This video outlines a comprehensive, day-long protocol designed to fundamentally change one's life by addressing core identity, beliefs, and behaviors. It emphasizes the importance of internal shifts over superficial New Year's resolutions and provides a structured approach to self-discovery and goal setting.
The two key components for change and success are:
The speaker deems changing who you are (the second component) as the most important, referring to it as "first order," while changing actions is considered "second order."
According to the video, people fail to achieve their goals, even when they claim to want them, because they don't actually want to be there on a deep internal level. This often stems from pursuing unconscious goals that are harming them, such as protecting themselves from judgment or seeking safety and predictability, which paradoxically becomes their actual goal, leading them to not achieve their stated desires.
The speaker defines intelligence as the ability to get what you want out of life. This involves having agency, recognizing and utilizing opportunity, and possessing the capacity to steer towards a goal by acting, sensing, comparing, and acting again based on feedback. High intelligence is characterized by the ability to iterate, persist, and understand the big picture, while low intelligence is marked by the inability to learn from mistakes and a tendency to quit when encountering roadblocks.
The three phases individuals typically go through when successfully transforming their identity are:
