I started this letter with the famous quote we’ve all heard thousands of times over. But a few of you reading probably know where I’m going with this…

That’s not the full quote. The full quote is:

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

One of the most practical pieces of wisdom I was given when I was younger was to know a little bit about everything.

When I say everything, I mean the every-thing that generally captures your interest.

For me that might be Spirituality, Art, Engineering, Sports, Cinema, Neuroscience, Psychology…

Why is that useful?

Back then, I took it to mean “become a well-rounded individual”, but at the end of this letter I will reveal to you the hidden, deeper reason why this matters so much, especially in today’s world.

And why self-interest is actually the path to becoming selfless…

Reality bends to those who optimise for their curiosity.

The problem is, we’re conditioned from a young age to remove or at least restrict our intellectual curiosity because in most fixed, rigid systems, being dynamic is not ideal for control.

Like in school, you’re taught to focus only on the task at hand, and not to let your imagination run free.

Or in social settings, when you’re taught it’s customary to stay on a singular topic during a conversation.

And those are valuable skills too, the art of focus. But that shouldn’t come at the broader cost of your curiosity.

I realised something recently: the wonder and awe you felt as a child existed only because you lived in a perpetual state of curiosity.

And getting back to that feeling as an adult is becoming increasingly more difficult. It might be the conspiracy theorist in me, but I feel as if it’s been conditioned out of us in order to maintain a degree of control, but thats a topic for another day…

One thing I know for sure, from studying the greats, is that reality has always favoured those who optimise for their curiosity, because the more you follow your intuitive knowing, the bigger the world will feel again.

Maybe not on the physical plane, but mentally and spiritually…let me explain.

We are tribal beings by nature; we often choose what we think we will like and then unconsciously box ourselves in, and what we think we like is usually a projection of what others have decided we should like.

This happens with our interests, our careers, our friends, and even where we decide to live.

And if you do this for long enough, your entire world is small enough to fit into a postcode (zip code for my Americans).

But the following of your intuitive knowing breaks those invisible walls you have been building. Learning to listen to that self again, the one that’s buried under the conditioning, is the path out to freedom.

Let’s take a practical framing first; my friend Dan Koe called this “becoming multi-dimensionally jacked” Essentially, your skillset, personality, and interests extend beyond what is considered average.

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You can be an athlete, and a poet. A scientist and an artist. An academic and an entertainer. You intentionally add layer upon layer to the self, until you become a walking paradox.

And you know, it’s said that pattern recognition is one of the highest forms of intelligence; by knowing a little something about everything, what tends to happen is you begin connecting dots and spotting patterns in worlds that seemingly have no connective tissue.

I’ve experienced it in my own life, when something I learnt about in neuroscience and cognition somehow directly maps onto a feature we develop on FRQNCY. (My app - check it out here)

Or when reading a biography of a Michelin star chef gave me some transferable operating principles for my physical training.

Ideas move sideways between rooms you never expected them to enter, if you create the hallway in your mind for them.

The wider and deeper you go in your pursuit of wisdom, the more universal laws you begin to discover that will help you ascend on your journey of mastery.

Because something I’ve realised is we all tend to discover the same truths in different wrapping paper. My favourite DaVinci quote is:

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” — Leonardo DaVinci

The pursuit of wisdom, to know a little bit about everything, helps you on this mission of developing a complete mind. And that might just be the ultimate competitive advantage; however, this leads me to the real crux of this letter…

Yes, winning in life, in business, in your career matters. You can win on the physical plane with this attitude.

But because there’s a hidden, deeper reason I’ve been trying to allude to that governs our entire experience of reality, stick with me here…

I believe that the expansion of your wisdom and the following of your interests are the most spiritual things you can do.

A working theory I have is that there was never a “fall” - but consciousness descended into form, in order to know itself.

It took the shape of us, of nature, so that it could experience the wonder of contrast. Dark and light, love and hate. Polarity means that everything exists on a continuum.

Why?

Because contrast is the only mechanism through which self-knowledge is possible. You can only know yourself in relation to what you are not.

All this to say, with each skill you stack, with each thread you pull on, you not only add a dimension to yourself, but simultaneously create a potential point of connection for someone else. Someone who was waiting on the other end of that same thread without knowing it.

This is where self-interest becomes self-less and an act of service.

I think about how much richness we’d have with one another if our similarities outweighed our differences. A connection that transcends borders, cultures and religions entirely.

Imagine a world where the Arab could connect with the Jew, despite cultural differences.

The immigrant who could connect with the nationalist

The billionaire who could connect with the beggar

That’s the true purpose of spirituality: breaking the illusion that we were ever separate to begin with.

So this isn’t really an argument for becoming a jack of all trades, or even a well-read one. Because on the surface, sure, that matters…

But I would argue that the pursuit of wisdom, the following of your curiosity, is an argument for depth of a different kind.

The kind where your self-knowledge runs deep enough that you start recognising it in everyone else too.

Where curiosity stops being a personality trait and starts being a form of prayer, because every new thing you learn to love is one less thing you can call foreign. It’s one less invisible barrier in the way.

Carl Jung often spoke about the idea of the shadow and that the things we hate in others are often things we have avoided in ourselves, but there is also this idea of the golden shadow - the things we admire in others are traits we too hold but have suppressed.

The more I sat with it, the more I began to recognise that the pursuit of your interests is not accidental. Your intuition and your curiosity know more than you do, and as Alan Watts said, we’re infinitely more intelligent in our intuition than in our conscious mind.

The more work you do on yourself, the more work you do on the world. Knowing a little bit about everything is not a selfish pursuit; I’d argue it’s your duty to deepen your connection to others that the world has been manufactured to break and make feel impossible.

And maybe that’s what mastery actually is. Not narrowing until there’s nothing left to know, but widening until there’s nothing left to fear.

Happy Monday,

Professor Jules-Bois said in 1928 that French psychologists have investigated what was called the superconsciousness, which “is the exact opposite of the subconscious mind.”

And it is the differentiating trait that makes a man truly human rather than just a “super-animal.”

I found it interesting because it’s the direct inverse to Freud’s model of the Subconscious mind that pulls you down into instinct, dream-logic, and reflex.

Instead, the superconscious was theorised as a lift upward, into heightened awareness, intuition, and a kind of transcendent clarity.

Granted, this is just theory, not scientifically proven, and Bois was considered somewhat of a mystic too, but I still think this theory holds weight.

It got me deep into thinking about how reality creation actually works from the bottom up.

Because it seems to me that the journey from the subconscious to the superconscious mind mirrors the process of ascension during spiritual awakening; in fact, it might just be a different model to explain the very same mechanism.

So allow me to share with you what I’ve learnt, and better yet, at the end how to apply it to bend reality to your will.

Let’s first begin with breaking down what the two are and then what ascension actually looks like.

The Superconscious

The superconscious is a dimension above the reach of personal consciousness, whose qualities still flow downward into our ordinary awareness.

Freud famously said that he is only interested in the basement of the human being (AKA: The subconscious)

But imagine building an elevator that reaches every floor - including the terrace where you can sunbathe or look at the stars.

Roberto Assagioli did exactly this, and he called his system Psychosynthesis.

The diagram maps three zones:

Lower unconscious - basic drives, survival instincts, security needs, repressed material, and unresolved trauma. This is what Jung called the Shadow

Middle unconscious - ordinary waking psychological material, skills, states

Higher unconscious/superconscious - the drive for purpose and meaning, authentic values, superior intuitions in art, science, and philosophy, impulses toward service - the realm of genius and of the contemplative states experienced by great mystics.

And one level above that sits the soul.

Psychosynthesis gives us two centres:

• The “I” - the point of pure self-awareness and will, the observer, the place from which you step back and choose consciously rather than react automatically.
  

• The Self - a centre of consciousness and will like the “I,” but able to extend awareness across the whole unconscious rather than just the personal field.

Essentially theres's a “you” that you experience day to day (thoughts, moods, decisions, personality)

And there’s a deeper, higher “you” - the source of that self.

I like Ram Dass’ approach to this when he taught, “Do not worship the gate, go into the inner temple.” The quote I share at the end expands on this idea.

But the two aren’t separate things. They’re the same thing at two levels, like an object and its reflection in a mirror. Whatever the object does, the reflection does too, automatically and instantly, without the reflection having to “try.”

But this is where it can get confusing because the reflection isn’t nothing either; it has its own life, its own texture, at its own level. Which is why it feels so real.

I would compare this to the Vedic framing of identification with Maya or worldly desires; we often lose touch with the point of being here when we indulge and over-identify with what is of the world. Until we taste a higher reality, it feels to us that this is all there is.

Point being, your everyday personality and self-image (the “I”) is the mirror image.

Your higher Self is the object.

Change happens at the object level first and the reflection just... shows it. It has no choice not to.

In my work, I cite the likes of Neville Goddard and ancient hermetics often; it's spiritual language for the very same process.

Neville says your outer life is the mirror, and your self-concept, your inner “I AM”, is the object. You don’t fix the reflection by rearranging the mirror; you fix it by changing what’s standing in front of the mirror.

In hermeticism, this is the universal law of as within, so without. Whatever happens at the level of within (your internal state) is reflected without (your circumstances).

So in simple terms, reality doesn’t get created at the level of the personality. It gets created one level up, at the level of Self, and the personality just displays whatever the Self has already decided is true.

It’s therefore realising that you were never the reflection; you’re the thing being reflected.

I would liken the superconscious to pure intuition, to awakening, to the highest levels of awareness.

But if the psyche were a house, it would have many levels, and in order for it to make sense, we must understand the lowest level, so let me explain that in simple terms.

The Subconscious

There’s a lot of talk about the subconscious online; it’s become somewhat of a buzzword.

But to break it down plainly, the subconscious mind is the part of your mind that processes information, memories, and feelings below your active awareness.

If the superconscious is the ceiling, then as Freud said, the subconscious is the basement of the mind.

It’s just everything running the show that you’re not currently paying attention to, like your habits, your automatic reactions, old wounds, beliefs you absorbed as a child and never questioned, and the identity you’ve been unconsciously assumed for years.

It’s not “lower” as in worse; it’s lower as in underneath, holding up everything you consciously experience.

The subconscious doesn’t judge, argue, or filter; it just accepts whatever you impress on it as true, and then works to make your outer world match it. It’s obedient to whatever self-concept you feed it:

Whether it’s “I’m someone who struggles” or “I’m someone things work out for”, the subconscious takes as fact and starts producing evidence for.

Let’s go back to the mirror.

If the superconscious is the object standing in front of the mirror, think of the subconscious as the glass itself, the medium that does the actual reflecting. It doesn’t originate anything.

It just faithfully reproduces whatever impression has been pressed into it.

Circling back to psychosynthesis now, the first zone in the map I shared earlier is the unconscious. Carl Jung spoke at length about the unconscious and the shadow self; his whole body of work was centred around the idea that if you do not integrate the shadow self, you will forever live at its mercy.

Whatever isn’t resolved will just repeat. Whether it be old complexes, survival patterns, or what you have repressed.

So essentially the subconscious is the engine room. It has no opinions of its own, and it just executes whatever belief has been repeated into it long enough to sink below awareness.

Ascension, then, isn’t about escaping the subconscious. It’s about becoming the one consciously feeding it instead of leaving it running on autopilot so the “mirror” starts reflecting the Self on purpose instead of reflecting old programming by default.

Now that we have a decent understanding of the two opposing levels of the mind, let’s talk about what the process of ascension looks like.

Sorry to break it to you, to ascend, you must first descend:

I pray I didn’t give you a glimmer of hope by introducing you to the superconscious and lead you to think that you can skip straight to that level…

Unfortunately, that’s what a lot of spiritual content gets wrong and is what leads people astray.

You cannot run away to the mountains; you’ll even meet your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Meaning, you must face what you actively avoid in order to grow.

The psychosynthesis movement is first about descending downward into the lower unconscious, to integrate the shadow, and only then rising to include the superconscious.

You don’t bypass the basement to reach the terrace. You can’t build a stable bridge to the higher self while the subconscious is still running unexamined patterns underneath you.

I recently just shared this idea:

“a mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.”

Intuition seems to be the missing link that creates what is considered the “complete mind”.

Logic seems to be a function of the lower mind, whilst to intuit is a function of the true self.

So naturally, the magic happens in the integration of the two…

Meaning the descent into lower levels isn’t a detour from ascension; it’s the only pathway to it.

And there are actually four stages to this mental ascension:

Stage 1: Disidentification

The starting move is realising you are not your thoughts, moods, roles, or body; you’re the awareness that notices them.

One of my favourite metaphors for this comes from the Upanishads. In there and example is given of horses and a chariot.

The chariot is the body

The horses are our senses

The reins are the mind

The charioteer is our intellect

But where we sit is as the passenger inside the chariot.

We observe, and if we reverse or mess up this order, we lose control of the entire chariot.

In plain terms, most people think they are their anxiety, their job title, their old story about themselves. Disidentification is the practice of stepping back and realising you have an anxious thought, you have a job, you have a history, but none of those is the self.

Stage 2: Authentic self-expression

Once you’re no longer fused with old patterns, the question becomes: now that there’s actually a “you” driving instead of the conditioning driving, what does this self genuinely want to express?

This is where a lot of people slip up; they go from “I’m not my old identity” to manifesting whatever they think they should want, without checking if it’s actually true for them.

Which is why this middle step is important: express what’s real before deciding what to build.

Everyone tells you to be authentic; no one tells you how, or what that actually means…

Most of what you believe you want was conditioned into you. By peers, parents, or your immediate environment.

Getting to the root of where your desires come from, and then discovering what’s been projected onto you versus what you actually own is the task.

That is how you discover authenticity.

Stage 3: The “Ideal Model”

This is the stage where direction gets named. Now that we can express ourselves authentically, what is important to express?

Now that we have the wherewithal to create, what is important to create?

What seems to be my calling in life, my path, my direction?

To me it’s the stage where you ask for a more intimate and conscious relationship to something deeper, the self, the source.

The ideal model is something you tune into from the Self, the way you’d tune a radio to a station that’s already broadcasting.

Stage 4: Response to Self

Once you’ve felt into who you really are (the ideal model), the work isn’t over. It’s just beginning. This stage says: now prove it with your choices, not big dramatic ones or grand gestures, but small, boring, daily ones.

This stage isn’t glamorous, like it’s sold to you online, and that’s the point. There is no single point of “awakening” but just enduring the daily gradual process until it takes form and holds.

The identity isn’t proven in the visualisation of it, but it’s proven in the tiny decision nobody’s watching.

I like this framing of an awakening because it demystifies the process and turns it into something tangible. I’ve noticed it’s easy to speak with ambiguity and in vague terminology, especially when it comes to larger-than-life concepts.

But it is the mark of wisdom to be able to speak in simple terms. The objection I often get is that manifestation content, and my content, gets lost in that realm…

I’ve been told so you’re saying “I just think positive and stuff happens?”

I’m trying to share with you here that there is a sequence we all must follow. No matter what terminology you use, it’s the same mechanism. Let me prove it.

The order here is:

• Dissolve the false identification

• Get honest about what’s actually yours to express

• Receive (not invent) the ideal model from Self

• Then act it into form through real choices.

That could equally be expressed spiritually as such:

• Refusing to accept your current state

• Aligning with your own nature

• Uncovering your destiny/dharma/revelation

• Faith without works is dead

The takeaway here is that transformation is universal.

It transcends language and borders. East, west, mystical, clinical - they all arrive at the same ideas, because they’re not describing a belief system, but a mechanism of consciousness itself.

And therefore reality creation follows the very same steps.

The fact of the matter is, reality is in your hands; it always has been.

The moment you recognise that it is on you to do the inner work to move through these four stages to first dissolve every pattern, every limiting belief and every story you tell yourself…

So that you can create the space to find what’s authentic to you, to find your sense of purpose and meaning…

And then act on it every single day…

Your reality will actually begin to change.

I’ll end this with a quote from Emerson, who stated this same truth 170 years prior to any of these mental models, just to prove to you that the same idea and process of ascension has been in front of us all of these years.

Emerson wrote:

“A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect; but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through, his actions, would make our knees bend. ... We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.”

You are not fundamentally the personality that eats, works, worries, earns money, and builds an identity.

That personality is an instrument through which a deeper consciousness is trying to express itself.

The more transparent the instrument becomes, the more the divine qualities of wisdom, love, truth, and creativity naturally shine through.

The ego, the “I”, is not something to hate or destroy; it is an instrument. But to stop mistaking the instrument for the musician.

Your task is to realise this, to ascend through the levels mentally, physically and spiritually - for our only purpose is to evolve.

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You’re not guided by me, but by your future self. The one who’s transcended the four stages, the one who lives from your deepest possible purpose.

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What if I told you that reality is not random?

It is not cruel…

But it is a teacher with infinite patience and exactly one method…

Repetition until you understand.

Oftentimes, we feel like we are learning the same lessons over and over again.

Whether it be the same relationship in a different person, the same financial problem with a different number, or the same health issue for years on end.

There is a reason behind this - whatever you don’t actually resolve will just repeat itself.

The lesson will keep on shape-shifting until it arrives in a form that you will finally respond to.

Here’s the secret: everything that is placed on your path is intentional. Every hurdle and obstacle is actually necessary for the evolution of your consciousness.

They are not obstructions at all, but opportunities to quantum leap and re-invent yourself.

I’ll give you an example: I kept facing the same financial lesson until I learnt it.

In my early 20s, I had a successful business, and as 20-something-year-olds do, I inflated my lifestyle beyond my means. Nice apartment, nice clothes, a lot of travel.

And what happened? When the business suffered a crisis, so did I.

But the interesting part, upon reflection, was that this wasn’t a new lesson.

It was something I also learnt when I was 16, and I made my first bit of money from the only ever job I’ve worked at the cinema.

I remember the feeling of getting my first pay slip: “Wow… £485.”

(Mind you, I had literally worked 30 hours a week for that Lol.)

I almost immediately spent it all, with the expectation that it would come back the next month. And as a result, I left myself struggling to make ends meet for the remainder of the month.

