You and I are constantly being shaped. Let me explain. So to explain this
statement I have to go way back to the beginning of when I started to discover
the truth. I read this book called Reality Transurfing two times and in it
there's a term called Pendulums. Pretty much Pendulums are kind of like an
energetic structure that emerge when multiple people are, their thought
energy is aligned to the same thing. So if 500 people are thinking of a hamburger
at the same time then a new pendulum will emerge that will be a hamburger
pendulum. And then on its own it's not dangerous but it's dangerous once it
starts to become destructive once enough people start thinking on that. Once it
gets enough adherence, pretty much people that are thinking on the same
wavelength, once it gets enough people under its control then it can actually
form and become its own independent being. Instead of being dependent on those
500 people thinking of hamburgers it's actually its own... So let me explain
this. So there's 500 people thinking about a hamburger so then those 500
people while they're thinking of it are creating this pendulum. But then if they
all stop thinking about it the pendulum disappears. But if there's enough people
thinking like strong like giving it enough energy then the pendulum will
actually become its own structure and it will become its own independent being
and then it can actually go and grab more adherence and go and control
other people and pick up more followers essentially. And so one of the most
destructive... So all pendulums are destructive. Even the gym pendulum is a
pendulum. Like the gym is a pendulum and it is destructive. But that's not to say
that you can't benefit from pendulums. We live in a world of pendulums.
Everything is a pendulum. This this podcast is a pendulum. But pendulums can
still help you because it's pendulums that actually help us to
achieve our goals. And since we live in a world of pendulums it's practically
impossible to escape pendulums. So you you have to figure out how to live with
them and actually you have to figure out the rules of the game. Essentially you
have to figure out how they work so you can exploit that and then use it to your
advantage. So like I said in the beginning you and I are being conditioned. We
are being shaped. And it's because since there are a lot of pendulums out there
we are inevitably being controlled by a few. And it's actually a lot... It's actually
alright. I just had a brain fart sorry but school, the education system, the
American education system is an extremely destructive pendulum. And I say
that because all Americans are like Americans are born into this world and
then once they get to a certain age they get put into the system. And then they
have to go to kindergarten, first grade, second grade all the way through high
school. And then if they choose they can go to college. Like in my town the
majority of people go to college after high school. Like more than 90% I'm
pretty sure. So it's basically... And okay I've always known all my life that school
was bad or at least I didn't like like school. But I'm just starting to uncover
how destructive it is. And that's just from second-hand information. Not
second-hand information but it's information that's not even about school.
It's just I learned about transfer from I learned about pendulums and I
instantly realized that school is a pendulum. And one of the kind of
attributes of a pendulum is that when you're its inherent it basically shapes
your worldview and everything that you know, everything that you believe is
exactly what you're supposed to know is what you're supposed to believe
according to the pendulum. So if you haven't been taking charge of your life
like I just started taking charge of my life. I just started learning the rules
of the game seven months ago. But and so up until that point literally all of
that all everything that I knew wanted to know or like all my dreams goals
everything was influenced by the pendulum. Like they weren't my decisions, my
dreams, my feelings, thoughts. Pretty much your worldview is exactly as it
should. Your worldview is exactly what it should be according to the pendulum.
