Define what you’re going to in the current hour.

Imagine you have 5 hours and 3 or 4 tasks. If you’re like most people, you’ll do the tasks by an order, but you won’t define a time for each. When you finish the first one you’ll follow on to the next one, and so on.

I use a slightly different approach. I define exactly what I’m going to do each hour.

If I have 3 or 4 tasks, I take one and say to myself, “Okay, for this hour, I’m going to do this”. At the end of the hour, hopefully you’ll have ended the task. Or you might end the task before the current hour ends.

But the thing is, instead of letting yourself go and working vaguely during that time, you’re splitting it to precise slices. That gives you more control over time. You feel like you’re not lost; you’re doing something specifically in that timeslice. You’ll end up doing things A LOT faster. Believe me.

Or don’t. Try it for yourself. I guarantee results!

What if I have a whole hour of work but I want some time to have a coffee break or chill with my friends?

Well, define you’re going to work for the next 45 minutes, and then relax for 15 minutes.

When you separate the things you have to do, you do each of them better.

So, try it, starting today. What are you doing this current hour?

What do I mean by this?

Define what the worst is and you’ll get the true picture of it.

If you have a job and you consider the thought of losing it, at the start you panic. You think “Oh my God, this is horrible!”. You exaggerate it. If you define it on paper, you get the true picture of it. If  I lose my job, I won’t get income. I have other ways of getting income, though. I will have to change my lifestyle. It will be an opportunity to find another career.

When you define the precise consequences of each action, you get the true picture of it.

Most of us don’t get the true picture of it because we don’t define the consequences. As soon as that bad thought pops into your head, you panic and think, “oh my god, this is the worst!”. Stop, relax and define it. The worst is never as worse as it seems.

So that’s my message in this post. Prepare for the worst, but only for the worst. Don’t exaggerate. Be serious.

Some things are really bad. Imagine you lose a limb, or someone close to you dies. They are truly very bad outcomes. But even when you think about them, don’t panic. Even if you lost a limb, could you not be happy? Could you not find alternate ways to do things in life?

Imagine you want to start a company with your own money. What’s the worst possible outcome? You get debt. In the future you will have to work more to pay it. Or sell extra things. It’s a bad thing, but a concrete bad thing, not an abstract “oh, it’s the end-of-the-world” thing.

Define the problems and you will realize most of them are not as bad as they seem.

Society denies to be optimistic, and instead of just admitting something is great, they say “it’s not that good”.

So why don’t we fight back, taking the bad things and actually thinking, “they’re not that bad?”. Because they aren’t.

So, prepare for the worst. But only for the worst.

Am I telling you to explode your office? No. Let me clarify.

When you’re doing a task, in order to do 100% of it, you can’t just do what you’re asked. You can’t just “do more of the same”. In order to be 100%, you have to jump it to the next level. You have to explode the rules of the task and recreate them. You have to go to the deepest level and smoke it to the ground.

In order to do something in a way that will truly leave you thinking “I did this in the best freaking way possible!”, it’s not a matter of doing more of the same. It’s a matter of exploding. You have to jump to new levels. You have to ignore the present rules, gain a personal take on the situation and change it according to that take.

In order to solve a problem, you have to believe you’re bigger than the problem. In order to do a task that your boss gave you, you have to complete it according to his rules, and then consider your personal knowledge can add even more, and then add that more.

In order to solve a college assignment, you have to solve it from a student perspective, then jump to the level of the teacher and add something to that assignment as if you on the teacher’s level. You have to be bigger than yourself, take knowledge borrowed you don’t have it, and use it as if it were your own. You have to pretend to be what you’re not, and you’ll become what you’re not.

You have to incarnate every single part of the task at hand not from a “your level” perspective, but from a “freaking higher level” perspective. You have to go up high in the sky, you have to consider that you are not just capable of doing the task, you are capable of handling the system it came from, its bases and foundations.

You have to feel like you have as much knowledge as whoever created it.

Reality check: Make sure you do the task in the way asked first. Some people just ignore the rules, do it their own way, and hope to be right. No. Do it the way asked. Then, after you do it, take the existing work and think how you can bring it to the next level.

It’s such a simple concept, but such a powerful one! Try it. It’s pretty cool, and also empowering.

