WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.220 I want you to close your eyes for a second. Seriously, 00:00:02.419 --> 00:00:04.459 just for a moment. Yeah, just picture the heat. 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.220 It's not just a warm day. It is a relentless 00:00:09.220 --> 00:00:14.199 baking heat that just cracks the earth beneath 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:16.359 your feet. You are standing in the middle of 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.859 a desert. Right. There is not a single cloud 00:00:18.859 --> 00:00:21.920 in the sky. The air is so dry, it just sucks 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:24.120 the moisture right out of your skin. And all 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:26.579 around you, life is just happening. Exactly. 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:29.500 People are arguing over prices at the market. 00:00:29.539 --> 00:00:31.640 They're planning weddings. They're complaining 00:00:31.640 --> 00:00:34.340 about the local politics. It is business as usual. 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:37.659 Completely normal. Which is, I mean, it's the 00:00:37.659 --> 00:00:39.579 definition of normalcy bias. Everything looks 00:00:39.579 --> 00:00:41.640 fine, so everything must be fine. Right. But 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.780 you, well, you are not doing business as usual. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.460 You are sweating through your tunic, dragging 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:50.340 these massive beams of gopher wood across the 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:52.469 sand. Because you are building a boat. And not 00:00:52.469 --> 00:00:55.250 just a little dinghy, you are building a leviathan. 00:00:55.789 --> 00:01:00.170 300 cubits long. That is roughly 450 feet for 00:01:00.170 --> 00:01:01.990 those keeping track. It's a skyscraper on its 00:01:01.990 --> 00:01:04.530 side, and you are sealing it with pitch inside 00:01:04.530 --> 00:01:07.209 and out. And your neighbors. Oh, they aren't 00:01:07.209 --> 00:01:09.170 just ignoring you, they are laughing. They are 00:01:09.170 --> 00:01:11.390 pointing at you. Yeah, they think you have lost 00:01:11.390 --> 00:01:14.650 your absolute mind. They're like, why are you 00:01:14.650 --> 00:01:17.109 building a ship in a drought? There is no water 00:01:17.109 --> 00:01:20.829 for miles. But you keep hammering. Plink by plink. 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:23.609 Because you know something they don't. You know 00:01:23.609 --> 00:01:26.170 the rain is coming. Welcome to the Deep Dive. 00:01:26.170 --> 00:01:28.409 I'm your host, and I'm sitting down with our 00:01:28.409 --> 00:01:31.069 resident expert to unpack something truly massive 00:01:31.069 --> 00:01:34.629 today. Thanks for having me. And that intro, 00:01:34.890 --> 00:01:39.170 that is the visceral reality of the Noah narrative 00:01:39.170 --> 00:01:42.170 from Genesis. It really is. It's so easy to think 00:01:42.170 --> 00:01:44.250 of it as a nursery rhyme. You know, the animals, 00:01:44.349 --> 00:01:46.590 the rainbow, the two -by -two. Cute little boat 00:01:46.590 --> 00:01:48.709 with the giraffe sticking their heads out. Exactly. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:52.620 But when you really strip it down, as our source 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:55.379 material does today, it is a psychological horror 00:01:55.379 --> 00:01:58.000 story that transforms into a story of ultimate 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.180 redemption. It's about the burden of carrying 00:02:00.180 --> 00:02:02.659 a truth that no one else can see. And the crushing 00:02:02.659 --> 00:02:05.140 isolation of preparation. And the reason we are 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:08.080 starting with this ancient, dusty image is because, 00:02:08.139 --> 00:02:10.120 according to the breakdown we are covering today, 00:02:10.569 --> 00:02:13.490 That desert is right now. We're in it. You and 00:02:13.490 --> 00:02:15.870 I listening to this, we are standing in the sand. 00:02:16.009 --> 00:02:18.430 The sky looks blue. The stock market is doing 00:02:18.430 --> 00:02:21.490 its thing. Restaurants are full. But the barometer 00:02:21.490 --> 00:02:24.530 is dropping. Precisely. But this time, the flood 00:02:24.530 --> 00:02:27.409 isn't water. No. It is not a geological event. 00:02:27.569 --> 00:02:30.030 We are talking about a wave of transformation 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:33.810 so massive that it defies historical comparison. 00:02:34.430 --> 00:02:36.729 We're talking about the convergence of artificial 00:02:36.729 --> 00:02:39.810 intelligence, large -scale automation, and a 00:02:39.810 --> 00:02:42.289 complete restructuring of the global economy. 00:02:42.550 --> 00:02:45.229 The source material for today's deep dive calls 00:02:45.229 --> 00:02:48.449 this upcoming period the abundance interregnum. 00:02:48.530 --> 00:02:50.270 Yeah, I have to be honest. When I first read 00:02:50.270 --> 00:02:53.030 that term, I tripped over it. Interregnum. I 00:02:53.030 --> 00:02:54.449 mean, it sounds like something out of Game of 00:02:54.449 --> 00:02:56.590 Thrones. It does sound a bit medieval, doesn't 00:02:56.590 --> 00:02:58.830 it? It really does. But it's a very specific 00:02:58.830 --> 00:03:03.090 technical term. And interregnum is a pause. A 00:03:03.090 --> 00:03:05.789 gap. Like a waiting period. Usually it refers 00:03:05.789 --> 00:03:08.689 to the chaotic period between the death of one 00:03:08.689 --> 00:03:12.030 king and the coronation of the next. Ah, I see. 00:03:12.110 --> 00:03:14.409 The old laws don't quite apply anymore, but the 00:03:14.409 --> 00:03:16.750 new laws haven't been written yet. So we are 00:03:16.750 --> 00:03:19.610 in the gap between the age of labor, where you 00:03:19.610 --> 00:03:21.669 trade your time for money, and whatever comes 00:03:21.669 --> 00:03:24.389 next. Exactly. And the timeline laid out by Brian 00:03:24.389 --> 00:03:27.189 Rommel, the author of our focus text today, is 00:03:27.189 --> 00:03:30.750 the next 5 ,000 days. roughly from late 2025 00:03:30.750 --> 00:03:34.389 to the year 2039. The premise is that the world 00:03:34.389 --> 00:03:37.210 we know, the world of go to college, get a degree, 00:03:37.409 --> 00:03:40.409 work for 40 years, retire. That world is about 00:03:40.409 --> 00:03:42.789 to be washed away. And the question isn't whether 00:03:42.789 --> 00:03:45.330 we can stop the rain. The rain is coming. The 00:03:45.330 --> 00:03:48.050 question is simply, do you have an arc? Right. 