The Infinite Game Of Self-Development

It’s not about just one goal. You are not working every single day on yourself to reach one specific goal. You are working towards being your best self. The best shape you can be in. The best mental performance you can have. The most creative ideas you can conjure. This is why you do it. This is the end-game. This end-game is no end-game. It’s an infinite game. Always on top of your game. This is the goal. You can only go up if you keep getting better. Maybe there won’t be many outcomes for a while. Maybe you won’t feel any changes. Maybe your life won’t change in the next months. Maybe it takes 5 years to take effect. But this is the important part: the effects are coming. Time needs to catch up with your inputs. The world needs to see if you are really serious about it. Are you willing to do the work daily, without seeing any real results for a LONG time? Are you capable of facing challenges, even if you don’t see what’s on the other side? Do you crumble under the weight of problems that come with higher levels?

Because problems don’t go away. They just shift into other problems. You want a solution to your problems, so you work to be at a higher level. But those higher levels mean higher problems to solve. Your immediate, low level problems are now solved. Now, how are you handling the new ones? Do you just give up and live in “comfort”? Quickest way to defeat purpose. Or are you diving in head-first? Can you come up with solutions? Can you even spot the root causes of the problems you face? This is what the training grounds are all about. Changing your mindset to a problem-solver, so it’s not just about the problems you are facing, it’s about problems in general. You need to solve your own problems, but you also need to be able to solve others’ problems as well. Problems you don’t experience yourself, and never experienced yourself. This is how you get ahead of the game. The next level problems, that you now haven’t experienced, will be your next challenges. If you are capable of solving problems you haven’t faced yet, that means you will be more likely to solve the problems that you encounter later on.

This is why being a problem-solver is the goal of this phase. Changing your mindset. Changing your world-view. Being at the top of your game. It’s not about what you do. It’s about HOW you do it, and what you DON’T do. Getting in the correct direction. Collecting data in the meantime. Piecing together the puzzle. Starting to see the world for how it really is. Shedding your old skin, your old beliefs, your old self. Creating a persona who is capable of navigating this new world of endless problems and possibilities. This is why most people fail right at the first steps. They solve a problem for themselves, expecting to go without hiccups the rest of the way. Then, they bounce into the bigger problems, and they get stuck. They can’t find solutions. They don’t know how to search for them, because they don’t know how they solved the first problems either. They got lucky, they did the right thing unknowingly. That is not a problem-solver. That is a lucky person. And lucky people have nothing to do with high levels. They are visitors, but never stay for long. You can win the lottery, but how long do you think you will have that money for? A year? Two years? 5? Will you travel the world, buy a house, buy a car, then live at the same level you were before you won it? Except, now you have more liabilities, you need to pay the gas for your car, higher bills for the bigger house. Luck quickly becomes your enemy if you cannot harness the power created by it.