Benjamin Hardy

One is it's a way of measuring your progress and measuring your experiences.

So for me, for example, I've had a number of experiences already today, like even just to this point.

And some of them went to plans and some of them didn't go to plans.

But if I'm in the gain, I'm measuring what actually did happen.

And I'm measuring myself backwards.

I'm only measuring myself against where I was before.

And the truth is I'm always ahead of my past self.

Even if...

things go backwards seemingly.

Like even if I lose my leg in a car accident, right?

Like a lot of bad things can seemingly happen, but if you're in the gain, you're finding the gains and you're creating gains from your experiences.

And so I consider it you're squeezing as much juice out of your experiences as possible.

You're also always choosing to become better as a result.

No matter what happens to you, you're in the game.

So everything ultimately happens for you.

So I guess it's really two big ideas.

One is it's measuring yourself backward against where you were before and always realizing...

that you're further than you were before.

And that the only thing I'm actually measuring myself against is myself, which is where I was before.

So that's number one is just measuring yourself backwards.