00:03:48.129 --> 00:03:51.449 We are diving deep into part 16 of the Read Multiplex 00:03:51.449 --> 00:03:54.189 series today. And this specific installment is 00:03:54.189 --> 00:03:57.009 titled The NOAA Imperative. I think we need to 00:03:57.009 --> 00:03:58.789 pause here and talk about Brian Remmel for a 00:03:58.789 --> 00:04:01.030 second. We definitely do. Because in the world 00:04:01.030 --> 00:04:03.270 of AI commentary, the voices are usually pretty 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:05.810 polarized. That is putting it mildly. You essentially 00:04:05.810 --> 00:04:08.139 have two camps right now. On one side, you have 00:04:08.139 --> 00:04:10.439 the economists and the tech bros who are just 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:12.680 obsessed with the models. Yeah, they're looking 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.860 at GDP shifts, productivity gains, stock prices. 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:19.040 It's all very dry. Very clinical. They'll say 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.860 things like, oh, labor participation will drop 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:25.319 by 14%. They treat human lives like cells on 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:27.360 a spreadsheet. And then on the other side, you 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.699 have the doomers. The people screaming that we're 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:32.139 all cooked. The robots will take everything. 00:04:32.700 --> 00:04:34.839 Humanity is obsolete. Just give up and wait for 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.839 the end. It's terrifying, but it's also incredibly 00:04:37.839 --> 00:04:40.220 paralyzing. Which is why Brian's work in Read 00:04:40.220 --> 00:04:43.300 Multiplex is so distinct and so important. He 00:04:43.300 --> 00:04:45.839 acknowledges the danger. He doesn't sugarcoat 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.819 the disruption at all. But he frames it as a 00:04:48.819 --> 00:04:51.199 hero's journey. He isn't telling you to curl 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.019 up and die. He is telling you that you are the 00:04:54.019 --> 00:04:56.319 architect of the future. He takes this terrifying 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.879 concept. the end of the traditional workforce, 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:02.120 and turns it into a true call to adventure. It's 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:03.920 empowering. It feels like he's handing you a 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:06.740 blueprint rather than reading you a eulogy. And 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:09.300 that is literally what we are doing today. We 00:05:09.300 --> 00:05:11.259 aren't just talking philosophy here. We are going 00:05:11.259 --> 00:05:13.680 to break down the Noah imperative. We are going 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:16.399 to walk through the specific timbers and planks 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.500 you need to build your personal ark. And we should 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:23.040 clarify, this ark isn't a physical boat. No, 00:05:23.079 --> 00:05:25.420 it's a structure of life. Brian devised it into 00:05:25.420 --> 00:05:29.480 five realms. Mental, emotional, relational, financial, 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.100 and physical. The core idea is that politics 00:05:33.100 --> 00:05:36.459 and economics are going to be chaotic. He uses 00:05:36.459 --> 00:05:39.540 the phrase, crayons with no draftsmen. That is 00:05:39.540 --> 00:05:42.740 a brilliant image of chaos, crayons with no draftsmen. 00:05:42.839 --> 00:05:45.279 It really is. You cannot rely on the government 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.529 to build your boat. you have to swing the hammer 00:05:47.529 --> 00:05:50.089 yourself. So our mission today is to give you 00:05:50.089 --> 00:05:52.389 that hammer. We want to walk through this blueprint 00:05:52.389 --> 00:05:54.410 so that by the end of this deep dive, you know 00:05:54.410 --> 00:05:57.269 exactly where your arc is strong and where it 00:05:57.269 --> 00:05:59.370 might be leaking. Let's start with the map, the 00:05:59.370 --> 00:06:01.990 mythic map. Right. To understand where we are 00:06:01.990 --> 00:06:04.529 going, we have to understand the story we are 00:06:04.529 --> 00:06:07.250 in. Brian overlays the Noah narrative with Joseph 00:06:07.250 --> 00:06:09.529 Campbell's Hero's Journey. I always love a good 00:06:09.529 --> 00:06:11.629 Hero's Journey breakdown. It's the skeleton of 00:06:11.629 --> 00:06:13.970 every great story, from Star Wars to The Matrix. 00:06:14.350 --> 00:06:16.850 But usually we apply it to fiction. Right. So 00:06:16.850 --> 00:06:19.209 how does it apply to a guy sitting in a cubicle 00:06:19.209 --> 00:06:22.170 right now worried about chat GPT taking his job? 00:06:22.410 --> 00:06:24.269 Well, Campbell starts with the ordinary world. 00:06:24.389 --> 00:06:27.550 Okay. In the Noah story, that is the world before 00:06:27.550 --> 00:06:31.269 the flood. Corrupt, distracted, completely unaware. 00:06:31.610 --> 00:06:34.029 And in our context. The ordinary world is what 00:06:34.029 --> 00:06:36.689 Brian calls the era of de -skilled labor. De 00:06:36.689 --> 00:06:39.149 -skilled labor. That is a heavy term. Can we 00:06:39.149 --> 00:06:41.629 unpack that? Let's do it. Because I feel like 00:06:41.629 --> 00:06:45.050 most people listening think... They are highly 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:47.709 skilled. I mean, I know how to use Excel. I know 00:06:47.709 --> 00:06:50.189 how to edit video. I know how to code. But think 00:06:50.189 --> 00:06:51.870 about how we do those things. Let's take a very 00:06:51.870 --> 00:06:54.589 concrete example. Okay. 20 years ago, if you 00:06:54.589 --> 00:06:57.509 were a taxi driver in London, you had to have... 00:06:58.029 --> 00:07:00.769 The knowledge. Oh, right. The famous test. You 00:07:00.769 --> 00:07:03.949 had to memorize 25 ,000 streets. You had a mental 00:07:03.949 --> 00:07:06.250 map of the entire city in your brain. You were 00:07:06.250 --> 00:07:09.550 a master of navigation. And today, today you 00:07:09.550 --> 00:07:11.750 follow the blue line on Waze or Google Maps. 00:07:11.990 --> 00:07:14.589 Exactly. If the GPS goes down, the driver is 00:07:14.589 --> 00:07:17.470 lost. The skill has been outsourced to the tool. 00:07:17.649 --> 00:07:20.269 That is de -skilling. We have become operators 00:07:20.269 --> 00:07:23.850 of buttons, not masters of the craft. And Brian's 00:07:23.850 --> 00:07:26.790 point is that in the ordinary world, we are comfortable. 