Like we're born into the school system and we're basically put through all
these classes that are slowly but surely destroying our souls. Literally just
destroying us and just training our brains to think in a certain way. And
this goes deep. And I've there is so many different pillars to this but I've
uncovered one recently that affects me and it affects everyone actually. But one
I'll get into it. It's the work week essentially. But school basically if you
if you've ever compared a I've never done this but I can have an idea of how it
would turn out because if you've ever compared a kindergarten class like
literally like five year olds so people that are just entering the school to
that same class like 12 years later once they get senior year. If you compare the
two and like compare their lively what's livelihood if you compare their like
attitudes towards life their vi- virality, vitality, their just happiness, their
overall mood, like how much they want to live. Like you'll see a massive difference
and that's not on that's not on accident. Like all my life I was always
thinking like school's terrible when I grow up I'm gonna fix this. I'm gonna fix
this. Like this is stupid like like this is just a waste. But now I'm coming to
realize that it's like it's like society's perfect creation. It's
pendulum's perfect system. Like they're not gonna fix school. School is too
perfect to fix. Like there's nothing wrong to nothing wrong with school. Like
it destroys everyone's like it destroys your humanity which shapes you into the
perfect worker. The perfect cog in the machine because all pendulums want are
you to be a cog in the machine. Like they they don't care for your individual
happiness, your individual life. Like they just want you to be a cog in the
machine. That's why the school system is so amazing because the majority of
people that get through this school system end up becoming a cog in the
machine end up working a nine to five job for 40 years. Like they're not working
for themselves. They're working for someone else. And that's why that and
that's why all these things that I'm learning about are so hidden. Like I'm
the only I'm like one of three people in my whole school probably that even know
of such things. Like no one knows about transurfing. No one knows that there's
more like no one knows that you can actually create your own reality. It's
because the pendulums have done such an amazing job such an effective job at
destroy not only destroying our ability to manage our own reality with our
thoughts but they also destroyed our even notions. They destroyed our
even very own knowledge about the fact that we can control. Like they made it
so we don't even know that we can control reality with our thoughts. Like if you go
up to a normal average person then and you ask like do you believe in like
manifestation or like do you think that your thoughts affect your reality? They're
not they're gonna think you're crazy because it's so outside of the general
worldview like the standardized worldview. And that's on purpose like we're in
this whole system and it's our it's our person it's our responsibility to get
ourselves out. And that's what I'm doing like I'm reading
transurfing and learning entrepreneurship. I'm reading all these new books that I'm
about to start the ultimate reading list for human beings on the website the
most beautiful world. I'm starting on this but I told you guys that I was gonna
talk about one of the pillars that I uncovered. So there's many pillars that
I've uncovered about how the school system kind of screws you over. First of
all it like destroys your connection between the heart and the mind. Like I
when we're kids we are heart and mind are like are synchronized they're like
unified. They are always talking to each other they're unified in all their
decisions. But slowly but surely the pendulum of school purposefully severs
that connection. And by the way the unification of the heart and the mind
is the most powerful like source of like the most powerful attribute that we have
as humans. Because the heart has access to the infinite knowledge in the heart
has access to the alternative space which basically is everything that is
possible. Everything that is possible not possible. The heart has access to it but
the heart does not have willpower. The mind has willpower so if you unify them
you can have access to the infinite with willpower at your will. So that's why the
school system purposely severs that connection. But that's not what we're
talking about right now. What I'm talking about is one of one one very simple
thing that I became I actually became aware of this pillar that the school
system instills in us when I read a book called the four-hour work week. But I
didn't realize like the severity of it. So in the four-hour work week pretty much
he goes it's he tells you that it's possible to work a four-hour work week.
Like most people work a 45-hour work week I'm pretty sure 40-hour work week. But
it's possible to work four hours an entire week. Like on Monday you work four
hours and then you're off for the entire week. Tuesday through Sunday or your
rest days. Like that's possible that's what he said. And he probably said that
it's more efficient as well. But I I read that book extremely quick. Like it was a
it's a fairly large book and I read it extremely quick. So I didn't really I
didn't really treat it with as much concentration or kind of respect. Is that
the word? No it's not. I didn't really treat it with enough attention as I
should have because it's an amazing book but I didn't really give it too much
attention. Because I was focused on reading other books. But that was when I
was first introduced to like the four-hour work week. And that was when I
first realized that the basic standardized system that we have been
trained to work in 40 hours. Like school at school is from 8 to 3 on average. So
9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3. So that's like seven hours. So seven times five is 35. So
that okay that school instills a worldview and a piece of that worldview is
our work week. So school trains us to work Monday through Friday from like 8
to 3. That's kind of like the training. And then once we go to once we get
through school we go into a career and then where our expectation is a similar
thing. We work Monday through Friday 9 to 5. It's similar except it's five more
hours in the week. It's a similar structure. So let's just all agree that
the structure we have been taught to live for our work is we chunk our work
from Monday through Friday like let's just say 9 to 5. So we work from 9 to 5
Monday through Friday. And then we get two rest days. But usually people don't
even take full advantage of those rest days. But whatever. Let's not even talk
about that right now. What I realize I'm reading I am almost done with 10x is
easier than 2x. A book by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan. And on like the
last one of the last chapters he talked about one of the most beneficial
chapters for me in that whole book at my current moment. And it's all about
structuring your work week or structuring your work. And pretty much
he went on to say what I was just saying. How the standardized system of a
work week standardized work week is not effective. Instead what we should do is
follow a different structure. And what he does is what Dan Sullivan does is he
before the year even starts he goes through on his calendar and puts in 180
rest days. Like free days. 180 days he just goes in and puts them in and those
are all non-negotiable. Like he does not work at all for 180 days of the year.
