“Boil things down to their fundamental truths and then reason up from there.” – Elon Musk
Welcome back 🙂
We’ve had a few days off, so I hope you’re feeling rested and ready.
What’s coming over the next two weeks is a very big deal, if you’re sincere about inner development.
This is where it all begins; in asking and answering the fundamental questions of yourself:
Who am I?
Who do I want to be?
Where am I going?
How do I get there?
What’s stopping me?
Until these questions are answered — clearly, honestly, and definitively — nothing true can begin.
We’re like a passenger in a car that isn’t ours, driving to a destination we didn’t choose, carried by the flow of traffic around us — unsure of where we’re going, or why.
No wonder anxiety bubbles under the surface of our mind nearly every moment of the day.
How can we feel confident in who we are if we don’t know who we are?
How can we feel at home in the world if we don’t know why we’re here?
How can we feel inspired about the future if we don’t know where we’re going, or how to get there?
Or, why we’re going there at all?
Make no mistake; everything — everything — begins here, with a process I’ve come to call:
Self Design.
It’s a process I’ve been refining since 2013, when I left home and took off on a journey around the world, searching for answers to those fundamental questions.
The search criss-crossed 40 countries, six continents, hundreds of retreats, and thousands of hours in silent meditation…
…Finally culminating in an apprenticeship in traditional plant medicine, where I lived in strict, monastic isolation for over two years.
And it worked.
In 2020, my process finally felt complete — my questions were answered, and my direction was clear.
For the first time in my life, I felt like I had “landed” — fully at home within myself and in the world — armed with direct, hard-earned knowledge of who I am, why I’m here, where I’m going, and why.
So I started making notes on this process, slowly gathering my thoughts in Evernote over the next several years.
I didn’t know what this project would become (the material was too mature to publish at DeepGame), but I knew the idea was supremely important:
Critical to the mission of inner development, the single key that unlocks the entrance to the path.
And over the next two weeks, I’m finally going to share my findings.
Stay tuned…
– T
