This is really the law of nature, this is natural law of the universe, evolution and everything.
As we go through life, we get feedback, we make a mistake, we trip over, we scrape our knee and it stings… and we learn.
“Okay, watch where you are going, when you’re running around, don’t have your eyes down or be looking at your phone”
When you trip, when you make that mistake, you get feedback. It’s not a failure, it’s feedback. Feedback is painful and you learn, “Okay, let’s not do that next time”. You blame ourselves, you’re like, “Yeah, I was clumsy. It wasn’t someone else’s fault that I fell over on the road and got a grazed knee”. You learn and you are able to grow.
We make a lot of mistakes and we figure out what the truth is, then eventually we end up pretty much never falling over and grazing our knee and never cross the road while looking our phone.
A person who does that, a person who constantly reflects on things, and is constantly in search of what the truth is, lives an awesome life.
But, there are a lot of people, probably most people in the world, who experience misfortune and, instead of taking responsibility for it and learning from it, they blame something else or someone else. What happens is once you do enough of that, life’s out of your control.
You are looking to someone else or some other force as the only thing that can provide you with the life what you want. It’s the governments fault, something is happening in the news. It’s coronavirus’ fault. It’s this other person’s fault. It’s my families fault. I don’t have enough time. Whenever you put the blame on something which isn’t you, that is when you become a victim.
Natural Law: How To Conquer The World
The people who master everything in this world, they are people who take responsibility for things. When they fail, they reflect on it and they learn. When they learn what the truth is, they remember it. They remind themselves and they keep getting closer and closer to the truth.
Quite simply, natural law is cause and effect. It looks like this, this simple diagram.
This is a diagram you want to keep in your mind. You want to imprint this on your mind. This is all that life is.
We have three stages, we’ve got a thesis at the beginning, then an antithesis which is the red, then the two come together, the two collide, then something becomes of the antithesis in contact with the thesis and that is the synthesis. The synthesis becomes the new thesis, it comes back around and it just keeps going.
This is really the law of nature, this is natural law of the universe, evolution and everything.
If you are on the beach, then you come into contact with some sun, then you would be the thesis, coming into contact could be the antithesis, then the synthesis is going to be you sunburnt or you with a tan.
It’s all of these things, they follow this rule. This is basically the equation of cause and effect. If we have a situation and we apply something else to the situation, then something comes of that situation.
I know this might seem way too simple to even be of value, but this really is it. Most people overcomplicate everything.
How To Achieve Any Goal or Dream
This really is the governing formula of all evolution and all existence. It can be reduced to a simple equation like this for us humans. C+PE^T=D. Now stick with me while I walk you through each one of these steps.
D is your dream or goal. D is what you want. C is your current situation. P is your plan. E is your daily execution of that plan. T is time. That little upwards facing hat thing, that represents an exponent. An exponent is like when you put something to the power of something, it’s a power law.
If I put five to the power of ten, I get 9,765,625. You maybe thinking, “Whoa, how does five to the power of ten equal such a massive number?” This is what exponents do.
It means it’s five times five, then it keeps times’ing upon itself. These are what we call power laws. These are the laws which earthquakes work on, like Richter scales. A lot of things work on these sorts of scales.
Wealth distribution follows a massive steep curve, it’s like the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. That’s why once you have a lot of money, it’s way easier to make a lot of money because things compound. Most people don’t take this into account. This is the equation of cause and effect.
Understanding and Harnessing Natural Law: Cause and Effect
People think that life just happens to them. People think that if someone gets rich it’s lucky, or it’s because they did something wrong. People have just gotten out of touch with reality. They don’t understand that it’s all actually quite simple and it’s all cause and effect. We can use this equation and we can figure out exactly how to get to where we want to go. We can achieve any dream or goal.
Three Steps To Achieving Any Goal
Step 1: Set A Goal
Your goal could be to be 150 lbs. So replace D with 150 lbs. We just need to think into the future. What do we want? What is our dream? This is the first step.
Step one is to set a goal. What is your dream? It can be anything, you just have to set something. You don’t need to worry if it’s wrong because you can always change it later, but you must define something.
Step 2: Determine You Current Situation
Now, we define C. C is our current situation, so everyone can define that because current situation is what you have right now. That’s your current weight or body fat percentage or whatever your goal.
Step 3: Make a Plan
PE^T (PET) is your plan times your execution of that plan to the power of time. All right, so let’s keep going.
I weight 200 lbs, then here’s my plan. Establish an exercise routine, follow a calorie controlled diet and meal plans, do meal preparation in advance, scale up and get an in-person or online trainer…
Step 4: Execute The Plan
Now we’ve got our current situation, we’ve got our desired situation, our dream. Now we’ve got a plan, something that we think can get us there.
The next step is to put an E which execution. This is where a lot of people mess up. They do not stick to the plan.
There’s no point in just having a plan, we need to execute on that plan, we need to do the work. The best plan in the world still won’t do anything if we don’t do it.
We’ve got our current situation – 200 lbs body weight, then our plan – an exercise routine, follow a calorie controlled diet and meal plans, do meal preparation in advance, scale up and get a trainer, our execution of that plan – no ultra-processed food today, no alcohol or parties today, staying focused and putting every waking minute into execution today.
Step 5: Time
Here’s our last piece. Here’s where we put to the power of time in.
