Name: It’s actually pretty easy to get ahead of 99% of people.
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What if I told you, it's incredibly easy to get ahead of 99% of people, but it only takes 5 minutes a day?

Stick to the end of this video, and I'll give you a step-by-step, bulletproof plan to do exactly that.

I am a Harvard-trained ER physician with three Ivy League degrees whose mission is to give anyone who wants it the secret keys to success.

It all starts with the first thing, the realization.

They wake up, go to work, do the bare minimum to keep the lights on, find 100 excuses to not do the thing they know they need to do, and they waste their entire lives not doing it.

Most are too lazy, distracted, scattered, or even worse, chasing the wrong thing entirely.

There's a gym in my neighborhood that we all share.

It's literally free, and yet, I often find myself the only one there.

I'm talking about hundreds of people who live in the same complex.

When I walk past their apartments on the way there and creepily stare into their windows, I see row after row of people glued to their TVs, their computers, and their phones.

The faint glow of those screens, but a hypnotist's wet dream.

Back when McDonald's first came on the scene, its unbelievable prices, taste, and convenience was unheard of.

Forced to compete, the entire food industry morphed to fit the McDonald's model, and Here we are now, decades later, fatter than ever.

We are in the age of instantaneous gratification, with mind-numbing pleasure just a hand swipe away.

TikTok has been downloaded more than 4.1 billion times, with monthly US users equaling almost half of the entire population.

In the US, almost 1 out of every 2 people use TikTok.

You think other companies aren't noticing?

It's only going to become more sophisticated, more widespread, more addicting.

We have technology already moving to invade your every sense, technology invading to your very brain, and soon, the very fabric of your reality.

It's leaking into and contaminating everything we do, consume, or participate in, and I seriously couldn't be happier.

It's dinner time, and there's a random loaf of bread hidden somewhere.

If most people are high off their minds or incapacitated by withdrawal, how big of an advantage are you going to have as the only sober one there?

As long as you don't become part of the horde, it has never been easier than it is now to get ahead.

And it literally only takes 5 minutes a day.

This is level 1 of your transformation, harnessing the power of small wins.

It's something that comes about in your everyday life that requires minimal effort to complete.

This is taking the stairs instead of the escalator.

This is choosing to listen to an educational podcast when you pick up your phone instead of auto-clicking a garbage app like TikTok.

It's not that hard nor truly uncomfortable to do, just kind of inconvenient.

This is what I call the collective comfort zone.

It's not a secret why my neighborhood gym is empty.

In the collective comfort zone, it feels nice to stuff your brain with numbing, feel-good garbage.

You are about to set up camp outside of this bubble and build a consistent daily roster of small wins.

When these habits become automatic, you are ready for level 2.

Outside the collective comfort zone is another bubble, the personal comfort zone.

Think of the levels in terms of emotions conjured.

Level 1 causes annoyance but is inherently doable.

Level 2 causes anxiety because it's downright scary.

Back when I was single, level 2 was pushing myself to say hi to that cute girl sitting next to me on the plane.

Back when I lived in Hong Kong, it was asking the dude eating noodles what he ordered because 1.

I couldn't read the menu, only for him to tell me to eat shit because I was bothering him.

At work, that's saying no and sending up to your boss and telling him to eat shit.

When that doesn't work, eating humble pie and taking the L when he fires you for insubordination.

Level 2 is then uncomfortably admitting to yourself that you were an idiot for listening to some random guy on YouTube for advice and are now unfortunately homeless.

Maybe someone just cut you off in the road.

Instead of giving them the middle finger, you keep your mouth shut and be the bigger person.

Whatever it is, do it once and fulfill your level 2 quota for the day so that when the next guy cuts you off, you are then free to give him the middle finger.

You only had to give out one free pass a day, remember?

Whatever your level 2 task is, I guarantee no one else around you is systematically trying to level up in this way, one uncomfortable thing at a time.

That's great though because if you stick with the program, this 5 minute habit will soon become second nature and when it does, you will be far ahead of the pack.

What bigger F you could there be than that?

Point is, chase discomfort in small doses and slowly widen the gap between you and those around you.

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