And you know what’s even more interesting?

That wasn’t even the first time I learnt this lesson.

It was actually when I was 13, and I used to sell sweets and drinks in my high school playground.

On my biggest day, I had made £21 profit - and spent all of it after school, treating my friends and myself to some well-earned food.

So you see, the same pattern kept on repeating until I actually learned what I had to learn.

It’s just that I had missed it the first few times, so the weight of this lesson kept on increasing until I couldn’t avoid it anymore.

Unfortunately, it ended up costing me millions - but that is what reality deemed necessary for me to finally understand what it was trying to tell me.

Whatever isn’t resolved will just repeat.

This doesn’t just go for financial patterns but relationship dynamics, self-trust, anxiety, self-sabotage…the list goes on.

But what if I told you that these patterns probably didn’t even begin with you?

You inherited your frequency, your worldviews, your beliefs, but you don’t even realise it.

Most, if not all, of the beliefs you currently hold are likely not your own, but they were handed to you by people who were handed them by someone else.

And if they go unexamined and left unconscious, they will continue to direct your life, and you will just call it fate.

It’s easy to blame the external, the circumstance

Wrong partner, wrong business, wrong industry…

But it’s the mark of wisdom to consider that the only common variable in every repeated experience is you.

See the lesson reality is trying to teach you, doesn’t care about what costume it wears.

It will keep changing clothes until the thing underneath it is finally seen.

Reality is not trying to punish you, but to teach you, but there are normally only one of two things in the way:

1. A failure to recognise the pattern.

2. Avoidance of it altogether.

Pattern recognition is considered the highest form of intelligence for this reason - being able to track back through your experiences to notice the connections, and the similarities between them is a task that challenges who you think you are.

Seneca said that our future descends from our past, yet we fail to look backwards...

A practice that has helped me with this tremendously is keeping a simple journal entry at the end of the day and really thinking back on the events of that day.

And paying close attention to things that I would normally pay no attention to, because usually, it is in those things that the seeds of these lessons live.

And regarding avoidance, Carl Jung said

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

Fear is just incomplete knowledge, and so if you let it remain incomplete, then the size of that fear will only ever grow in proportion to the task. Avoidance is not the answer. It never has been…

Stop and think about the last task that you buried underneath the carpet that you kept kicking the can down the road...

Maybe it was that message that you kept putting off sending

or that diet you kept delaying

or that person you kept avoiding

Now, I could bet you that £485 payslip… that circumstance did not end up being favourable for you.

So what is the answer then?

The moment the lesson is genuinely integrated, and I mean actually integrated at the level of frequency - the pattern stops, altogether, abruptly.

What does integration look like?

It first begins with awareness, recognising what in your life even requires a resolution, and then attempting to understand it from every angle that we possibly can. That is how the fear that you feel towards it will shrink.

This is the work of sharpening your blade of awareness - a simple practice that you can use for this is to sit down with a pen and paper, no phone, no music, no distractions, and note down the problems that feel like they weigh the most in your life.

Then think about where the root of these problems could live, because you want to be solving for the cause and not the effect.

You might be able to do this alone, or you might need a friend or therapist or coach to help you spot what’s invisible to you (which, FYI, is what I do for entrepreneurs and help them identify their subconscious ceilings - if you want to learn more about that, then ​click here​)

Once you know what to solve for, then you can begin thinking about the action steps, that is, the sequence it must follow.

And then the most important part is taking action to finally address this pattern and stop it once and for all.

You see, the financial lesson I was being taught time and time again only stopped when I first realised that it was even a pattern.

Then I began to think about how the version of me that has already solved this would act in that situation. The frustrating part is that oftentimes the answer is simple…

For me, it took a business coach to tell me that I just need to live below my means and not buy what I cannot afford five times over.

So simple, it’s stupid... but it works.

The moment I started integrating that as a practice, my subconscious began to update.

The narrative I had built up around money changed. It was the repetition of this practice that caused a genuine shift at the level of my identity.

The same goes for any pattern that you might be facing, so the question I want to leave you with is not

“Why does this keep happening to me?”

But

“What is it I’m avoiding? What is the pattern I can trace back here?”

The pattern breaks when the frequency that produced it changes.

You must break the loop today, or you will suffer again tomorrow.

By the way, last week I opened the doors to my Inner Engineering Protocol: eight in-depth modules that teach you how to address these unexamined beliefs, how to change them at the root, and how to train your awareness so it never happens again.

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Until next time,

Milan

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I’d see the path forward, feel the pull, but something deeper would whisper, “You’re not ready yet.” Or “Just hold off for now”

I would freeze and revert to my old patterns of what I thought was safe.

But here’s what I didn’t know then: your subconscious mind is literally filtering what you call reality.

And most people are walking around with warped filters…

which means their minds literally won’t allow them to see the information, opportunity, or person that could transform their life, even when it’s staring them in the face.

So, I’m going to show you the exact four-step method that elite performers use to repair their filters and reprogram their subconscious mind.

And the fourth step is the one most people completely miss.

Firstly, how do I know this works? It’s a lived experience.

I went from freezing at every opportunity to being in rooms, building businesses and reaching heights that I only dreamt of when I was younger.

So it isn’t just theory. Although a lot of my content uses spiritual-adjacent terms, I want to assure you this is also backed by neuroscience.

First, let me show you why your current approach to ‘changing your mindset’ is probably making things worse...

See our minds process millions of bits of sensory information a second, these words,

the subtle static coming from your device,

the ambient sounds of traffic in the background.

But only around 40-50 pieces of information reach our conscious awareness…

So, your subconscious acts as a filtering system, determining what becomes REAL based on past experiences, beliefs, and survival.

And what I didn’t know then, but know now, is that this creates a selective reality; you literally see and experience what your subconscious deems relevant.

That is why they say perception is reality, perception is subjective to each individual, and therefore, we all quite literally live in our own worlds.

Here’s the problem, though: your filter was primarily built during your childhood and formative years. Whatever you were told or shown and exposed to about how the world works back then is likely what you carry as a belief today, even if it’s unconscious.

If you grew up believing ‘people can’t be trusted,’ your mind literally won’t let you see trustworthy opportunities...

The same opportunity that could 180 your life? Your mind filters it out before it even reaches your awareness.

So how do you fix a filter you can’t even see?

That’s where the four steps come in. And step one is the foundation everything else builds on…

Step one: You can’t reprogram what you can’t see.

You cannot transcend your programming until you become aware of it.

This means becoming conscious of what is normally automatic, the stories you tell yourself on loop, and the decisions that you make without pausing.

Most people skip this step, and they try to jump straight to affirmations, because they read it in a book somewhere, without identifying what they’re actually reprogramming.

That’s like trying to debug code without knowing where the bug is, you may end up overwriting the whole system, not knowing what you fixed, and when it comes up again, you don’t know where to look.

So the technique I use for this is called pattern tracking.

For one week, every time you feel resistance to an opportunity, or in general, write down:

What thought came up? What physical sensation? What did you tell yourself?

You’re not trying to change anything yet. Just observe. Create space between you and the pattern so you can see it’s a pattern, not the truth.

Once you have awareness, you move to...

Step two: evidence-based repetition.

If you stand in front of a mirror saying, ‘I’m wealthy, healthy, successful’ whilst your lifestyle reflects none of those habits, nothing will ever change.

If reality is just a mirror and your outward circumstances reflect your internal state, you have to understand that the mirror will never smile before you do,

Your subconscious doesn’t update based on wishful thinking, and neither does your reality; it updates based on evidence.

So instead of empty affirmations, you need repetition within your behaviour.

Each time you do the thing, you’re rewriting the old programming.

Want to reprogram ‘people can’t be trusted’? Take one small risk with someone. Then another. Your subconscious updates through lived experience, not just through words alone.

The affirmation can set the intention, but the action will create the change you’re looking for.

Now, steps one and two will work well alone.

But if you want to accelerate the process by 10x, you need to understand...

Step three: State Alteration.

And this is where it gets interesting…

Your subconscious is most malleable during heightened emotional states or altered consciousness. When your brain is in theta wave states, like the initial moments right after waking, whatever you input holds more weight.

This is why elite performers use visceral visualisation during meditation. Not just imagining, but engaging all senses, and bathing in it as a lived experience.

Your subconscious doesn’t distinguish between what’s properly vividly imagined and an actual experience.

If you can form the mental patterns and build the neural pathways of an experience as already lived, you close the gap between imagination and reality.

When I visualise, I don’t just see the opportunity or the life I desire. I feel the texture of the moment, hear the ambient noise, smell the coffee.

Sensory detail is the language of rewiring your subconscious mind.

The vibrational frequency you bring yourself to by intentionally altering your state this way will mirror how you’ll feel in that moment.

See, the secret to anything I’ve achieved so far, and will in the future, is: it’s already happened in my mind, long before it happened in reality.

Before I launched my app, I already knew it would be number one.

Before I started creating content, I already felt the impact it would create.

Of course, this process doesn’t just stop in the mind; that’s phase one, but when you take action from this altered state, you are playing with an advantage.

High performers call it “priming” - I’ve worked with some athletes and had them visualise the match or race in its entirety before it happens,

In deep states of meditation, to help them preemptively feel and see the moments they’re going to make a difference, and the result of this priming is like magic.

Athletes who prime their minds before big games contribute more and perform at higher levels than those who don’t.

Not because they’re more talented, but because their subconscious already lived the experience and their nervous system has familiarised itself with it.

And so eliminates the fear of the unknown, the pressure of the floodlights, as they say.

This doesn’t just go for athletes.

But priming your mind on a daily basis in the morning is the surest way to merge your current self and your highest self.

It’s something I go deep into with those I work with: ​

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I identify your specific subconscious blocks, the exact patterns keeping you stuck, and build a custom reprogramming protocol for your life. I’ve rewired over 110 creators so far, and the results have been game-changing, like unlocking a secret door you didn’t know was there…

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So we’ve covered 3 steps.

You can do steps one through three perfectly and still fail, because there’s a silent force constantly reprogramming you in the opposite direction…It’s the one people often miss.

Step four: Environmental design.

Your subconscious is being programmed 24/7 by your immediate environment. what you can see, touch, feel, smell, and hear.

The people you’re around, the content you consume, the physical and digital spaces you occupy.

You can’t reprogram ‘I’m not good enough’ if you’re surrounded by people who confirm that belief, or worse, believe that about themselves too, because you will only mirror your environment.

You can’t update your filter about opportunities if you’re consuming content that says ‘the system is rigged.’ Everything is a “matrix attack”

So environmental shifts are strategic reprogramming.

We, like nature, work through osmosis; we assimilate to what’s closest to us. That means beliefs, ideas, feelings, energy, and frequency.

Ever notice why you feel ‘lighter’ whilst travelling? It’s a sensory pattern interrupt.

Your environment drastically changed, so your subconscious temporarily stopped running the old programs, but how do you make that stick?

Here’s how to apply this immediately: For the next seven days, audit your environment:

Who are you spending time with? Do they reinforce the old filter or the new one?

What content are you consuming in those theta state moments (first 30 minutes after waking and before bed)?

What does your physical space communicate to your subconscious?

Then make one change, only one. Replace one person, one piece of content, one element of your space. And watch what happens.

This is all a game of awareness.

Awareness that you’re constantly being programmed whether you like it or not, becoming aware of what those programs are, and then having the discernment to decide what serves you and what doesn’t.

Elite performers are constantly in this loop of discovery, of self-examination, and refinement.

That is true mastery.

When I began putting these things into practice a few years ago, I started seeing opportunities I’d walked past for years.

They were always there, but my filter just wouldn’t let me see them.

And if you take action on these 4 steps above, I can guarantee the shift you’re looking for in 2026 will arrive.

Again, if you want the complete frameworks I use, the exact tracking templates, visualisation scripts, and environmental audits, apply below to work with me to reprogram and rewrite your reality from the inside out.

Otherwise, until next time,

Milan

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And whilst that plays an important part, believe me, I would know…

The work doesn’t just live on the mental and spiritual plane but also on the physical.

Transforming your reality and your results is just about building the systems that make the action and follow-through easy.

The less friction between you and what you know you need to do, the faster your reality will change.

In this letter, I’m going to attempt to show you how to make changes on all three planes.

I always say, wherever you see consistency, understand that there is a system.

People ask me how I create so consistently - I have a system.

Or you can look at why certain businesses are successful year on year - they have systems in place.

A system is just a process. It’s a way of doing things, a sequence of events.

This isn’t to reduce life down into something mechanical or robotic, but there are systems at work everywhere you look:

• The way planets orbit around stars

• The weather cycle

• The way businesses grow

• The way relationships are maintained

• The way your muscles grow
  

The work of maintenance and growth cannot exist without a good system in place.

I like to look at nature as an example to model off of because it’s so beautifully efficient.

It always takes the path of least resistance…

Take water, for example, it doesn’t force its way through rock; it finds the cracks. Over time, that crack becomes a canyon. The Grand Canyon wasn’t carved by brute force, but by consistent movement along the line of least resistance.

So in the same way, you need to design systems in your life, with the path to least resistance, so that you can more quickly close the gap between where you are now and your desired reality/results.

Whether that be growth in your business, in your body, or in your relationships, the same principles will apply.

I. Let’s talk first about why the current systems you have set up (if any) are failing:

To be honest with you, most people don’t have systems set up; they have good intentions dressed up in what they think is a system.

“I’ll wake up at 6 am and work out every morning” is not a system.

This will break anytime life throws its whirlwinds at you: a low mood, a bad night’s sleep, etc.

And the crazy part is the problem is almost never discipline; it’s just bad design.

Your system failed because it was built for the best version of you, on the best day, under the best conditions.

But life doesn’t give you best-case scenarios every day,

and as a result, you are left with a lack of tangible progress, remaining stuck in the same place, and then riddled with guilt, thinking nothing will ever change.

But it’s not your fault.

You just weren’t aware of the hidden psychology behind changing your life and how to utilise that.

Before I get into that, a great way to figure out how and why your current systems are failing is to do an audit of your results in any given area.

Let’s take your health as an example.

Your body accurately reflects the system you have set up (or lack thereof) in relation to your health.

If you’re in decent shape, it’s safe to assume you have some sort of training regimen, you eat well, and you regularly move.

If you’re not in the best shape right now, it’s safe to assume you might not have any of those things.

(Bar the people with pre-existing health conditions/issues/circumstances preventing them from doing this)

And so, poor health is only really a poor system. The key here is to not blame yourself, to remove any emotional attachment to your current state, and instead see your circumstances as a reflection of the system you have set up, not of your self-worth.

One of the most useful tools I’ve learned in esoteric texts is the law of neutrality.

In simple terms, that means being able to neutralise any event before labelling it as “good” or “bad”.

Because if you can remove the unnecessary emotional weight from an event or circumstance, you are better suited to make the next best move for the evolution of yourself.

So when you are auditing your systems and your results, implement the law of neutrality. Just because your system is failing, it doesn’t mean you are.

Anyway, back to the point - a lot of the work will come from being able to pinpoint where things are going wrong.

Once you find the areas that need refinement, only then can you go about building a system that actually works. The first step, as always, is awareness.

You cannot fix what is broken until you find out what it is that needs fixing.

II. The (abridged) psychology of growth.

Before you build anything, you need to understand what you’re actually working with.

You have to remember that anytime you make the decision to evolve into a higher form, you will be met with an equal and opposite force of resistance. That is literally Newton’s third law.

And the issue is that most of the advice you’ll see online will be blanket statements that don’t consider your mind’s unique patterns and biases.

If it were as simple as deciding to change and then changing, you would have done that already.

The first thing you need to understand is that there is a difference between the conscious and the subconscious mind. You can consciously decide to change, but your subconscious can sabotage that decision and override it if it doesn’t feel safe to enact change.

There are constantly decisions being made in the background, beneath your awareness.

These are the things that shape what feels natural, what feels hard, and what feels like “just who you are”.

Carl Jung called this the shadow - the parts of the self that operate outside of conscious view. The Vedantic tradition calls it samskaras - grooves carved into the psyche by repeated thought and action.

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There are multiple different languages and teachings for the same observation, and all they’re saying is that most of your behaviour is not chosen. It’s either inherited or has been programmed into you.

From your environment, your upbringing, and your repeated experiences. The neural pathways that feel like “you” are really just patterns that have been reinforced so many times that they have become automatic.

Willpower is a conscious resource, but the patterns you’re trying to change are running at a level beneath consciousness.

You can’t outrun or out-discipline your frequency.

III. How to build a system that works with your psychology.

There are a handful of things you need to consider when building the systems for your life.

The first principle is environmental design. Your behaviour at any given moment is heavily shaped by what is immediately available to you - what you can see and what your environment is quietly suggesting you do.

It’s just how attention and energy work; it will default again to the path of least resistance.

So the question to ask is: does my environment make the right action easy and the wrong action inconvenient?

If you want to train in the morning, your gym bag should be packed the night before sitting by the door.

If you want to eat better, the food that supports that needs to be the first thing you see when you open the fridge.

If you want to focus on your business, your task list or your document should already be open when you sit down.

None of this is profound, but that’s the point; the system should feel almost too simple.

The second principle is reducing decision fatigue.

Every decision you make draws from the same finite pool of mental energy. At all times, your energy is either being gathered or scattered.

And the more decisions you have on the table, the more directions your energy is being scattered in, subtly reducing your mental bandwidth in the times when you actually need it.

So remove decisions wherever you don’t need them. Block your work at the same time every day so your mind stops having to negotiate when it’s going to happen.

Automate the choices that don’t require fresh thinking, so you preserve your sharpest hours for the work that does.

And the third principle I’ll touch on loops back to this idea of your subconscious programming.

Reprogramming the system beneath the system

Everything we’ve talked about so far lives at the level of behaviour. But the layer beneath is far more important.

I already touched on earlier how your subconscious can override your conscious decisions.

The subconscious doesn’t respond to logic, nor does it care about your goals. It only knows what has been repeatedly impressed upon it, through experience, emotion, and repetition.

Essentially, every thought you think, action you take, and experience you have that carries emotional charge leaves an impression in the psyche.

