How To Gamify Your Life (And Reinvent Yourself... Fast)

It takes about one to two months of

confusion, feeling lost, and being on

the verge of giving up for the right

amount of vision to form where you have

absolute clarity and launch into a new

way of life. If you want to launch into

a new way of life, the first thing you

need to understand is that life unfolds

in chapters. And each chapter is a

predictable sequence of four phases.

There's the limbo phase where you don't

know what to do or what you want.

There's the vision phase where an image

for the future forms. You act on a new

path and momentum builds. There's the

flow phase where you can't pull yourself

away from the goal you're pursuing. And

then there's the resistance phase where

exponential progress doesn't last

forever, but you don't want it to end.

And that's often to your own detriment.

But most people get trapped in the first

phase, the limbo phase, because your

entire life you've been trained to

follow a script. You're used to the

linear results of schools and jobs.

You're used to someone else giving you

your certainty. But when it comes to

living an unconventional life because

that's the only way to get

unconventional results, you interpret

feeling lost as a bad sign. So you jump

ship and return to the comfortable life

that was planned for you in a system

that only cares for its own benefit. And

that's probably why you're watching

this. You hate the thought of ending up

like everyone else. But that means

you're on your own and that usually

feels like you're lost in this dense

forest and all you can see is trees

right? You don't you don't have the

awareness that 5 yards away there's a

clear path that you can take to the top

of the mountain. So here's how you get

out. And by the way, I created an AI

prompt that turns your life into a video

game and you can use it to guide you

through implementing what's in this

video. And I have to say it's pretty

sweet. It helps you identify where you

are, helps identify what your passions

or interests are, and then it turns

those into a main quest, side quest

character traits to improve, so on and

so forth. The link to that is in the

description. But that leads us into step

one, which is how to collect vision.

Your mind makes sense of the world in

stories. That's why you feel lost

because you don't know what story you

are living out or you're living out a

story that someone else assigned to you.

And you can feel that misalignment in

your soul. The hardest part about taking

back control of your life is collecting

the right puzzle pieces until just the

right amount of vision forms where you

have enough clarity to act with

confidence. And at first, the puzzle

looks like a jumbled mess. Your brain

can't make sense of it. You get stressed

and worried, which leads to a narrow and

negative mind, which makes it

painstakingly difficult to notice new

opportunities. That's why you feel

stuck. So that's step one. Give yourself

permission to allow your life to get

worse. Now if you weren't expecting

that, let me explain. The reason you

feel lost, dull, or even lifeless is

because you don't have a clear goal to

work towards. But that's the exact

problem is you don't know what you want.

You don't know what goal you want to

pursue. Since you feel lost and your

mind is turbulent, a clear goal is the

last thing your mind will be able to

think of. and you'll often make excuses

as to why that isn't the right one to

pursue in the first place. But the thing

is, goals don't exist in isolation. A

strong, purposeful goal is the result of

the exact opposite. A negative outcome

that you will fight tooth and nail to

avoid. And once you've experienced that

outcome firsthand, you'll do anything to

not relive it. You need a problem to

solve. You need an enemy to attack. And

when you have something to avoid, your

goal increases in both gravity pulling

you towards it and clarity. So that's

where you turn your focus. Ask yourself

if I keep doing the same things, where

will my life end up? Sit with that

thought. Really sit with it. Let it

consume your mind because when it starts

to take over, your mind will be hungry

to learn, experiment, and grow. Step two

is how to change your mind. because you

act the way you do right now because you

already have a goal. That's how the mind

works. Your mind is a goal striving

machine that perceives the world in a

way that allows it to collect useful

information to achieve that goal. The

thing is, you're unconscious of the goal

you're pursuing and it's ruining your

life. Aristotle believed that the final

cause of a situation is the ultimate

purpose or end goal for which it exists.

In Adleran psychology with a focus on

teiology, we are not pushed by our past

but pulled by our goals. We act in a way

that is beneficial toward the aim in

which we're directed. So toward the

goal. So in other words, and this can be

a mindbender for many, you are in your

current situation because you want to

be, but that's unconscious to you and

you probably won't believe it at first.

you feel lost, confused, or overwhelmed

because it's beneficial for achieving

the goal of avoiding the pain, fear, and

embarrassment that comes with doing

something unconventional with your life.

So, when you're entering this new

chapter in your life, you may not have a

clear positive goal of, oh, I want to

get super ripped or start this

billion-dollar business or whatever it

may be, but you still have a goal. All

humans have goals at all times. Even you

moving your hand or taking a step

forward or whatever it may be is aligned

with a goal of something you're trying

to do. So if we work backwards from that

and understand, okay, where is my mind

at right now? What actions am I taking

right now? What goal does that align

with? And for most people with feeling

lost and coming up with all of these

excuses and other things, their

unconscious goal that they aren't aware

of is to stay the same because they want

to avoid the pain that comes with

change. And the sooner you become aware

of that, the sooner you can change the

goal that your mind is operating on to

be one that is more positive. But the

good thing here is that with step one

we've already primed our mind for change

by gaining complete awareness on what we

don't want in life by doing what we're

currently doing. Now, to change your

mind completely, you need to immerse

yourself in new sources of information

to discover the puzzle pieces that lead

to clarity. Read new books, talk to new

people, follow new accounts, visit a

place you've been wanting to go, go on a

long walk and throw on a podcast, take a

course on a new skill to enhance your

career or start a business. Or you can

knock out two birds with one stone

because I recently released a miniourse

on how I systemize my life with AI

which teaches you how to create a focus

coach or a tribe of mentors to enhance

your thinking or how to enhance your

content writing or your marketing or

copywriting. But the thing here is you

can both use AI in this sense to get

unstuck and you can use it to learn AI

a new skill, right? So you can knock out

two birds with one stone. There's a link

in the description for that. Now, it

doesn't really matter what information

you consume as long as it's something

that has the potential to spark change.

Because when your mind is in a state of

wanting to avoid the current trajectory

of your life, the new goal, this is when

true learning occurs. You will feel the

dopamine spurt into your brain when you

find a potential opportunity to pursue.

Now, within a few weeks, you should have

some idea of the life you want to live

right? Because so many people just feel

like they have to have this like

absolutely clear goal, this absolutely

clear vision of what they want to do

when you already know what kind of life

you want to live. You understand that

you don't want to live a bad life. You

understand that you want a good life and

you have some kind of an image of that.

You can think of a very vague idea of a

good life that you want to live and just

start working in that direction, right?

It's a general aim. You don't even need

to know what to do or what you're doing

as long as you're going in that

direction rather than the opposite. But

how you move along that path is up to

step three, which is to gify your life

or to turn your life into a video game.