So, next time you have to do a task, don’t just do it. Blow it up. Do it to the maximum then add what you now can take it to an even higher level. Defy the authority of the rules given. Blow up the foundations of the task.

This applies to everything in life.

Champions and high performance athletes blow up their performances. They don’t just “sport as normal”. They try new tactics. They cut rules that aren’t working for them. They destroy rules and foundations and create their own vision.

People good in communications don’t just “talk normally”. If they have humor, they use humor. If they have confidence, they use confidence. If they have extreme passion, they use it. They do the enough, and then add their personal weapons to the mix so they communicate in an explosive manner.

So, in everything you do, don’t just do it. Do it as if it’s a mark of your personal brand, a companion of yours and a symbol of everything you’ve done and will do.

If you want a fun example, just imagine you were a martial arts student struggling to master a style, and finally your master says “you’ve mastered it”. So, you did the asked task correctly, but now you feel so powerful and skilled you know you can not only reproduce the original style, but you can add your own personal traits coming from experience and even just taste to make it even better, jump to a new level, and be something that’s yours.

Some might ask: I can’t do it. I can’t visualize as if I were in a superior position where I can change the rules. Yes you can. It’s a matter of willpower. If you have to follow certain rules for a task, and when you finish it you’re trying to get in the perspective of “what would I change if I were the creator?”, you have to think of new responsibilities, new levels of power and different ways of doing things. But once you’re in that perspective, you can think clearly and find out what’s your personal contribute.

Every time you’re gonna do something, blow it up. Explode it to the next level.

Whether be it a task, an interaction, a creative art, a jog, a choice for your next vacation place or next hobby, a work task you hate, whatever.

Do it to your best and you’ll find out how easy it is.

Many people who give knowledge to you tell you “Don’t absorb all of this. Just take what will take you to the next level”.

The thing is, success has a structure. Some might say “Oh, there are many ways of having success”. BS. Success has only one dimension. It might be a flexible and wide one, but it’s only one.

The thing is, we might have reached some points of that structure, but not all. Imagine success had 5 principles. We are being presented those 5 principles. We already know 4 of them but we’re lacking one.

What most people do is, they think they’re forced to learn everything and implement everything. So you take in repeated information. Wrong. Just take what you haven’t got yet. Don’t match what’s already matched. Match only what you haven’t matched.

If you have a business that’s strong in sales and marketing, and someone in a presentation tells you: You need to be good in sales, marketing, and customer service, what are you going to do? Try and learn and explore all 3 principles, or just take the one you’re lacking.

We live in the information age. We have too much information. We have experts telling you to do thing A. Then we have equally qualified experts telling you do to thing B and not A. Then we have equally qualified experts telling you to not do any of both.

So, take only what you need to get to the next level. You’re intermediate in doing sports. You go to a website and you have articles on sport techniques in 3 categories, beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Don’t try and absorb the knowledge of all 3 categories. Take only what you currently need to get to the next level.

Match what’s unmatched. Keep it simple and focused, and your performance will boost incredibly.

In order to become the best, we must be able to hold different perspectives of the same subject in our mind.

I’m a defender that we should focus on one thing and be the best at it, burn it the ground, make it our passion and live and die for it. However, this does not contradict having multiple perspectives.

You have a “pool” of all the perspectives, and then you have your choice to what perspective is yours.

Most people in life have a pool of one opinion, and their choice is that opinion.

Successful people in life have a pool of numerous opinions and they choose the best one.

You might ask: Why the hell is having multiple perspectives a good thing?

The more you know about what you’re not, the more you know about what you are.

Let me give you an example: You want to start a company. You need to choose an area you’re going to base a product or service on. We have two people, person A and B.

Person A knows he’s good at technology. He might be a programmer, systems manager, whatever. He has no idea what’s his opinion on marketing, economy, art, writing, or any other thing.

Person B knows he’s good at technology. However, he knows he doesn’t like economy. He knows he likes art and being creative. He knows he’s bad at some things and good at other things.

Person A only has a relative opinion. You only have one pillar supporting your reality, so it might move a bit to the left or to the right and you won’t even notice it. If I’m just good at technology and have no opinion of other areas, I might be good at technology and economy. I might be good at technology and bad at economy. I don’t know, so I sway. My personality’s  not defined.

Person B has an absolute opinion. He has a pillar that symbolizes being good at technology. Another that is being good at art. Another that is being bad at economy. He knows exactly what he is and how he relates to different subjects.