Over time, those impressions deepen into grooves, and just like water, your energy will always flow toward the deepest groove available.

The Hermetic tradition adds another dimension through the principle of rhythm. Everything moves in cycles, expansion and contraction, high energy and low, clarity and fog.

If you only work on yourself when you feel motivated, that means you’re only building during the expansion phase, and then you lose progress during the inevitable contraction.

A real system accounts will account for both…

So what does this mean practically?

It means that any external system you build needs a corresponding internal practice,

something working at the level of the subconscious, slowly overwriting the old frequency with a new one.

There is a state of consciousness you enter between waking and sleep, where your subconscious mind is the most receptive.

Whatever you feed your mind in those final minutes before sleep/first minutes upon waking, are not just thoughts but instructions.

In these moments, you want to be embodying the future version of you, the 2.0 version you are attempting to become, and living in that frequency. It might sound woo-woo, but it’s the mechanism the subconscious responds to above all else.

If you want help doing that, by the way, check out my app FRQNCY, try it for free

Now, whatever way you want to do that is up to you. It could be journaling; it could be visualisation; it could be affirmations; it could be repetition. But don’t skip out on the internal practice.

Systems on the behaviour level are important, but you need to couple them with this layer underneath to truly create change and to have your psychology work with you and not against you.

The real thread of this letter is that in order to enact change, you must change on an identity level, and the systems are the bridge to help you do that.

IV. Identity and the long game

So the goal was never the system itself

It’s just the vehicle that removes friction between you and the future version of you.

Because at the deepest level, you do not rise to your goals, you fall to your identity.

Layer by layer, the false identity loosens its grip, and what remains is something that acts from a different source entirely. This is the long game, and it is longer than most people want it to be.

In practical terms, what this means is that at some point, the system stops feeling like discipline and starts feeling like an expression of self.

I’ll be honest, it doesn’t take discipline for me to get up and create. It feels like an extension of my duty, of who I already am.

The same goes for my training. I often think about the samurai. The samurai doesn’t think, ‘Oh, I have to get up and train today.’ He just does it because that is the way of the samurai.

It’s a way of life.

And that shift won’t happen through motivation, but repetition compounded over time, with the internal work running underneath it, revising the story you carry about yourself until the new one feels more true than the old.

So start with the audit.

Find what is broken in your current system and look at it without judgment.

Design the external structure around your real psychology, not your ideal one.

Do the internal work in the margins of your day. And then stay in the system long enough for the system to become you.

That is how you change your reality, not a single decision or breakthrough, but in the thousand small movements that slowly, inevitably, carve your new frequency.

Hope this helps.

Until next time,

Milan

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You know, I had a revelation recently, and it was in the midst of me being thousands of hours deep into the process of building.

When I stepped away from the screen, I began to observe patterns in nature that mirrored the design principles I was using in the editing of my video, in the creation of my content, and in the design of this app.

And I realised, everything is just about good design.

For something to work well, design must be considered, and I don’t just mean how something looks; I mean how it’s built.

People think that aesthetics are just nice to have, but in this newsletter, I’m going to prove to you that design is a fundamental building block of the universe itself.

And I’ll teach you how to think like an inventor, like an engineer, how to connect yourself to source and collaborate with it, like you were designed to, instead of fighting against it.

Why is this important?

Because if you can learn to think like an engineer, like an inventor, your entire experience of reality changes.

You are no longer passively soaking in and consuming what is being fed to you.

Instead, you’re witnessing the ingredients for your own work, for your own creation, for your own way to serve the world.

Your dharmic duty is entangled with the service of others, and the moment you mentally switch from consumer to producer, you begin to engineer your reality instead of it being engineered for you.

You stop sitting in the stands, and you actually enter the arena.

I. The Inventor’s Mind

The Inventor thinks differently from everyone else.

They do not see the world as it is, but they see it for what it could be.

One of the myths that I have to dispel here is that you don’t have to create something new, or something “original”.

Why? Because nothing new exists under the sun.

Everything is deconstructed, broken down, and put together in a new way.

Look at music today - when you think you are hearing a new sound, it’s really just a reconstruction of something from thirty years ago.

When you perceive something “new”, really you are seeing the same fundamentals combined in a way that you haven’t seen before. Like LEGO blocks, there are thousands of unique ways they can all go together.

In the same way, there are LEGO blocks or building blocks of the universe.

Once you know them, you’ll begin to see them everywhere.

There’s an idea in philosophy called Mereological Nihilism.

And it claims that objects do not really exist.

In simple terms:

There are no “tables,” “cars,” or “humans” as single unified things.

There are only tiny fundamental particles arranged table-wise, car-wise, or human-wise.

So, according to a mereological nihilist, you are not one object called “a person.” You are just trillions of particles arranged in a certain pattern.

The word comes from:

Mereology = the study of parts and wholes

Nihilism = denial that something exists

Mereological nihilists are not saying the world is fake. They’re saying what I’m saying - the world contains only basic building blocks.

So what are these building blocks? I’d be lying if I told you I knew all of them, but here are the four I keep returning to:

1. Polarity - Everything exists in relationship to its opposite. Hot/cold, light/dark, expansion/contraction. You can’t define anything without its inverse. Once you see this, you realise conflict isn’t a problem to solve, it’s the engine of all structure.

2. Rhythm / Cycles - Nothing moves in a straight line. Breath, seasons, markets, empires, attention spans, everything pulses. The inventor reads the cycle and works with it rather than against it. You know that saying, “History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”? Even within Vedic teachings, we are taught that there are four different ages that we live through and cycle through, and the stage we are in corresponds directly with the level of consciousness in the world at that time.

3. Vibration - Nothing rests. Everything moves, everything vibrates, matter, thought, emotion. The difference between a rock and a feeling is frequency.

4. Cause and Effect - Nothing happens by chance. Every cause has its effect, every effect its cause. The inventor operates at the level of cause. The consumer lives at the level of effect. There is no randomness, there is no chance.

I could list more, but truly, the most important skill I think one must develop is pattern recognition. That is the highest form of intelligence. That is a trait that all inventors and engineers hold.

When you train your pattern recognition, you can pick up on any building block because you are able to spot it in different scenarios.

You might learn about cycles by watching pop culture and then see the same pattern emerge in history.

Or about cause and effect in your business, and spot it again in your relationship.

The inventor understands that every-thing, every event, is interconnected, and your ability to find the threads between them determines how successful you will be in creating your reality.

Sometimes people tell me “not every event has to have meaning”, but I would argue that the more you begin to witness the intricacies of how well designed everything around you is, how perfectly timed every event is, how accounted for every blade of grass is, you will then realise, nothing is left up to chance.

II. The Inventor’s Practice

A lot of this comes down to the art of noticing, which I speak about often.

But an important caveat is that you can not notice what you are not aware of.

The reason why I tell people to read far and wide and not to just stick within one niche, such as self-improvement, is that you are not reading for ideas, but you’re reading to plant seeds in your mind.

You will have the opportunity to bring those seeds to life, to connect them to real-world experiences.

In simple terms, what I mean by this is the inventor consciously consumes.

Your creativity will only be as good as the quality of your consumption.

What are you feeding your mind for most of the day?

First thing in the morning, when your brain is in a theta state, and last thing at night, what are you imprinting onto your subconscious mind?

This affects your ability to create, how you see, and how you experience the world.

Your subconscious mind is an abundant reservoir that you can tap into at any moment, but what good is it if it’s full of noise?

The inventor, the engineer, becomes obsessed with consuming things that they want to create themselves. Elon would learn all about rockets before he started SpaceX.

Steve Jobs was obsessed with calligraphy and architecture before he started Apple.

You have to study the greats to become them.

I’ll give you an example.

I just created a cinematic ad for my app, FRQNCY, and a lot of people received it well.

​(watch it here if you please)​

Someone was asking me how I came up with the concept - I struggled to answer the question because really it just came together in the moment when I was planning it beforehand:

• All of the shots

• The cameras we’d use

• The story behind it

• The meta reveal

• The Easter eggs

• The way I wanted it to look and feel

But when I really sat and thought about it, none of it would have been possible if I hadn’t laid the foundation in my mind, through consciously consuming my favourite movies, music, art, advertisements, typography, etc.

Because I had done that, the rest just came down to tapping into that reservoir and letting it filter through.

That’s what an engineer does: they become obsessed with how things are built. They learn about the fundamental building blocks, and then when life presents them with the opportunity, they connect those dots and create something “new”.

Whatever you feed your subconscious mind will bleed into your reality.

III. The Inventor’s reality.

The reason I said everything is just good design is that when you look at the intricacies of nature, you begin to feel, this is no accident.

Why does the golden ratio appear in the galaxies of our cosmos? All the way through, down to the plants here on earth?

Why do we resemble nature in how our DNA is built?

Why is there a sun? How is it at a perfect distance to warm us? How is there a rainfall system that feeds the earth but doesn’t harm us?

I could go on. There was a philosopher called William Paley, and he had this idea about the watch and the watchmaker…

And it was this: if you were to come across a watch on the roadside and you picked it up and observed it and you noticed how it was constructed, the hands, the finish, the mechanics inside, the only logical conclusion is that there had to be a watchmaker.

This could not have appeared out of nowhere and has been randomly put together by chance.

I tell you this to say engineering your reality means understanding that you are both the watch and the watchmaker.

When you understand that reality is not happening to you but through you, you begin to change how you look at it all.

You were not designed to passively soak in and consume, but instead create and collaborate.

What that looks like for you will be completely different from what it looks like for me, but that doesn’t mean it’s not equally as important.

From what I understand from all of the books I’ve read, people I’ve spoken to, and mentors I’ve had, is that the universe is like an orchestra and we each play our role in it.

We all have a life mission, which is pivotal to this orchestra sounding harmonic and not chaotic.

And when you are thinking from this frame, things begin to flow, reality feels like a game as it was supposed to.

That doesn’t mean it gets easier, but the tools feel lighter in your hands.

The inventor is not special. They just learned to see.

The revelation I had didn’t come at the screen, but when I stepped away from it.

I’d been hundreds of hours deep in the build, the app, content, and edits and somewhere in that stillness, the patterns just revealed themselves.

The same principles I was applying in the design of FRQNCY, my writing and my content, were written into the structure of a leaf, the spiral of a galaxy, the rhythm of a conversation.

That’s what I want to leave you with.

The universe has been showing you its blueprint this whole time.

The building blocks are not hidden or abstract ideas locked inside philosophy books.

They’re in your relationships, your business, your creative process, your body, and you’ve been living inside them, without the awareness to name them.

The inventor’s mind is not a gift some people are born with. It’s a way of paying attention that anyone can develop, the way a child pays attention to the game that they’re in, the imaginary world that they’ve built.

It’s the decision to look at what’s in front of you and ask how it’s built, why it works, what it’s made of, and how it could be different.

Your subconscious mind is already processing everything you’ve fed it; the ideas are already forming, but you have to get still enough to receive them.

The blueprint was always there; you just need to learn to read it.

Until next time,

Milan

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​​Synchronicity is a term that was coined by Carl Jung - the coincidental occurrence of events, especially psychic events.

When internal, psychological events are linked to external world events by meaningful coincidences.

And I have a pretty good feeling that if you read my work, you have experienced a synchronicity before.

Whether it be thinking about someone and them texting you, seeing “angel numbers”, or crossing paths with someone/something at the exact right moment...

Sometimes these moments can feel like they can be rationalised and explained away...

But other times they feel like they have defied all logic - those are the moments in particular that I’m pointing towards.

My theory is that the universe, the Source, the higher power, is constantly in communication with you. It’s just whether you would like to notice.

“Dreams, premonitions and gut feelings are all attempts of the unconscious to guide you.” - David Ogilvy

That’s a quote from David Ogilvy, who was given the title “the godfather of advertising”.

I want to preface this by saying I’m a believer that the logical mind and the intuitive mind are actually two sides of the same coin. I don’t believe synchronicity is fully scientific or fully mystical.

And rather than working against each other, there should be a fusion or integration in order to truly understand it.

And I want to give you my insight on what to do next after you experience these synchronicities. It’s all well and good being able to notice these signs, but what if I told you the universe was giving you the ingredients and the blueprint for your next steps?

Well, let me show you how you turn insight into action - and these aren’t just insights from me, but the greatest thinkers in history.

Reality is always speaking to you.

Recognising that reality is in conversation with you helps you remember that it’s an ongoing dialogue between you and something higher.

You’re not being preached at; it’s not a sermon. You’re not being judged. You are being guided.

Here’s the mistake that most people make: they think that the source or where you’re pulling from is friendly or hostile, but that’s not true. It’s simply responsive.

If it were friendly, there would be total peace amongst us

If it were hostile, there would be total war amongst us And although we can feel like the latter at times, you can find pockets of both in different corners of the planet.

Those corners correspond to the level of consciousness dominant in those areas.

What you call “a coincidence” is actually design.

Think about every “coincidence” that you’ve personally experienced...

What appears as randomness on one level is order on another; it’s just that you can’t quite see it yet.

I saw a video the other day of someone explaining and thinking about the chances of running into someone you know on the street.

When she broke it down, it really made me think. How many thousands of micro-decisions have to be made in each of your individual lives for you to end up on the same street corner and bump into each other?

From the time that you both leave your house, to the route that you take there, to the phone call that you take that delays you for a minute, to the stop sign or red light, to the brief interaction with someone as you turn the corner...

“You cannot connect the dots looking forward, only backwards.” - Steve Jobs

When you look backwards, order is revealed, and it feels almost divine.

Reality is too intelligent for it to be left up to chance.

Smell the Ocean.

My point is that synchronicity and meaningful coincidences are not coincidences at all, but a design that you have co-created.

But with all that being said, there is a side to this that I feel isn’t covered as well online, especially in the woo-woo world of Instagram...

When synchronicity becomes a crutch that you lean on...

When you’re constantly searching for signs, numbers and signals that you’re on the right path...

When the shift of your attention turns outward, instead of inward, which is opposing the whole point, you lose yourself and equilibrium.

A spiritual teacher once told me that you can smell the ocean before you see it.

Meaning, before you arrive at the destination, you will know you’re on the path when signs and synchronicities begin to intensify, just like before you reach the ocean, you can begin to smell the salt in the air. You don’t necessarily have to see it to know that it’s there.

But there comes a point when you will stop seeing signs, and that is a test of your conviction. Do you need the handrails in order to see where you are going?

it is your conviction that creates reality, not the coincidences that you rely on.

Perception allows you to notice, but only action allows you to engage with it. ​​ Logic allows you to deduce coincidence and turn it into actionable steps.

Your state invites synchronicity, and your logic allows you to make sense of it and turn insight into action.

When you learn to do this, as the masters have, you understand that you are in co-creation or co-authorship with reality itself. It’s the intersection of discipline (doing the work), but also surrender. Flow lives in the middle.

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​How to “Hear” Reality​

The inability to notice or look deeply is the root of your unhappiness. To see past the “ordinary and mundane” and get to what might otherwise be invisible is a skill that you must train.

This is the art of noticing.

When you learn to pay attention, you begin to notice the signs, signals and synchronicities you were previously closed off to, but that were always there.

As your awareness expands, new insights are revealed to you that were previously invisible. Simply put, you are always getting signal; it’s just about clearing the interference so that you can hear it again.

Most people are focused on the noise, and not the signal, which is why their lives become a product of that noise.

Scattered, unfocused, and unintentional. But the work of clearing the noise allows you to become:

Focused, Intentional, and Clear.

There are countless ways to tune back in and clear the interference.

Journaling, meditation, running, training, saunas, ice baths.

All activities that make you present moment aware act as an instrument to shift you back into that state of awareness.

So it doesn’t matter what you do, just that you do it.

Not everything works for everyone, because no interference is the same.

You have to go through a period of trial and error to find the pattern interrupts that actually break through for you.

And I’ll be honest, most people aren’t even aware that they live in interference; they just think that’s normal, that’s life. But it’s not, it’s a choice.

The more you train your awareness as a skill, the more you begin to notice what’s blocking you, what patterns you keep repeating, and the more you open yourself up to hearing what was always being sent to help you.

Connecting dots and turning them into actionable steps becomes a lot easier when you’re tuned into the signal and not the noise. ​

This isn’t some woo-woo mindset;

It’s how elite performers tap into flow states and consistently execute without having to rely on willpower or discipline,

It’s a way of being, not another productivity hack.

​ As Ogilvy said, your OWN unconscious mind is also speaking to you through your patterns, dreams and premonitions.

​ On every level, you are being helped along the way, but ask yourself

Are you missing the calls?

Are you tuned into the interference?

What action can you take this instant to you can bring yourself back to awareness? What you might be writing off as a coincidence or chance,

holds an ocean of insight underneath that is waiting to be unravelled and turnt into something,

You, as the alchemist, can extract meaning from the ordinary and spin it into extraordinary, if you choose to. ​

Will you tune in, or will you continue to live in the noise?

​

Until next time,

Milan ​

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I want to preface this by saying, “slowness” has negative connotations, especially in the fast-moving world of today.

It can be interpreted as sloppiness or laziness, especially in the realm of business, but that’s not the kind of slow I am talking about.

Someone asked me yesterday:

“Isn’t a contradiction that in your work you promote both the idea of urgency and the idea of slowness?”

And my answer was that there is a subtle difference between urgency and rushing.

Nature never hurries, yet everything is always accomplished.

It never rushes or takes shortcuts. It instead finds the most optimal route, the path of least resistance, and flows, but does not force.

And the same should be true for us; the operating principles on how to live well are already embedded in nature, we just have to take notice and apply them.

In everyday life or in your business, you are allowed to have a “maniacal sense of urgency”, in the words of Elon Musk.

Yet still carve out the time during the week and intentionally slow down to sharpen your tools along the way.

When you do both, you are not rushing; you are acting with urgency but being deliberate too.

Most people skip the latter part, and burn out by always being on go mode - they wear it as a badge of honour, because outwardly, it creates the illusion that they are making progress.

