🦾 I can predict your future
Dear Melius Humano (Better Human),
You are your environment.
Are you controlling that environment, or is it controlling you?
Math states that you'll remain close to your average.
If you are learning, growing, and building each year, you will likely continue to do so, and you’ll reap the rewards.
If you're moving in the opposite direction, getting slower, sicker, and weaker each year, you’re likely to keep moving in that direction.
It's just math.
If you don’t like it, fix the math.
-Colin
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Who Not How
"Who, not how."
I've never recommended a book idea this much.
The book is "Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork."
I only read some of it and probably not going to finish it. You only need the first couple of chapters to get the idea. Or watch a YouTube video or read a book summary.
The idea is so powerful.
I have a million things I want to do and build. My vision is big.
I'm making progress, but I often feel overwhelmed. Like, where do I start?
It's so much.
My ultimate life goal is to live in the thriving Better Human Community—100-500 acres with other like-minded humans living simpler, healthier, meaning-filled lives.
The goal is to build it and make it financially sustainable—and possibly make money through retreats, workshops, etc. Then I'm going to open source exactly how we did it so more capital allocators and aspiring homesteaders will form their own communities around the world. Then, hopefully over time, we can start moving urban humans back to nature so they can live in alignment with who they are as homo sapiens.
I already know the "how" of doing this. I know approximately how much $ it will take and I'm realistic that it's going to require a lot of people to buy-in to the vision.
So the real real question is, "Who?"
Who will join me and help me manifest this vision into reality?
This WHO NOT HOW concept applies to anything you want to build.
Who do I need to partner with, learn from, or lead?
This is obviously hard considering how complex humans are. Most people don't have strong convictions about what they believe or what they want. A project like this requires strong-willed individuals willing to take risks.
Then when you find the right people, you still have to align incentives.
Do you sign a contract?
Do you pay them?
What if it doesn't work out?
What's their exit plan?
So on and so forth.
Finding the right balance between financial and intrinsic rewards is really hard.
I've always been one to do things myself. I've prided myself on going my own way.
While that has been a strength, the flip side is a weakness: my resistance to asking for help and relying on others.
I don't like doing either. But I know that's how you do big things. You can't do big things without others.
People are always the key component. They are necessary.
Also, what's the point of success if you don't have others to share it with?
You see this with many entrepreneurs that have big exists. They often have enough money never to have to work again, yet you find them getting back in the game a few months after the high wears off.
Why?
Lack of meaning. Lack of people to share in the prosperity (your friend still has to work even if you don't.) And other factors.
It always comes down to people.
I want to build something that takes on a life of its own. Something that others can enjoy and share, and something that those watching from afar can use as inspiration to create their own version of. That's the vision.
My plan for getting there includes making money through the various ways I know how—internet marketing, entrepreneurship, coaching, consulting, product dev, SEO, writing, etc.—and then funneling that money into this project. Maybe I have to buy 50 acres myself and find a few like-minded families that want to join us to live year-round. Or perhaps I put in the seed capital and attract some investors who get the vision?
It will come down to the Who, not the How.
Ask yourself for everything you want to accomplish: WHO, NOT HOW?
Who will be your partner?
Who will be your customer?
Who will volunteer?
Who will understand your vision?
So on and so forth.
It's always Who, Not How.
Quotes from the book
Results, not effort, is the name of the game. You are rewarded in life by the results you produce, not the effort and time you put in. All too often, there is a lack of commitment to results and an over-infatuation with “process” or “hard work.” (Location 172)
This book argues that with each ascending level of success, your ability to produce results will be more and more contingent on Whos, not Hows. By focusing on Who you work with and not How you achieve your goals, your level of accomplishment, and thus freedom, will dramatically increase in all key areas—time, money, relationships, and purpose. (Location 185)
When you’re trying to accomplish something challenging or difficult that you’ve never done before, you probably need a Who. Let me say that another way: You absolutely need a Who if you’re trying to accomplish (Location 263)
This lesson is abundantly clear in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Frodo, a simple hobbit, was the Who tasked to take the One Ring to Mount Doom and destroy it to save Middle Earth. But Frodo couldn’t accomplish such a task on his own. He needed an entire fellowship of Whos to achieve this epic quest. When the (Location 267)
Stoicism
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”
-Epictetus
What is the closest thing to a Stoic trainer that is not a psychologist?
Maybe a Stoic / Mindset coach?
I think this profession should exist.
The Better Human Agency
I accidentally started an agency.
We focus on marketing and SEO writing.
We also handle PPC ad funnel setups, email automation, and newsletters for businesses—all things every business needs but few even attempt.
The backstory: I took a consulting job for a law firm in Florida. After 60 days of applying the skillset I’ve developed working online for years, I realized how much value I could create for a business.
So I’m taking on a few more clients.
Reply to this email if you would like to chat.
A proxy for everything else
Online personalities find a "niche" and then go on to produce more and more content that gets them likes and clicks.
It's the polarizing nature of social media.
I've always resisted this because I believe life is myriad, complex, and nuanced. I don't like an algorithm pigeonholing me into a specific topic or idea and then bringing out the most extreme version of it.