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.639 but we are incredibly fragile. That hits close 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.439 to home. I mean, I can't even remember phone 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:33.939 numbers anymore because my phone does it for 00:07:33.939 --> 00:07:36.519 me. We all do it. So if that is the ordinary 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.620 world, what is the call to adventure? For Noah, 00:07:39.699 --> 00:07:42.180 it was the voice of God saying, make an ark. 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.009 And for us, it's a realization. maybe while reading 00:07:46.009 --> 00:07:48.829 part one of this Read Multiplex series or maybe 00:07:48.829 --> 00:07:51.910 just using a new AI tool, that the decoupling 00:07:51.910 --> 00:07:54.230 has started. The decoupling of human labor from 00:07:54.230 --> 00:07:57.649 economic value. Yes. The realization that intelligence 00:07:57.649 --> 00:08:00.569 is no longer a human monopoly. It's that moment 00:08:00.569 --> 00:08:02.269 your stomach just drops because you realize, 00:08:02.350 --> 00:08:04.430 wait a minute, the thing I do for a living, this 00:08:04.430 --> 00:08:06.550 software just did it in four seconds. That is 00:08:06.550 --> 00:08:09.759 the wake -up call. And then... Naturally, you 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.959 have to cross the threshold. You enter the trials. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:15.860 And this is where the Noah metaphor is so absolutely 00:08:15.860 --> 00:08:18.459 perfect. How so? Because the trials aren't just 00:08:18.459 --> 00:08:20.879 about learning new things. They're about social 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:24.259 friction. Ah, the neighbor's laughing. Noah had 00:08:24.259 --> 00:08:26.459 to build the ark while his neighbors mocked him. 00:08:27.019 --> 00:08:30.160 We have to prepare for a post -labor world while 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:32.360 our friends and family might still be in complete 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.059 denial. You can hear it now. Why are you learning 00:08:35.059 --> 00:08:37.820 how to weld? You're an accountant. Or... Why 00:08:37.820 --> 00:08:40.519 are you obsessing over 3D printing? Just buy 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:42.840 it on Amazon. It's that feeling of being the 00:08:42.840 --> 00:08:46.159 crazy person in the room. Exactly. And that isolation 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:49.480 leads to the inmost cave. In Campbell's structure, 00:08:49.759 --> 00:08:52.340 this is the low point, the dark night of the 00:08:52.340 --> 00:08:55.039 soul. In the Read Multiplic series, this connects 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.179 directly to part six. It's the grief. It's the 00:08:58.179 --> 00:09:01.179 realization that... The systems we trusted, the 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:04.000 401k, the career ladder, the social contract, 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.720 they are all dissolving. It's a really scary 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:08.639 place. I think a lot of people are actually in 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:10.820 that cave right now. They are seeing the layoffs, 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:12.580 they're seeing the tech advance, and they just 00:09:12.580 --> 00:09:14.899 feel helpless. But the hero's journey doesn't 00:09:14.899 --> 00:09:18.379 end in the cave. You emerge. The return. Noah 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:20.799 sends out the raven, then the dove. The dove 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.559 returns with the olive branch. That is the elixir, 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.799 the renewal. The goal. of this entire deep dive. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:30.100 And really the goal of Brian's work is to get 00:09:30.100 --> 00:09:32.100 you through that cave into that olive branch. 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:34.480 To the age of abundance on the other side. So 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:37.120 we know the path. We've accepted the call. We 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.059 are in the desert. Now we actually have to build 00:09:39.059 --> 00:09:41.120 the thing. Let's talk about the structure of 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.320 this arc. Brian breaks it down into timbers. 00:09:43.340 --> 00:09:46.100 And the first section is the mental timbers. 00:09:46.100 --> 00:09:48.279 These are the keel of the ship. The keel is the 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:50.179 backbone at the very bottom of the hull, right? 00:09:50.299 --> 00:09:53.200 Right. To provide stability, if your keel is 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:56.440 rotten, The boat capsizes the moment the water 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:59.259 gets rough. In this metaphor, the storms are 00:09:59.259 --> 00:10:01.899 going to be economic chaos and political confusion. 00:10:02.100 --> 00:10:05.019 If your mind isn't fortified, you will panic. 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.980 Okay, so let's get into the 30 pillars. The first 00:10:07.980 --> 00:10:11.480 pillar in this mental section is cultivate unyielding 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.899 vision. Yes. Now, I have to play devil's advocate 00:10:13.899 --> 00:10:16.159 here for a second. Go for it. This sounds a little 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:20.799 bit like manifesting or the secret. Just visualize 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.330 a good future and it will happen. Is that really 00:10:23.330 --> 00:10:26.490 a survival strategy? It is a totally fair skepticism. 00:10:26.629 --> 00:10:28.909 But let's look at the mechanism behind it. It's 00:10:28.909 --> 00:10:32.129 not about magic. It's about neurology. Neurology. 00:10:32.129 --> 00:10:34.450 Your brain is a filtering machine. If you are 00:10:34.450 --> 00:10:36.659 terrified. Your reticular activating system, 00:10:36.940 --> 00:10:38.759 the part of your brain that filters information, 00:10:39.100 --> 00:10:41.440 it will only show you threats. You will only 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.879 see the layoffs, the corruption, the danger. 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.539 You will freeze. So visualization is a way to 00:10:47.539 --> 00:10:50.919 retrain that filter. Exactly. Brian suggests 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.879 a specific practice, daily visualization of the 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.000 age of abundance. You need to journal a future 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:59.620 where work is optional. Imagine yourself in 2035. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.320 You aren't working because you have to pay rent. 00:11:03.019 --> 00:11:05.480 you're working on a project because you genuinely 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:08.279 love it. By locking onto that image, you turn 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.740 uncertainty into a navigation beacon. When the 00:11:10.740 --> 00:11:12.980 news is terrifying, you look at your vision. 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:15.320 It keeps you moving forward instead of spinning 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.259 in circles. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:20.440 It's proactive focus, not magic. Right. The next 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.860 pillar is embrace continuous learning. This connects 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:26.200 back to the artisan's awakening in part nine 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.700 of the series. This is the exact counter move 00:11:28.700 --> 00:11:30.419 to that de -skilling we talked about earlier. 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.820 And the advice here is very granular. Dedicate 00:11:33.820 --> 00:11:37.299 30 minutes a day to a new tool. But, and this 00:11:37.299 --> 00:11:39.960 is the key part, it is not just about learning 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:42.279 more of what you already know. It's about cross 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.500 -pollination. Yes. The example from Brian's work 00:11:45.500 --> 00:11:49.379 is fascinating. A coder learning 3D printing. 00:11:49.899 --> 00:11:53.639 Think about that. A coder deals in pure logic. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.919 Virtual structures. By learning 3D printing, 00:11:57.100 --> 00:11:59.159 they're bringing that logic into the physical 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.659 world. They are actively reversing the de -skilling. 00:12:01.659 --> 00:12:03.860 They aren't just consumers of technology anymore. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:06.200 They become masters of it. They can fix things. 00:12:06.340 --> 00:12:08.639 They can build things. They are reclaiming their 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.200 agency. That leads right into the third pillar, 00:12:11.419 --> 00:12:14.000 master reframing. Again, this sounds like a corporate 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.679 buzzword. Let's reframe this problem. But in 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:19.019 the context of the NOAA imperative, it feels 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:21.240 much heavier. It is heavier. It is the difference 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.240 between being a victim and being a protagonist. 00:12:23.580 --> 00:12:25.710 Let's say you lose your job to automation. The 00:12:25.710 --> 00:12:28.889 victim frame is, I have been replaced. I am worthless. 00:12:29.049 --> 00:12:31.490 The system is broken. And that leads straight 00:12:31.490 --> 00:12:34.070 to depression in action. What is the reframed 00:12:34.070 --> 00:12:37.429 view? The reframed view is, I have been liberated 00:12:37.429 --> 00:12:40.830 from a repetitive task. I now have the time to 00:12:40.830 --> 00:12:42.769 pursue the creative work I've been putting off. 00:12:43.009 --> 00:12:45.330 It's not just lying to yourself, though. No, 00:12:45.330 --> 00:12:47.970 it's choosing which narrative you are going to 00:12:47.970 --> 00:12:51.110 inhabit. One narrative leads to paralysis. The 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:53.240 other leads to building the arc. One of the most 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.460 beautiful concepts in this mental section is 00:12:55.460 --> 00:12:58.620 pillar four, preserve wisdom. This links directly 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:01.659 to the savewisdom .org initiative Brian has discussed. 00:13:01.940 --> 00:13:05.340 It moves the focus from saving my own skin to 00:13:05.340 --> 00:13:07.940 saving humanity. This is critical. The ARC wasn't 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:10.320 just for Noah. It was for the biology of the 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:12.820 world. It was a genetic archive. So our ARC must 00:13:12.820 --> 00:13:14.899 be a wisdom archive. But practically speaking, 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:16.799 what does that look like? Am I supposed to start 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:18.940 writing an encyclopedia in my basement? Think 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:22.330 smaller. But deeper. The example given is a mechanic. 00:13:22.730 --> 00:13:25.429 As cars become fully electric and computerized, 00:13:25.549 --> 00:13:28.110 the art of listening to a combustion engine and 00:13:28.110 --> 00:13:31.649 diagnosing a misfire just by ear, that is dying. 00:13:31.870 --> 00:13:34.929 It's a form of tacit knowledge that is just evaporating. 00:13:35.029 --> 00:13:37.889 So the imperative is to document it. Film it. 00:13:37.990 --> 00:13:40.990 Write it down. Teach it to someone. Even if robots 00:13:40.990 --> 00:13:43.690 fix the cars of the future, understanding the 00:13:43.690 --> 00:13:46.289 logic of the engine preserves human ingenuity. 00:13:46.620 --> 00:13:48.399 When you do that, you aren't just a redundant 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.440 worker anymore. You become a librarian of the 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.899 human experience. That gives you immense purpose. 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:57.039 Pillar five is foster wonder and curiosity. This 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:58.659 seems tough when you're stressed about paying 00:13:58.659 --> 00:14:01.100 bills. How do you stay curious when you're scared? 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.340 Fear kills curiosity. That is a biological fact. 00:14:05.580 --> 00:14:08.179 But the inverse is also true. Curiosity kills 00:14:08.179 --> 00:14:11.480 fear. If you can shift from, what if this hurts 00:14:11.480 --> 00:14:16.220 me, to, I wonder how this works. you shift right 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:18.639 out of fight or flight mode brian suggests using 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:22.559 these very ai tools to simulate history to blend 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:25.990 old wisdom with new tech rediscover awe Look 00:14:25.990 --> 00:14:27.990 at the stars. Remind yourself the universe is 00:14:27.990 --> 00:14:29.950 bigger than the economy. And finally for the 00:14:29.950 --> 00:14:32.690 mind, pillar six, develop strategic foresight. 