But inwardly, they are actually breaking the natural internal rhythm that would get them a lot further ahead…

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The Problem with “Fast Thinking”

Speed, in general, is a great thing; everything that can be done faster should be done faster, if you want to scale.

But in this context, by fast thinking, I mean not thinking at all.

When a question comes up, instead of sitting with it and trying to feel your way to the right answer, you instantly ask ChatGPT to close that loop.

Or it means when you’re presented with options, you look to something or someone outside of you to guide.

You are not allowing the space for your intuition to answer first.

The real problem is outsourcing your thinking altogether.

I have a theory that the rate at which A.I is accelerating and becoming relied upon each day, is equal to the rate at which we’re losing the ability to think critically, see my graph:

What is critical thinking, and why is it important for your growth?

In my view, it is the ability to discern, to rationalise, to draw conclusions not only based on data and numbers, but also on intuition and emotion.

It is the fusion of your logic and intuitive knowing.

The best ideas, businesses, and art in the world have come from critical thinking.

There’s a 5000-year-old Vedic scripture that captures the importance of critical thinking perfectly:

“It is the capacity to distinguish the real from the unreal, the essential from the inessential, the wise course of action from the foolish one.”

And there are many things today that impair our ability to think critically.

Such as attachment, desire, delusion, or anger - these are the dominoes in the destruction of your discernment, one falls after another, and are all side effects of fast thinking.

In simple terms, fast thinking is thinking without understanding.

It’s mechanical and robotic; there is no true comprehension, and so your intelligence or intuition is hijacked and automated.

You become clever in the service of your compulsions rather than clever in the service of truth.

Critical thinking isn’t a purely cognitive skill.

It is downstream of psycho-emotional regulation, or of your inner mastery.

Fast thinking is great for producing fast answers and efficient execution, but what it cannot produce is true insight, creativity, and genuine depth.

Now more than ever, the soul yearns for depth.

It’s why we are inherently wired to seek and create beauty through art, music, business and entertainment.

Nothing that touched the soul was ever built with fast thinking.

And that’s why your edge, in a fast-paced world, will be to embrace slow thinking.

To be the contrarian, whilst others are having their thinking done for them by something or someone else, do the opposite and think for longer by yourself.

Because this is what it will unlock for you…

The magic of slow thinking.

There’s a principle I was taught by a spiritual teacher called Manana, and it roughly means deep contemplation.

Essentially, the idea here is that the person who can hold a question without scrambling to find a fast answer, the one who can sit in uncertainty long enough for true insight to emerge, is operating at an entirely different level.

And this is the exact trait missing in most creators or entrepreneurs today…

But it is the common thread in the minds of truly elite performers.

It’s important to note that there is a fine line between contemplation and rumination.

Rumination drags you through the past and future; contemplation is about sitting with an idea in the present.

Again, slow thinking is not about sitting on ideas and insights for longer than you need, but learning how to process the information that sets you up for the best insights to form in your mind.

Slow thinking in practice might look like:

• responding in 10 minutes instead of 10 seconds

• letting an idea marinate for a day before acting on it

• writing by hand

• reading newsletters instead of watching TikToks (shout out to you)

• walking without input (music or podcasts)

Your fast-thinking muscle is being exercised moment to moment already by the constant influx of news and work on your plate, but you need to make time to train the slow-thinking one, too, or else you will never attain the depth that will actually change your life.

Every major strategic error I’ve ever made comes from a decision made too fast and too irrationally.

It’s not that speed doesn’t matter; it does, it’s just that you can only ascend as high as your roots are deep.

True wisdom is holding on to something for just long enough that it reveals itself to you.

Whilst other people are being trained out of this skill, your edge in business and in life will come from doing the opposite.

Fast thinking is common, but deep intentional thinking is becoming exponentially rarer and more valuable.

And those who will actually take the time to move more slowly when needed, but still understand that urgency will save them, will become the new elite.

They will create from a place of depth that must be earned and can’t be hacked or fast-tracked.

Slow thinking done well actually accelerates outcomes because it compresses decision quality.

A single deeply considered move replaces six reactive ones and the cleanup they each require.

Everyone’s drawing from the same well now.

The whole market is using the same AI tools, consuming the same content, running the same playbook. Everybody’s moving fast toward the same answers….

The person who pauses long enough to ask a different question ends up in a different place entirely. Depth creates differentiation, and that is where your competitive edge lies.

Every time you sit with a problem long enough to actually understand its structure rather than just react to its surface, you’re building your pattern recognition skill. (which is the highest form of intelligence)

Over time, the slow thinker starts making faster and better decisions than the fast thinker, because they’ve built genuine understanding, they are integrating their intuition.

The gap widens with time; it’s a compounding advantage.

As a result, it becomes harder to compete with you. Fast execution can be copied and automated.

But the quality of your thinking, the connections you draw, the timing of your decisions, and the problems you choose to solve in the first place cannot be stolen.

I have this belief when it comes to building businesses, and when people ask me,

“Do I get annoyed when people steal or copy my content?” (Because it happens all the time lol)

I always say “Energy beats tactics,” meaning I truly believe that the energy of your work is felt by the person who is reading it or receiving it.

It is transferred onto them, so no amount of tactics or stolen ideas will generate the same level of impact.

People are smarter and infinitely more intelligent than you give them credit for (especially unconsciously).

They can feel the difference between someone who’s truly sat something and someone who’s reshared something.

So on this Sunday, I’ll leave you with this: slowness will become your competitive edge in a world where it is becoming scarce.

Don’t outsource your thinking, move slower today, set up your week with intention, carry this energy throughout each decision - and watch how your edge begins to sharpen and bear fruit in your work, in your conversations, and in your relationships.

Until next time,

Milan

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But I would argue that the over-examined life is no better.

When you open Instagram, it’s easy to feel like you’re falling behind. When every reel and story is showing you a seemingly perfect morning routine…

The “High performers” you admire apparently have every single minute of the day scheduled and ready to be checked off their to-do list.

But I’m here to tell you that this is all performative, and it doesn’t actually yield great results.

To be truly great, you don’t optimise every waking second.

You work like a lion - in intense short sprints, where you are fully on and focused on the mission.

And then you spend the rest of the day fully off, resting and in recreation. (Literally re-creating yourself, ready for the next sprint.)

When you are obsessed with optimisation, you lose your sense of naivety and curiosity. But that’s where your best ideas will come from.

I read something about Leonardo da Vinci recently that reinforced this idea…

It was about his most overlooked discovery - not how the human anatomy works, or mechanics, or physics - something better.

Something he could have ONLY discovered because he actively wasn’t optimizing every waking second of his life for productivity. And instead was optimising for curiosity.

Most importantly, because he left gaps in his schedule, he had the mental bandwidth to notice this tiny detail, whilst billions of people walk by the same discovery every day.

Da Vinci noticed that when a tree branch splits into smaller branches, the combined thickness of those smaller branches roughly equals the thickness of the original branch.

So if a trunk divides into two limbs, the total area of those two limbs matches the area of the trunk below the split. This pattern repeats all the way up to the smallest twigs.

He also observed the way leaves arrange themselves in spiral patterns around a stem to minimise overlap and maximise sun exposure.

These spiral patterns follow mathematical ratios that were later connected to the Fibonacci sequence.

Both discoveries came from these same first principles - curiosity, wonder and leaning into naivety.

Now tell me, how would you schedule a discovery like that into your morning routine? The 3 minutes between your cold plunge, journaling and affirmations??

The point isn’t that this was a life-changing discovery (to some, maybe)

But the point is, when you become too rigid with routine, productivity-maxxing, and optimisation - you’re not in touch with reality…

And the cost of that is greater than you might think...

Think about how your best ideas come to you.

It’s not when you’re moving from task to task, mindlessly trying to check off as much as you can from your to-do list.

They usually arrive in the gaps in between. In the shower, on a walk, on a drive. Why?

Because they need the space to land. If you do not create that space, you end up creating a routine that you become a slave to.

It feels like progress because you are checking off the boxes each day, but when you look back, you realise the days have blurred into one.

Growth doesn’t always work in a linear fashion.

In fact, oftentimes, it’s one idea, one tiny iteration that skyrockets your business or life, and again, how do you expect those to arrive if you don’t give them the space or time to?

Let me show you a pattern I notice in high-performing entrepreneurs that keeps them stuck at their current level - this is something I work with them 1:1 on to remove.

The Anxious Middle.

Most high performers live in what is called the anxious middle.

They are not fully on - because when they are working, their attention is split between various tasks, and the mental residue left over from the previous ones eats away at them.

And they are never fully off - because they don’t create a ‘hard stop’ or know how to close their open loops.

As a result, they feel overwhelmed, burnt out, and at times, aimless. Despite having the results on paper showing them that what they’re doing is working.

And that’s where it gets troubling because they experience the results of the work, not the process they’ve built up around it, and they conflate the two.

So they continue living this way, thinking that’s just the trade-off that is necessary.

But the more I speak with truly elite performers, the more I am learning that this way of being doesn’t scale.

The highest performers I know, the ones doing millions in their business, the ones with the healthy family unit, the ones with the most peace, know how to toggle between being on and off.

Like anything, it’s a skill that they’ve trained.

I’m lucky enough to have been given these secrets, and I want to share them with you here, so you, too, can escape the anxious middle.

Quick pattern interrupt:

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Because inner state always comes before outer mastery.

During our time together, I share with you the secrets, frameworks and mental models to help you ascend to the next level.

How do I know? I’ve worked with a number of entrepreneurs who are living proof of the mechanism.

Like Reuben, who scaled to 500k/m by addressing his mental blocks and regaining his time through simple tweaks in his routine.

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How to be fully “On”

Being on is a matter of focus.

Focus is just your ability to sustain attention on any given thing.

And those who know how to be fully on have sharpened their focus like a sword, so they can cut through anything that will try to pull them away from their task.

In simple terms, when you are “on”, all of your attention and energy should be focused on the task ahead of you.

Nothing else. I don’t care what you think you can do; humans cannot multitask effectively.

Whether it’s a gym session, a writing block, a meeting, or even spending time with someone, it is your duty to be fully present with it. That means, no phones, no other tabs open, a quiet environment, and a specific goal.

Ambiguity is the death of clarity. You have to get specific. Let me make this practical with an example - every morning I aim to write for at least 60 minutes.

If beforehand I have prepared:

• What I am writing about (with specificity)

• What time will I be writing, and how long for

• A timer I can use

• A prepared environment with nothing to derail my focus

Then the likelihood my focus wavers is close to zero. In that block of writing, I am fully on, and the chances are I will enter into flow state.

This doesn’t just apply to writing or business, even when I take meetings with my clients, for example.

I ensure the outcome is clear, and when I speak with them, I am fully present so that the best ideas and insights can flow, because they deserve nothing less.

I’m not perfect, of course, I will fall short at times.

But generally, when you stop to take a look around, you’ll notice that most people are stuck in this loop of half on, half off.

Their minds are fractured in a hundred different ways, and as a result, the effectiveness of what they’re doing is little.

Look around in the gym today when you go, how many people are on their phones between sets, watching reels? How many are actually engaged with their workout?

When you go to dinner later, how many people have a screen present with them at the table?

Reality is always speaking to you through signs, symbols, nature, and people; it’s just whether you are present enough to notice it.

So to recap, being fully on comes down to 3 things:

1. Specificity in the task at hand - get clear on what you are doing, pick one thing,

2. Preparedness beforehand.

3. Designing your environment to support you

2 hours of intentional, focused attention is worth more than 10 hours of scattered attention.

But now comes the harder part…

How to be fully “off”

As an entrepreneur, I am always working. Especially in my mind.

In fact, I have been working on this new software for the last few days, and because of the late nights, I have been designing and architecting in my sleep, haha.

It’s bleeding into my dreams and affecting my quality of rest, my mornings, and therefore my ability to be ‘on’ again.

I had to create some time this weekend to turn off to fix this cycle.

The primary issue I see in others, and I used to face myself, was this overwhelming feeling of guilt when I decided to do something other than work.

It hangs over you as if to say, ‘you’re not moving fast enough, you’re falling behind.’

But something I had to understand was that if I was working out of guilt, fear and scarcity, I was never going to feel like I was moving forward.

It would be like trying to chase a horizon.

I knew the shift I had to make was reframing my relationship with guilt.

And to do that, I only had to understand that emotion is just energy in motion, and the energy you act with becomes infused in your work.

Sour roots will never produce sweet fruits - meaning, if my primary driver was guilt, fear and anxiety, I could never create my best results and the reality I desired.

So what was the shift? I only had to objectively look at the results I produced from the hours I spent at the screen out of guilt.

When I saw the quality in comparison to the hours I was actually on, it was clear as day.

Once that clicked, I never felt guilty for being off again.

Because I understood it was a crucial step in the cycle that would increase the quality of my outputs.

Even though it might not feel like it in the moment.

People think that work and rest are unrelated, but that is so far from the truth. They are tightly knit together, and if you don’t recognise this, you will stunt your growth.

Recreation, as I mentioned earlier, can be broken down into re-creation.

The ‘off’ time is meant to re-create your body, mind and spirit back into their optimal form.

You have to remove the programming you were indoctrinated with from hustle culture, telling you that 18-hour days are a badge of honour.

If you were to truly measure the quality of work of those you see online, from those 18 hours.

You would quickly see it was a facade.

Be honest with yourself, the last time you avoided turning off. How much of what you completed was genuinely out of a flow state?

How much of it was just being at the screen because you’d feel guilty being away from it?

As soon as you are honest with yourself, you will begin to understand that you can only really work effectively in 3-4 hour blocks at a time.

I’m not saying that sometimes the 18-hour days are not required, because in the early stages of building anything, this will be the case.

I am saying over the long term, this isn’t a sustainable practice and won’t allow you to grow.

And so the best practices I have taken on for being fully off have been designing my rest like a ritual.

In the same way I prepare for the hours I am “on”, I prepare for the hours I will be “off”.

It’s important to realise being off doesn’t look like: doomscrolling or binge-watching. The whole purpose of being off is to restore your energy.

So you have to find the activities that replenish you mentally, physically and spiritually. For me, it might be:

Walks

Reading powerful ideas

Movement or Meditation

Football/Tennis

Dinners with people I care about.

In The Creative Act, Rick Rubin argues that when you reach an impasse in the creative process, stepping away from the project creates space for solutions to appear.

When you hold a problem lightly in the back of your mind while doing something simple and unrelated, like driving, walking, swimming, or washing dishes, you are using ‘distraction’’ or being “off” not as procrastination but a deliberate strategy in service of the work…

Because these activities keep one part of your mind occupied while freeing the rest to remain open to whatever comes in.

And oftentimes, problem-solving and growth are about accessing a different part of your mind that can see more angles than the direct path.

Kind of like when you repeat a mantra during a meditation, it keeps one part of your mind ‘distracted’ so the other part can remain still.

I say all of this to tell you, despite what you see online, rest isn’t the absence of productivity; it’s part of the cycle that produces your best work.

Don’t be fooled by what you see online, growth is not about grinding the longest or hardest.

The highest performers are not mastering their time, but their energy.

Because the truth is, your time means nothing if the energy behind it is depleted, scattered, or misaligned.

Everything in this universe follows a rhythm. And your self-mastery is about tuning in with it to find yours…a rhythm is a melody, it isn’t forced, it flows.

Flow is about finding a pattern of intense, intentional work followed by intentional rest; this is what truly creates quantum leaps in your life and business.

The silent cost of optimising every waking second is losing sight of this.

It’s ironic because you strive for perfecting your human form through optimisation, and as a result, you lose the very thing that makes you human.

You try to become conscious of your habits, but end up living unconsciously bound to a routine.

Should you follow a structure and routine? Of course. But the moment it becomes overbearing, learn how to loosen the grip a little.

Should you strive for optimisation? Sure. But know where to draw the line.

Nature has the answers already - as I said in the beginning, work like a lion instead.

The next time you find yourself filling every gap in your schedule, remember that the secrets of the universe and nature were hiding in the branches of a tree for thousands of years, before anyone noticed.

DaVinci found it because he gave himself the space to look.

Leave the gaps, because the idea that changes everything for you probably won’t arrive when you’re worrying about your sleep score.

It’ll arrive when you’re sitting under a tree with nothing better to do than wonder why it’s shaped the way it is.

Your most important work might not look like work at all.

Until next time,

Milan

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I believe that those who will rise to the very top will not be the ones who work the hardest, but those who lean into their taste.

Aesthetic intelligence is the final moat. Taste, discernment and subtle judgement now matter more than information.

Knowing what looks good, feels good, and stirs the soul has been something humans have understood since time began.

This intentionality is woven into the fabric of our human experience - from the choice of words an author uses, the frames of a film a director stitches together, even to the city planning that goes into building the streets we walk through.

That’s what makes great art - music, movies, writing and work that embodies expressions of the individual or collective taste.

But now, where A.I has closed the gap and lowered the barrier to entry in every field; the philosophy of taste matters more than ever.

How much of what you see is a.i generated? That lacks soul and depth? [I think they call it “slop”]

Previously, taste was nice to have; now it will save you not only financially but also spiritually.

Because, unfortunately, the (new) world is designed to make you feel spiritually numb.

And if you do not awaken to the fact that you must play your part in rebuilding it, you will live forever as a machine, just as they intended.

And so in this letter, I’m going to give you a practical guide on how to lean into your taste,

• So you don’t get left behind.

• How to break through the noise using your unique gifts

• And why you should resist the programming that you’re being fed so that you can live on your terms…

Developing Aesthetic Judgement.

We all have this inherent knowing of what feels good, sounds good, and looks good.

When our senses are satisfied to some degree, we usually attribute it to the experience as a whole.

Maybe it’s a song you’re hearing on the radio, or a podcast you’re listening to.

The top 1% dive a little deeper; they break down the layers of the experience to identify what is making them feel this way, rather than leaving it unconscious.

And that is what helps them develop what I like to call aesthetic judgement or aesthetic intelligence.

They get curious, ask questions, go down rabbit holes, read books, visit museums, and speak to professionals. To get to the root of why what they’re looking at or experiencing feels magical.