This is an example. You can apply this to anything in life.

You’re a politician defending your view. Let’s say you want to build a building on a certain area, and you just know the reasons why you should build. You’re person A.

Or you’re person B. You know not just why you should build, you know why your competitors say you shouldn’t build. You know some other opinions that are neutral but have points on both sides.

Which do you think will do better? Person B, naturally.

You should be able to hold in your mind opinions contrary to your beliefs. Not BELIEVE in them – just KNOW about them. Why? Because that way you’ll know why you have strengths related to them. Or weaknesses. You’ll be a lot better prepared.

If you only hold your opinion in your mind, you’re defending it because you have no choice. If you know about other opinions and you choose yours, you’re defending it because you do have a choice, and you chose because it’s the best out of all available choices.

Think about it. Hold these parallel worlds in your mind. Even if you hate something or don’t agree with it, have it into account, even if it’s just for attacking or opposing.

Imagine you have a method for doing a task. Other people have other methods. If you just know your method, you can only say “I’m this and this”. If you know about the methods you don’t like, you can say “I’m this and this, which is better than that, faster than the other that”, and so on.

You might think having just one perspective is absolute and having various perspectives makes your relative, but the more relative you are to other opinions and the more you confront, the more you actually make your opinion solid and make it absolute instead of relative.

If that last paragraph was too complicated for easy understanding, the point is: Intentionally compare your opinion, your method, your take with others, and it will be much stronger than if it was just alone.

Any method sounds great when you consider it by itself. It’s when you confront the various methods and the good and bad points of each come out that you realize what’s truly good and bad.

So, my point is: Don’t believe in what you don’t like, but at least UNDERSTAND it. You’ll have great advantages come from that.

Whatever victory you had yesterday, whatever success you had in the past, it’s all past. The now is different. It’s a new day. If you’ve founded a successful company, sold it, and you’re starting a new one now, you’re not better because of your past. You’re at the same level as everyone.

If you went out and delivered a fabulous presentation yesterday, and today you’re going to deliver a new one, you’re starting from zero all over again.

This applies to everything in life. Whatever it is you did in your past, it’s over, and now you’re starting a new thing, you’re starting from scratch.

People might say, “but our past successes give us experience”. That is true, but only half-true. Your past successes don’t give you experience that works regardless of what you do. You might have the best experience in your past, and act today, and fail miserably. Or you can fail in the past, act today, and do wonderfully.

What the past gives you is habituation to doing things right. It’s when you act today and remember “oh, I did that small thing right yesterday, and it’s better than what I’d do normally, so I’ll implement it today again”. I have a theory which is:

The experience you get depends on the action you produced. If you did excellent, you have excellent experience. If you failed, you have failing experience.

That’s why if you train drawing, and draw 30 bad drawings, you have almost no experience. If you train 1 drawing excellently, your experience was more worth it than the 30 bad drawings.

One note, I don’t want to sound discouraging. When I mean “bad” and “good”, it’s subjective. If you’re someone who can’t draw very well, if you do your best and draw bad, but a little better than before, that was a good experience.

So that’s a concept you need to understand. You only get experience on what you experiment.

If you can only run on asphalt and have no experience running on sand, running 30 times on asphalt won’t give you that experience. Running once on sand will give you that experience.

If you practice a presentation at home, relaxed, and then deliver the real thing, that experience wasn’t that useful. If, while at home, you imagine you’re at the real place, nervous, with everybody looking at you, and practice that way, you get experience.

Because experience is nothing but being used to anything. If you experience while the stakes are low, you get more used to doing that thing while the stakes are low. If you practice and imagine the stakes are high, when you get to the real thing you’re used to doing it while the stakes are high.

That’s why Vince Lombardi said: “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect”. When you practice, you have to risk as much and have stakes as high as the real deal. Or your practice won’t be useful at all.

But returning to the main point: Most people fail because they don’t realize they have to be consistently good.

If you’re an excellent worker for your company and produce results during 30 days, if you rest for 1 day, what results are you going to have that day? Zero. It’s regardless of your past.

If you run for 30 days, but one day yo stay at home, how hard did you train that day? Zero.

Many people think success “drags”. Success doesn’t drag. The moment you cut it, it’s over.

That’s why you have to give your all the next day.

