The Worst Version of You

Twenty books
about seeing
yourself clearly

Five series, written backwards and forwards — what you are doing to yourself, and what it would actually take to build something else.

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Five series.
Twenty books.

Each one stands on its own. Together they run from recognising the pattern to building the thing.

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Rule № 01 — Volume I

Never Define What You Actually Want

"A vague goal is a wish with better marketing."

Goals are for rigid, unimaginative people who lack the spontaneity to simply see where life takes them. Why confine yourself to specifics? That's a cage dressed up as a calendar entry. Real free spirits stay beautifully, productively vague.

Tell yourself you want to "be successful." Leave these phrases exactly as they are: unexamined, unmeasured, and therefore beautifully impossible to fail at.

We spent three years following people who described their goals as "just kind of... seeing how things go." Things went exactly how unguided things always go: in no particular direction, toward nowhere specific. Several subjects reported feeling that life was "happening to them." We confirmed that it was.
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Rule № 28 — Volume II

Avoid The One Thing

"You know which thing. You've always known which thing. That's the thing."

There is one thing. You know what it is. It would change the trajectory of something important if you did it — really did it, consistently, without backing away.

Avoid it. Do everything else thoroughly and well. Build an excellent life around the perimeter of the one thing.

We asked 400 people if there was something important they had been avoiding. 91% said yes. Average time avoiding: 2.7 years. When asked what would happen if they did it, most paused. Then most said: "things would probably get better."
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"A vague goal is a wish with better marketing."

Rule № 01 — Volume I

"Start without the feeling. The feeling will catch up."

Rule № 21 — Volume II

"The thing you're avoiding is the thing. Stop avoiding the thing."

Rule № 28 — Volume II

"You are authorized. You were always authorized. Begin."

Rule № 30 — Volume II

"The wall keeps pain out. It also keeps everything else out."

Rule № 44 — Volume III

"Growth maintained is more radical than growth achieved."

Rule № 46 — Volume IV
From The Field Notes
Real People.
Familiar Mistakes.

"I've wanted to write a novel for eleven years. The opening line is perfect. I haven't written it down yet because the moment hasn't felt right. But I really feel like this is my year."

Daniel, 34 — Rule № 01

"I was going to start my business in 2019. Then 2020 happened. Then 2021 felt like recovery. I'm currently doing more research. I feel like this year is probably—"

Marcus, 41 — Rule № 03

"I read Volume I. I did the thing. I genuinely changed. Then Volume IV described exactly how I'd quietly started undoing all of it. I put the book down and stared at the ceiling."

Anya, 38 — Rule № 46
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