I remember when I uncovered my first “why” behind why something makes me feel a certain way.

It was film.

Watching films always felt like an experience to me. Falling into a world that felt like it could be real, developing relationships with characters through the looking glass, wondering where the storyline would go…

When I broke down why I love film, I began to uncover the threads of what goes into movie-making.

I took studio tours to see behind the scenes and learn about set design, music design, acting, directing, and production.

To make a long story short, the further I dove into this rabbit hole, the more I began to understand why movies make us feel this way.

And then came the important part that I want to get across to you - pattern recognition.

In my opinion, one of the highest forms of intelligence is pattern recognition.

When I knew that certain chords were used in particular scenes to evoke specific emotions, it was easy to spot them in any other film I watched thereafter.

I knew what the director was trying to communicate to the audience subliminally.

And now that I knew this, my skill of aesthetic judgement/intelligence had been sharpened.

Judgement is just the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions…

When I have the why in my mind to reference, it helps me form an accurate judgement.

And better yet, I can use that conclusion in my own work; whether it be in my show or in my business - I’ll tell you exactly how shortly.

But so that you know, this doesn’t just go for film; I have a bunch of these “whys” in my mind now.

I wondered why walking through European cities felt pleasing, whilst walking in America didn’t. I learnt about city planning and architecture, and then began to spot patterns across the countries I visited.

I wondered why certain books spoke to me more than others. I learnt how to write. I began to spot patterns in the books I read in their sentence structure, language, and pacing.

I wondered why stage magic and being a showman called to me so much as a kid. I learnt about human psychology, the art of steering a conversation, and flair.

You see, aesthetic judgment is subjective.

What I like, you might not, and vice versa.

Which is why I can’t just tell you what’s ‘good or bad’.

But I can tell you how to develop the eye to decide for yourself.

In life, you don’t want to be guessing when the data is readily available for you to discover - that’s a fool’s game.

If you guess, you cannot repeat or implement, and that is what creates mastery.

So the first step to saving yourself is to become conscious of what stirs your soul, and dig into why that is.

(By the way, becoming aware of these things can also protect you from when it is being used against you too.)

Once you uncover the answers, you find the patterns, when you find the patterns, you sharpen your intelligence.

For instance, I am building software with a friend at the moment, which I know is going to be huge.

(News on that soon, excited to share - this will genuinely transform the way you approach your internal mastery.)

And before we began, I drew out some universal design laws we must follow that help evoke emotion on a subconscious level.

This was based on the patterns I had seen in companies and people I admire, like Steve Jobs.

But had I not dug deeper into why certain brands or designers made me feel that way in the past, I wouldn’t have been able to implement it into my own work.

“When you make something with love and care, even though the people you’ve made it for don’t know you, when they use the product you’ve made, it’s a way of expressing our gratitude to the species.”

- Steve Jobs & Jony Ive

But here’s where most people go wrong: they overconsume, and they don’t know where to look - which is why this next idea is so important…

Filtering, Not Gathering.

I’ll tell you why information doesn’t matter anymore.

@naval

said it best:

“In an abundant world, knowledge is about filtering, rather than gathering information.”

50 years ago, if you wanted to find something out, you had to go to your local library, find an encyclopedia, then swim through the ocean of words to find it.

Today, you open ChatGPT and ask,

“What did people used to do before toothpaste was invented?”

(I literally searched for that this morning when it came up as a thought)

The friction between question and answer is almost zero.

And so, if you’re optimising to have the best information - whether that be in your business or career - you are going to lose.

You will not outcompete A.I or computers in memorisation or recall.

It used to be the case that in life, the one with the most information won. But now, as Naval said, true knowledge is about filtering through the noise and BS.

Because with an abundance of information also comes an abundance of misinformation.

Again, this is where judgment or discernment comes in - choosing your sources wisely, who you listen to, who and what you take advice from, and what you consume.

If you’re trying to lean into your uniqueness but rely on ChatGPT to write your scripts for your content, you’re gathering, not filtering.

How would a robot know you better than YOU?

But if you’re trying to create a history report, then sure, it’ll work better than you trying to think your way there.

If your moat is your taste,

Filtering is what helps you collect the tools to build it.

And you can only filter when you know what you’re looking for (A.K.A: Aesthetic intelligence)

Do you see how it all connects?

Now, let me explain why the philosophy of taste is so important right now and what happens if you continue living passively.

Spiritually Numb.

I’m not one of those people who say,

“Oh, the world used to be better in the past, ee had things right before!”

Because whilst we had some things right, we had some things very wrong too, but most people seem to skip over that part.

The 60s were great for the American dream and the nuclear family.

But it was also full of incredible levels of racism and discrimination that you wouldn’t believe. Commercial flights were reserved for the elite class. Opportunity for entrepreneurship was little to none. Just to name a few…

I think we live in the best time in history. It’s the golden age.

But because we’re so chronically online and constantly exposed to global terrors, it doesn’t feel like it.

But what if I told you that, too, was by design?

My point is that the deeper I go down the rabbit hole of why the world is the way it is, the more I speak with higher-ups, the more I understand that none of it is accidental.

And all of it is designed to keep you spiritually numb.

From the way neo-cityscapes are designed (using glass, mirror and soulless materials) all the way through to the propaganda you are fed to make you think that there are ‘teams’ and keep you divided on social media.

Here’s the truth: the universe will always find a way to reach an equilibrium.

So whatever forces are working for ‘evil’ must also be countered with ‘good’.

And you play your part by refusing to eat the slop that you are being fed.

Instead, recognise that if you do not consciously choose to build a better world, you are actively contributing to a worse one, even through passivity.

They expect you to do nothing. To consume endlessly. To live mind-lessly. And in doing so, you play your part for them.

But by using the only power you were truly given, the gifts of your soul, you build a better world.

In his book Mastery, Robert Greene says:

“At your birth a seed is planted. That seed is your uniqueness. It wants to grow, transform itself, and flower to its full potential. Your Life’s Task is to bring that seed to flower, to express your uniqueness through your work. You have a destiny to fulfill.”

“You have a destiny to fulfil“ is a sentence that echoes in my mind almost daily.

It sounds larger than life, and sometimes I think it’s not that deep, until I realise, it is.

Taste is how you bring those seeds to life.

It’s how you contribute and pay your rent to the universe, because if you do, you will create things that create things.

Your work inspires something new, and the chain reaction never ends.

That’s why it’s important not to conform and to discover your own uniqueness.

Your uniqueness is just an expression of the one source.

And whenever you marvel at something, it is your consciousness taking delight in seeing itself in another unique form.

I say taste is the final competitive advantage, because that is what makes us human.

As A.i develops, I always think about this scene from i,Robot where Spooner says to Sonny (the robot):

“Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?”

And Sonny calmly responds:

“Can you?”

Most humans can’t write a symphony or paint a masterpiece either. But thats because most people have already surrendered their taste and they’re already living like machines.

Not because they lack the capacity, but because they’ve never done the work of uncovering it. The rabbit holes, the pattern recognition, the “why” behind what stirs them.

It’s not about human vs robot, it’s conscious human vs. unconscious human.

Taste isn’t something you passively have; it’s something you actively develop or lose.

So, the question isn’t whether AI can create something beautiful. The question is whether you will.

And if you can’t answer that confidently, that’s exactly why this philosophy matters.

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Until next time,

Milan

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“Entrepreneurship is just a personal growth engine in disguise.”

And it stuck with me ever since - I took it to mean that business is a fantastic vessel for self-improvement. Why?

Because it ties the intangible inner work to tangible outer progress.

Think about all you have to do to grow a successful business - from ideation, to actually starting, to growth, to declines, to putting out fires, to hiring, to selling. It comprises all of the identity work and shifting that you see in the world of spirituality.

There are so many components inside the vehicle of business that will force you to grow into the person you want to become.

See, my biggest problem with the self-improvement space is that it’s all a little bit vague.

Sure, you can say you’re doing the inner work to heal previous traumas, but what does that look like practically? How does that show up? How do you measure your healing process? When do you know that you are healed?

Now I am not saying that you must own a business to do this work, but I am saying that entrepreneurship and inner mastery are spiritually linked.

Business is a spiritual game.

In the past, I built a multi-7-figure business from these principles, and today I still use them to create an edge in my content and new ventures.

So with that being said, I want to share with you the tactical case for inner work: how self-discipline, clean thinking and focus will compound into your competitive advantage.

These tactics not only made me a better person but a better businessman by default. A good friend of mine often jokes around with me and calls me the Entrepreneur Yogi, but the more we say it, the more we think there’s something in there…

I. Inner always precedes outer

Nothing external will ever precede (come before) what is internal.

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No action ever came before a thought.

When you understand this simple universal law, you will make the necessary shift in your thinking to actually change your life. See, I used to think that all the answers were “out there”.

I used to think that in order to change my life and my results, I just had to change strategies enough times.

And whilst strategy is important, there is one rule I now live by that I keep top of mind:

State > Strategy

Your internal state is the foundation for what your outer strategy will be built on, and until you fix it, it’ll be like building a house on sand. The foundation can collapse at any moment.

In business, this usually comes in the form of putting out fires or something going wrong - good strategy can get you to a desired goal, but problems will test whether you can stay there, and if your inner state isn’t regulated, the way you respond to chaos can be career-ending.

I learnt early on that two people with the same plan will get drastically different results because of one thing - their inner state.

Of course, both are needed, but an optimised internal state is a multiplier that determines whether your strategies compound or collapse; energy beats tactics every single time.

So the rule here is, in order to gain a competitive advantage in life or in business, prioritise the regulation of your inner world - I will share with you some proven techniques on exactly how to do this shortly.

II. Clean Mind = Divine Downloads

Your mind is like a garden - but 99% of people’s gardens are like chaotic dumping grounds.

They let anyone and anything enter, wander around and leave it messier than they found it.

The thing with gardens is, if they are not tended to, they will overgrow, they will become messy, they will invite unwanted guests, and the soil will be ruined.

Ancient cultures treated sacred spaces (like gardens) with reverence - only certain people could enter, specific rituals maintained purity, and guards protected the threshold. Your mental garden is sacred, but you’re running it like a London underground bathroom. No standards for entry, no maintenance schedule, no protection of what’s sacred.

Your garden has been desecrated by negligence, not invasion.

Every garden needs a gardener. YOU are the gardener of your mind and the guardian of your mental gates; you should be intentionally choosing what is allowed in.

A garden that is tended means creating a space for something beautiful to grow. I am always asked, “Milan, how do you come up with good ideas?”

The answer is simple: they come to me because I create a space that invites them to arrive. In business, how can you expect to have good ideas if...

1. They have nowhere to land.

2. Even if they find a spot to land, they will be left covered by the weeds of your mind.

A well-kept garden acts like a container for divine downloads; it means pulling the weeds before they can choke the roses.

Most people wonder why clarity never visits them or why inspiration feels distant. The answer is so simple it hurts: you haven’t prepared the ground.

If I’ve learnt anything about ideas, it’s that they never arrive fully formed; they will land subtly, delicately, almost silently. It’s a seedling, not a tree. It needs space, sunlight, and attention to grow.

But if your mental garden is overgrown with anxiety, cluttered with everyone else’s opinions, and polluted with algorithmic noise - that seed doesn’t stand a chance.

When your inner environment is clean, ordered, and intentional, ideas won’t fight to survive; they have room to grow.

This is why the same opportunity can walk past two people, and only one of them sees it. One person’s garden is so overgrown that they couldn’t spot a diamond in the dirt. The other person’s garden is so clear that even the smallest seed of possibility is immediately visible.

Divinity doesn’t scream; it reminds you of its presence subtly and pulls at you to co-create with it, but you will miss the call if you haven’t prepared the grounds.

But even a pristine garden is useless without the gardener’s focused attention. Which brings us to...

III. The Art of Focus

“Focus is the lens through which we experience life.” — Dan Koe, from an episode of my show (watch here)

The gap between where you are and where you want to be is not a talent gap, but a focus gap.

To me, focus is just the centralisation of all your energy into a singular task.

When you really break down what the spectrum of focus means, you begin to understand the quote that Dan shared with me…

Focus is the difference between just looking and actually noticing. Everyone has eyes, but not everyone can see.

Most think that focus is just about concentration - the ability to stare at something for hours without distraction.

But focus isn’t just about duration, it’s about direction. You can spend 12 hours “focused” on the wrong things and make zero progress. You can spend 12 hours in a reactive state, pulled by notifications, swept up in other people’s agendas, mistaking busyness for productivity.

To me, that is not true focus, but just another state of hypnosis.

Real focus is intentional aperture.

Like a camera lens, your focus determines what comes into clarity and what should blur into the background. And the quality of your focus literally shapes your reality. Most people’s focus is fragmented across three toxic categories:

- Things they cannot control - other people’s opinions, past failures, external circumstances

- Things that don’t matter - algorithmic entertainment, manufactured drama, endless comparison

- Things that aren’t theirs to carry - other people’s problems, inherited expectations, cultural programming they never chose

There is neuroscience that proves the existence of what is called “mental residue,” which is the leftover effect of your focus constantly being pulled in a thousand different directions.

But the masters of reality and the best entrepreneurs I know understand this:

Your focus is your most valuable resource, more valuable than time. More valuable than money. More valuable than talent. Because focus is what transforms all those other resources into results, you can have all the time in the world, but if your focus is scattered, you’ll accomplish nothing.

You can have capital, but if your focus is misaligned, you’ll waste it. You can have talent, but if your focus is weak, you’ll watch less gifted people pass you by.

The good news is, it’s not something you find or are born with; it’s something you build and train, every day.

It’s a practice. A discipline. An art.

And like the garden, it requires constant maintenance; you have to know what deserves your attention and what doesn’t. On instagram they tell you to protect your energy. I’ll tell you to instead protect your focus - because they’re the same thing.

Every notification you respond to, every conversation you entertain, every thought you follow eats away at your mental bandwidth.

The clearer you become about what doesn’t belong in your awareness, the more power you have to direct your attention toward what matters.

And that is what the art of focus is really about, knowing where to point the lens, and having the discipline to keep it there long enough for the picture to develop.

Okay, okay, so you understand why all of this can give you an edge in the game of business - but what are these proven techniques that can get you there and that you can implement today?

IV. The Proven Techniques

So how do you actually build this competitive advantage? How do you regulate your inner state, clean your mental garden, and sharpen your focus?

Here are the exact practices that changed everything for me - not just as a person, but as an operator.

1. Meditation: The Foundation of Everything.

Let me be clear about something: meditation is not what you think it is. It’s not about sitting cross-legged chanting (although I do do this on occasion)

Meditation is the most practical business tool I’ve ever encountered. Because it trains you to observe your thoughts without being controlled by them.

It creates separation between you and the noise. Between stimulus and response, in business, this gap is everything.

When a deal falls through, when a team member quits, when revenue drops - the untrained mind reacts. It spirals… It makes decisions from panic and scarcity (that you trained so hard to get rid of).

But the trained mind observes, then responds. It sees the situation as it is, without the distortion of emotion and therefore asks better questions.

Which gets you to solutions faster.

My practice is simple: 10-20 minutes every morning before I touch my phone. I sit, I focus on my breath, and when thoughts arise, I notice them and return to the breath. That’s it, no apps or complicated techniques, just me, my breathing, and the practice of returning to centre. What this builds over time is mental resilience and the ability to stay present under pressure. The capacity to hold clarity when everyone else is losing their minds.

When I REALLY need to clear a thick mental block, I’ll extend my daily meditations. 40-60 Minutes at a time.

2. The Evening Audit: Tending the Garden Daily

Every evening, I do what I call “The Evening Audit.” It takes 5-10 minutes, and it’s non-negotiable. I ask myself three questions:

What entered my mental garden today that shouldn’t have?

Toxic conversations

Scrolling

Fear propaganda

Other people’s anxiety

What grew today that I want to keep?

Useful insights

Productive thoughts

Creative ideas

Valuable connections

What weeds need to be pulled before tomorrow?

Unresolved tension

Unclear commitments

Mental clutter

You don’t have to write these down; even going through this practice mentally brings it to the forefront of your awareness, which is enough to force clarity.

The more you do this, the more you prevent mental residue from compounding, and it ensures that yesterday’s chaos doesn’t bleed into tomorrow’s clarity.

3. The 90-Minute Focus Block: Deep Work and intentional rest as ritual

Focus isn’t something you can sustain all day; it ebbs and flows, so you have to go with it.

But you can train yourself to enter deep, undistracted focus for smaller, concentrated periods. And that’s where the magic happens.

I structure my days around 90-minute focus blocks. During these blocks:

Phone on DND + App Blocker on (I use an app called Opal)

No email, no Instagram, no messages

Single task only - no multitasking

Door closed, headphones on if needed

The rule is simple: one task, 90 minutes, zero interruptions.

I typically do 2-3 of these blocks per day. That’s 3-4.5 hours of real, deep work, more than most people accomplish in a full week of “busy.”

Darwin wrote over 20 books, including the theory of evolution, and conducted extensive research using this approach. 3 hours of work a day. The rest of his day involved walks, rest, light reading, and correspondence - but the real breakthrough thinking happened in those short, protected windows of deep work.

It’s more about depth than duration when it comes to training your focus. And then in the gaps in-between, it’s about intentionally recharging with the right inputs that reset your mind and regulate your system. Like reading the right books, dinner with friends, movement and training, and playing sports.

The key is treating these blocks as sacred. They’re rituals. They’re the container where my best thinking happens, where complex problems get solved, where strategy finds refinement.

Everything else - the meetings, the emails, the administrative tasks - gets scheduled around these blocks, not the other way around.

The Compounding Effect

None of these practices is complicated. None of them requires expensive tools or complicated systems; the real edge begins to sharpen when you implement them over long periods of time…

In a week, you feel slightly more centred, a bit clearer.

In a month, you notice you’re making better decisions, responding instead of reacting.

In a year, you’ve developed a sustainable system that compounds. You’re outperforming people with more talent, more resources, more time - because you have something they don’t: inner leverage.