00:14:32.830 --> 00:14:34.710 This is the watchman on the deck. It's about 00:14:34.710 --> 00:14:37.250 not being blindsided. Use tools like SWOT analysis, 00:14:37.570 --> 00:14:39.629 strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. 00:14:39.950 --> 00:14:42.429 Don't wait for the pink slip. If you are in customer 00:14:42.429 --> 00:14:44.750 service and you see the chatbots getting better 00:14:44.750 --> 00:14:46.889 every week, don't ignore it. Map out the shift. 00:14:47.090 --> 00:14:49.669 Where does the human touch still matter? Move 00:14:49.669 --> 00:14:52.250 there before the wave hits. Okay, so we've built 00:14:52.250 --> 00:14:55.279 the keel. The mind is fortified. But I feel like 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:57.559 the biggest point of failure for most people 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:01.440 isn't intellectual. It's emotional. You can know 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:03.980 exactly what to do, but if you're paralyzed by 00:15:03.980 --> 00:15:06.620 anxiety, you just won't do it. That is absolutely 00:15:06.620 --> 00:15:09.139 correct. Intelligence without emotional stability 00:15:09.139 --> 00:15:12.019 is just a high -resolution panic attack. That's 00:15:12.019 --> 00:15:13.659 a great way to put it. That's why the second 00:15:13.659 --> 00:15:15.820 section of the arc is the emotional anchors. 00:15:15.899 --> 00:15:18.620 These are designed to steady the heart. Pillar 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:21.850 7, the first anchor here. is heal foundational 00:15:21.850 --> 00:15:25.250 wounds. The source material explicitly mentions 00:15:25.250 --> 00:15:27.490 therapy here. That's interesting because usually 00:15:27.490 --> 00:15:29.409 when we talk about future prep, we talk about 00:15:29.409 --> 00:15:32.049 learning to code, not talking about our childhoods. 00:15:32.049 --> 00:15:34.210 But it's essential. Brian is acknowledging that 00:15:34.210 --> 00:15:37.090 we are all carrying baggage. Maybe it's personal 00:15:37.090 --> 00:15:39.409 trauma. Maybe it's just the accumulation of stress 00:15:39.409 --> 00:15:42.070 from the ordinary world. But the transition to 00:15:42.070 --> 00:15:44.669 the abundance intraregnum is going to be high 00:15:44.669 --> 00:15:46.750 pressure. If you have cracks in your psyche, 00:15:46.909 --> 00:15:48.929 the pressure will split them open. It's like 00:15:48.929 --> 00:15:50.669 trying to run a marathon with a broken ankle. 00:15:51.250 --> 00:15:53.830 You might have the lung capacity, but the structure 00:15:53.830 --> 00:15:56.850 will fail. The source mentions the loss of identity. 00:15:57.149 --> 00:15:59.629 If you are a truck driver, and that is who you 00:15:59.629 --> 00:16:03.629 are, and then self -driving trucks arrive, that 00:16:03.629 --> 00:16:06.049 is a form of death. You have to grieve that. 00:16:06.169 --> 00:16:08.429 You have to process that loss before you can 00:16:08.429 --> 00:16:10.649 build a new identity. If you skip the grief, 00:16:10.730 --> 00:16:13.029 you get stuck in bitterness. That connects to 00:16:13.029 --> 00:16:15.909 Pillar 8. Build resilience through adversity. 00:16:16.269 --> 00:16:19.250 Viewing failures as ordeals in the hero's journey. 00:16:19.490 --> 00:16:22.009 It changes the stakes. If you try to launch a 00:16:22.009 --> 00:16:24.289 side business and it fails, it's not a tragedy. 00:16:24.590 --> 00:16:26.450 It's just chapter four. It's the road to trials. 00:16:26.649 --> 00:16:29.330 You gather the data, you lick your wounds, and 00:16:29.330 --> 00:16:31.750 you try again. Resilience isn't about not falling 00:16:31.750 --> 00:16:34.330 down. It's about how fast you bounce back up. 00:16:34.570 --> 00:16:36.909 Pillar nine is nurture gratitude and meaning, 00:16:37.070 --> 00:16:39.789 which references Viktor Frankl. That is a heavy 00:16:39.789 --> 00:16:42.110 hitter. Frankl survived the concentration camps 00:16:42.110 --> 00:16:44.529 by finding meaning in suffering. If Frankl could 00:16:44.529 --> 00:16:47.230 find meaning in the Holocaust, we can find meaning 00:16:47.230 --> 00:16:50.009 in an economic transition. The key is to find 00:16:50.009 --> 00:16:52.370 purpose beyond the paycheck. Maybe automation 00:16:52.370 --> 00:16:54.789 frees up 10 hours of your week. Don't fill it 00:16:54.789 --> 00:16:56.710 with doom scrolling. Fill it with family, with 00:16:56.710 --> 00:16:59.009 art, with connection. Which leads to pillar 10, 00:16:59.230 --> 00:17:01.850 practice emotional intelligence. I feel like 00:17:01.850 --> 00:17:04.660 this is the specific antidote to AI. Yeah. AI 00:17:04.660 --> 00:17:09.039 is high IQ, zero EQ. Precisely. As machines take 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.980 over the logical tasks, the coding, the calculating, 00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:14.759 the scheduling. The value of human empathy goes 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:17.420 through the roof. The ability to mediate a conflict, 00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:20.839 to soothe a worried client, to negotiate a delicate 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.680 truce between neighbors in your community. AI 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.539 cannot do that. Your EQ becomes your most valuable 00:17:26.539 --> 00:17:29.339 currency. There's one pillar here that really 00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:33.299 stood out to me. Pillar 11. Embrace solitude 00:17:33.299 --> 00:17:35.940 and reflection. Because, let's be real, Noah 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:38.039 was on that boat for a long time. Rain falling 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:40.940 for 40 days. Just him, the family, and a lot 00:17:40.940 --> 00:17:43.119 of animals. And silence. Modern life has basically 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:45.559 destroyed our ability to be silent. We are addicted 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.039 to the dopamine hit of the notification. Brian 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:49.859 is saying we need to reverse the de -skilling 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:51.799 of our attention spans. You need to be able to 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.240 sit in a room, alone, without your phone, and 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.759 actually hear your own thoughts. Why is that 00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:59.750 so critical for survival? Because that is where 00:17:59.750 --> 00:18:02.490 intuition lives. If you are constantly plugged 