And sometimes it’s hard. You were on equal terms with your competitors. You had massive success and beat them all. But now they caught up to you. In this present moment, what you do you think you need to do?

When most people were better than others and now return to being on equal terms, they think “my past was of mad success so I’m superior to them”. But the situation is figured by logic: If when you were on equal terms you had to make efforts, now that you’re on equal terms again you need to make efforts.

Sometimes it’s hard to realize that you were on top of the world and now you’re back down, next to everyone else. You have two choices: Either you realize your new status and start working again, or you try to hold on to your past status, don’t make effort, and fail.

That’s why bands get commercial. At the start they make effort. They make great albums because they make efforts. But then they rest on their laurels. And what does math say? If you made effort and made a great album, if you don’t make efforts now, you won’t make a great album.

That’s why companies stabilize after a while. At the start, people work at their fullest, and produce massive profit. But over time they think “Oh, we don’t need this anymore”. “Oh, we don’t need to do that anymore”. Logic strikes again. If massive effort got you massive profit, not doing massive effort won’t get you massive profit.

If you climb to the top, great. But if you come back down, don’t deny it either. Realize your position and do your best.

If you won a race against other drivers, you were the best in that race. But now a new race starts and you have to make just as much effort. There is no being “famous”, or “the best”. There is no continuous status. You are the best only at one task. And when that task is over, to be the best again, you have to make just as much effort on the next task.

You’re not great because of your experience. You generate experience because you’re great.

Every time you start a new phase, remember you’re only as good as everyone else and you have to work just as hard. Of course there might be exceptions, but 99% of the time it’s like this. You were the best. Phase over. New phase starts, you have to work just as hard as last time. Period.

You don’t have any magic, you don’t have any “dragged success” from last time, you’re just as normal as last time, and you’ll have to make as much effort as last time.

This is one of the hidden secrets of peak performance athletes.

Some call this your sense of entitlement.

Let me give you a concrete example. You work in a company. If you consider you’re involved with it, that it’s yours, not yours as in your property but as in you have a personal link to it, you work more and have more passion. If you feel like it’s not yours, you won’t work for it.

Same applies to everything in life.

When you have a friend/contact, if you consider he’s your friend, he’s related to you somewhat, you interact more with him, show confidence, inspire and motivate him/her. If you consider your relationships aren’t "yours", you won’t help your friends, make efforts for them, and so on.

So, the level of happiness and success depends on what you consider that’s yours.

People who have no future consider nothing’s theirs. They work their whole life on the same job because they consider the opportunity to be rich isn’t theirs. They consider they must be in relationships they don’t like because they consider good relationships aren’t theirs.

Moderately successful people consider something’s theirs. They might have hobbies or areas of interest apart from their work, because they consider other things are also theirs. They might be more interactive socially because they consider talking to people naturally is theirs.

People with the most success are the ones that consider the world is theirs. They step up to random people on the sidewalk, ask them what motivates them, and tells them how can they make their life better. They create companies because they consider jobs aren’t the only ways to make money that are theirs. They do a multitude of things, they help people, they have excellent people surrounding them because they consider they deserve it.

So, how are you living your life? Is just your life yours? Is your environment yours? Is the world yours?

Something to think about!

Basically, how do you become excellent at one thing? You adapt it.

I like to represent what we have knowledge of as a tree.

Something like this, but better drawn. Imagine it in your mind. We have a subject. That subject splits into two sub-subjects. And so on. They are represented by the splits in the trees. To be excellent in doing one thing, you have to know how deep in the tree you need to go.

Do you need just do the fundamental? Do you need to go to the next level and check each sub-task? Do you need to go even further and do it in even more detail?

Practical example: You have a presentation to do. It’s about, let’s say, your company. The knowledge you have about the company is that tree. At the start you just have the general picture of the company. The company has two main points of interest: Its business model and customer service. So, the main point would have two divisions. Customer service in detail has three methods. So that node would split even further, into 3. Do you see where I’m getting at?

If you want to practice a presentation, just go deeper into the tree or come back. If you have a 1m presentation, you would say “Our company makes the world better”. If you have a 5m presentation you would say, probably, “Our company makes the world better. Its two main points are its business model and its customer service”.

Check your current situation and see how far you need to go into the tree. Many people have 5m for their presentation and dig up 60 slides. They’re going about 10 or 15 levels deep into the tree when they can only go until the 3rd level.