That's like half of the year. So that's like every other week you have a break.
Like that is that's very wildly drastically different to the standardized
system. And then he goes on to say that you should have three types of days. A
free day or a rest day. Okay a rest day is what he called it. Just a rest day. A
buffer day which is kind of like a preparation day where you prepare for
your third type of day which is a focus day. So on rest days your only
task is to rest. You 100% let go of work. Do not think about it. Do not work. Do
not do any work. Don't even think about it at all. And the thought process behind
it is however far however deep you can go into the zone. Like into the flow state
during your work is the same as however far you can let go when you're on your
rest day. Like however much you can let go is however much you can go into the
flow state if that makes any sense. So there's like I said there's a rest day,
a buffer day, and a focus day. On focus days your only job is to work. And what
you're supposed to do is only work on your 20%. And your 20% is the actions or
job that will actually push you forward into a 10x transformation. Like a
transformation in your skills, your value, all of that. So you work on that 20%
because 80% of our tasks generally 80% of our tasks on a day-to-day are keeping
us in our same spot and only 20% of our tasks are helping us evolve. So you
focus only on the 20%. So for me right now the 20% would be podcasting. And then
on buffer days you just prepare. So this three-day model he found inspiration
from acting like the acting business. They would have a similar three-day model
where they would have a rest day, a practice day, and then a acting day. I
don't know the exact words. I forgot what the words were or the names. But it
was basically on a rest day they just completely let go. They don't do anything
about acting. And this is in like the show business. Like acting for movies or
plays, like actors, like entertainers. And these guys 100% let go of their work on
rest days. Extremely important. Like it's so important that he had three parts
or four parts. I don't remember three or four parts in his chapter dedicated to
rest days. Like and he it's so important that he puts in the rest days in his
calendar before anything else. And then the second thing that actors do is they
prepare. They practice for the show. And then the last thing is they actually
perform. And then since they're rested and they've practiced for it, they're
highly optimized for that particular event. And then when they
follow the same process they'll get better and better and better. And then
their unique value that they can provide gets stronger and stronger and more
refined to the point where they're actually become so much more valuable. And
people pay them way more for the same amount of work. That's all about the
three day framework. So the second I read like the second I learned about that,
like I hadn't even finished the chapter yet. But the second I learned about the
three day framework, I instantly realized that I was doing it all wrong. I've been
recording every day on my podcast. Now let me give some context. Ever since I
started reading the 10x's easier than 2x book, I realized that there's
something up with my podcast. Like I know that I'm focusing on quantity over
quality and I know that I need to focus on quality but I'm not sure how. And I
had a few ideas like I needed to script or not necessarily script but I
needed to have bullet points that I talk about that can fill up the entire
show or the entire episode. And I just couldn't figure out how to make it work.
And then there's just a lot I just realized that my podcast is not as
optimal as it should be. So what I ended up doing was I just kept on reading
because I know that the more you read, the more refined your like the more you
read, the more you'll be aware or the more you'll realize what the next path,
what the next step is. Like the more... what's the word? The like the more evident
the next step is for you. So I just decided to keep on reading the book and
then the second I learned about the three-day framework, rest days, buffer
days, and focus days, I instantly knew that I needed to change up my schedule
because I've been recording every single day. I just record every day. But I don't
have any rest days which is bad because when there's two types of time he said
according to the ancient or the Greek word Kronos. There's two words, two
Greek words of time, Kronos and then Kyros. Kronos is basically time is static
or not static but time moves the same speed for everyone and it's consistent.
But Kyros is like the most optimal type of time. That's when you're well rested
and you're working in your 20%. Kyros is when you're in the flow state and so the
more Kyros time you spend, the more you'll evolve, the more you'll
transform which is why you can evolve more in one year than most evolve in one
decade. And the school system, the standardized work week is optimized
to keep you in Kronos time because remember, pendulums don't benefit from
you being at your most optimal. Pendulums don't benefit from you going your own
way for you succeeding and you being great. They benefit from you being stuck
and becoming a cog in the machine. So that's why the standardized work
week is optimized for Kronos time and you don't want to be in Kronos time.
You want to be in Kyros time which is why you should follow the three day
framework. But there's one thing. I like having a big cushion of episodes so
that's why I'm going to continue posting daily and I'm gonna try my best to stay
to maintain this new schedule. So like I said, I instantly came to the
realization of what I should do and I got out my notebook once I realized this
three day schedule and I started like sketching out different possible work
weeks for me. I sketched out like one day on, one day off, one day on and then on
the one day on since I have to post, since I post every day I'd have to do
double episodes on the one day on to kind of maintain the one rest day. And then
I tried like I tried the mapping out many different solutions, possible
solutions using these buffer days, rest days and focus days. And the solution
that it came to was Monday's a rest day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are all
buffer days. So they're all preparation days. And then Friday is a rest day and
then Saturday, Sunday are focus days. So let me go through this framework. Monday's
a rest day. I do absolutely nothing on Monday related to work. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday I have three days to plan out seven episodes. So on Monday or on
Tuesday I'll do three episodes. On Tuesday and Wednesday I'll do two episodes each.
And then Friday's a rest day. I do nothing. Just rest up. Because then on
Saturday and Sunday on the weekend when I don't have, when I don't have school I
spend the entire day literally recording. On Saturday I'm gonna have, I'm gonna
record four episodes and Sunday I'll record three episodes. So I'm gonna be
recording for four hours on Saturday and three hours on Sunday. So that's kind of
my structure for following this new plan. And to make this work because I want to
tell you guys about one thing. I like having a cushion of seven days uploaded
videos. Let me explain. I like having seven episodes scheduled ahead of time so I
don't feel the need to record. There's one issue with feeling the need to record.
You don't want to. And when you're living in need then you're in a scarcity
mindset. But when you're living in want you're in an abundance mindset. So my
friend, he was recording his podcast and he spent probably a few weeks and he
would always record one day and then schedule it for the next day. And he
would have to record every single day. And he had no cushion. So if he missed a
day he missed a day of posting. That's one issue. And another issue is he has to
record every day. Like it's a necessity now. But for me since I have a
seven episode cushion if I miss a day it's okay. I can just catch up the next
day. And now I don't need to record every day. I can take a rest day any day I
want. So now it becomes a want. Now I just want to record every day. And that's
what I do. And it works out perfectly because I end up recording every single
day. So that's why I want to maintain my current schedule of recording every
single day. But this week on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday I'm going to also
spend a lot of time kind of trying to script out seven episodes. Which is gonna
be tough because I'm gonna I'm in school right now as well as I'm at
school. I'm still a student and I'm also recording one hour a day and going to the
gym. So it's gonna be tough to find the time but I'll figure it out. So I'm gonna
script out seven episodes on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And then I'm gonna
just maintain my current recording one hour a day. And then on Saturday and
Sunday I'm gonna do the four and three. I'm gonna try. But this may all go to
crap. And I may end up like stopping like not doing this until I graduate.
Because it is a big workload to to do all this as well as record daily. But I'd
only have to do it one week because then the next week I'll have that seven
episode cushion plus another seven. So I'll have 14 episodes scheduled by that
Sunday. So then I can just not record at all the next week. And then I can
actually follow my kind of work week. So it's it would just take one week of me
like putting in the focus. So I don't know how I don't know what how it's gonna
turn out. But that's what I plan on doing. I may end up scrapping it until I
graduate in two months. I don't know we'll see. But that's kind of what I
realized that that will improve my quality so much. Because on Saturday would
be my busiest day. I would record four hours on Saturday for episodes. And I've
done two episodes. I've recorded two episodes in one day before. On my a lot
of my Transurfing Principles episodes I've recorded back-to-back episodes on
those days. And so I know what it feels like to record back-to-back. And as a
result towards the end of the Transurfing Principles series I've added in a
meditation in between the two recordings. So that kind of cleared my mind and made
it fresh again for the next recording. So my plan is on Saturday during my
recording day. I'm going to be doing my morning routine reading through all of my
notes. Or just reading something to kind of get my brain simulated in my morning
because I usually read from like six to seven. And then I'm going to... I haven't
figured out the actual like timings. But pretty much I'm gonna record, meditate.
Record, meditate. Record, meditate, record. That's four. So I'm gonna meditate in
between all them. And each of these meditations are gonna be 30 minutes long.
So record, meditate. Record, meditate. Record, meditate. Record. So that's three,
four. That's four recordings. So that's four hours plus three meditations, which
is 45 times three. So that's 90 plus 135. Wait, 45 is 90. That's like two hours
or 15. So that's like six hours and 15 minutes. I'd have to allot to this. So I'd
have to start at like... So I want to finish at 4.30. Wow. So I'd have to start at
like 10 o'clock. So I'd have to eat lunch right before. Yeah, that would
be a whole day of recording. That would be crazy. I mean, I'd make it work though.
I'd see how it works out because if I'm fried by the end of the day, then I'm
not gonna do it again. But because that's obviously not optimal. I'd restructure
my week to figure out a more optimal day. Because maybe three is the most optimal.
Maybe not four. I don't know. But six and a half hours is what I would need to
record four episodes because I want to meditate in between. I think it's possible.
And that's why reading is so valuable. There was a time back when I was first
getting into business when I was kind of... I was just not doing anything. I'm
pretty sure I was only podcasting. And I remember telling my friend I was like,
I'm addicted to reading. I'm just reading and reading and reading. I feel like I
think I'm a watchpreneur because I am only reading and I'm not really taking
any action. And so I said that I'm not gonna read any book until I get
ten leads. And that was back when I was making a lead magnet for a funnel
which basically it's a website that captures people's email addresses and I
give them a free item as a result. And in my case it was a mere free guidebook.
And so I worked on it and I was like, no screw this. And then I went back to
reading because I realized that the more and more you read, the more and more
you'll see it, the more and more the next path, the next step will become
evident. I remember when I was first planning on making money online. I knew
I wanted to make money online, make my business online. So as a result, this was
like around a year ago. Actually, I was probably around a year ago. It's after I
read The Millionaire Fast Lane and Unscripted by MJ DeMarco. I knew I wanted
to make money online so I was like, okay I gotta learn how to code. Gotta learn how
to program, learn how to build a website. So I actually spent a decent amount of
time learning how to build a website and I actually learned how to make a
functional website. I didn't know how to make it look amazing but I could make
websites. And I spent like all of my winter break, Christmas break last year,
just locked into my room, learning how to code. And then after, I kind of realized
that that's first I just kind of got done with it. I didn't want to do it
anymore. So I just kind of stopped and I kind of, I just focused more on reading.
And then I discovered a book called Dotcom Secrets and I read it and I was
instantly grateful that I didn't waste all that time learning how to code
because you don't need to know how to code if you want to build a website. All
you have to know is how to structure the website optimally, what to say on the
website and there's software that you can use to build a website for you. So
that is why, that is evidence that reading shows the next step for it
evidently because I was able to completely drop the coding thing and just
focused on learning how to structure the website, learning what to say on the
website, like what copy to use, which is basically the words on the sales
page. And then when I read expert secrets, I like, okay, so when I was reading
Dotcom Secrets, I was focusing on building funnels, building like these
websites and learning how to make them good. And I actually had a few go live. I
canceled the account, but to this day as a recording, it is still like the website
is still live, but they can can shut it down anytime and it's been well over
30 days when they were supposed to shut it down, but they haven't yet. So if it's
not there, don't be disappointed, but on go to ascendmomentum.com or no, I think
it's self-improvementguidebook.com. It's either, yeah,
self-improvementguidebook.com slash get now. And that will, that's like one of my
funnels. And my funnel hub is ascendmomentum.com or self-improvementguidebook.com.