00:18:02.490 --> 00:18:05.230 into the hive mind of social media, you are absorbing 00:18:05.230 --> 00:18:07.529 other people's panic. To navigate the flood, 00:18:07.690 --> 00:18:10.190 you need to hear your own internal compass. You 00:18:10.190 --> 00:18:12.869 can't hear it if there is constant noise. And 00:18:12.869 --> 00:18:16.210 the final emotional anchor, pillar 12, cultivate 00:18:16.210 --> 00:18:20.160 optimism. But this isn't toxic positivity, is 00:18:20.160 --> 00:18:22.359 it? It's not everything is awesome. No, toxic 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.720 positivity denies reality. It says there is no 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:27.420 flood. And that gets you drowned. Strategic optimism 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:30.339 admits the flood is coming, but believes in the 00:18:30.339 --> 00:18:32.900 ability to float. It's viewing the flood as purification 00:18:32.900 --> 00:18:35.660 rather than destruction. It is the fuel that 00:18:35.660 --> 00:18:38.299 gets you out of bed to hammer the wood. Moving 00:18:38.299 --> 00:18:41.759 on to segment three, the relational bonds. This 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:43.750 is the rigging of the ship. And honestly, this 00:18:43.750 --> 00:18:45.750 is the biggest shift for Western society. We 00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:48.529 are so individualistic. We love the idea of the 00:18:48.529 --> 00:18:50.750 lone ranger. But Noah didn't build the ark alone. 00:18:50.970 --> 00:18:53.970 He had a crew. And this is vital. You cannot 00:18:53.970 --> 00:18:57.950 survive the interregnum as a lone wolf. The complexities 00:18:57.950 --> 00:19:01.150 is too high. The stress is too great. You need 00:19:01.150 --> 00:19:04.369 a tribe. Pillar 13 is forge deep family ties. 00:19:04.710 --> 00:19:07.609 The household becomes the primary unit of survival. 00:19:07.910 --> 00:19:10.849 In the corporate era, the family was often secondary 00:19:10.849 --> 00:19:13.170 to the job. Sorry, I missed dinner. I had a deadline. 00:19:13.390 --> 00:19:16.109 In the interregnum, the family is the enterprise. 00:19:16.490 --> 00:19:18.730 Brian suggests having real conversations with 00:19:18.730 --> 00:19:21.440 your kids and partners about AI. That can be 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.940 an awkward conversation. Hey, kids, the robots 00:19:23.940 --> 00:19:25.819 are taking over. How do you handle that without 00:19:25.819 --> 00:19:28.000 terrifying them? You make them part of the crew. 00:19:28.099 --> 00:19:31.240 You say, hey, the world is changing and we are 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:33.420 going to learn how to surf this wave together. 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:36.240 The example is learning AI tools as a family. 00:19:36.380 --> 00:19:38.900 Instead of banning chat GPT, sit down and use 00:19:38.900 --> 00:19:40.680 it together. Let's see if we can make a comic 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.759 book with this. It builds collective resilience. 00:19:43.180 --> 00:19:45.680 Then there's the concept of guilds, pillar 14. 00:19:46.299 --> 00:19:48.319 build guilds and communities. This has been a 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:50.920 huge theme in the Read Multiplex series. It's 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:53.180 the return to a medieval model, but with high 00:19:53.180 --> 00:19:55.539 -tech tools. We are moving away from being employee 00:19:55.539 --> 00:19:59.160 4526 at a megacorporation. We are moving toward 00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:01.720 being independent artisans who collaborate. So 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.259 instead of a boss, I have a network. Exactly. 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:07.079 You might have a local makers guild. You share 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:09.859 expensive tools. Maybe one person has a high 00:20:09.859 --> 00:20:12.480 -end CNC machine. Another has a deep knowledge 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:15.640 of contract law. You trade services. It's mutual 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:18.640 aid. It's I help you patch your roof. You help 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:21.019 me set up my local server. That requires a totally 00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:22.900 different skill set than climbing a corporate 00:20:22.900 --> 00:20:25.759 ladder. You can't just compete. You have to cooperate. 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:28.640 Which is why Pillar 16, practice radical empathy, 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:31.299 and Pillar 18, resolve conflicts with grace, 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:34.259 are right here in this section. In a corporation, 00:20:34.460 --> 00:20:38.839 if you hate your coworker, you can ask HR to 00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:41.380 move you or you can just ignore them. In a guild 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:44.470 or on a small arc, you are stuck together. You 00:20:44.470 --> 00:20:46.509 have to work it out. You need mediation skills. 00:20:46.690 --> 00:20:48.569 You need to understand that if your neighbor 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:50.509 is snapping at you, it's probably because they 00:20:50.509 --> 00:20:52.509 are terrified of the flood, not because they 00:20:52.509 --> 00:20:55.470 hate you. Pillar 17, nurture networks to support, 00:20:55.690 --> 00:20:59.069 also emphasizes diversity. Connect diversely. 00:20:59.150 --> 00:21:01.450 This is the don't put all your eggs in one basket 00:21:01.450 --> 00:21:04.369 rule applied to people. If you are a writer and 00:21:04.369 --> 00:21:06.769 all your friends are writers and AI disrupts 00:21:06.769 --> 00:21:09.369 writing, your entire network collapses at once. 00:21:09.450 --> 00:21:11.769 You're all drowning together. Right. You need 00:21:11.769 --> 00:21:13.910 to know a plumber. You need to know a farmer. 00:21:14.029 --> 00:21:16.789 You need to know a roboticist. You need a diverse 00:21:16.789 --> 00:21:19.690 ecosystem on your arc so that if one sector gets 00:21:19.690 --> 00:21:22.250 hit, the others can support it. Okay, let's talk 00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:24.890 about the resources, the financial planks. This 00:21:24.890 --> 00:21:27.289 is the deck of the ship. We can have great attitudes 00:21:27.289 --> 00:21:29.049 and great friends, but we still need to eat. 00:21:29.250 --> 00:21:31.690 The economy is transforming, not disappearing. 