But the key is, I’m not just telling you how this works. You can say, “I know that if I have 5m I can only focus on the general picture and if I have 2 hours I can go real deep. Big deal, Vasco”. True.

In order to become excellent, vary the levels and train it.

If you have a 2 hour presentation, train it for 1 minute. Train it for 10 minutes.

Most people memorize presentations, so their knowledge isn’t a tree. It’s a stockpile of bits. You go in straight line from the first bit to the last. What if they have a cut at the middle? Boom. Gone. Thanks for playing.

If you have the understanding of the tree at each level, you can calibrate in real time. You have 3 main subjects to present. During the presentation you realize you took too much time in the 1st subject, and now you’ll have less time for the 2nd subject. Do you need to explore it one level shallower so it fits the time-frame?

Making a tree out of your knowledge is great because you can remember it more easily. If you have a line of subjects memorized, you’re walking on the street and suddenly try to remember: What were they? First one was this, second that, and you might get to the 5th, but after that you can’t remember more.

If your knowledge is a tree, at any time you decide to recall your knowledge, you just have to ask yourself: What’s the main point? This one, okay. It splits into how many? Three. Good. Each of those three splits into how many? Good. And so on.

This understanding is also good when you want to learn something. A person is talking and he has 3 main points. But you don’t know that. You’re listening to him speak in real time and trying to identify what are the main points. If you have a straight-line memory, it’s pretty hard to stockpile 3 pieces of knowledge from scratch, let alone identify the role of each of them. If your memory is a tree you can memorize them more easily.

This might be an important subject. So, main subject has one main point. Next point: Is it a subset of the main point? If yes, it’s a point of the main point of the main subject. If it’s actually the second point of the main subject, then the main subject has two points.

When people try and memorize straight-lined, if a speaker/presenter is intelligent, he’ll force-feed tree learning to the listeners. Consciously or unconsciously.

Example? One of the world’s greatest presenters. Steve Jobs. “I have 3 main points I want to tell you about today”.

So, adapt what you’re doing. Do you need to do it as in the first level? Do you need to develop more and dig deeper into the next level? Do you have a limited schedule and need to go back to a previous level? Adapt. Stretch it and compress it.

By the way, this was an example on presenting, but this is valid  for anything in life. Wanna take a jog? Imagine your method is 10m warmup, 20m jog, 10m warmdown. You suddenly have 80 minutes instead of 40. What are you gonna do? Maybe 20m warmup, 40m jog, 20m warmdown. Maybe you realize the warmdown is independent of the jog time and you want 25m warmup, 45m jog, 20m warmdown. Calibrate in real time. Stretch and compress. Adapt.

And that’s a method for peak performance!

We live in the information age. We are constantly bombarded with useless or irrelevant information. We have to know how to filter. Take the opinion you have on one thing.

I used to be an information junkie. For example, religion. I would read a book about Christianism.

“I’m Christian”. And I’d tell everyone about it.

Next week, huna book. “I’m a kahuna now.” And I’d tell everyone about it.

This is how most people are in the world. We can’t be like this. Why?

We’ll always be switching opinions. No one will trust us (I’ve had friends that came up to me and told me: “So, you believe so and so?”, and I’d reply: “Not anymore, I have a different opinion now”). It’s sad.

So, how do we have excellent performance? Have one and only one consistent opinion.

If you’re starting, it doesn’t matter if you take a bad step or a good step. What matters is what you do after that.

So, I have christianism vs. huna. What do I choose? Let’s choose huna.

And this is where the Crysis alien metaphor comes in handy. I don’t know if you played Crysis, but there were this huge aliens that absorbed energy and shot it right back. When a giant one was nuked with a nuclear bomb, it absorbed it and shot it right back.

In pratical terms it’s like: It doesn’t switch from energy A to energy B. It has only one characteristic. And through time, it reinforces that characteristic. It drops weak bits. It gathers strong bits.

Your opinions, your actions must be exactly like that. Instead of stepping stones, you only have ONE strong and unified opinion. And through time, you drop weak bits of it and  gather strong bits of it.

So, old way would be:
I read book 1: Oh, huna religion is so cool. I’m huna now.
I read book 2: Oh, christianism is so cool. I’m christianism now.
I read book 3: Oh, other religion is so cool. I’m other religianist now.
End result: I go from huna to christianism to other religion.