Because your mind runs on a story line

and games are preconstructed stories

with certain mechanisms that narrow your

focus and make progress enjoyable. When

you play a game, there are a clear

hierarchy of goals so you know how to

win, direct feedback so you know when

you are making progress, and rules that

add a sense of challenge and skill

development. Now, all of these are core

components of flow psychology. And if

you don't know what the flow state is

it's the state of optimal experience

that we often fall in love with or

crave. It's when we lose that we lose

that sense of self-consciousness. We

become one with the task at hand. And

this is why social media companies and

gaming companies and entertainment

companies in general spend billions upon

billions of dollars investing in

research for how to replicate these

mechanisms in the games, in the social

media, in the media in general so that

we become addicted to it. But what few

people realize is that you can also

study and understand these mechanisms

and replicate them in your own life to

move in a positive direction to gamify

your life. That way, you're actually

making progress on something real rather

than thinking you're making progress on

something that's fake. So, the first

step to gifying your life is to just

design the game. And with this, we first

need to understand that most people have

a very mediocre definition of what a

goal is. A goal is an aim. A goal is not

something that you must achieve at all

costs. A goal is a lens from which to

make decisions. The goals themselves are

supposed to change and evolve as you

become more experienced. Now, most

people are starting to like write this

off as something that doesn't work. The

the following list that I'm going to go

over, they think it's just some

self-help or productivity hack that

people don't really need to use. So

that list of things to do is to create a

hierarchy of goals composed of an end

goal, long-term goals, and short-term

goals. So, you can just think of this as

like, okay, what's something something

out there that I would want? What's a

one-year goal that I can achieve to help

me get there? What about a one-mon goal

a oneweek goal? And then we can break it

down further from there. The next thing

is to create the rules of the game

you're playing. So, what are you not

willing to sacrifice in your life to

make progress toward the end goal? Do

you not want to sacrifice your health or

your relationships? Or do you not want

to work long hours? And this adds

constraints. It makes the game creative.

You can achieve success without working

long hours. There is a way to do it. You

can achieve success without sacrificing

your health. You can achieve success

without sacrificing your relationships.

Most people just don't choose that path

because they either don't think it's

possible or they just don't know what

they don't know and they're not willing

to admit that they don't know how to do

that thing and they don't want to learn

it. And the last thing here is to use

quantifiable priority tasks as feedback

loops like writing a thousand words a

day, reading 10 pages, or reaching out

to five potential clients. So those are

your levers, right? your long-term goals

like the 10-year goal, the one-year

goal, the one-month goal, those are just

the direction you're heading in, right?

You don't have to achieve that thing

specifically. You're just trying to move

in that direction. And it helps you

create clarity for what you do right

now. The 1,000 words a day or

quantifiable priority task is just how

you get there. And by completing those

a,000 words, it's the feedback loop that

lets you know that you're making

progress. is just one piece of the

puzzle for gamifying your life and

making it more enjoyable because that's

how your mind responds to a game. Now

the thing here is that your life loses

the spark of novelty and pattern

recognition when you have a vague or

unconscious story you are living out.

So, when you create the order your mind

craves, chaos is much easier to keep at

bay. Now, step number two with gamifying

your life is to create a tutorial phase.

Because in a game you learn by doing

not by studying endless tutorials or

watching gameplay. And you can watch

tutorials and gameplay of course. But if

you do so before you actually start

playing the game, that's not learning.

That's entertainment. If you've ever

played a video game, you know, you can

go watch streamers play the game all day

long. And sure, you can start to

understand. Okay, I get I understand the

game. I can probably start playing it. I

know what to do. But then you sit down

and start playing and your fingers like

don't know what keys to press. You don't

know how to move the mouse in a specific

way. You haven't practiced. You haven't

done anything. And eventually you learn

that what you watch doesn't align with

the actual reality of what you're doing.

But of course, once you actually start

playing the game first, once it's

something that you do, once it's a part

of your identity and something you do

every day, then when you go to watch

tutorials or gameplay, you can pick up

strategies or tactics or hacks that you

want to try because you understand how

to specifically implement them. And then

the more strategies or other things that

you collect from other people and

combine into your own, that's what makes

your own gameplay unique. So start

playing the game. Don't worry if you

aren't absolutely confident and whether

it's what you want to do for the rest of

your life because you figure out what

you want to do by error correcting and

you can't correct an error that doesn't

exist. So once you are playing your

game, the one you're creating, you

supplement your mind with the two

following things. One is the

fundamentals because most success is not

getting distracted from the

fundamentals. And two is specific

solutions. So an intentional search for

an answer once you can't make progress

by your own knowledge or intuition. The

main priority tasks for your day should

be learning and building for 1 to two

hours at a time. These do not happen in

isolation. And for those who haven't

made AI a part of their life right now

this is arguably the best use case for

beginners for AI is just to get unstuck.

Because if I'm creating something in

Photoshop or I'm writing my 10,000 words

a day, I don't have to have AI do that

thing for me, but it can be this

creative sparring partner, a thought

partner that helps me overcome my

creative blocks. So, if I'm in Photoshop

and I don't know how to do something, I

can literally type, hey, I'm trying to

do this in Photoshop. What do I try?

What do I do? What are five different

ways to do this? And it'll spit it out.

