the fastest way to create a new life
A Plan Is Your Surface Area For Discovery
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
What do you do with your projects once you build them?
Do you just toss them into a “portfolio” and share it with potential employers when the time is right?
Or did you set out on this path to do something unique?
On the internet, you don’t need permission to publish your work.
Beyond that, you don’t need permission to share what you know.
The best way,... See more
Do you just toss them into a “portfolio” and share it with potential employers when the time is right?
Or did you set out on this path to do something unique?
On the internet, you don’t need permission to publish your work.
Beyond that, you don’t need permission to share what you know.
The best way,... See more
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
How To Navigate The Unknown (& Create The Life You Want)
This will be a painful process.
You aren’t just creating a new life. You’re creating a new identity. You’re expanding your mind to house more complexity that allows you to solve more valuable problems.
It’s not as simple as setting a goal or creating a New Year’s resolution because you aren... See more
This will be a painful process.
You aren’t just creating a new life. You’re creating a new identity. You’re expanding your mind to house more complexity that allows you to solve more valuable problems.
It’s not as simple as setting a goal or creating a New Year’s resolution because you aren... See more
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
Create Your Own Little World
The most successful people I know live in their own little world.
They’ve programmed their own video game.
It’s addictive. It’s enjoyable. It provides a logical sequence of steps that results in experience. It helps them understand what’s worth paying attention to and what’s worth learning. It is a frame for their mind th... See more
The most successful people I know live in their own little world.
They’ve programmed their own video game.
It’s addictive. It’s enjoyable. It provides a logical sequence of steps that results in experience. It helps them understand what’s worth paying attention to and what’s worth learning. It is a frame for their mind th... See more
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
Invest Energy Into A Series Of Projects
Don’t learn skills.
Build projects.
Skills, like degrees, are practically useless in isolation.
A series of projects is how you move toward the life you want. If you want to receive, you must give, and keeping your knowledge in your head is a surefire way to become bitter about how smart you are and how little p... See more
Don’t learn skills.
Build projects.
Skills, like degrees, are practically useless in isolation.
A series of projects is how you move toward the life you want. If you want to receive, you must give, and keeping your knowledge in your head is a surefire way to become bitter about how smart you are and how little p... See more
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
Remember, a goal is an aim or desired outcome. That’s it. Goals can, and should, evolve when exposed to better information. A goal is not a static point in the future that must be achieved at all costs. A goal is a tool for identifying a problem. A problem requires a solution. The solution must be arrived at creatively through making guesses and co... See more
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
Discipline is a feature of identity. When you are trying to become a new person, who you are is fighting who you want to become , and that’s painful. You will go through a period of growing pains until your new identity solidifies.
We need to take this process gradually.
We need to take this process gradually.
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
the goals that compose your mind, identity, and perspective—often in that order, like a set of concentric circles—filter what you perceive
Dan Koe • the fastest way to create a new life
A plan is not a list of things that won’t happen. It is an evolving blueprint that structures your mind to notice ideas that lead to progress.