Hey everyone, I am doing something totally different here and this is a mini episode that is focused on sort of a

I wouldn't call it a rebuttal. I would call it further commentary on the author Mark Manson's. He calls it his mother F and Monday news letter.

And he points out three different things that are interesting about the human mind. And I always find it useful.

And this one sort of hit a couple of topics that are pretty close to what we do here.

And so I wanted to talk a little bit about his newsletter and some ideas. So the first idea is your next big breakthrough is already here.

And what he's basically talking about here is we tend to create narratives and certainly Hollywood and fiction

creates these narratives where all of a sudden something happens. Boom, we have this moment of transformation and everything's different.

And Mark is saying, well, that's not really how it works. Sure, there are moments that appear to be big transformational moments.

But there's hundreds, if not thousands of little changes that are leading up to that moment. And I would mostly agree with everything he's saying here.

I think it's interesting when I look at my recovery, you could point at the day that I went into detox in December of 1994 was when I got sober from heroin addiction.

And you could say that was the turning point. And when I tell the story, I even talk about a turning point. They told me to go into 30 day treatment.

I went back to my room. I had a moment of clarity where I thought I'm going to die if I go back out there.

And so I went back to him said, I'll go into treatment. So very clear moment, right? Before and after.

However, of course, it's not that simple because there were so many things that led up to me being ready to make that change, both positive and negative things.

Right? I'd been to treatment before. I'd been to a bunch of meetings. I'd had a sponsor. I'd done a little of this, a little of that.

I'd been arrested. I mean, so it's impossible to sort of say that moment, but it's it's a clear moment.

And one of the things that Mark is warning against in this article is saying, Hey, if you believe that transformation happens in one moment,

then you're easily deceived by people who want to sell you transformation. And as somebody who sells something called the one you feed transformation program, this is an interesting thought.

However, the one you feed transformation program is not a moment of transformation. It's six months of transformation, right?

We're working on our daily choices day in and day out for a six month period and beyond, right? That's how real change happens.

So I agree with them 100% and there are powerful transformative moments on a retreat with audio shanti a couple years ago.

I had what we would consider an awakening and enlightenment moment. Then we'd call it satore or Ken show that that was so overwhelming and so powerful and it lasted for, you know, maybe 36 hours or so.

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