Unlocking Pristine Clarity

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~ Witold Gombrowicz

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Key Takeaways

Formula for “Impossible”

The Pygmalion Effect

Chunking

Passion Recipe

Passion Recipe Implementation

Step 1: Make a list

Fill in the 25 boxes below with things you are curious about. Things that if you had a spare weekend, you’d be interested in reading a couple of books on the topic and maybe having a conversation or two with an expert.

Get specific. Rather than listing general things like football or punk rock or food. List things like “the pass blocking mechanics required to play left tackle; the evolution of political punk from Crass to Rise Against; or the potential for grasshoppers to become a primary human food source in the next five years.” The more specific, the better.

Step 2: Hunt for Intersections

Draw a line between the circles that could overlap

Write down the connecting question. E.g. If both grasshoppers as food and the mechanics of playing left tackle are on your list, then you could intersect them as follows: “I’m into pass blocking mechanics, I’m also interested in the nutritional requirements required to play left tackle most effectively. Insects are exceptionally high in protein—would they make good football food?”

Step 3: Play in the Intersections

For 21 days, spend 10-20 minutes a day reading an article, listening to a lecture, reading a book or otherwise feeding the curiosities.

Write your insights down each day on this sheet and watch your curiosity slowing morphe into a passion

Step 4: Go Public

Talk with a friend about what you have explored.

Pay attention to when they lean in and ask questions and when they lose interest. This will help you sharpen the areas that you want to focus on learning more about.

Step 5: Turning Passion into Purpose

Write down 15 Global Challenges you would like to see solved. Hint: what breaks your heart or makes you angry? E.g. poverty, hunger, child abuse, education, clean water, trauma, energy, gender equality, racism, etc.

Identify which challenges your passions could help solve. Write your passion down in the box next to the challenge.

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Play in the intersections

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Turning Passion into Purpose

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Passion Recipe Deep Dive Resources

Bold: How to Go Big, Make Bank, and Better the World Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler

Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior (Perspectives in Social Psychology Edward L. Deci & Richard M. Ryan

Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000)

The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity Celeste Kidd and Benjamin Y. Hayden

Phasic dopamine release in the medial prefrontal cortex enhances stimulus discrimination Andrei T. Popescu, Michael R. Zhou, and Mu-ming Poo

Dopamine and the regulation of cognition and attention AndréNieoullon

Learning, Recalling, and Thinking

Exercise

Goal Stacking

Step 1: Identify and write down 15 Grand Global Challenges you would like to see solved. (Hint: This is where you left off with the passion recipe)

Step 2: Get ultra-specific with the challenges you want to tackle. Rather than “trauma”, it may be “the neuroscience of fear memory extinction” List out the specific aspects of each challenge you are interested in.

Step 3: Link the specific challenges with your passions (Hint: Use your passions list from the passion recipe)

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Step 1: Craft your Massively Transformative Purpose (one sentence):

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Double Check it

Is it Massive?!: Audaciously big and aspirational (you should probably 10x it)

Is it Transformative?!: Can cause significant transformation to an industry, community or to the planet.

Is it Purposeful?!: A clear “why” behind it, that you’re passionate about. Something that unites and inspires action.

Next In The Stack - Your High Hard Goals

My High Hard Goal:

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Next In The Stack - Your Annual Goal

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Next In The Stack - Your Quarterly Goals

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Next In The Stack - Your Monthly Goals

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Next In The Stack - Your Weekly Goals

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Next In The Stack - Your Clear Goals

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The failure point of clear goals? Not clear enough!!!!

You need to master the art of deconstruction to set clear goals.

Next In The Stack - Your To-Do List

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Weekly Review

High Hard Goals
Annual Goals
Quarterly Goals
Monthly Goals
Weekly Goals
Daily Goals
Clear Goals
To Do’s

Glossary

Chunking: In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which individual pieces of an information set are broken down and then grouped together in a meaningful whole.

Reverse Engineer: to disassemble and examine or analyze in detail (a product or device) to discover the concepts involved in manufacture usually in order to produce something similar.

Growth Belief Spotlight: Growth Belief determines possible actions which determine results.

Growth Mindset: “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.” (Dweck, 2015)

Internal Locus of Control (ILOC): "A locus of control orientation is a belief about whether the outcomes of our actions are contingent on what we do (internal control orientation) or on events outside our personal control (external control orientation)" (Zimbardo, 1985)

Compound Effect: The compound effect is the idea that small actions build up over time.

Reticular Activating System: A diffuse network of nerve pathways in the brainstem connecting the spinal cord, cerebrum, and cerebellum, and mediating the overall level of consciousness.