This is why I left TikTok: the videos with the most views were about politics and were skewed negatively. So I stopped making them.
It's tough to go viral with positive content. I don't have the time or desire to do that, so I'm now mostly off social media other than posting random thoughts that come to mind on Twitter.
That said, the state, the media, and just about everything defining the "normal" status quo is entirely and utterly BROKEN. Climate change. Nutrition. Academia. Sickcare. The food system. Wall street. Voting. Democracy. All are entirely corrupt and parasitic.
It's all due for a reset.
That reset is coming. The question is whether it will be gradual or all at once. No one knows.
I think it will be gradual… or at least I hope so we can avoid the upheaval that comes with any societal transformation.
The post below exemplifies how completely captured the mainstream is… and this is true of EVERYTHING MAINSTREAM.
My mission with The Better Human is to create a modern framework that individuals can use to opt out of the broken status quo and rebuild a new way of life from the ground up. I've already started the framework here. It's barely the first draft, so there is more to come.
The single most important place you can start if you are interested in taking control of your mind and body is to do just that—take back control!
Analyze every habit, routine, or accepted way you do things. You will see that most of these concepts and beliefs were planted in your mind by someone else. And what's even crazier is you've made HUGE Life decisions along the way without ever taking the time to analyze any of them.
Accept nothing from others without first considering it yourself.
Then start the unlearning and replacing process integral to taking control of your body, mind, money, relationships, and life.
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What is Better Human?
Better Human is a philosophy for 21st-century humans that want to live effective, happy, and healthy lives. I’m building publicly here: TheBetterHuman.co - Check out the philosophy + learning path as it develops. And please share any thoughts, ideas, or concepts you think I should include.
Building Better Humans from the ground up. Rebirth. Unlearn. Escape the Matrix. Create a life based on your self-curated values and escape the drudgery of modernity.
Practical Philosophy, Evolutionary Psychology, Health, First Principles Thinking, and taking absolute ownership.
Building Better Humans through a complete change of mind, thought patterns and creating a new life based on a self-created personal philosophy.
Building The Better Human Philosophy → Goal: Create a new framework for human meaning in the 21st century.
The Better Human Philosophy is a practical method of thinking and living based on first principles thinking, truth, self-ownership and reliance, and opting out of the broken status quo.
Build a unique life through your own self-discovered personal philosophy - that’s what the world needs. It does not need another carbon copy.
The Problem
Society is broken. Society monetizes the group at the expense of the individual.
Since humans are tribal creatures, they fall into groupthink and mass psychosis.
A few escape. A few forge their own path. A few wake up. A few uncover Truth and foundational principles of biology, psychology, history, and economics,.
Modern humans struggle with meaning. We no longer have to survive. We now have to survive modernity, a struggle to find meaning, and avoid suicide/suffering through a life of quiet desperation.
You want to change. You want a successful life of health, wealth, happiness, and relationships.
But you have no idea how to get it. You follow the mainstream, what people around you are doing—the illusion of social media and curated facade of bullshit dupe you. You are plugged into the Matrix.
It’s less than 3% that ever escape and create lives of meaning for themselves. Each human that does gets there in their own unique way. So it’s impossible to identify the one thing to do. It is possible to do the one thing that is the MOST IMPACTFUL for getting there. And that’s COMPLETELY CHANGING YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
Filling your mind with new ideas, people, and the scenery is the foundational aspect of change that so few ever realize and even fewer master.
The Better Human Program is singularly focused on one major outcome—change your environment, master it to get the mind, body, and then eventually, the life you want.
Then live that till the end of the days while pursuing mastery.
The Method
Reborn: Completely detach from your former self. Let go of your Ego, identity, past, bad habits, toxic relationships with people, drugs, food, propaganda, fear, politics, etc.
Shed your past self and build a new self. Let go of your traumas, shame, guilt, externally enforced baggage of expectation, comparison, and victim mentality. It’s also to be FIT and healthy without massive effort… to build the knowledge, skill, and belief system that makes you look good and feel good year-round.
Replace that with new thought patterns based on TRUTH and first principles thinking.
Completely guard your life so only approved ideas and people are allowed in. Take action towards definite goals to build a life of meaning for yourself rather than from outside.
Find meaning in helping others behind you following the same path.
Live differently → intentional living in nature with others. Close communities outside of the urban rigamarole. (My goal is the BH community project to show the world exactly how it can be done.)
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Quotes
“THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO SEE BEYOND THE SHADOWS AND LIES OF THEIR CULTURE WILL NEVER BE UNDERSTOOD, LET ALONE BELIEVED, BY THE MASSES.” -Plato
“KNOWING OTHERS IS INTELLIGENCE; KNOWING YOURSELF IS TRUE WISDOM. MASTERING OTHERS IS STRENGTH; MASTERING YOURSELF IS TRUE POWER.”
-Lao Tzu
"TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY AS IF YOU WERE GOING TO LIVE FOREVER; AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR SOUL AS IF YOU WERE GOING TO DIE TOMORROW."
- SAINT AUGUSTINE