This is what I mean by meditation making me a better businessman.

It’s not about the practice itself. It’s about what the practice creates: mental clarity, emotional regulation, focused attention, and strategic thinking.

What results will you see?

Fair question, I said it made me a better businessman, let me prove it, at the end of the day, businesses speak the language of return on investment.

So what’s the actual ROI on meditation? On mental clarity? On focus?

Here’s what changed for me when I implemented these practices:

My idea to execution gap closed in

Before I did this kind of work, I would delay a decision or action for weeks, and sometimes months at a time.

I’d spiral into analysis paralysis, collecting more data, seeking more opinions, trying to eliminate all uncertainty before moving.

But after building mental clarity through these practices, my decision-making timeline collapsed because I could see through the noise faster. I could feel the right answer instead of thinking my way into confusion.

The internal clarity gave me conviction, and conviction creates speed. Speed creates momentum —> momentum creates results.

I was taught that in business, the cost of slow decisions is invisible but devastating. You will miss opportunities, lose talent and get outpaced by competitors who move while you spiral.

My Creativity Increased tenfold

As I mentioned, your best ideas don’t come from grinding harder; they come from creating internal space. I used to struggle to be creative, producing content that was fine but forgettable.

After establishing a clean mental garden and deep focus blocks? It was like I was getting divine downloads for video ideas, guest collaborations, and business ventures.

I started seeing connections others missed, and I started producing content that actually moved people instead of just informing them.

This newsletter you’re reading? I couldn’t have written this three years ago. Not because I didn’t have the information, but because I didn’t have the clarity to distil it into something useful.

My Stress-induced mistakes dropped to zero

When I was 21, I made a six-figure mistake in my business. And when I look back, it was simply because I was operating from a dysregulated nervous system. I was reactive and emotional, making decisions from scarcity and panic, which cost me more than I knew at the time.

I said yes when I should have said no - all because my internal state was chaos and I was being dragged along rather than centred in my own intuitive knowing.

That was the last time I made a mistake from that place. Do I still make mistakes now? Of course, but I can’t remember the last time I made a major decision I regretted. Not because I’m smarter, but because I’m calmer. I respond instead of react. That gap - that tiny pause meditation creates - has saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars in avoided mistakes.

Look, I could give you stories all day, but what you should take away from this letter is this:

Most people ask: “Can I afford to spend time on meditation and inner work when I have so much to do?”

That’s the wrong question.

The right question is: “Can I afford NOT to?”

Because every decision you make from a dysregulated state costs you. Every opportunity you miss because your mind is too cluttered to see it costs you, and every mistake born from reactive thinking costs you.

The most expensive thing you can do in business is operate without clarity, and the shift in culture I am seeing (and glad to be a part of) is that Inner work isn’t a luxury or just a nice to have, it’s necessary infrastructure.

And the entrepreneurs who understand this are building sustainable empires, so the ball is in your court…

- Milan

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Mental clarity to me means a state of decisiveness, void of noise, and what remains is pure signal.

In simpler terms, less chaos, more silence.

But the more intelligent people I speak to or come across, the less I find that this trait exists in them.

A quote I think about often is when @elonmusk said:

“I don’t think most people would want to be me. They may think they would want to be me but they don’t they don’t know, they don’t understand. My Mind is a Storm.”

This is not exclusive to Elon; I think this actually goes for most people who score above average, not only in intelligence, but in ambition, too.

So if you opened this, that’s probably you.

Overthinking, pattern overload and the cost of seeing too much too early are the ingredients for mental chaos.

If they are not treated, the storm becomes larger and will snowball until something in you breaks.

But despite this, I will show you how to achieve and prolong your mental states of clarity with proven techniques I’ve used on high performers I work with,

and if you get out of your own way, you’ll change how you see the storm forever.

I. Being too High IQ is holding you back.

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I made a post recently about the cost of intelligence.

Most people think that being high IQ is what you should aspire to, because that’s what school taught us success looked like.

Straight A’s and Scholarships.

But in reality, the highest IQ people I know are also the most troubled, because they cripple under the weight of their own minds.

“Smart people who lack courage and don’t take risks often end up bitter. They keep seeing less smart people with more courage do better than them.”

It’s often the case that those who appear ‘dumb’ end up being rich and successful, and the smartest people we know end up depressed, aimless or successful on paper but empty inside.

Why is that?

Optimising for intelligence and only collecting information can lead to paralysis by analysis (overanalysing every situation and every move until you have so much decision fatigue you end up doing nothing at all)

It’s death by a thousand acts of consumption.

Whereas those who just act - like jumping into the deep end of a new business venture, starting that YouTube channel, talking to that person - often end up with the better result.

Now maintaining those results, that’s a different story, and why you’ll see a lot of people who win fast, lose it just as quickly.

So intelligence does matter, but my point is, there is a difference between intelligence (acquiring knowledge) and wisdom (acting on that knowledge).

You should strive for wisdom.

Wisdom = knowledge + action, and that formula creates massive results.

I have a theory that your level of action-taking is related to your level of risk tolerance, and that is determined by your level of self-trust.

Something I’ve learnt from top performers is that risk is an essential factor to success; you won’t get anywhere meaningful by playing it safe.

And deeper than that, risk is an essential need for the soul; it yearns to strive for more, otherwise it slowly dies under the blanket of safety and familiarity.

A lot of intelligent people are not wise.

They are book smart, but that position usually comes attached to this idea that they are better than others; they have low risk tolerance and low self-trust because they constantly look outwards for answers.

And it’s ironic because they’re not smart enough to see that.

And so, step one to mental clarity is to get out of your own way and understand that you can learn something from everyone.

Frankly, intelligent people will resist some of the simple practices I am going to mention because they feel above them.

But complexity is often the ego’s way of avoiding the work. Smart people often build their entire identity around being “the smart one”, which makes it terrifying to act, even on the small things, before they have the perfect answer.

Harsh truth: your mind is a storm because you think you know it all (I say this with love, and am mainly speaking to myself) - allowing yourself to entertain the possibility that you may be wrong is an important step towards clarity.

II. Your unconscious patterns rule your life (and you call it fate)

“If you don’t make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” — Jung

There are about 6 primary unconscious patterns I have uncovered with the founders I work with (not an exhaustive list)

Finding out which one you are is step one towards uncovering why you are leaking so much mental energy. Here are the six patterns:

1. The People-Pleaser - Seeks external validation, can’t say no

2. The Self-Saboteur - Unconsciously blocks their own success

3. The Perfectionist - Paralysed by never being “good enough”

4. The Scarcity Mind - Operates from fear and lack

5. The Avoider - Runs from discomfort, numbs emotions

6. The Overachiever - Achieves externally, empty internally

In case you’re interested, I put together a quiz that allows you to find out which one you are, and gives you micro tasks you can take to break those patterns, because I won’t get into that in this letter.

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The point is, your mind is overcrowded because you’re not aware of the patterns that rule it.

You self-sabotage or fail to commit to the tasks you know will get you to your desired goal,

not because you don’t want to or because you are not disciplined enough, but because your programming will always beat your willpower.

Patterns and biases are interesting because they pull the strings like a ventriloquist, and you’re the doll behaving just as they please.

You will think it’s you making your decisions because you feel like you’re sitting in the cockpit of the plane, with the controls in your hand, but little do you know, the autopilot flick is switched, and the second pilot behind you (your programming) is actually driving.

If you let them, they will continue running your life. Intelligent people are just smarter dolls, still living in this unawareness and looking for the answer somewhere outside of themselves.

So, the second step to clarity is awareness.

Awareness happens through observation and self-examination. When you honestly put yourself up for review, detached from emotion, you sit yourself in the position of the observer.

The observer sits in the theatre of the mind, watching thoughts perform and emotions dance across the stage. They applaud, they take note, but they never mistake themselves for the actors.

Your lack of clarity, and let’s face it, purpose stems from the idea that you are your thoughts. You are not, you are the one who hears them.

When you learn to dissociate (in a healthy way) you will finally create some space between you and your thoughts.

This gives you enough of a gap to look at them rationally instead of jumping to conclusions and allowing them to spiral.

It allows you to interrupt negative ones and replace them with better ones.

The takeaway here is that the more you notice, the less you unconsciously loop.

Training your awareness is just the art of noticing, and coincidentally, that is one of the techniques I will show you, but I couldn’t give you the techniques without you first understanding why you are practising them…

So now that’s out of the way, let me give you the 3 ways you can re-centre when you begin to spiral and hear the signal again when it’s being muffled by the noise.

III. Mental Training

I like to think of the following techniques as mental training. When you think about it logically, you train your body in the gym, so why would you neglect your mind and spirit?

I think it’s important to remember that clarity is not a destination you arrive at; it’s something you restore, it’s something you have always known.

But as you began to loosen the grip of control on what enters your mind, you began to pedestalise this feeling and thought it was a feat reserved for sages and gurus.

That’s the trick this inner resistance and programming plays on you, it makes what you want feel unattainable, when in reality it’s your true nature.

It’s all a return back to what you already knew.

Enough philosophising - here are the techniques:

1. Writing.

Writing is like a special form of meditation. You don’t have to write as I do; it doesn’t have to be shared, it doesn’t even have to make sense. It just serves as an outlet. Most people stop writing after school finishes, and it shows…

Writing not only improves your articulation skills but also your ability to connect thoughts and ideas.

Whether it’s journaling or creative writing, the medium is up to you - but whenever you are in a mental rut, write one word, then one sentence, then another, and watch as your thoughts will move from the storm in your head, down through your shoulders, into your hands, and finally onto the page where they can rest.

It’s like disarming a firearm; it goes from dangerous to stable in seconds when handled correctly.

I always say, “Read for ideas and write for clarity - if you do both, you become superhuman.”

Writing for me serves as a way to close any open loops in my mind. That is the number one mental hack I tell anyone that asks - the surest path to clarity is writing down all of your open loops and closing them.

For example, an open loop could be a conversation left unfinished, a task half-complete, or the mess in the corner of your room.

These things subtly drain your mental bandwidth and hold weight. Energy that could be allocated to something productive.

So closing an open loop could mean ending the conversation, or completing the task, but even acknowledging that these things must be done.

That subtle shift makes all the difference. I urge you to do this tonight: list all of your current open loops on paper, and see what you can close before bed.

You will wake up with newfound clarity.

Suggestion: Journaling practice called “The Morning Pages” by Julia Cameron. I give this to all my clients because it’s just so effective in clearing mental clutter. As soon as you rise, pick up a pen and write for 3 continuous pages without lifting the pen from the paper. It’s supposed to literally be a stream of consciousness, direct to paper, and help eliminate the weight of your thoughts. It’s not meant to be legible or read back, so keep that in mind.

2. Noticing.

I mentioned it a couple of paragraphs ago, but one of the greatest ways to clear mental clutter is to refine your “noticing” skill.

This blade of awareness, when sharp enough, cuts through chaos by bringing your attention to what’s in front of you.

It’s present-moment awareness on steroids. The best thing about this is that the more you sharpen this blade, the less you will spiral in the future, because you’ll be able to draw on this skill whenever you need it.

It’s kind of like tapping into your mental peripheral vision.

I practice the art of noticing daily, almost all day.

For example, as I drive to the gym, I turn off the music, roll down the window,s and just let my awareness bathe in the environment that is drifting by. I’ll notice billboards, catch certain words from passerby’s conversations, number plates, road signs, the bird flying by… I am not looking for it, but I am intentionally inviting synchronicity into my life every time I do this.

But let me tell you the real reason why I do this…

The more you notice, the more you become hyper-present, and in that hyper-presence, you cannot help but feel that there’s more to this than meets the eye.

When I say “this”, I mean life itself. I personally experience what you would call God, in those small pockets of time where I let my awareness soak in the living texture of the environment.

And that feeling, that deep, sincere sense of gratitude that is created, is the ultimate weapon and armour against mental chaos.

Suggestion: Try walking without your phone. Let your mind breathe, notice what catches your attention, but don’t pay it attention, keep moving. Do this daily, and keep a log of what you notice. There’s likely a pattern in there that you would have missed before.

Or try this, micro-dosing boredom: set a 15-minute timer, and just stare at the wall. It sounds strange, but watch what happens as your mind tries to fight the withdrawal from dopamine. Once you beat that initial resistance, you have set the foundations for ideas to arrive.

3. Movement

Did you think I was going to say meditation?

I could have. But the truth is, everything we have already covered are forms of inactive mediation; movement is medicine because it’s active mediation.

You see, when you enter mental loops, you are like a hamster on a wheel. You run faster and faster, hoping to get a new result, but with each go around, you’re just making it harder to get off. You are the hamster, not the wheel…

Only when you step outside of the loops you’ve created will you regain control and equilibrium. How do you step off the wheel?

You don’t jump off; you slow down until the wheel comes to a stop naturally.

Slowing down the mind is intentional; it’s a practice, and it must be carried out daily. And the best way to do that? It’s not more thinking.

You cannot kill thinking with thinking - walk, sprint, sauna, stretch, move, create - active meditation is oil that greases your mind so you can get unstuck and out of a rut.

A 20 Minute walk has proven to drastically alter your state of consciousness. Your pre-frontal cortex improves, meaning your levels of focus and decision-making.

You regulate your dopamine levels. You increase your DMN usage - this is basically the part of your brain responsible for Meaning, purpose and creativity, but it is usually numbed because of overstimulation.

I’m not claiming to be a scientist or even a psychologist; I have just spoken to a lot of experts and high achievers who have shown me the data that backs this up.

And I know this works because of my own lived experience.

There’s this old Latin saying, “Solvitur Ambulando”, which translates to - it is solved by walking.

The few that get this will go very far in life.

The only real remedy to mental chaos and clutter is actively and intentionally trying to reach flow states. I spoke about this at length with in our conversation, which you can check out here.

Athletes often describe flow as spiritual; it’s where time bends, and the self dissolves. In that pocket of time, the true you is back in the driver’s seat, but the paradox is, it will feel like autopilot.

The storm in your mind isn’t going anywhere for long; you will have periods where the waters are calm, but then again, a new storm can brew at any moment.

What actively changes is your relationship to it.

Stop trying to think your way out, stop waiting for the perfect state of clarity before you move, and recognise that the very act of seeking “enough” clarity is often just another loop.

Instead, write, notice, move and act despite the noise. Acknowledge where you are, and that it’s part of the journey.

If you had a radio, and it was only receiving interference, would you keep it on the same station, hoping it resolves itself?

Of course not - so why do you do the same with your mind?

I wrote recently, “Logically, clarity can only come after confusion.”

When you understand this, you begin to appreciate that a certain sequence must unfold in order for things to make sense. So you act anyway, knowing that before clarity will always come confusion.

The only missing ingredient from this whole thread is one thing - time.

With enough time, effort and practice, you learn to navigate the storm. The mental chaos that once paralysed you becomes the raw material for your work.

You learn to appreciate it because stars are not born in balanced solar systems, and oftentimes our best ideas are not birthed in regulated nervous systems.

Most intelligent people spend their whole lives waiting for their minds to quiet down before they make a move, and they die waiting.

But elite operators learn the storm is a feature of life and not a bug.

The techniques aren’t about achieving some zen state.

They’re about building enough space between stimulus and response that you can actually choose.

Hope it helps.

— Milan

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Not so long ago, near the end of 2025, I felt like my efforts were being wasted in my work - and that invited a whole new wave of self-doubt.

I’m sure you’ve been there before.

When you’re in the process of building anything (even if it’s just yourself) you can’t help but wonder:

“What’s the point of all this?”

The question seems to arrive right in the middle of the tasks you need to do to improve your business, health, or situation in general.

Halfway through a sauna session, when the heat was most penetrating...

Midway through a newsletter when the idea was beginning to take shape (yes, even during this one)...

And when I investigated why that question kept coming up, I realised,

As a founder, it’s not only unrealistic to live in a perpetual state of motivation, but unhealthy.

Nevertheless, the work needs doing.

So what do you do about it?

Thankfully, I was taught a principle that helped me overcome that resistance.

Actually, less of a principle, more of an understanding of what goes on beneath the surface when you are trying to fight resistance.

So I’ll break it down for you, too.

And once you understand the psychology of consistency, you’ll be able to bypass how you feel now for the sake of your future self and complete the task ahead of you,

because that’s what elite performers can do time and time again.

Plus, I’ll equip you with a technique that will save you even on your lowest days.

You’ll be able to fall back on this whenever you feel demotivated or uninspired.

You’ll gain an edge over others by understanding the inner workings of your mind and brain chemistry (based on neuroscience)

And best of all, you’ll be able to move through life without that feeling of guilt you normally carry around, and finally become the version of yourself you said you would be.

So let’s get into it.

The First Mental Shift

was understanding that consistency is actually a form of self-love, not self-punishment...

The word “discipline” has negative connotations, but in reality, it’s the purest form of love.

Every action is a vote for the type of person you’re becoming; it becomes a groove in the new identity you are building.

And so quitting has more consequences than you realise...

Not only do you stop your progress in real time, but you also sabotage the identity that’s required to get to the next level.

I’ve come to realise that in order to get to the next level, you have to design the identity of the individual that lives there.

And then the work becomes bridging the gap between you and them. The secret is, your mind builds neural pathways through repetition, not intensity.

It’s not about fierce visualisation and affirmations.

Force can’t get you there, but repetition eventually will.

You must strengthen the neural pathway that says -
“I am someone who finishes what they start.”

The more you do this, the higher your self-trust becomes. The higher your self-trust, the more you conviction you hold in your beliefs, and therefore the more the action becomes a default.

The samurai doesn’t wake up and decide whether to train today.

He wakes up, and training happens. Not because of discipline. Not because of willpower. But because the identity precedes the decision.

The amateur thinks: “I should train today. I need to build discipline.”

The samurai thinks: “I am a samurai. Samurai train.”

The action is not debated; it’s an expression of what already is.

James Clear says that improvements are only temporary until they become part of who you are.

The goal is not to read a book; the goal is to become a reader.

The goal is not to run a marathon; the goal is to become a runner.

The goal is not to learn an instrument; the goal is to become a musician.