00:21:32.029 --> 00:21:34.950 Correct. The deck is where we stand. It's the 00:21:34.950 --> 00:21:37.609 practical mandates for economic survival. Pillar 00:21:37.609 --> 00:21:41.349 19 is diversify income streams. The death of 00:21:41.349 --> 00:21:43.740 the single paycheck. This is the end of safety 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:46.400 in one job. The goal is the barbell strategy. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:49.859 On one side, maybe you lean into high tech using 00:21:49.859 --> 00:21:52.359 AI to generate content or code. On the other 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:54.619 side, you lean into high touch physical services 00:21:54.619 --> 00:21:56.960 that cannot be automated. I love that hybrid 00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:59.759 model. So Monday through Wednesday, I run a newsletter 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:03.180 using advanced LLMs. Thursday and Friday. I restore 00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:06.019 vintage furniture. Exactly. If the internet breaks, 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.579 you sell chairs. If the furniture market crashes, 00:22:08.779 --> 00:22:11.259 you sell information. You are anti -fragile. 00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:15.039 Pillar 20. Invest in future -proof assets. This 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.960 is tricky because no one has a crystal ball. 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.019 But Brian suggests betting on the trends we've 00:22:20.019 --> 00:22:22.240 discussed. It's about looking at the inevitable. 00:22:22.539 --> 00:22:25.640 We know energy demand is going to skyrocket because 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.539 AI eats electricity. So renewables or energy 00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:30.660 infrastructure. We know automation is happening. 00:22:30.779 --> 00:22:33.839 So robotics companies. It's putting your money 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:36.319 where the current is flowing rather than trying 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:39.319 to swim upstream and invest in dying industries. 00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:42.299 Here is a tough one for our consumerist culture. 00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:45.960 Pillar 21. Practice frugality and stewardship. 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:48.559 This is the most un -American pillar of them 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:51.180 all. We are taught to spend to show success. 00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:55.779 Brian is saying live below your means. Aggressively. 00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:58.099 It's not about being a miser. It's about drag. 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:01.640 That is a great way to put it. Debt is drag on 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:04.359 your boat. High overhead is drag. If you need 00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:06.519 $10 ,000 a month just to keep the lights on, 00:23:06.619 --> 00:23:08.940 you are extremely vulnerable. If you can live 00:23:08.940 --> 00:23:11.119 on $3 ,000, you can weather a storm that would 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:13.480 sink your neighbor. Frugality buys you freedom. 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:17.660 Pillar 22, leverage AI for prosperity. This is 00:23:17.660 --> 00:23:19.500 a critical distinction. Don't just play with 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:22.240 the tools. Right. Don't just use ChatGPT to write 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:24.900 funny limericks about your cat. Use tools like 00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:28.319 Grok to analyze your local market. Ask it, what 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:31.200 are the unmet service needs in my zip code? Use 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:33.359 it to automate your invoicing so you can spend 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.019 more time networking. Make the AI your intern, 00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:39.839 not your entertainment. Pillar 23, build emergency 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:44.009 reserves. The six -month rule. Again, the physical 00:23:44.009 --> 00:23:47.410 beams are the framework, the body itself, because 00:23:47.410 --> 00:23:49.930 you cannot endure high stress if your physical 00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:53.309 vessel is crumbling. Pillar 25 is prioritize 00:23:53.309 --> 00:23:56.710 health. It seems obvious, but when people are 00:23:56.710 --> 00:23:58.750 stressed, health is the first thing to go. We 00:23:58.750 --> 00:24:01.769 eat junk. We stop sleeping. And that is a strategic 00:24:01.769 --> 00:24:04.589 error. You need energy to learn new traits. You 00:24:04.589 --> 00:24:06.630 can't spend 30 minutes a day learning Python 00:24:06.630 --> 00:24:08.869 or welding if you have brain fog from a sugar 00:24:08.869 --> 00:24:12.009 crash. Your body is the engine of the arc. Maintain 00:24:12.009 --> 00:24:15.799 it. Pillar 26, master practical skills. The return 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.519 of the handy individual. This is the MacGyver 00:24:18.519 --> 00:24:20.700 pillar. Can you fix a toaster? Can you patch 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:23.680 a roof? Can you 3D print a replacement gear for 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.059 your dishwasher? As supply chains potentially 00:24:26.059 --> 00:24:29.279 wobble, what Brian calls the crumbling, you can't 00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:31.220 always just click buy now and have it arrive 00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:33.279 tomorrow. The ability to repair and maintain 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:35.559 your physical world becomes a massive form of 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:39.049 wealth. Pillar 27. Connect with nature. Grounding. 00:24:39.250 --> 00:24:42.150 It's not just hippie talk. Being outdoors, seeing 00:24:42.150 --> 00:24:44.609 the seasons, reminds you that change is natural. 00:24:44.910 --> 00:24:48.089 Nature is the ultimate adapter. Watching how 00:24:48.089 --> 00:24:51.170 a forest recovers from a fire teaches you how 00:24:51.170 --> 00:24:53.809 to recover from an economic crash. Pillar 28 00:24:53.809 --> 00:24:57.569 emergency kits. Practical prep, water, food, 00:24:57.869 --> 00:25:00.430 batteries. If the grid flickers, you don't want 00:25:00.430 --> 00:25:02.529 to be fighting for the last bottle of water at 00:25:02.529 --> 00:25:06.099 the store. You want to be at home, calm. Brewing 00:25:06.099 --> 00:25:09.299 a coffee on your camping stove. Preparedness 00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:12.900 brings peace. Now we arrive at the end. Pillar 00:25:12.900 --> 00:25:15.940 30. It's not just a timber, it's the destination. 