I don't remember, I don't remember. Just go to try those if you're interested in
seeing like what I was doing. And then once I've read expert secrets, it
immediately became evident that I needed to just focus on my podcast, focus on
recording a podcast. So I started the podcast and then that's all that I've
been doing since. And then went to Funnel Hacking Live expecting to, expecting to go
back to making funnels because that's what, that's Funnel Hacking Live is all
about funnels, right? That's what I thought. But I realized that I'm on the
right path forward. Like I'm on the right path forward and just continue building
my show, building the audience. Except I did learn one more thing because back
when I was starting to podcast, I was also making TikToks as well, but I never
posted them. One, because I was too scared. And then I stopped after like six days
because I wasn't posting them. So I was like, might as well just stop. And then it
was also because I didn't want to add too much to my plate and I wanted to build
the positive feedback loop for podcasting. So I stopped the TikToks, but Funnel
Hacking Live, I learned to start the TikToks again. So as a result, I started
recording three TikToks after every single podcast that one each TikTok is a
one lesson learned in that I talked about in the podcast. So in every single
podcast, I have a daily lessons like today's lessons in the description. And
there's just three lessons. And so I just make that into three
shorts. And I post those onto YouTube, Shorts, and TikTok. And I've only
posted like five, I think so far. Or actually, no, I've posted, as of now, I've
posted a few like over, like over seven, maybe around seven. But yesterday, I
checked yesterday, and I only had like five posts because I have them scheduled.
And I had like 250 views on two of them. So that was awesome. Because my first
like three got like 50 views, 10 views. And then I just had two that got 250
views. And like a bunch of likes, like seven likes, I think, and not much. But
it just goes to show that this will help a lot because I'm not promoting the
podcast directly. But the whole reason I'm making the TikTok is to promote
my podcast. So let me explain. In the videos, I simply just provide value, I
just give content. And then if they are like, if they want to follow me, they
follow and they go to my profile. And then they see in my bio, I have right
now my current bio is like student podcast, and then it's a link to my link
tree. And so they see that I have a podcast. So they're like, Oh, and then
they go to my link tree. And then they'll see my podcast, and they'll hopefully
listen. And that's my plan of gaining organic traffic to my podcast. So we'll
see how it works out. So far, I haven't had any new listeners onto my podcast,
but I have only been posting for like three days, but I have like a bunch
scheduled for the next like four days. So that's huge. And that's all about
just keep on, keep on growing, keep on building more. But I'm glad that I'm
reading this 10x is easy to x, I'm actually on the conclusion of the book. So
I'm basically done. I'd probably have like 10 pages left. And the next book
that I'm going to read, I'm gonna finish it by tomorrow or tomorrow Sunday. So
I'll finish it by tomorrow or Monday, because it's only like 180 pages long. So
I'll finish in like two days, three days, maybe. And then I'll dive straight into
the seven books that I got. And I'm gonna read them all at once. And the seven
books are dancing after the music stops, die wise, come of age, assent on
humanity, toof the priestess, the Egypt code and journeys out of the body. Those
are the seven books I'm going to read next. And I think that it's gonna be
extremely beneficial for me and this podcast. Because there's one thing that
I learned. I was researching how to become a better podcaster. And this is
something that I was kind of knowledgeable about. But it would now
I'm conscious of, they said, do your homework, like make sure you're well. You
understand the subject well. So it was evident when I was reading Transurfing
the second time through, because I was studying it and I understood it very
well. It's the point where I was able to speak about it for literally hours. And
those were probably my best episodes. And that was because I read it. That was
my second time through and I was studying it at the time. So I was at peak
knowledge, understanding, peak understanding, so I was able to translate that
into better content. However, when I started reading 10x's easier than 2x,
since it's a brand new book for me, I've never heard of the concept before. I
don't understand it as well, because I haven't studied it yet. So my content
kind of like faltered a little there. So that's why I'm really excited to learn
to get these seven books, because these all, I feel like these will radically
shift my worldview again, as well as what Transurfing did. Because the way they
speak in like the descriptions of the book and the way Gene Pascal Rehmann
described them were very interesting. Like I didn't really understand it, but I
kind of understood it. And I could tell that it was kind of, it was gonna be a
worldview shifter. So that's why I'm really excited to talk about that in the
show. And yeah, let me get some water. So I want to talk about this thing I've been
talking about over the past couple days, dropping out of high school. So right now
