The Simulation

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?

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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.

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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.

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One and only

I cracked the code.

It was by far the most important evolution of my life.

But cracking the secret code to how you live your best life isn’t enough.

Just like any type of achieving, knowing the solution is as useless as knowing how to lose weight.

You must be living it.

Best life?

What would you say creates your best life?

Would you say that you are living your best life now?

I don’t necessarily mean right now, although as you keep reading you’ll see this is exactly what I mean, but for now more generally, would you say that you are living the life that you truly want?

Many people I know are because we are all into these topics we’re all doing our best every day for living our best lives.

But, I also know that’s not the norm in our society.

Especially now many people feel stuck in their jobs or businesses or lives or marriages or financial situation or addictions or habits or lack or media or unhappiness or just about every other thing that can trap you in life.

And you know what they all come back to?

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Woke or awake?

Are you awake or asleep?

On the surface it’s a pretty straightforward question, isn’t it?

That’s because by the traditional definition of these words, it is straightforward.

Being asleep you’re unconscious, generally in bed.

Awake you’re consciously aware.

That’s different to the deeper definitions we’re talking about here.

“Awake?”

You may know that there’s a deep rabbit hole here?

In fact, perhaps this is the deepest rabbit hole that you can ever explore.

If you are on this path of evolving yourself and particularly have explored new-age or Eastern or spiritual or deeper esoteric teachings you might be using this word as we do.

Often you hear people on this path use this in a negative, judgmental way.

Because they are accumulating knowledge and are now more awake to how the human being is truly functioning (e.g. automatically), they label themselves in a more flattering way as having woke or being awake.

Others are labelled often pejoratively as being asleep, or called say “Sheeple.”

I suggest that you never want to judge anyone, especially when you know how easy it is to keep falling asleep.

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Raising your Highline

How happy would you say you are?

If you score yourself out of 10, what would you say?

Of course we all know that this thing called “happiness,” or I prefer to label “feeling good” bounces around for each of us each day, week, so on.

But, in general, where would you say you are out of 10?

And by “10,” btw, I mean, that’s your peak.

10 is as good as it can possibly get, it’s the absolute best feeling you’ve ever experienced.

This is your Highline.

Your Highline

The Highline is your peak.

It is the high watermark of sorts for being your absolute happiest.

Contrast, in our system of therapy and transformation, Rapid Sustained Transformation, RST, your Baseline is where you are on average right now, and your Lowline is your darkest pit.

So if you think about every moment of your life so far, looking back, can you identify your Highline?

Maybe it was just one moment?

Where for whatever reason you were feeling at your peak, such as a client who “smells the sunshine.”

Or one day?

Like your wedding day, or some other special day?

Perhaps you are hitting new Highline peaks a lot of the time?

Such as a day I refer to as my Top of the World, which was this one most magical day when I was living in the mountains of Vail, Colorado launching off a peak.

Whatever this moment is, or these moments are, really challenge yourself here to find these times.

So you can relive and raise them.

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Secret is believing, or not

I have little clue how to achieve my Grandest Vision.

By all rational accounts there’s no way it can be done.

Unlikely I can achieve even a fraction of what I’d like to see in our world.

It’s all good.

I never let that belief stop me.

The best you can do is your best to keep bringing your dream to life.

Your dream?

How are you doing on your goals?

I don’t know if you use my System For Doing What You Want and have established your Grandest Vision?

You might know this “Grandest Vision” is the term that I use in my books and some of my programs, such as this on Rocketing To The Top Like Musk and Bezos.

It’s the best way that I’ve come to define your biggest, most lofty, grandest, but still achievable goal for your life that you are constantly moving towards.

It’s like Elon Musk colonizing Mars.

Or Jeff Bezos once setting out to build The Everything Store.

Lofty, for sure, but obviously doable.

How grand are you dreaming?

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Keep dreaming

Best year ever?

Happy new year.

How was it for you?

I hope you finished the year with a bang and are already rocketing into this year.

Is this how you’re feeling?

Of course none of us know what will happen in our world, and perhaps it won’t be that good.

Still, you can have your best year ever.

Best year ever?

What do you say?

How are you currently seeing this year playing out?

If you went deep into this “High Light Real,” I’m curious what it led you to see for last year and this year.

We’ve heard from many people how valuable it was.

And I hope it was valuable for you because I’m REALLY trying to convey that even in these bizarro times, you choose.

Every day of every year miserable media will program the worst of the world and focus attention on what’s wrong.

It’s all good, misery is their business and many people love the madness.

If you allow them to infiltrate and infect your brain, however, you’re likely focused on a worse year.