New way would be:
I read book 1: Oh, huna religion is so cool. I’m huna now.
I read book 2: Christianism has some points. I’m huna. But now I recognize christianism makes more sense in this and that way, huna has some weaknesses but also some strengths.
I read book 3: Other religion has some points. Huna is my choice, but I recognize it has some weak points, and that christianism and other religion have some strong points.

This is what we all should do in life. Why do people don’t do this? First, because they want to be “perfect”. If you are on the hype of discovering option A, it’s perfect. When the flaws appear, you hop to the next choice. Yay option B!. And so on.

If you have a strong and concise opinion, you know it’s not perfect. It has weak points. It has strong points. More and more of them will follow.

Something that is new might look perfect, but something that has been field-tested, got down and dirty and is experienced is the best choice. I’m talking about a method for doing your work. A person even. If it’s the first time you see something, it’s tempting to think it’s perfect. But throughout time you’ll realize nothing is perfect.

I’ve used opinions for this example but this is valid for an opinion, a method for work, a person even. You love your new home. You realize, however, that due to the trees on the left the view is not perfect, it’s just very good. If you switch to the next home because it seems perfect, you’ll be happy until you find a flaw in it.

Then hop, hop, hop, hoppity hop from option to option? No. Embrace the first house. It might have that view problem. It might have more problems (and if it’s a house we’re talking about, it will, by the way). But you will also find good things, unexpected.

Nothing in life is perfect. Now, you can either find something that’s almost perfect, or you can keep hopping for something that seems perfect to something that seems perfect on and on.

So, lesson for today is: Be the Crysis alien. Instead of hopping around different types of energy, have one type of energy. Absorb some good bits and drop some bad bits. Because all life is like that.

PS: Wanna know what type you’re like by playing videogames? Imagine you’re playing a videogame like Mario, where you have 10 life pieces or whatever. Imagine you have a boss battle. If you’re the kind of the guy that everytime he loses a life bit loads the game and starts over, and does it 30 times until he can beat the boss without having lost a single life bit, you’re a hopper.

If you don’t load your game even though you lose 2 or 3 life pieces, you keep persisting and beat the boss, you’re consistent. Congratulations.

Something that astounds me is the following: Systems are common in everything in life. If you do your work a certain way, you will behave in your relationships the same way, you will have fun the same way, and so on.

In concrete terms, if with your business colleagues, during a meeting, you’re the only one to speak and don’t even register other people’s opinions, when you’re talking to your wife your opinion will be the one that only matters too. With your friends, the same thing.

If you choose a conservative car instead of a luxurious sports car, you will probably also choose a modest and balanced woman instead of a sexy and glamorous one.

If in your work you do things only through one method, you’re probably not going to choose to go on vacation among many places, just one, and you won’t go to lunch on several different restaurants, you’re probably going always to the same one.

In the way we do one thing, we do everything. If you’re intense about something, you’re intense about everything. If you vary on something you vary on everything. There are exceptions to this rule, but it’s generally like that.

If you’re happy with a modest car, you’re happy with a modest home and a modest job. If you want an ultra-rich car, you’ll want an ultra-rich home and will pursue a job with ultra gains.

So the big secret to making your performance turn excellent is: Find out what your system is for each thing you do, and then change it so it becomes what you want.

I believe our personality can only focus on one system at a time. So that’s why if you only rest after completing all your work, you won’t relax in a an argument until you’ve burned it to the ground, and you won’t let go of a problem until it’s done.

The system I use, and most people use is: Be balanced. You might ask: Are you kidding me? No. Just be natural. And everything will follow.

Work hard, but in a balanced way. If you’re turning paranoid you’re working too hard. Lower the tone a bit. If you’re arguing with too much intensity, breathe deep and stop for a bit.

If you’re always going to the same place for leisure or for eating, visit new places. If you feel like you’re too scattered, visit less places.

Find all the imbalances you have in your life and balance them. And you’ll achieve maximum performance.

What is the true balance, the peak performance state you should be in? For now, consider it what a natural person would be. And I don’t mean a socially-conditioned, unhappy normal person. I mean an achiever normal person. A happy and confident normal person.

I’ll elaborate on the balanced personality on a future article, but rule of thumb is: Good enough is good enough.