00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:18.460 The garden. This is the most poetic and profound 00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:22.019 part of the source material. Ryan talks about 00:25:22.019 --> 00:25:24.279 an internal garden. He describes a place inside 00:25:24.279 --> 00:25:26.519 us that we might have abandoned. Maybe it's full 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:28.789 of weeds. The weeds of hurt, of disappointment, 00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:31.210 of I'm not good enough. Maybe a teacher told 00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:33.049 you in third grade that you couldn't draw. Maybe 00:25:33.049 --> 00:25:35.230 a boss told you to stay in your lane. So you 00:25:35.230 --> 00:25:37.029 locked the gate to that garden and walked away. 00:25:37.289 --> 00:25:40.470 The NOAA imperative is a call to go back. Break 00:25:40.470 --> 00:25:42.849 the lock. Pull the weeds. Yeah. Mill the soil. 00:25:43.349 --> 00:25:46.750 Brian writes, when the sun is just right and 00:25:46.750 --> 00:25:49.730 the water is just right, plant these seeds. What 00:25:49.730 --> 00:25:53.450 are the seeds? Your potential. Your latent creativity. 00:25:53.569 --> 00:25:56.990 The human magic that no AI can replicate. The 00:25:56.990 --> 00:26:00.529 promise is that if you tend this garden, it can 00:26:00.529 --> 00:26:02.869 feed the world. There was one line in that section 00:26:02.869 --> 00:26:05.049 that really shook me. It was about the boss. 00:26:05.430 --> 00:26:08.769 You no longer have a boss. The only boss is the 00:26:08.769 --> 00:26:11.390 force of nature. That is the ultimate realization 00:26:11.390 --> 00:26:13.789 of this journey. When you build the ark and you 00:26:13.789 --> 00:26:15.730 sail through the interregnum, you arrive at a 00:26:15.730 --> 00:26:18.089 place of sovereignty. You are responsible to 00:26:18.089 --> 00:26:20.990 the seasons, to the soil, to the truth, but not 00:26:20.990 --> 00:26:23.970 to a manager. You are free. That is the abundance 00:26:23.970 --> 00:26:26.069 waiting at the end of the interregnum. Exactly. 00:26:26.670 --> 00:26:29.190 The flood destroys the old structures, the cubicles, 00:26:29.349 --> 00:26:32.150 the org charts, the artificial hierarchies. But 00:26:32.150 --> 00:26:34.769 it irrigates the soil for the new garden. This 00:26:34.769 --> 00:26:37.029 has been massive. We've covered the ancient desert, 00:26:37.170 --> 00:26:40.069 the futuristic flood, the mental peel, the emotional 00:26:40.069 --> 00:26:42.690 anchors, the relational rigging, the financial 00:26:42.690 --> 00:26:44.829 deck, the physical beams, and the secret garden. 00:26:44.950 --> 00:26:47.410 It's a complete blueprint. So let's go back to 00:26:47.410 --> 00:26:50.890 Noah one last time. The rain stops. The waters 00:26:50.890 --> 00:26:54.970 recede. What happens? The covenant. The rainbow. 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:58.099 It's the promise of renewal. The story tells 00:26:58.099 --> 00:27:00.299 us that the destruction wasn't the point. The 00:27:00.299 --> 00:27:02.359 destruction was just the clearing of the board. 00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:05.519 The rebirth was the point. Brian Rimmel's message 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:08.640 to us is, do not wait for the rain to start building. 00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:11.299 If you wait until the layoff notice comes or 00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:13.380 until the industry collapses, it is too late 00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:15.500 to plant the gopher wood trees. You have to start 00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:17.539 today. And we really need to give credit where 00:27:17.539 --> 00:27:21.400 it's due. Part 16 of Read Multiplex. Brian is 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.940 doing something very brave here. He really is. 00:27:23.980 --> 00:27:26.279 It is so easy to be cynical right now. It is 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:29.640 profitable to sell fear. It is very hard to sell 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:32.519 hope that requires work. And that's what this 00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.119 is. It's not hope as in sit back and it will 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:38.200 be fine. It is hope as in here is a hammer. Get 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.380 to work. He's inviting us to be heroes. Exactly. 00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:43.259 So here is the question we want to leave you 00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:45.980 with. I want you to look at your life. Look at 00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:48.259 the blueprint we just discussed. If the flood 00:27:48.259 --> 00:27:50.980 started tomorrow. If the salary tap turned off 00:27:50.980 --> 00:27:54.200 completely, would your arc float? Is your financial 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:57.460 deck rotting? Is your emotional anchor rusted 00:27:57.460 --> 00:28:00.119 through? Do you have a crew or are you sailing 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.420 alone? Identify the missing piece. Don't shame 00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:05.960 yourself for it. Just identify it. And then pick 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:08.859 up the hammer. And if you are looking for your 00:28:08.859 --> 00:28:12.059 crew, Brian has created a space for that. The 00:28:12.059 --> 00:28:15.799 Shared Fire at readmultiplex .com. It's a place 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:17.759 where people are sharing their blueprints and 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.779 sailing toward abundance together. Because the 00:28:19.779 --> 00:28:22.240 only thing better than surviving the flood is 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:24.460 building the new world on the other side. I'm 00:28:24.460 --> 00:28:26.539 going to go home and have a serious talk with 00:28:26.539 --> 00:28:29.279 my family about our crew. And maybe I'll finally 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:31.640 learn how to fix that leak in the roof myself. 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:34.579 And I'm going to go tend to my garden. See you 00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:36.400 in the interregnum, everyone. Keep building.