Each action is downstream from the decision to embody the identity of who you wish to become. As the evidence builds, the identity strengthens.

And this is your biggest competitive advantage or edge, as consistency compounds, you’re literally reconstructing your inner architecture around a new identity.

That identity is what is needed to bridge the gap between your current circumstances and your desired outcome.

Relying on motivation is a fool’s game.

Motivation comes in bursts, after we’ve seen a movie, read a book, or heard a quote. (I was literally on a high after watching Marty Supreme)

But it doesn’t last, it’s cheap fuel that burns bright and fast.

However, shifting your focus to the identity you want to build is the mark of wisdom. It’s the trick that elite performers practise.

Kobe Bryant created the identity of the “Black Mamba”, which was really just his highest self.

Every time he thought to himself, “What would the black mamba do?” he was shifting his current identity into this new one and letting his actions be decided from there.

Kobe might not want to train at 3 a.m., but Black Mamba would.

Being able to first design, then think from the mind of your highest identity, creates a quantum thread between you and them.

When you see it as self-love and not punishment, the entire narrative changes.

The task ahead of you isn’t going to change.

The work needs to be completed.

So the best and highest leverage thing you can do is change the way you approach it. Change how you show up. Change WHO shows up.

It’s not just about “motivation” or “sigma alpha lone wolf grindset”, it’s the fact that your mind is always watching, and monitoring whether you are keeping your promises to yourself, and what the compound effect of that becomes.

Now, what are the practical steps to overcome quitting?

Or what if the task ahead is simply too difficult?

The MVP. Minimum viable practice.

It’s something I teach my clients - you make an MVP version of the task ahead of you, that’s so simple it’s almost stupid.

Instead of 10 pages for a book you’re writing, it’s one sentence.

Instead of 100 pull-ups, do 1.

The point isn’t the task, it’s committing to the consistency to change your identity, and make follow-through a reflex.

Action creates energy. Inaction depletes it.

This seems backwards because we think we need energy to take action.

But neurologically, it’s reversed: taking action (especially action you resist) activates your reticular activating system (RAS), which increases alertness and energy.

This is why the first rep is the hardest, but by rep 10, you’re in flow. Your mind needs proof that you’re committed before it allocates full resources.

Most people fail because they try to operate from pure willpower (brute force), or pure instinct (inconsistent, avoidant of discomfort, spiritual bypassing), but both alone are incomplete and result in a lack of consistency.

The middle path (the tao/flow) is actually about understanding the neuroscience, so you can work with your brain, not against it, while maintaining the detachment (so you’re not enslaved by it).

People ask me, “Doesn’t it become robotic and automated when all you care about is consistency and routines”, - but I think they are missing the point…

The psychology of consistency isn’t about being robotic.

It’s about understanding your internal world well enough that you’re no longer controlled by it,

It’s about being able to consciously choose when you want to be consistent and when you want to intentionally break it.

That’s what creates true mastery, and thats what elite performers know that most people don’t.

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Until Next Time,

— Milan

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Happy Thursday, Reader.

There are handful of moments that occur in your life time

where you are given the gift of laser like awareness,

even if it’s just for a few seconds.

The blade of awareness is so sharp that it cuts through the illusion

of fear
anxiety
and mental chaos.

And in those moments, you gain crystal clear clarity.

You realise what this is all about.
​
Where you’re supposed to go, what you’re supposed to do.

You find out what you’ve been seeking, was seeking you too.

And that you can never fall off the path.

You realise that nature will never let you fall on your face

if you have the courage to take the risk that others wont.

See, the great illusion that we’re sold is that it’s all fixed

your identity, your life, your being.

But the truth is, you are always in the process of becoming.

Unbecoming, and becoming.
​
Birth, death and rebirth.

We are not exempt from the laws of the Universe

That Nature follows.

It’s only the way we’ve been conditioned to think,

that keeps us feeling stuck.
​
We latch on to old patterns, to old beliefs, and box ourselves in.

We have our ways of doing things,

Experience reminds of what has worked in the past and we cling to it.

And that… well that, blocks us from the power of naivety and flow.
​
They say ‘It finds you when it’s time’

but in reality ‘the time’ arrives when you choose for it to.

The Awakening

Here’s the thing

You have to cooperate in your own awakening.

Your enemy is nothing external,

it’s only your lack of attention, awareness and focus.

Luck, serendipity, flow, synchronicity, whatever you want to call it

is not random.

It can be engineered, and I’ll show you exactly how

if you keep reading
​
I’ll show you how to break that box you’ve put yourself in

so that ‘time’ can finally arrive.

Firstly, what puts you in this box to begin with?

Any thought that begins with “I am this”

or “I am that” draws an invisible border around you.

The truth is, you are beyond definition

and any attempt to define yourself slows down your progress.

You always were and always will be in passage.
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Walking, and evolving.

This is the deep, purposeful and iterative process that makes up “You”.

You are in the process of redefining yourself everyday

I read recently that:

Truth has many faces, and when you see a new one, your level of consciousness rises.

The moment you let go of labels,

boxes, ideologies and world views,

you can’t help but leap forward on the path.

The transformational journey and outcomes you’re looking for,
​
whether it be in your business or life is 99 percent repetition,

The good news is

the tools I mentioned earlier can be applied to any area of your life

to build progress.

And you already own these tools, your job now, is to sharpen them.
​
​‘Remind me Milan, what are these tools?’

Attention, awareness and focus.

Most peoples tools are blunt, their minds are passive.

But by simply sharpening your attention,

You make it easier not to miss the clues you’re always being given.

Once you do, you’ll realise your role as a co-creator.

It’s like right now, you’re watching a 3D movie without the glasses.

You miss the references, the callouts, and the subtle nods

designed for you to see.

So look around, what is your life currently a metaphor for.

Where are your tools needed?

You can’t Skip Steps

So the reason they say it finds you when it’s time,

is because, this journey of your evolution cannot be skipped.

Reality is negotiable.
​
It begins with intention, everything does.
​
What is the “it” you’re even looking for?
​
Have you stopped to ask yourself?

Most people haven’t.

And they wonder why they feel lost,

aimless and why they endlessly procrastinate

If you desire to build a successful business, career, relationship

it begins with intention, it requires your cooperation.

There is no standing still.

You invoke the change with-in, for it to find you with-out.

Life flows upwards from the roots, not downward from the branches.

It’s the inner work, the inner engineering that precedes outer success.

So to increase your “luck factor” or flow states

and to not miss the clues life is giving you you have to understand…

Acceleration in any area comes from

taking the risk to break the box you have put yourself in.

The next message you need, is always right where you are.

(I know I’m potentially running the risk of sounding like one of those vague spiritual gurus who only speaks in parables and riddles…)

But wisdom, evolution and true understanding

will only ever arrive through your own experience.

I can give you the blueprint, but I can’t do the work for you.

There’s this quote that goes:

If it could be imparted through words alone, we’d all be done here.

And I think that sums it up perfectly.

Okay, so how do you actually sharpen those tools I mentioned?

Ultimately it comes down to presence and repetition.

The answers you’re looking for are probably

in the silence you’re avoiding.

Every problem is solvable, and the solution is just on the other side

of an uncomfortable silence.

(Your parents were right, it really is that damn phone…)

Most people are not willing to endure that,

they distract themselves until a lifetime has passed.

You don’t need more stimulation, you need isolation.

Walk without your phone

Train without music

Eat without the TV on

In those moments of silence and

‘constructed boredom’ you’re allowing your mind to run through

its natural filtration process.

Think of it like a computer,

imagine it is trying to run smoothly

whilst you keep opening new tabs and windows.

It’s impossible, close the tabs - and let the computer compute.

And with repetition -

Mastery hides in the mundane.

In the Grit.

The boring things pay, and the magic of compounding

is being built underneath the entire time.

Sure the “it” you’re looking for will find you when it’s time,

but the amazing thing about time is...

It’s a mental construct, it can be shrunk, bent and expanded

according to your experience, awareness and perception.

The truth is, you’re never lost, or stuck.

It’s all mental.

You’re always where you’re supposed to be.

And every moment is a choice, you get to choose what happens next.

And you can’t really choose incorrectly when you follow your intuition,

all true knowledge comes from intuition

When you’ve done the inner engineering​

When you sharpen your blade of awareness,

your perspective is renewed and recalibrated to remind you

That you’re just in passage.

Break the boxes you’re in

Practise Presence

Pursue Mastery through repetition

And realise it will always finds you…

but only when you choose for it to.
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Until next time,

Milan | Untethrd

Happy Sunday, Reader,
​

It took me a while to realise,
that we’re equipped with the most powerful weapon in the Universe...
​

It’s not the Atomic Bomb
It’s not Machine Guns
or Assault Rifles

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It’s you.
​
More specifically, your Mind.

I would liken the mind to a Bow,

And thoughts are your Arrows.

Each thought-arrow you send flying into the Universe carves your reality.

These Arrows eventually circle back, returning to you like cosmic boomerangs.

You have to aim with intention.
​
The targets you choose will shape what you experience.

​The reason I call it a ‘weapon’ is because, like the others I listed above...
​
It can either be used for destruction or protection.

The weapon itself isn’t inherently evil or good.
(despite what some believe)
​
The operator behind it decides its fate.

The general who pulls the trigger of a weapon decides weather it devestates millions

Or if it protects millions.
​

Mastery over the mind is understanding that you are the general.​
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The mind aims in all directions; it can hurt you, but it is also your salvation.
​
Whatever you feed it, and how you nurture it,
​
and whether you’re driving it will determine the outcome.
​
You get to decide whether it aids you or kills you.
​

Your Armour
​

“Thoughts“ are the finest vibration of consciousness.
​
You don’t own the arrows in your quiver,
they’re provided to you, perfectly matched to the design of your bow.

Think about it, arrows have to fit the bow to fire correctly, right?
​
Your mind (the bow) acts like a radio receiver, and whatever frequency it is tuned to,
​
determines the quality of the thought (the arrow) that arrives.
​

You get to change the radio station whenever you like.
​
You get to control the quality of the weapon you hold
and the direction in which it’s aiming.
​

The only way you can change the station is through your awareness.​

What thoughts are currently floating around your mind?
​(What arrows are you currently equipped with?)​
​
Where did they come from?
Who did they come from?
​
Learn to question first, then accept later.
​

Awareness is about recognising the inputs.
What goes in, must come out.
​

A simple formula:​

Inputs dictate the quality of thoughts --> which dictates the actions you take --> which creates the reality you experience.
​
Inside the conscious co-creator, I’ll teach you this exact system
(and more)
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So, reverse engineering this, your job is to first become conscious of the inputs.
​

Passive consumption is the enemy of conscious living.
​

And by the way, there’s only one way to interrupt thought patterns:
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​ACTION.

Move, breathe, sprint, lift, stretch.​

Action is how you train your awareness.

The weapon that is your mind, can be wielded in your favour if you understand it is a tool.
​
Pay close attention to it, don’t live passively, design your bow and arrows with intention

and you’ll recognise your seat as the general of the mind, not it’s victim.
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Until next time,

Milan | Untethrd.

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Happy thursday, Reader,
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There’s a very particular reason why I’m making art, and not “content”.
​

Walt disney said: “If we lose the detail, we lose everything”

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We’ve entered an age where it’s not cool to care about detail any more.

Everyone wants to be non-chalant.

Everyone wants a.i to do their job for them.
​

Everyone wants to use as little mental power as possible.

But my philosophy is, different.
​
[P.S - want to watch/listen instead click here, I uploaded it on youtube]

I grew up studying a long line of high level creators, entrepreneurs and professionals

that were obsessed with what they did.

I was inspired by film-makers like Christopher Nolan, defying physics with his other-worldly set designs,

I was motivated by his attitude to say No to the new and embrace the old through using practical effects, in a world full of special effects.

I saw business men create empires through grit and vision alone.

Athletes who never conformed to the robotic way of playing,

and did it purely for the love of the game.

So when I decided to put myself out there,

I promised myself that I would bring that back.

I didn’t just want to be another content creator spewing mindlessly.

That’s why every video I make, newsletter I send, or thread I write,

will have a sprinkle of artistry and personality.

And with my show over on my main channel - I want to do it big or not do it at all.

If you’re reading this, I want to inspire you to do the same in whatever field you’re in.
​
Because in a world full of carbon copies, it pays to be one of one.

Authenticity has always been attractive in all areas of life,

but we’re slowly losing it...

Content creators are reading fully a.i designed scripts with no soul.

Businesses are becoming well-oiled systems without passion.

People are becoming an amalgamation of everything they consume.

That’s what creates the blade runner dystopian future.

When you lose the care, you lose everything.

Morning routines are over-engineered and tweaked over and over

until it becomes auto-pilot.

You no longer go for the walk for the peace of mind,

but because you heard huberman say it increases the grey matter in your brain.

You don’t listen to the podcast out of genuine curiosity,

but you think you need to fill your time with ‘self-improvement’

to feel productive.

There is no intention behind it.
​​
And that’s the message here.
​
The reason I am opting for creating art and not content,
is because I believe in the long run, that’s how you win.
​

Will it take longer?
​
Certainly.

With each piece of art that you make, or thing that you do

that you genuinely care for,

you peel back one additional layer of authenticity the world

has never seen before.

Now am I saying that you should totally reject AI and the “new”?

No, not at all, that would be stupid.

Like everything, tools are there for our disposal.

And in this life, you adapt or die.

If you ignore it completely, you will fall behind.

Instead, you can integrate it in a healthy way,

where you don’t lose the care, the soul of your work.

You can be efficient and still care.

The day I send a full automated A.I newsletter,
​
script for a video/post or my show

is the day I close up shop on the whole thing.

Because I will have lost the care.

Art requires Mastery

and mastery is admired, because there is no shortcut available.

It must be earned through ten thousand hours of iteration.

You cannot skip steps, it will come back to bite you.

I can’t sit down and re-create davinci’s paintings

without ever using a paintbrush myself.

Sure, a.i can do it - but it can never re-create the energy and intention
​
that went into it, which is what most people don’t realize...

Intention is the purpose of art.
​
Art without meaning, is just aesthetics.

Art simply acts as a medium to transfer energy.

So what do you think happens when you skip the transfer
and go straight to the outcome?
​
You get soul-less work.

See, I can only create great work because I’ve created terrible work.
​
A thousand terrible newsletters, a thousand poorly edited videos.
​
The polarity is how you measure your growth curve.

Of course art is subjective, one might hate what I do and call it rookie
​
and one might love it and call it mastery.
​
But I bet you will both agree on the effort that went into it.

The old way appears to be dying, but Warren Buffett says
​
​ “When everyone says it’s a good time to invest, then sell. When everyone sells, then invest.” ​
​
And I think this same rule applies to creating great work.

Everything is cyclical, nothing really dies. It circulates.

So whilst everyone turns their heads one way, I will turn the other way.

Invest Time into your craft.

Whether it be content like me, or a completely different field...

Effort doesn’t go unnoticed

and doing the work that no one else is willing to do

is what separates you in a sea full of people.

I’m currently reading Trump’s “The Art of the Deal”

and love him or hate him, you have to admire his work ethic.
​
I’m not into politics but I’m interested in people who have made something of themselves.

In the 80’s when he was a young businessman taking over New York, by 1pm on any given tuesday...
​
he had completed more than most had in a month.

And I believe he carries that over to today,

that’s because when you curate this identity of caring about the details and going the extra mile,

it never dies in you.

And what will happen is, the magic of compounding will carry you to heights most could never even imagine.

There is a concept called Dharma in Hinduism that refers to our purpose and duty.

Our duty is to work.

And Work has lost its meaning; it doesn’t mean to slave away, in fact, it means to serve.

But Service without effort is not true service.

It’s Selfish.

​
Your duty is discovered through mastery.
​
You see how it’s all interconnected?
​
Almost as if it was intelligently designed…

All effortless performances you see from elite performers were paradoxically a result of years of effortful grit.

You can’t skip the grit.

Ask yourself,
​
Where would it pay for me to put in more effort?
And how can I become efficient without becoming a robot?

Somewhere in there, you will find a reason for being.

Your ikigai.

Once you have this, and the energy carries through your craft,

you are on the path of mastery.

It’s a path that takes longer, but doesn’t cost your soul.

Ultimately, I think new technology and efficiency is a great thing.

I’m definitely not anti-tech. I’m anti-care.

As I said in a tweet recently, those that are complaining that
“it’s so over” because a.i can now create insanely good photorealistic images
​
are the same ones who were getting away with doing the bare minimum anyway.

You know, nature has a great mechanism called survival of the fittest.
​
​And as we evolve we’re introduced to new methods of weeding out the lowest tier.
​
Effort will never die, it just has to be diverted.
​
It’s only over for those who believe it to be, for the rest, it’s just beginning.
​
True originality will come to the forefront, and those who deserve to win, in whatever field, will be on top.

So my message to you — is to, above all, optimize for mastery, and you will become future proof.

Recession-proof.

And a powerful energy transferring machine.

In a world full of carbon copies, find what makes you you,

and lean in to it.
​
As Sahil bloom said to me in my interview with him recently,
​
the things that made you odd or strange as a child,

often end up becoming your most powerful tools.

Robert Greene says to hold on to what makes you weird.

Bezos says the world will pull at you in a thousand ways to try to make you normal, don’t let it.

Don’t let it.

Art is not reserved for artists and creators alone.

Art is expression, care and authenticity.

If you can channel that in all you do, you will win.

​
Until next time,

Milan | Untethrd.
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​Working like a lion

is an idea that challenges everything you’ve probably seen online so far...

Everyone tells you to work hard, to grind endlessly, to go without sleep.

But what if I told you, that was all a psyop?

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Countless successful people, unconsciously or consciously,

work like lions.

Naval made this idea popular when he went on Joe Rogan.

A lion in the safari, doesn’t graze endlessly for its prey.

Instead, it works in short intense Bursts,

and spends the rest of the day resting and re-assessing.

It doesn’t chase the gazelle for hours on end,

it strategically places itself and preserves its energy

for a period of intense hunting.