And then you try those and you overcome

that block. You get unstuck. And this

isn't uh outsourcing your learning. This

is just how you learn in general in the

most effective way. But now it's sped up

with AI because you can just open it and

ask anything. And you take it even

further. You don't have to ask AI to

give you exactly what to do. You can

say, "Hey, here's what I'm doing. Here's

where I'm at. Here's where I'm stuck.

Can you help me identify my own

knowledge gaps, my blind spots, and

maybe give me three questions to ask you

to help me make progress?" And if you do

that, I think you'll be very surprised

with how much faster you can overcome

these blocks. And if you do that

consistently day in day out, you're

making progress a lot faster than many

other people. Now, step three for

gamifying your life is to stay at the

edge of the unknown. Because in some

video games, you have this mini map and

on that mini map there are the spots

you've explored, which are light and

bright. You know that you've explored

them. And then there's the dark areas

where you can't see anything on the map.

you haven't gone there yet. And this

indirectly represents two things inside

the game, which is your skill level and

your experience. Because in the dark

places on the mini map, those are higher

level than you, right? You haven't

explored them. There's quests that you

can't take on. There's higher level

monsters and people. And if you were to

somehow, because you probably can't get

there right now because there isn't a

path to get there, but if you were to

somehow just teleport into the middle of

the unknown, it's like you're jumping

into the middle of the ocean and you

don't know how to swim. a higher level

character is just going to come and

one-shot you. The monsters are going to

twoshot you. You can't even do any of

the quests there. You can't do any of

the dungeons. You're just like running

back to safety the entire time. You're

anxious. But on the flip side, if you

stay inside the places that you know for

too long, you just get bored because

you're higher level, right? In Pokémon

you're catching all these low-level

Pokémon. In World of Warcraft, you're

just one-shotting these monsters and

collecting a few bits of gold. But in

the unknown, the gold is higher. The

experience that you can gain from it is

higher. So in reality, if you take on a

challenge or a task that is too high for

your skill level, you're going to get

anxious and you're probably not going to

make that much progress. If you continue

doing the same task day in day out

without any novelty or challenge, you're

going to get bored and you're going to

wonder why you aren't doing something

else with your time. So in both

scenarios, you're not making substantial

progress. So the solution is to stay

right at the edge of your challenge

level. So to stay in the range of

optimal experience or enjoying your

life, you need to consistently cultivate

your skill set and take on higher

challenges. That's where the meaningful

flow of information is maximized. That's

where you feel as if you are always

learning something new. That's where

your life becomes an enjoyable blur of

progress, a spiritual state of clear

perception where things just feel right.

And this is also why a 9 to-ive job is a

great stepping stone, but is often a

death sentence. You learn and progress

until you're stuck doing the same thing

over and over again. That's not a

meaningful way to live. It

psychologically castrates you and bleeds

into all other areas of your life. Now

it's difficult to give like concrete

advice of what to do here, but if I

could suggest one thing, it would be

this. Every week or month, slightly

increase the challenge of what you do.

This does not mean adding more work. It

means treating what you do like lifting

weights in the gym. You don't jump up in

your bench press by 50 lbs at a time.

The most developed lifters know that

adding the smallest 2.5 lb plate every 1

to 2 weeks is how they see the most

progress and stay addicted. And they

also understand that ego lifting isn't

going to get you anywhere. So, I hope

this video was helpful. Again, I have a

turn your life into a video game AI

prompt that I made that is actually

pretty sweet. I recommend you check it

out. Link in the description. And now a

few other things is that I'm actually

going to start posting two uh weekly

letters on Substack. And the newsletter

that you guys previously knew that I

would send out every Saturday is going

to become a kind of high signal summary

of everything inside or everything that

I've talked about that week. And there's

also going to be a paid tier of the

Substack for a very low cost. That will

be my place where I post like the most

practical life-changing stuff on

marketing, creator economy, writing, AI.

Anything that I find helpful in my own

life, I'm going to pop in there so you

can join that if you'd like. Again

links to all of those in the

description. Hope you enjoyed this

video. Thanks for watching. Bye.