets exploding.

They cautioned he would lose all of his money from starting a rocket company.

But Elon Musk already knew this as he said, “I thought the odds of success were less than 10%. And I just accepted that I would just lose everything.”

He’d already accepted failure so he could focus on rocketing!

Mission matters

You never know how people really thought about things, do you?

In hindsight it’s more appropriate to sound all humble but did Elon Musk really believe failure was his likely outcome or with extraordinary vision and efforts he would find a way to win?

Who could know? What you do know is on Christmas Eve 2008 SpaceX and Tesla were on the brink of bankruptcy and this week SpaceX achieved an extraordinary outcome.

It says a lot about what is possible when you dream it up and just keep doing. Also about going after things whether other people believe they are possible or not.

As Musk said, “When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”

This is your best life

How perfect would you say is your life?

Now I know perfect is such a loaded word isn’t it just if you grade your life out of 10, what do you think?

When you look back on your life or even look back on just this last week or month or phase how good is your life out of 10?

How do you measure it? What are the things you think about that add up to being your best life? How best are these things right now for you? How much more best can they be?

How much do you think about these things?

I’m thinking about…

Bill Gates.

Because you can see a person who has truly changed our world.

What he and Microsoft did for the personal computer now seems passé.

Especially relative to all the fancy AI and apps these days but you know Windows and Office ushered in this future of personal computing.

Bill Gates of course became one of the wealthiest people on the planet and a prominent humanitarian, respected, admired, loved by many.

Before AI takes over, ask this?

How much are you paying attention to AI?

For those not paying attention AI means Artificial Intelligence.

And for those wondering what this means it means intelligence that is artificial 🙂

Because you see the term presupposes there is also such thing as “Not-artificial intelligence.”

This is implied to mean human intelligence and AI is implied to mean intelligence beyond human intelligence, perhaps?

“Intelligence”

So in a nutshell all this implies there’s such thing as intelligence us humans have and now we have these computers who have some artificial version of this because they can what exactly?

Do you see where I’m going here? Have you spent much time with AI and how specifically are you using it?

Because obviously you can use it to create images and little videos and write generic content and go deeper into search than you used to which I find incredibly valuable because google and grok are better at scouring the net than ever before, for instance.

Also of course you can have AI do all sorts of other things for you like inserting in workflows and doing things humans were doing previously like machines have done for decades on production lines.

And now it can even drive cars, which humans do too, of course! And we can even ride bikes and ski and other things too though. So what exactly is this definition of intelligence?

1.2 Why operating manual

This is the most important work of my life.

It may seem silly to you spending all these years on this one thing because it’s a topic I’ve never heard anyone talk about, ever.

Even reading thousands of books on these topics and training with masters of change I never saw this. But over decades of work, it became obvious to me this matters most to the quality of your life and to all humanity.

Because operating manual you have the secret key you never knew you needed.

It’s the master key for unleashing your best and the best for every human being!

Why?

Why this matters so much is the quality of your life is the quality of your mind.

How you feel, how you think, the actions you take, your “Internal Life Experience” determines the quality of your life more than anything outside of you. No matter the quality of your “External Life” it’s only as good as you experience inside!

And why operating manual matters so much is because your internal experience is happening automatically in you. Read this again because it’s crucial to where we are going here. All these things, how you think, how you feel, how you take action or not is happening automatically in you.

This is obviously true but it doesn’t always seem this obviously true. Because the illusion of being conscious is you choose.

But all this is happening automatically in you.

Keep your eye on this!

Your days are busy, aren’t they?

When you wake up and look forward into your day, how much clarity do you see?

Is it always obvious what you “should” be focused on? How do you even define “should?”

Because a lot of your days can be consumed “just” doing what’s in your calendar and “needs” to be done, can’t they?

But is this your highest value?

Highest value

In my book Do What You Want I use the phrase Highest Value Actions.

It’s a common phrase I use with clients and it’s baked into all our winning methods like Rocket To The Top Like Musk And Bezos.

But, what does this even mean to be focused on your highest value actions?

Highest value relative to what?

And when, btw.

Clock is ticking

I’m working at a ferocious pace.

This is nothing new I’ve been working around the clock 33 years!

Just this phase of life is different because I’m certain of the target and why it matters so much.

This was my problem working around the clock on Wall Street and why I left to focus on most important things.

Not just to live the life you truly want but to finish the work I decoded most matters.

Evolving…

This is a difficult topic to talk about in our world because you’re taught nothing.

There’s never even a shared language or dialogue for people who are focused on these things.

At a mainstream level they call it self-help or personal development or hmm, spirituality or when the clock is broken, therapy.

