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How To Get Ahead Of 99% Of People (In 6-12 Months)

By Dan Koe

Summary

## Key takeaways - **Create an Anti-Vision**: To gain clarity on your desired future, first define what you absolutely do not want. This 'anti-vision' uses negative emotions as potent fuel to drive you toward your actual goals. [00:06] - **Embrace Entropy's Opposite**: Life naturally declines into chaos (entropy) if you don't actively create order. Develop a detailed, day-to-day plan to counteract this tendency and build momentum towards your vision. [02:50] - **Disappear to Realign**: Metaphorically 'disappear' by cutting out people, habits, and apps that drain your mental energy. Redirect this reclaimed energy towards your long-term vision, rather than expending it on things that don't matter. [03:31] - **Master Boring Fundamentals**: Repetitive, seemingly boring actions are the bedrock of mastery. Like a sushi chef perfecting rice or a tennis player learning to hold a racket, consistent practice of fundamentals builds unconscious competence. [05:02] - **Long-Term Mastery Over Quick Wins**: Stop asking when you'll see results. True mastery takes years of trial and error. Embrace this long-term perspective to build a sustainable foundation for your life's project. [06:35]

Topics Covered

  • Why defining your "anti-vision" unlocks true goals.
  • Combat entropy: Why creating order prevents chaos.
  • "Disappear" to eliminate distractions and gain focus.
  • Embrace "boring" fundamentals for true mastery.
  • Why self-mastery is a lifetime project of trial and error.

Full Transcript

here's how you get ahead of 99% of

people in 6 to 12 months become brutally

aware of two things the first is what

you don't want the second is where you

will end up if you keep doing the same

things in life observe the masses and

see where mindless action leads it's not

pretty At All by any means when you do

this when you observe the masses sit

with your thoughts think them through

don't just close your mind off and take

what you see on the surface and accept

it as reality that's not how this works

that closed-minded surface level living

is what got you into this situation in

the first place you need to think deeper

it's easier to know what you don't want

from experience and observation than it

is to know what you want from

imagination and just thinking and having

all of these Grand ideas for your future

and don't get me wrong here I'm not

writing those things off those things

are good they are not bad do not label

any of what I'm saying as good or bad

test it through your direct experience

many of you know that I'm very big on

creating a vision for your future but

the best way to do that is by also

creating an antiv Vision having a

negative thing something that you

despise something that will get you

angry because negative energy is very

very potent it can be used and

transmuted to actually achieve what you

want in life it's like when you're going

to the gym I'll be walking on the

treadmill as a warm-up and I'll just

think of what my life would be without

the gym where could I end up if I don't

put my all into that workout and somehow

I just get very very pissed and I can

feel that energy I'm not being pissed

isn't bad negative emotions aren't bad

they exist they are what they are and

they should be used not suppressed but

used for good so to create your antiv

vision sit down with a notebook become a

mad scientist draw out everything sit

with a notebook for 30 minutes and just

draw draw out everything your entire

future but start with the antiv vision

write down every single thing that you

do not want in this life what do you not

want to look like what do you not want

your future to be what do you not want

your day to look like on an everyday

basis and from that it will be much

clearer to you what your vision will

actually be because it's just the

opposite of those things and so when you

look at your antiv vision after creating

it or as you're writing it you should

feel uncomfortable you should feel very

uncomfortable with the possibility of

where you could end up in life if you do

not take control of your life and so

with that discomfort you should laser in

on one big goal laser in on your vision

for the future and this should be

meaningful because your antiv vision is

usually meaningless it comes from

mindless action it comes from not doing

anything and letting entropy take hold

and just drag your life into chaos

that's what entropy does that is the

supreme law of of the universe if you do

not create order for your life you will

decline into chaos so in that same

notebook with that vision for your

future and your anti Vision plan out be

the mad scientist that is going to work

on the project of your life create a

plan create a strategy for exactly what

you are going to do on a day-to-day

basis week by week every single thing

you're going to do for the next week and

write it out get extremely specific

create the order so you do not be a

victim of entropy next disappear and

whenever I say disappear like disappear

for 6 months people take it literally

almost every much of what I say is

metaphorical and exaggerated to get the

essence of the message across I'm not

saying disappear like your physical body

is just going to disappear I'm saying

disappear from the things that don't

belong in your life cut them out this

can be people games apps or even bad

habits just become a aware of the things

that are holding you back and there are

multiple ways to do this but with the

process that we've discussed and what's

worked best for me is to just rip the

Band-Aid off get rid of them all you

don't need to explain yourself here to

other people that are going to be

messing you hey bro where'd you go just

disappear in other words break your

addiction with feeling like [ __ ] because

that feeling feeling like [ __ ] has one

cause and that is well it has multiple

causes but we're talking about mental

here not physical which would be

attributed to something like nutrition

or food but mental mental energy that

you are expending on people and things

that don't give a [ __ ] about you and

direct that mental energy that you now

have into your vision for the future

because you have created a system that

will prevent entropy in your life the

thing that will take you from antiv

Vision to Vision the system there and to

maintain a system to prevent entropy you

need energy in this case mental energy

to actualize or manifest that Vision if

you want to call it that last make a

habit of the boring fundamentals But

realize that the boring fundamentals are

not boring because most successful

people they take the same repetitive

actions on a day-to-day basis in a game

in like a game that mimics the real

world you are logging on and you are

repeating the same thing over and over

to slowly level up over time right

you're you're killing monsters you're

going through dungeons you're doing the

same thing to stack experience so you

need to transfer that into the real

world and move the levers that will

actually take you towards your goals

these are fundamentals these are

principles these aren't tactics and so

understand that these are not boring

they seem boring on the surface when you

look at someone else doing it day in day

out like oh this guy Dan he writes for

30 minutes every morning oh that's that

seems so boring but it's Mastery over

misery it's like how Sushi chefs they

take years to perfect the preparation of

rice and it comes in stages like a

tennis player you first learn how to

hold the Racket and there is a very

specific way to do that well and then

you move up to the next stage which is

how do you angle the racket how do you

hit the ball and you have to practice

these things over and over and over

again like how you were learning to walk

until it becomes effortless or

unconscious so you open up more mental

energy to move on to the next thing that

will take you ahead of the people that

are trying to just get a result that

would usually take 10 years to get in 2

weeks that's just not going to happen

and so the question that everyone ask

like when you start something new is

okay when will I see this result like a

tennis player when will I be able to

compete and stop asking that question

because you're going to get an answer

that you don't want to hear and it's

going to throw you off track it takes

years it takes an entire lifetime of

trial and error to create a project as I

said become a mad scientist the essence

of science is trial and error so to

perfect a project your life that you are

building out it is going to take a

lifetime get comfortable with that

thought so this entire process that we

just went over of realizing what you

don't want creating a strategy and

launching yourself into the opposite

direction and prioritizing long-term

success in Mastery is the origin story

you will hear this in every origin story

of a successful person so flip the

switch inside of you new year is coming

up flip the switch inside of you and

build a Foundation that will carry you

into the life you want so first off

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's

this is a much shorter video than I

normally do many of you know that uh I

was saving I'm saving a long the longer

I have a lot of good videos coming the

long in-depth ones uh coming next week I

just didn't want to post it around

Christmas because I want to give those

videos the hopefully attention it

deserves so first let me know if you

like these shorter videos because I can

work in one of these every single week

along with the in-depth videos and if

you guys like them I'll keep them coming

so with that leave a comment let me know

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check them out and enjoy the rest of

your day my friends

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