200 lbs bodyweight – our current situation – plus establish an exercise routine, follow a calorie controlled diet and meal plans, do meal preparation in advance, scale up and get a trainer, times our execution of that plan – no ultra-processed food today, no alcohol or parties today, staying focused and putting every waking minute into execution today, to the power of 365 days, that’s a year.
If we put in that execution of that plan everyday for 365 days equals 150 lbs body weight.
Now, that is this equation. That’s natural law and it’s actually pretty simple.
How come most people don’t control their lives and live their dreams?
It’s all to do with knowledge, memory and time. Here’s why most people suffer as a victim to life. Here’s why most people swear that it’s more complicated than what I just wrote. Knowledge.
1. Knowledge
Most people don’t seek the truth in things and they have no interest in gaining knowledge in worldly wisdom. Knowledge is literally power and without it, one will suffer immeasurably.
Knowledge really is the most important thing in the world. Without knowledge, you don’t even know if you should be happy or unhappy. You could be unhappy and not know it, not know why.
You completely have no idea what to do without knowledge. Knowledge is the most important thing. You need to understand yourself, you need to understand your mind, you need to understand how the world works and you need to understand how to find the truth. That is the most important thing.
Most people don’t even want to learn, or they finish to university and they think, “My learning is done.” Or, they get to a certain age and they think, “Oh, I don’t need to learn anything anymore.”
2. Memory
How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
Most people believe their memories about past events are accurate and are not subject to misinterpretation or change. Our memories are dangerously fallible, but most believe them as fact and this is a huge one.
Most people think that their memories of things are accurate and truthful. They don’t think that memories change and they don’t think that at the time which they stores their memory, they could have been wrong. If you want to learn more then check out the book ‘The Invisible Gorilla‘ that you can find in my Books Club.
What we’ve found out about the human brain is that memories change. What happens as a human when you set a memory, you’re a person and you’re walking through life and you see something happen, then what happens is to store that memory in your brain, you need to reduced that experience down into a sentence.
You need to convert an experience into a sentence, into a string of words. Those words are using your language system like English, Chinese or whatever. You take this complex situation and you reduce it down to a sentence, like this thing happened.
“Someone did something mean to me, I fell over and it was all their fault, they’re horrible”. That is your memory of something, then you store that memory, but what happens over time is our language gets bitter and we learn different things about the world.
We’re finding that our memories of things are totally inaccurate. Human beings, as they develop and as they grow older, their brains develop. Their brains grow different neural pathways, adapt and fuse together. When that happens it can actually change memories completely.
Just because you can remember something being a particular way doesn’t mean that it was that way. One of the most dangerous things humans have is their own memory. A lot of people, when they come into training and they are trying to become successful, can’t escape their past. They’re constantly thinking back to their past.
I’ve heard a lot of people say, “Oh, calorie counting, I’ve already tried calorie counting and it didn’t work, therefore calorie counting doesn’t work.” Do you know how crazy that is? Someone’s memory is telling them that they tried calorie counting and it didn’t work, therefore calorie counting don’t work. Well how come other people lose weight and a lot of experts agree that calorie counting does work?
Someone could say, “I tried some mindfulness meditation and it didn’t work, therefore mindfulness meditation doesn’t work, therefore I’m not going to try mindfulness meditation again because they obviously don’t work.” Well, that’s madness. Maybe they’ve fused that in their memory, so they’re saying that this thing is this particular way but they’re completely wrong. It’s very important that we understand that our memories are very fallible and most of the time human memory is completely wrong.
3. Time
Most people can’t associate cause and effect because the two are distanced from each other over time, where effect gives little clue in the short term, but exponential clue in the long term. Simply put, most people give up because they can’t see effect from cause immediately, or they see effect from cause, but forget what actually caused it due to memory fading with time.
What I mean by this is someone takes an action now and they can’t see an effect from that action. Someone might do an exercise session and eat perfectly today but they don’t see a change in their weight tomorrow, so they’re like, “Oh I know, this was a waste. This was a waste of my time. I was perfect for a day and I didn’t make any progress, therefore it doesn’t work.”
Someone might do the longest mindfulness session that they have ever achieved, but the next day they still get upset and angry at something at work, so they’re like, “Oh! This was a waste of my time, it doesn’t work.”
What people fail to understand is that cause and effect are spaced out over time. If you take an action today, you’re not going to see the full effect of that action until weeks, months or years down the line. You’ll start to see some effect but you don’t see the massive effect until later on down the track. It is like compound interest.
Human Fallibility: knowledge, memory and time.
The fact that humans don’t have very good knowledge and they definitely don’t seek out knowledge. The fact that human beings have horrible memories, but they consider their memories to be the absolute truth and fact. The fact that most humans don’t understand how time works. Time compounds things.
An action taken today has exponential effect in the future. If you just invest a dollar every day now, all you’re going to see is a dollar in your account, then another dollar in your account, but later on in your life that is going to be worth millions.
Most people don’t see that. Most people are only looking in the short term and they can’t see that. That is human fallibility. What we mean by this is that humans are fallible. You’re fallible, I’m fallible, all of us are. We are extremely fallible and it means that we make mistakes and we believe things that aren’t even true.
Cause and effect is the governing thing that the world works by. People don’t just get rich by chance and people don’t just get fit and healthy by chance. People don’t just win marathons by chance. People don’t just live happy lives by chance.
Yours optimally,
Scott
Source: A lot of the content of this post came from Sam Ovens’ Consulting.com Consulting Accelerator