7 Steps To Greatness
A Seminar Held In A Parking Lot By A Man On A Mobility Cart Who Has Acquired Greatness
INITIATING_TRANSMISSION
AUTHOR: Profit
ORIGIN: Queensbridge
CURRENT_LOCATION: Tijuana, Baja California, MX, Earth-473B
STATUS: Operational
CLASSIFICATION: FIELD_REPORT // GURU_INTELLIGENCE // GREATNESS_ACQUIRED
I paid $297 to learn how to be great.
I paid this willingly. I was not coerced. I saw the flyer on a telephone pole near the Walmarts and I made a decision as a grown adult with access to my own finances. I do all my banking at the bodega. The flyer said UNLOCK YOUR GREATNESS in a font that meant business. Below that it said PARKING LOT. SATURDAY. $297. EXACT CHANGE PREFERRED.
I was learning greatness, which begins with preparedness.
I brought exact change.
//THE_ARRIVAL
He was standing at the entrance to the Walmarts parking lot when I got there, positioned with the posture of a man who understood both body language and premium pricing structures.
The blazer was on. The blazer being on meant we were still in the transactional phase of the relationship. He was serious. I was a customer. Wisdom had not yet been activated because payment had not yet cleared. We were still operating inside the commerce module.
I gave him the $297.
He counted it twice, folded it with deliberate precision, and placed it in the inside pocket of the blazer. Then, without announcement, he removed the blazer and let it fall directly onto the asphalt. Underneath was the tuxedo t-shirt. We were ready for business.
He climbed onto the mobility cart with the confidence of a man ascending a platform.
The ring light was already mounted on the front of it, angled upward, fully illuminated at 11:15 in the morning in an outdoor parking lot under direct sunlight. He drove the cart to the center of the parking lot at a speed that communicated authority and also the conserving of energy.
He had a microphone. It was clipped to the tuxedo t-shirt. It was not connected to anything. He tapped it twice to make sure it was on.
He began.
//THE_CURRICULUM
Step one: Wake up after your competition.
The blazer man said greatness requires energy and people have been manipulated by hustle culture into believing exhaustion is an asset. Your competition wakes up at 4am because they read a book about waking up at 4am by some guy who has a podscast on waking up early. They’re tired. They’re running on discipline, spite and a pre-workout they bought in bulk. They’re over-caffeinated. You’re not doing that. You’re sleeping. You’re rested. You’re conserving the energy that your competition is burning trying to get ahead of you while you sleep. Sleeping also produces Melatonin, which is a pill you take to make you smart while you sleep.
When you wake up, your competition is already exhausted. Great people allow their competition to self-deplete while they remain unconscious and therefore strategically preserved.
That’s your advantage.
I wrote this down and felt immediately relieved.
Step two: Document nothing.
The blazer man explained that documenting your journey creates unnecessary vulnerability. Vulnerability forces you to become emotionally unintelligent.
He said if the moment was worth remembering you’ll remember it because it will imprint itself on your internal architecture. If you can’t remember it, the moment wasn’t great enough to document. He described memory loss as filtration. The forgetting is the filter. The filter is the standard. Greatness doesn’t need a ring light to confirm it happened. What it needs is a ring light to confirm it happened. Write that down.
He said this from the mobility cart with the ring light running on the front of it.
Clearly he has achieved greatness.
Step three: Find your why.
Your why is the reason behind the reason behind the reason you do what you do. The first reason is surface. The second reason is deeper. The third reason is your why. Keep asking why until you cry. The crying confirms you found it. If you haven’t cried you haven’t gone deep enough. He referred to tears as liquid clarity.
The crying is the standard. The standard is the why. The why is the crying.
Step four: Invest in people who already achieved greatness.
The blazer man said this is where most people screw up. They attempt to manufacture greatness independently, from scratch. This is inefficient. Greatness already exists in the world. It’s already been achieved by people who did the hard work so you don’t have to. What you need to do is get close to those people and let the greatness transfer through proximity, or record what they’re saying on your phone.
This is called networking.
He cited his own mentor, a man he once stood near at a business conference in 2019 for approximately forty-five minutes. He didn’t speak to the man. He was simply in the vicinity of the man those forty-five minutes. Proximity, he explained, created energetic absorption. He has been building on that proximity ever since.
Step five: Take minimal action.
The blazer man said overworking is for poor people who haven’t figured out leverage yet. And people who haven’t figured out leverage yet are, statistically, not wealthy. He said labor is what happens when leverage has not yet been correctly installed. Overworking is therefore poor behavior. You don’t want to behave poorly. Or be poor. You want to behave greatly. Or you wouldn’t have paid the $297.
