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
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along with the in-depth videos and if
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