But go deep with people who are serious about these things it’s the craft.

Those who know, know. Others speculate. The craft is evolving.

Keep moving 🚀

I don’t know what you’re focused on achieving.

But I do know whatever you’re focused on this is true.

You keep achieving what you truly want when you keep moving forward.

Sometimes this is the hardest thing in the world to do. Even just the tiniest step forward can feel too difficult.

Your brain can get stuck thinking, what about this or that? Should you do one thing or the other? What about this or that outcome?

Resistance

One of the most helpful books I read was the War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

If you know this book you know exactly why it is celebrated by people doing hard things.

It was most helpful to me writing my first book when it felt near-impossible to even sit down and write, let alone make progress.

I had never struggled in that way. In the past I just powered through any actions driving things forward but back then finding myself stuck in actions I didn’t know what to do.

Blow through that resistance is what you must do.

1.1 The Simulation is in you

I’m gonna start talking about The Simulation again.

Because obviously the world is coming to an end from war or artificial intelligence I figure what the heck.

I already got myself cancelled for writing the book on Trump might as well talk about the truth of these things.

That’s an issue with this topic of simulation. There’s so much noise out there it’s hard to see even the most obvious truth.

Your brain is controlling you!

Why care?

Before we go into this most obvious truth let’s consider, why should you care?

Isn’t this just some out there topic for science-fiction fans and geeks exploring the nature of reality and future of humanity?

Nope. The Simulation is simple, 100% verifiable in your experience right now, and dictates every single moment of your life.

Every single thought. Every single feeling. Every single action. Every single thing you ever think, do, get, have, be, experience.

Every single moment of your life comes back to this most obvious truth.

know, can, will, are, did, CRUSHED!

Not my first rodeo as they say.

First I lived by Rodeo Drive when I was in Beverly Hills.

Then rodeos in TX and Cody, Wyoming my parents and I saw on July 4th some years ago.

Just the rodeo here is one of you, me, all of us, and what it takes to achieve what you truly want.

It’s this dance we all go through on achieving your best that separates those who fail from those who crush!

Crush!

It’s all I care about.

I’m so over even paying attention to whatever people talk about in the mainstream world.

Focus is your entire life. Nearly everything you ever think about will make your life worse. Some tiny amount of things make it better.

Know what these are. Focus on what you truly want. Power through these 6 crushing steps and you’ve already won.

Because you’re only winning when you keep crushing.

This is the entire game

It’s so bizarre.

You must assume it’s deliberate because they couldn’t be this blind, could they?

Maybe it’s all about keeping people stuck in therapy or on their meds, that’s bad enough to think.

But it’s even worse to think our entire industry of psychology is entirely wrong on what is happening in us humans.

Whatever it is, it’s bizarre to think they are missing the most important thing.

Energy

When someone dies you see the energy drain, don’t you?

First the eyes go glassy and blank as the life force is gone and then you see the skin go pale as the blood stops pumping.

No energy, no life, it is this certain, us humans are energetic machines. This is obvious, everyone obviously gets this.

But what is missing from psychology and every other school I’ve studied is your psychology is your energy.

This means, change your energy, change everything.

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AI comes back to you choose

Flattering me, a business leader asked this week—

“Blades, you’re on the cutting edge, haha, what do you think of AI?”

“I don’t!” I calmly shrugged.

“I think of AI as little as I think about news,” which is never.

Everyone else is focused on that while I’m focused on the most important topics of being human.

AI is human

There is no such thing as “artificial intelligence.”

With our human intelligence we have birthed a tool and like a child it’s an extension of us we never control.

The terrible fearmongers want you to believe this tool will replace humans like apparently humans replaced Neanderthals.

Like Henry Ford put countless horses out of work they want you to believe humans will become a pet to this all powerful intelligence.

Maybe, all depends on this word, “intelligence.”

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Remember, let’s talk

I was telling friends at dinner Friday last week I got this late night call.

Clients and friends know to call me anytime and this person was spiraling.

He’d come back from a bad ayahuasca trip and all this stuff had been stirred up.

You must be wary, tools like that are potent, they can unlock you and also blow up your brain.

Because as you go deeper down the rabbit hole of the mind you learn the unconscious part of you suppresses from you consciously things you’re not yet capable of dealing with.

Deep, dark…

So when you drop a grenade down the hole and blow out mental barriers you must be ready and highly skilled to deal with what might bubble up from a deep dark well.

I don’t just say this from experience parachuting into difficult minds but from operating my own difficult mind.

It’s easy for me to navigate other people’s worst times because I’ve navigated the deepest, hardest places in my own mind.