Or, just as easily as changing the channel, you can focus on your best year ever.

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“High Light Real”

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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Just trying to say

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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Musk’s math is misleading but he’s still right

Elon Musk might be the brightest human alive?

Certainly there are people out there who are more book smart.

But who on Earth is capable of dreaming and scheming on his scale and creating it too?

Relative to AI he appears merely human of course, but relative to say the titans who built America I’d say he’s right up there.

He’s a unique thinker with a deep curiosity and formidable intellect.

Still, his math is misleading.

Simulation?

Among Musk’s leading edge thinking is his assertion that we live in a simulation.

Apparently he is so convinced that he’s banned it from further jacuzzi conversation.

Musk rationalizes that there is one in billions of chances that we DO NOT live in a simulation.

Mathematically this means that the probability this reality you are experiencing is “real,” what Musk calls “base reality,” looks something like—

1 / 2,000,000,000 = 0000000001%

Pretty conclusive math, isn’t it?

And for a moment, just think about what this means.

Whereas since birth we’re all taught to take this “real-ity” oh so seriously, Musk sees this more like playing a game.

Still, his math is misleading.

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“Thank Full”

I wish I had this human tech decades ago.

It would have made my life experience so much better.

In so many ways I’ve lived such a blessed life, and we all have so much to be thankful for, but there were plenty of years where it didn’t feel enough this way.

All those years I was ferreting away thinking that this or that needed to change so you can feel how you want.

Even studying the best teachings was never enough until I built the tools for actually getting yourself thinking and feeling your best, at will.

Irrespective of conditions

A teaching that greatly impacted me is the notion of happiness irrespective of conditions.

Back when I began reading about it some 20+ years ago when I started going deep into the mind, it resonated powerfully.

Because before this my life was about “getting there.”

What I now refer to as the Getting There Program, that’s the thing in our brains that has you believing this FALSE cause and effect—

You must first get what you want to feel how you want.

There are good reasons why the brain is set up this way—namely, survival—and also why our society is set up this way—namely, consumption and control—but this keeps many people thinking and feeling worse than they could.

And it’s also simple, factual, and immediately provable that no matter what is happening or not happening in your life, you choose how you think and feel.

While this fact is too much of a stretch for many people, it’s also what Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl concluded in the worst hell of Nazi concentration camps in World War II.

As he wrote, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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Why this matters so much

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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100% mind

I’m playing for the grandest prize.

It’s what I’ve seen matters most to the quality of your life.

It takes 100% dedication.

There’s never a second that you can take your mind off this goal.

Because 100% mind is the goal.

100% mind

This is an unrealistic goal.

Some psychologists have even told me that it’s a stupid, impossible goal.

Because when I say 100% mind, I’m being 100% literal.

My target is every single thought, feeling, action, being your best all day every day.

Consider this goal for a moment.

If you were to evaluate yesterday, or today, or one of your average days, where would you say you’re at?

I know it’s a vague question, but take a stab.

Out of a perfect 100 score, meaning every single thought, feeling, action was the best it could be, how would you score yourself?

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“So, this all seems horrible”

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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EFS for the 4th?

“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. 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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Supernova

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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It’s OK if you don’t know

Still I’m just taking steps.

Exploring this magical journey wherever it leads.

I never set out to do this work in the world, let alone to build programs on the brain or reality constructing.

Certainly not to focus on the future of our species.

Beginning this work 22 years ago I MERELY wanted to know how you live the life you TRULY want.

It seemed like the most obvious thing to me.

So I just started taking steps.

Down the rabbit hole

See, this is ALL that got me started on these topics.

I didn’t get it anymore.

Since I “woke up” in high school and creating your best life became my obsession it had seemed obvious.

Work hard in school.

Get the best job you can.

Do your best work.

Keep creating your best life.

Simple, right?

It all made sense, until it didn’t.

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1 thing… to transform ALL humanity

Have you learned things in life that have changed so much for you?

Of course I know you have, and here I’m trying to get specific with you.

That some or even just 1 of these things might have fundamentally changed you and your life.

You were just going along as you had been.

Like you used to think or feel or behave a certain way.

And then you learned some or just 1 thing that changed you forever.

Perhaps rapidly.

This is 1

1 thing I struggle with in all of my work is how to convey it.

There are things that I’ve come to know that I can’t say how I know.

Or there are things that have been so fundamentally transforming for me but I don’t know how to get the message across.

A problem is that these concepts can all seem to make sense at a certain level.

You think that you really get it.

And then, some thing clicks in a way that you REALLY get it.

It’s like a deepening or insight or knowing.

Once you get this, everything changes.

And it can be the same for ALL humanity.

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