And this has worked for them for thousands of years.

Crowning them the kings of the jungle.

And we can adopt this same idea in our lives.

It’s about Efficiency over Quantity.

That’s what you should be optimizing for.

We too should work in focused, intense bursts

followed by periods of conscious rest.

We’re part of nature, but what sets us apart is our ego’s;

We believe we have ‘better’ ways of doing things.

We think that if we do more of the same, we’ll get higher outputs.

Nature doesn’t work this way,

and it is the largest mirror we can look into, but we choose to ignore it.

So I’m not only going to show you why you should work like a lion...

But also a simple 3-step framework on exactly HOW you can do this.

The Hard Work Myth

Most of what you’ve been taught about “hard work” is a myth.

I’m not saying that you don’t have to work hard those are two different things

but I’m saying that the advice we’re given online is mostly a facade.

Working more, most times, becomes less efficient.

We burnout faster, we’re not giving our minds enough time

to examine our results, we’re not consciously designing our down time…

Being “busy” is usually a coping mechanism for not being able to

confront who we are when there is nothing to do or nowhere to go.

This is what most founders struggle with, if not now,

then after the big exit or milestone is hit.

Hard work has become an identity instead of a process.

It signals to others the type of person you are...

The 6 hour morning routines,

the laptop by the beach stories,

the strava screenshots

are all signals of who you want to be perceived as.

A good question to re-evaluate what you do -

If there was no Instagram, would you still do it?

[Ashton hall would be fuming]

And this isn’t me judging -

I only know because I have fallen for the psyop too.

I thought that working harder and endlessly and tirelessly

as an admirable trait,

until I realized true progress doesn’t come from hard work alone.

What elite performers actually do to win:

If success was solely down to how hard you worked,

then the nurses,

teachers

and cleaners of the world would be the highest paid,

and deservedly so.

We are often sold this lie of working hard

without considering more important factors…

Here’s the thing about greatness, there is no blueprint.

You cannot reduce it down to a formula

and have it implemented by professionals.

Or else we would have 1000’s of Michael Jordans,

Steve Jobs and Serena Williams.

However, there is a key difference between how top performers operate that most don’t realise…

And it is this idea of “Work like a Lion” —

But the trick is, they will do this consistently over a long time period…

Deep Work is far more important than hard work.

And in just a moment I’m going to reveal the exact system you need

to use to access these levels of deep work…
​
You should be optimising for Intense focus, for smaller periods,

rather than scattered focus throughout the day.

All gain in life comes from gathered consciousness, all loss in life comes from scattered consciousness.

Meaning - all of your progress comes from focused intention

and clarity.

And all loss will come from aimlessness and indecision.

If you can commit yourself to deep work every day within a time block,
​
I can almost guarantee your success.
​
This is what working smarter looks like,
and it doesn’t mean it’s any less taxing,
but it’s finding out what actually moves you forward.

In your work or life, you need to carve out time to identify
​
what tasks will bring you the most disproportionate returns
​
in exchange for your efforts.

What can you do for an hour that will pull you further
than what you would normally do for 8?
​
For me, thats writing. Writing is the foundation of all of my work,
​
and so, if I can commit time to it daily,
​
I am creating disproportionate returns.
​
This requires strategic thinking…

1. Henry ford said
   ​
   “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

Working like a Lion requires you to think,
​
it requires you to become conscious,
​
and present.
​
When you’re in the hunt, nothing else matters.
​

The lion isn’t thinking about tomorrows meal,

whilst in the pursuit of todays.

This is what we call flow state.

Most people don’t want to think.

They want to be told what to do.

The harsh truth is, working hard without clarity

often results in burnout and aimlessness.

It’s like rowing the boat, but not knowing where you’re headed.

The Free Time Paradox

Consciously Design your rest periods.

The period where Lions rest,

is the most essential component to growth, that we often overlook.

How you spend your free time will dictate how

productive your work will be also.

We think the two are separate, but they’re in fact inter-linked.

If your inputs become your outputs,

then it makes sense to purposefully choose these inputs

and examine what the results of your current inputs are bringing.

If you spend your free time doomscrolling, gossiping,

and wasting away…

how do you think this will affect you when you’re in the hunt?

It will likely create more mental fog, and less clarity

whilst you’re in action.

But If you spent your free time walking, in sunlight,

consciously consuming…

this can only benefit you in the hunt.

The gaps between your work need to be filled with stimuli
​

that will add to your work, or enhance it.

You need to be leisure-maxing.

Most free time activities turn you into a prisoner.

“Unwind & relax” now apparently means:

tuning into the latest programming and

sitting there like a consumption bot.

Aldous Huxley once said:
​

“Countless audiences passively soak in a bath of nonsense. No mental effort is required, no participation; they only need to sit down, eat popcorn, and keep their eyes open”

The point is, modern-day free time activities are just amusements

that aim to manipulate your attention and to make you passive…

the knock-on effect of this is you become passive in your work too.

You end up settling for “good enough” and the

thought of being more never enters your mind.

This is exactly where they want you. (conspiracy alert)

Is it easier to control a population of numb and

passive beings or active conscious co-creators?​

Designing, building, creating, serving.

These should be your free time goals.

And look, I’m no Yogi -

I enjoy a doomscroll here and there,

but at least I’m consciously doing it.

And so that’s the secret,

even in the activities designed to make you feel numb,

you should act consciously.

Value Creation

Look, the reality is, in this world, you’re not paid

for how hard you work,

but how much value you create.

Working like a Lion is a method used by some of the greatest minds on earth.
​
Tim Ferris wrote about this in The 4-Hour Workweek.
​
Maya Angelou rented a hotel room to write,

working intensely from 6:30 AM to 2 PM, then resting and reflecting…

Shift your mind toward value creation,
​
and the rest will fall into place with time.

How do you practically do this you might be wondering, and how do you access these states of deep work? There a simple 3 step formula you can use to do this.

Identify your peak performance times: where you are the most high energy throughout the day, and assign them as the Lion hours.

These are the hours where you are typically most productive, for me thats between 7-11am.

Those are the hours I use for my sprints.
​
Create a distraction-free environment when you’re in this sprint.

Determine Your Value Levers: Figure out what actions give you disproportionate returns for your time and effort.
​
Ask yourself:

What moves the needle the most in your work or business?

What task, if repeated daily, would create the biggest ripple effect long-term?

What skill compounds over time?

For me this is writing, and filming.

For others, it might be strategy, calls, product, ads, design.

Focus your Lion Hours on these high-value activities only.

Not admin. Not emails. Not content fluff.

The real hunt.

Design Your Rest Like a Ritual

Rest is not passive. It’s part of the process.

How you recharge will determine the quality of your next hunt.
​
Replace mindless consumption with conscious replenishment:

Walks in nature

Reading powerful ideas

Movement or meditation

Silence and reflection

Play or presence with people who bring you energy.
​
This is not about becoming a monk.

It’s about becoming intentional.

Even a doomscroll can be conscious.

These frameworks will help you access levels of deep work

otherwise unavailable to you, fast-tracking your Mastery.

Everything in this universe follows a rhythm.

And mastery is about tuning in and aligning with yours.

A Rhythm is a melody, it isn’t forced, it flows.

An athlete trains hard, sprints, rests, and then reassessing before the next sprint.

Flow is about finding a pattern of intense, intentional work

followed by intentional rest,

this is what creates quantum leaps in your life and business.

So despite what you see online it’s not about grinding the longest -

it’s about thinking, and moving with intention.

Preserving your energy for the moments that truly matter.

Working like a lion isn’t about doing less —

it’s about dialing in on the hunt.

And reclaiming your time, your focus, and your life from the

illusion that more always means better.

So step back, zoom out, and ask yourself:
​
​Am I grazing… or am I hunting?

​
Until next time,

Milan | Untethrd.
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​having everything is cool, not wanting anything is cooler.

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Being free from all levels of desire is a spiritual concept
​
That sounds like an impossible task.

Because It’s human nature to want.

But I don’t necessarily think desire is a bad thing...

Without desire, would we have created great companies?

witnessed masterful performances?

or constructed modern day metropolises?

I think there is a distinction that can be made between

the desire for the material,

and our innate nature to want to build something.

The truth is, every person needs something larger than them
to keep them going.

A business, an idea, a philosophy.

Your ikigai.

When you’re in the pursuit of something larger than you,

your greatest works are born.

And it works on you just as much as you work on it.

It’s as if this North Star,

pulls the highest version of yourself out of you and into the world,

and in the end, it was never about the attainment of the goal

But who you became in the process of getting there.

No matter what age you are, you need to be project-maxing.

Building, creating, serving.

That is the work that you’re here to do. Why?

Because it is the purest form of self-actualization, that is your dharma.

And when you lose that, you lose purpose.

​

But lets come back to that - what do I mean by having everything is cool, not wanting anything is cooler.

​

Well - I’m lucky enough to have been through the cycles of desire

over and over again.

Enough times to notice the endless loop it creates.

​

You see something you want -> you obsess endlessly over it -> channel all your energy into getting it -> you get it -> you move on and see something new you want.
​

This happened constantly for me with cars, clothes, business ideas, revenue amounts.

And it’s the same cycle I help founders and creators break out of now by reclaiming their seat as a conscious co-creator, if you want help doing this...
​​

But it’s this constant chase for something new, or novelty.

Now, objectively, is this bad thing?

No.

Because, it is still pulling you forward, and at a rapid rate.

And like I said, some of the greatest things in the world

are built thanks to this desire.

The only issue is, it’s a hedonic treadmill.

An endless chase, and at the end of each rainbow is a pot of gold

that’s not quite enough to satisfy our taste.

What do I mean by not wanting anything?

This doesn’t mean you lose your desire, far from it.

But you understand that no-thing, is reason you’re doing it.

No-thing, can own you.

​

When I was younger, I desired the cars, the houses and the fame.

When I got older, I desired to want none of those things.

But as I’ve got wiser I understand that, I can still have those things,

as long as they don’t own me,

and come naturally as a byproduct of my work.

​

Now, there is nothing you could dangle in front of me

that could make me jump ship. (Trust me, people have tried)

I don’t want what most are programmed to want,
because I know that I can have it.

I would never sell my soul for the bag,
I will never beg for opportunities to be put on

The invite arrives as soon as you don’t want to go
And that’s why I’m delivered more of it.

It’s kind of like a child who wants a toy
​
the more they are told they can’t have it,
the more the desire builds in them and
their minds spin these complicated webs of chaos.

Nothing changes as you grow older, except the toy.

And most people spiral when they don’t get what they want.

But what if you didn’t want it?

It’s a paradox, but that’s when you actually get it.

Am I saying that you shouldn’t have goals?
​
No, whatever you focus on, you will get, with enough time and effort.

I’m saying that if you do the work for the sake of it,
and your sense of self is strongly rooted within and not without,
then you cannot be swayed, or manipulated.

On some level I guess you could say:

I don’t want the subscribers
I don’t want the client
I don’t want the guests

Being free from this attachment,
​
means I level the playing field and magnetize myself to it.

The King and the Peasant

I’m reminded of this parable.

The king invites the peasant to his grand dinner party
and the friends of the king are showing off the king’s belongings to the peasent
​
​“look at this crown, you’ll never have this crown”
“or this golden sculpture”
“how about this throne” ​
​
and the peasant acknowledges all of these items and replies,
​
“Those are nice, but I have something he will never have. Enough.”
​
This is just a parable and I’m not saying you should be a peasant,
​
but how about a wise king or queen?

One who, with or without the throne,

remains unshaken and unchanged.

Having everything is cool. The watches, the cars and the lifestyle

but genuinely not wanting it, is cooler,

because it brings you everything anyway.

​
From all of the wealthy clients I have

through to the 8 and 9 figure earners in my network,
​
all go through this cycle:

​

Chase

Earn

Give back
​

The answers you’re looking for are not in the next “thing”

Because like I said, what the process unlocks is like magic or alchemy,
​
transforming you into the next evolution of your self
​
That is needed to get there.

​

The great ones don’t do it for money, fame or power.

Or even to save the world.

They do it for the sake of just doing it.

Like a child at play.

​

That is the only way you create sustainable transformations
and evolutions of self.

Set goals.

Have nice things, sure.

But ultimately to truly become who you’re supposed to be,
​
the desire for the trinkets along the way can’t be your primary driver.
​
There is no where to arrive to. Burn your finish line.

The only thing worth having, you already own.
​
​

Until next time,

Milan | Untethrd

Hey Reader,
​

In the next few emails I’m going to share with you

something that has been in the works for 3 years, and I deem

as the most valuable insights I’ve ever put together...

​

So let’s start here...

​
My inbox is constantly flooded with questions

With requests

(and on occasion, suggestions)

But it wasn’t always like this

There was a time when I wasn’t the one who was asked

But the one always asking.

​

And I remember vividly when that all changed.

When I went from chaos to connectedness.

From lost to intentional

About everything.

Not just my business and career, but life itself.

​

It was just after midnight on one of those chillier nights.

No music. No messages. No TV.

Just me, leaning against my armchair in my old apartment
here in London.

​

With a notepad and pen.

It was what you could call a ‘boiling point’

I was so frustrated that my external world and results
​
wasn’t reflecting my true potential, that I knew I held within me.

It felt like a losing battle,

and that no matter what action I took, it wasn’t moving me forward.

Can you resonate with this, Reader?

Now what’s funny is, from the outside,
​
everything looked like it was “working.”

But on the inside, it was misalignment.

Overthinking.

Doubt.

Guilt for not doing more.

Stress for still feeling stuck.

​

After attempting to force myself to write for 40 minutes or so...
​
I put the pen down.

And that’s when a wave of clarity hit me.

When I let go of force and surrendered to flow
​
That became the night I realised:

I’d been trying to solve internal problems with external solutions.

Changing the strategy.

Reading another book.

Forcing a new routine.

Buying more time, more tools, more courses.

But nothing clicked — because I was the constant in all of it.

My patterns. My beliefs. My wiring.
​

And if I didn’t change that, nothing else would shift.

My pen transformed from sturdy to fluid, and I sat there studying

what was working and what wasn’t.

And not only for myself, but for those around me too.

Because I believe we are given lessons

in the form of other people around us.

We are intentionally exposed to ideas for the sole purpose of learning from them.

​

“Eyes are given to those who are willing to see.”

​

So what was the golden thread I found in those who were truly fulfilled and successful?

​

“Master the inner world — and the outer will follow.”

​

And that became the seed for everything I’ve built since.

​

The truth is, most people, including you, don’t need more information.

They need transformation.

A new internal operating system.

​

That’s what the process of Inner Engineering is about.

And soon, I’ll be inviting a small group inside.

​

But before I open the doors, I’m going to take you behind the curtain.

​

Over the next few emails, I’ll walk you through the exact shift that rewired everything for me — and how it might just change everything for you too.

I’ve never revealed what I’m about to, so keep your eyes peeled.
​

But for now… just sit with this:

What if the real work isn’t becoming someone else — but unbecoming everything you’re not?

More soon,

Milan | Untethrd

Hey Reader,

So... this is something I never thought I’d share in an email…

I’m going to explain to you why you’re still stuck — and what no one’s telling you.

I keep each interaction close to me,

and I’m very conscious of incorrectly sharing wisdom as it was intended when it was given to me...

Tradition preserves wisdom in a very particular way.

There is a chain, or process or system

that unveils it for you.

The Kybalion is an ancient esoteric text that explains the nature of reality...

Hermetic teachings were historically passed verbally from teacher to student to protect their power and depth.

It was believed that only the initiated could truly understand,
​
and written words might be misinterpreted by the unready.

“When the ears of the student are ready to hear, then cometh the lips to fill them with Wisdom.”

And if it is not followed correctly, it can be misinterpreted and misused.
​
So with that in mind...

I do want to share with you a seed of the wisdom
​
I picked up when I was younger...

Continuing on from the email I sent you a couple of days ago
​
(if you haven’t read that, click here)​

And once I learnt this, everything shifted.

See, there was a period — not too long ago — where I looked “on” from the outside… but felt completely off inside.

I was still producing. Still sharing. Still pushing. But underneath it all?
​
I felt stuck in a loop. (no pun intended on my logo)

One where I’d wake up with all the right intentions …
​
and somehow still lose the day to distraction.

One where I had a to-do list packed with purpose —
​
and still ended the night wondering why I avoided the things that mattered most.

And worst of all?

I knew better.

I’d read the books. Done the work. Built a name around this stuff.

But I was still slipping.

Not in a dramatic, “crash and burn” kind of way.
​
In the subtle, dangerous way. The kind where no one notices…
​​
except you.

You know the feeling, right?

That experience taught me something I’ll never forget:

Mastery doesn’t happen by accident — and maintenance is spiritual.

This was the essence of what I was taught by a monk.

See, as an entrepreneur for most of my life,
​
I’ve been trying to use logic to navigate my way around.

But on my spiritual journey, I’ve learnt that there is a fine-tuning,
​
or integration, that can happen if you let it.

Where logic and intuition dance. This is true self-mastery.

Since learning this way of operating, everything has changed.

My business grew exponentially
My impact 10x’d
The opportunities I attracted increased in intensity.

I was getting messages like these almost daily:

And that’s exactly what pulled me deeper into the work I now teach inside Inner Engineering.

Not as an idea, but as a system.

A way to get out of the loops.

To override self-sabotage.

To move from intention to actual embodiment.

The Vedas teach that capturing wisdom and learning is only one part of the formula,

but sharing it brings even greater benefits.

So it’s my obligation to share this system

that I have been refining over 3 years.

I’m not writing this as an expert preaching from a mountaintop.

(although, it is pretty nice up here)

I’m writing this as someone who’s walked through the same fog —

and built a roadmap for you to join me.

I’ll share that map with you soon.

But for now, just know this:

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just untrained.

And the only thing keeping you stuck,

is that you’ve never intentionally and thoroughly designed

your inner world.

Which is all about to change, like the ancient wisdom I mentioned

I want to invite you to also be initiated (not in a culty way...)
to internal mastery.
​

Speak soon,

Milan | Untethrd