Amsterdam trips were once a powerful tool for me but only with even more powerful tools of hypnosis and mind control.

Anyone going on those trips wide opening your brain to those tools and sometimes fools, be careful.

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Let’s go!

Come on… let’s go!

As I last wrote you a couple weeks ago, let’s talk!

More of you than ever responded and I’ve spoken to more of you in weeks than in years!!

It’s clear, you have as little interest in reading another article as I have in writing one 🙂

We’ve done that 734 times when it’s clear what you want is… getting what you want!

And nothing delights me more than serving you in getting it.

No more lost time reading, let’s get want you truly want.

If you’re serious about these things, let’s talk, let’s go!

If you’re serious, let’s talk!

These topics are near-impossible to convey.

It all sounds much the same. And even if it reads differently, it’s much the same in your brain.

Because you read these things, you think it makes sense, you consume more, yet how much do you actually change?

I hope more than everything this is valuable for you and others, just it’s different to what I know is actually valuable.

Actually changing!

Actually?

Your brain is by far the most important variable in changing.

By far… because every single thing that will ever happen in your business, career, life is happening in your brain.

Every single thought. Every single feeling. Every single action is happening in your brain, and it’s way more important too.

A saddest truth of this world is you can do everything right, work so hard, achieve all these things, and still live in a miserable brain.

I never need to tell you this because you have a brain and you know other people with brains and you know how few are shining, happy people and how many are stuck living in a negative brain.

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Happy new year!

Hi there,

Happy new year!

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best for the new year.

How are you feeling about it? I’m just getting back from a fantastic trip to Australia.

Had some special times in Sydney and all getting together for Mum’s birthday and Christmas.

Best times

It was a reminder of loving your time.

Because as kids you have all this time together always in each other’s space… for better and not better.

Now, with me living here for decades and my brother overseas we haven’t all been together in the same room for years. It was a reminder you’ve gotta love your time when you’re in it and keep making the best of your time.

Time passes for better and not so better and you make the best of it.

This is a secret to living your best year I write about every new year…

Going back looking forward

Last year back in Sydney I took this photo outside the office I once worked.

It’s funny, in 20+ years I hadn’t gone back to this place I worked for years.

I hadn’t even thought much about it which is how my brain works.

Naturally my brain fixates on where I’m at and where I’m headed.

But I’m always reminded I love going back.

Love it

Walking through Sydney I was reminded what a magical place.

Downtown. Harbor. The skyline. Parks. Suburbs down and around the beach. A wonderful feeling in the air.

If you’ve been here you know and I was reminded walking and running the streets, even running into some people I used to work with was a reminder what it’s like living in Sydney.

I worked so much back then I never really ‘lived in’ Sydney the way you do when you don’t eat dinner in the office every night!

Still I loved this phase and was reminded why.

Secret to being Thank-Full

It’s Thanksgiving in America.

So naturally… let’s dive into this deep topic of the mind.

This is a deep topic I stopped writing about to focus on mastering and now I’ll keep writing more.

Because it’s most important in your life, it’s made out to be complicated, when it’s this simple.

Just so hard to do.

Even being thankful.

Why?

Why is this hard to do?

Why does it even matter to do?

Why is mastering how you think and feel most important for you?

Best mind, best life. The quality of your mind is the quality of your life. Every thought, every feeling, every action is your life right now and your life in all future nows. Best energy. Best performing. Best results. Best happiness… Best life.

Why wouldn’t you want to master how you think and feel?

Do it coz it means something

We’ve only spoken a couple times over the years.

Especially when I mostly stopped writing for years we’ve been out of touch.

But just this week he popped up again in my inbox to share exciting news.

He’s getting married! And wanted me to know.

Congratulations to you and Glory, Isaiah.

Possibilities…

There are some 8 billion of us humans around the world.

It’s quite extraordinary when you think at some point the human population got down to around 1,280 what our species has become.

Even in just the last 100 years you’ve seen a miraculous leap in technology and our ways of living.

All around the world we are now connected and billions of us have been lifted out of poverty.

Still half the world lives on less than $10 a day and so much more is possible for our species.

Playing on offense

We had a power dinner.

In New York this week with an old friend I haven’t seen for a long time.

Was one of those nights that brought together a lot of our past and got us talking about the future.

In the last decade he’s built an incredible business growing just a seed into a forest of opportunity.

They’re winning the game and he loves playing.

Keep playing

It feels good to be in the game, doesn’t it?

Do you feel this way about what you’re doing?

He had taken time off to figure out his next move and had joined this incredible company they’ve grown remarkably.

We got talking about the movie Inception and how it perfectly captures even a tiniest seed can grow into transformation.

This got us talking about my game.