Mark Manson

alter your environment to make the change inevitable, to find a minimum viable action, remove as much friction as possible, to adopt the useful social role and find an important why behind the change that you want to make.

This, everything leading up until now, this hours and hours of everything we've talked about, let's call this the slow path to change because everything we've just described, it is completely doable.

You've done it.

I've done it.

Most people watching this have done it, but it takes a long time.

It takes...

months at minimum, in most cases, years, in some cases, decades, depending on how deep-rooted the adaptation is.

It's reliable.

It's reliable.

But it's slow.

So it's a slow, reliable path.

It's slow, reliable, and repeatable.

Right, right.

But there is also a category of change that we still have not talked about yet, and that is the dramatic change

massive instantaneous transformation.

Yes, it does exist.

You can change without the grinding repetition, without carefully designing every aspect of your environment, without gradual improvements or habituation to new behaviors.

There is such a thing as a dramatic lightning bolt moment.

Researchers have documented it.

They've even identified a process for it.