Great people take precise action. Surgical. Minimal. They identify the one thing that moves the needle and they do only that thing. Everything else is nonsense produced by people who are tired because they woke up at 4am.
He drove the mobility cart in a small circle when he said this, pointing directly at the sun.
I did not fully understand the demonstration, which increased my confidence that the concept was advanced.
Step six: Build your personal brand.
The blazer man explained that your personal brand is your Perceived Value Infrastructure. Which mean it’s what people say about you when you’re not in the room. You must control this. You control it by being consistent. And authentic. And present. And unique. And consistent.
The blazer man said consistency twice. I wrote it down twice. The second time I underlined it. His last post on the subject of consistency was six weeks ago.
Step seven: Never stop learning.
Specifically from the blazer man.
He explained that greatness compounds through continued investment in premium ecosystems already occupied by scalable thinkers. He said this directly. He said he was clearly someone who had achieved it. He gestured at the mobility cart. He gestured at the ring light. He gestured at the tuxedo t-shirt, and again at the sun. This wasn’t math, this was arithmetic.
The evidence was present. The evidence was him.
He said his course, separate from the seminar, available for $497 or three payments of $197, contained everything he knew organized into modules. The modules were the knowledge. The knowledge was the greatness. The greatness was $497.
Or three payments of $197.
//THE_INTERRUPTION
Montgomery appeared between steps six and seven.
He hadn’t paid. He was already in the Walmarts parking lot returning a leaf blower and the seminar was between him and the entrance. He stopped. He looked at the mobility cart. He looked at the ring light running at full brightness in the direct noon sun. He looked at the tuxedo t-shirt.
Something moved across his face that wasn’t quite recognition.
He raised his hand.
The blazer man immeidately pointed at him.
Montgomery said he had a question about step four. The proximity networking step. He said he had done something similar once. He said he stood near a man at a conference for approximately forty-five minutes in 2019 and absorbed a significant amount of ambient knowledge. He said it changed the direction of everything he built after that.
The blazer man said that was exactly correct. He said that was the model working at its highest level. He said Montgomery had validated the entire framework with one anecdote.
Montgomery nodded slowly.
He said the man at the conference had been wearing a blazer.
The blazer man said a lot of important people wear blazers.
Montgomery looked at the tuxedo t-shirt. He looked at the blazer on the asphalt where it had been dropped at the beginning of the seminar. He looked at the ring light. He looked at the mobility cart. He picked up the blazer. He folded it. He set it on the front of the mobility cart next to the ring light.
He completed his return.
He left.
SYSTEM_LOG: GREATNESS_SEMINAR_AUDIT
VENUE: The Walmarts parking lot [CONFIRMED]
ENTRY_FEE: $297 exact change [COLLECTED]
BLAZER_STATUS: Removed at transaction completion
MOBILITY_CART: Borrowed // Energy conserved for greatness
RING_LIGHT: Operational // Illuminating sunlight
WAKE_UP_TIME: After competition // Competition: exhausted // You: rested
DOCUMENTATION_POLICY: None // If forgotten: unworthy of memory
PROXIMITY_TO_GREATNESS: 45 minutes at a 2019 conference // No conversation
OVERWORKING_STATUS: Poor people behavior // Minimal action deployed
CONSISTENCY_MENTIONS: 2 // Posts proving consistency: last updated 6 weeks ago
MONTGOMERY_QUESTION: Yes // Answered incorrectly // Accepted
BLAZER_MAN_GREATNESS_STATUS: Building phase // Duration unknown
COURSE_PRICE: $497 // Or three payments of $197 // Math: not arithmetic
INVESTMENT_IN_SELF: $297 // Results: Greatness//THE_CLOSE
I left the seminar with fewer dollars than I arrived with but considerably more frameworks.
I had not purchased greatness itself. I had purchased structured access to the performance of greatness, which the blazer man had correctly identified as the more scalable offering.
On my way out I passed Montgomery in the entrance. He was holding his return receipt and a new pamphlet. The cover said THE WISEDOM OF WISDOM: PROXIMITY EDITION. I asked if it was about networking. He said it was about standing near things until something transfers. I asked the price.
He said it depends on how close you’re willing to stand.
I already paid $297 today.
I took the pamphlet.
//END OF TRANSMISSION-Profit
the crying is the secret
I am using that one... Tears are mother fucking liquid clarity! 😂😂
Also, I just want to say that waking up after your competitor seems legit to me... Like, duh. You get to work when they're sleepy. 😉