I'm a part-time student. I only have four periods in the day. So I get to school at
8 a.m. I leave at like, depending on the day, 11, 35, and some days it's
12, 11. Some days it's 11, 43. So anywhere between 11, 35, and 12, 11. So I'm only
spending like four hours at school every day. And I'm a, I'm a, I have a half
year as well. So I graduate in December after first semester. And it's October, or
no, it's November. Yeah, it's October right now. So I only have two months left,
basically, until I graduate. And so, but I'm kind of in this situation where I want
to drop out. There's a lot behind it. But I think that I kind of came to this
realization that I'm in this stage where I'm like, I'm open to the possibility of
dropping out and I want to. But it's also like something's holding me back. And I'm
kind of like on the fence right now. So I came, I came to the realization that I
just have to make a decision and stick to it because it is taking up way more
energy, just like going to school, dreading it because I don't want to be
there. So the decision I made is to just stick out, stick it out, and finish
high school. And then, and then I'll be able to just get out in two months
anyways. And the reasoning is I don't want to like be split minded. I just want to, I
don't want to be kind of paralyzed by indecision. So I'm just focusing on staying
in school. And I like my original plan for over summer when I was planning out,
like I was actually, I had this kind of desire to drop out. But then I realized
that I could become a part time student and have a half year like graduate early.
So I decided that it would actually be beneficial to go to school because then I
could practice staying awake. Yeah, I'm beyond that. I don't care about that
stuff anymore. I just want to get out of school. And one of the strategies that I
was going to use in the beginning of the year was I can just completely just
finish all of my work indifferently, get my A, and then just lock in on my stuff
during school. Like finish my work really quick and then lock in on the stuff I
actually want to do. So like read a book. So that's kind of what I think I'm going
to do because I've like I'm a straight A student basically. I only have one B right
now and that's going to go up soon. But last year I was a straight A student and
it's so easy. All you have to do is just finish all your work and then go on with
your day and be nice to teachers. So that's literally what I do. And then that's
what I realized that I got to just lock in. Don't give any attention to school.
Just finish the work very quickly. And lately I've actually been like being
extremely sloppy with my work, especially in this sports lit class where my
teacher gives us a hundred. He actually said, I'll give you a hundred percent as
long as you actually do it. So I just do it stupidly. Just rush through it and
finish it as quick as possible and then get my A and then go on with what I
actually want to learn about in that day. Like I usually bring a book or bring
something to read and that's what I do. So I'm not going to drop out. I'm just
going to push it through and then I'll have so much time second semester because
first semester is the quick semester. I remember last year in my gym class I took
the same gym class adventure at first and second semester and during second
semester my teacher was saying that first semester is so much shorter, like a few
weeks shorter than second. And I could tell because last year I was like sitting
through second semester and it was like long. It was so long. So what I did or
what my mindset now is this year is going to go by quick. Like I just all I have to
do and I'm already halfway done like second quarter. Quarter two of semester
one starts next week. So I'm already done with I'm halfway done with my year.
So I just have to follow this same strategy and just push through. And since
I've already I already have great grades I can kind of just like slack off a
little bit and then maintain like my A's and I'm free. And then I have all of
second semester freed up. Like I was gonna have to go to school all year long
but I saved all of that time second semester. So now I basically have January,
February, March, April, May, five months of indenture time instantly abolished,
instantly freed. Five months. Summer break was June, July and half of August.
Less than half of August. So summer break was like two months and I grew so much.
And I have five months free second semester. Imagine how much I'm gonna
grow because I am learning about so much more. And the way self-improvement
works is your growth is exponential. My first like when I first got into reading
and the first like real self-improvement stuff that I was doing when I first got
into reading I was growing like fast. But then once I got into Transurfing I was
growing but faster. And then over summer break I was growing so fast and right
now I think I'm growing so fast it's hard to tell because I'm in the moment of it.
It's easier to look back in hindsight. And so your growth looks like this. It looks
like a line but it's exponential. It looks like an exponential graph for your
growth rate. You grow pretty fast when you first start and then you grow faster
and faster and faster. Like your level of growth is so fast. And so I'm used to
having two months to just grow as fast as possible in two months for summer.
And that's a lot of time to grow. Like if you lock in for one summer break you
can grow so much. And I'm gonna get an entire semester free to five months.
Plus I was gonna have the summer anyways. I have I know I knew I wasn't gonna go to
college for quite some time so I was gonna have the college freed up also.
But I basically have seven months including the two months of actually some
college is starting September. So I was gonna have January February March April
May June July August September. Is that nine months? Nine months. Yeah I've only
been at this business for this is episode 80. I've only been doing this for
less than three months and I'm gonna have nine months freed up in two months.
So in two months I have nine months. So basically I have 11 months. Guys this
shows the importance of time. You need to figure out how to free up your time. I
was telling my friend George he is one year younger than me and he's pursuing
acting and he knows that school is not helping him at all. He knows he does not
want to go to college but he's on the path to go to college right now because
his parents are expecting him which is similar to me. His community was expecting
him too. Like everything was aligned for him to go the standardized route but he
knows he's destined for more and what I was telling him was you need to play the
part right now externally but internally you need to be building yourself up.
What I recommended him to do was him continue just externally say yes I'm
going to college and then what I did was I created a list. I created two colleges
potential colleges that I wanted to go to. I wanted and I say that with bunny
ears and it was UIC and Triton. Just two colleges that were close to me and
those that's just what I said I'm going to UIC. I'm going to UIC. That's where I
want to go but and then you have to just build up all of your internal knowledge
and you have to wait for the moment to strike but you have to slowly let your
parents know like once I read unscripted last year I was like I told my mom yeah
I know I'm not going to college so I forewarned her I was not going to college
and that was a long time so it gave my parents time to kind of just adjust to
that and then like slowly but surely I started to make my moves I started to
say yeah I don't I don't want to go to school anymore I don't like school
anymore slowly start to get them to adjust to your frequency and then it's
your time to pounce my time to pounce was right before school started I kind of
just made it well known to my parents that I wanted to graduate early as well
as become a part-time student and have a half day so then I like it took them a
decent amount of convincing I had to like talk to them for literally like three
days straight to actually convince them and then one day I was out there talking
for like multiple hours but eventually I was convinced I convinced them and then
I had to go in to my counselor and actually make my move and strike make my
strike went in stood my ground I was like this is what I want I'm not going
to college she said no initially and I was like is there any way to do it who
do I need to talk to she made a joke she was like talk to the Illinois like talk
to the state of Illinois I was like okay give me their number and then she was
like no this is ridiculous and then she said well you can schedule meeting with
so-and-so and so we literally just walked over to her office right then and
there and go went to talk to her got her approval and I was just able to get
things done because I knew how important it was to save all this time because
every period that I knocked off of my schedule I saved 250 hours over the
course of a semester 250 hours that is an insane amount I used to play video
games and on those video games they would track the hours you played once you
reached 250 hours you were very good at that game so imagine vesting that into
yourself your business or books that is insane like that is amazing so that's
like I made my I struck I made my move graduating early came apart time soon I
instantly freed up half of my first semester and my entire second semester
and before that I made my move that I wasn't going to college so I freed up
four years my life and I want to talk about what this guy that I met on the
first day at funnecking live Gary he's like probably 50 or 60 years old and he
is a very successful business owner and he basically said I asked him what do
you think or I don't even know what I asked him but he was basically saying to
me and my friend Franklin he was saying like you guys are young man you guys are
young your parents will like provide for you for years like take advantage of that
and never work for anyone else just work for yourself hustle and take advantage
of them taking care of you and just focus on your business it will pay off it
will pay off and if you just focus on your business because right now is the
best time to do it because you have people taking care of you so use it so I
get rid of the four years of college get rid of half of a year in high school
and then half of the semester that's all about time save your time if you guys
are in a situation where you think you may want to do this in the future go to
your counselor at school and arrange your schedule to get rid of just finish
all of your required classes like if I was a sophomore or a junior I would
arrange my set schedule for the next semester to just focus on the required
classes because I am extremely grateful that I had just three required classes
left I just had two English classes and a gym now is it like that's all I had
left I'm extremely grateful for that and if I were to go back I would graduate in
junior year but that's like I'm so grateful that I set up my record my I
finished all my recs but that's a huge lesson for you guys but to wrap things
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