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Hey there,

Happy Sunday ☀️

Wednesday, the sky went dark. A total solar eclipse swept across several countries, and the moon spent a couple of minutes covering the sun for the roughly fifteen million people on the path of totality. Nine hundred and eighty million more got a partial view. On the same night, the Perseid meteor shower peaked, so those in the right places got a solar eclipse and a meteor shower on the same day. Not a bad Wednesday.

Something I want to name before we go anywhere else with this letter:

On The Geometry Of All This 🌐

A total eclipse only happens because the geometry of the Universe is precise. The Moon is roughly four hundred times smaller than the Sun and roughly four hundred times closer, which is why the two look almost exactly the same size in our sky. That is not decoration. That is the Universe being consistent about how it draws itself.

If you have sat with me on any of my most advanced training, you have already met the shape I keep coming back to. It is called the Torus. A self-sustaining, donut-shaped energy pattern. Energy rises through the centre, cascades over the top, flows down the outside, reconnects underneath, then rises again.

The Torus is what a galaxy is. What a hurricane is. What Earth's magnetic field is. What an apple is. What an acorn is. What a subatomic particle is. What the electromagnetic field around your own body is. Your own field is generated primarily by your heart, which puts out an electromagnetic signal roughly five thousand times more powerful than your brain, measurable several feet from your body.

As I write this, a group of my students are at The Oasis this week for the Residential Quantum Mastery Retreat, learning to work with exactly this material. What the eclipse showed you in the sky on Wednesday, they are learning to run through their own minds and bodies, deliberately, and with purpose.

The Universe has one shape. The eclipse is what it looks like at cosmic scale. Your field is what it looks like at personal scale. Different rooms. Same pattern

The One Thing They All Started With 🎓

The people in the room at The Oasis this week have reached one of the most advanced stages of this work. What is worth naming, there, is that not one of them started there.

None of them arrived with a unique aptitude for this material. There was no predisposition, no secret head start, no genetic knack for reading their own field. What they arrived with was one muscle: they were teachable.

Some of you already have the book I put in front of you a few weeks back, Your Wish Is Your Command, by my friend Kevin Trudeau. If that is you, this part will not read like news. It is Kevin who first named the muscle I am talking about here as the Teachability Index, and by his reckoning, and mine, it is the single most important variable in a person's growth. How open are you, at any given moment, to being taught by the person, the moment, or the material in front of you?

Everything else, the strategy, the mentor, the timing, the training, is downstream of that one variable. If your teachability is high, all of it lands. If it is low, none of it does. Most people, most of the time, spend more energy defending their current knowledge than they do letting new knowledge in.

There is a well known version of this concept I have been teaching for as long as I have been in this work - it’s called the Four Stages of Learning.

Unconscious Incompetence. You do not know what you do not know. Every skill starts here. Most stay here and never get born.

Conscious Incompetence. You have become aware of how much you do not know. This is where ninety-nine percent of people quit. It is uncomfortable, ego-bruising, and unglamorous. Most of the growth in a person's life lives on the other side of this stage, and most people never cross it.

Conscious Competence. You are practising. You are aware of what you are doing. It is working, but it takes effort.

Unconscious Competence. The skill is now automatic. You have earned the shortcut.

The insight most people miss is that the fastest way to move through these stages is not more effort, it is the biology of frustration. Myelin, the white substance that coats your neural connections and lets signals travel up to ten times faster, is produced at the exact moment of frustration combined with continued effort. Frustration is not a signal to stop. It is evolution's accelerator for learning.

Which brings me to one sentence.

The war cry of the untrained ego (i.e. failure) is a sentence I have heard, and admittedly have said myself many times in my journey. "I already know that." Every time you or I say it, or think it, or feel it curl up in the back of your mind when a teacher is speaking, our teachability index has just sat down. And the moment our teachability index sits down, the room, the mentor, the material, the moment, all quietly stop working for us.

If you would like to test your own teachability with real material this week, and you do not yet have Kevin's book, you can still download it here.

Sit with it. Notice how often the sentence tries to curl up in the back of your mind before you finish the first chapter. That is the whole exercise.

Earlier this week, my interview with Paul O'Mahony on the Rethink Podcast went live. Two hours and thirteen minutes of conversation across the Atlantic row, the six months in Pentonville, and the frame that runs underneath both. It makes great reinforcement for a mind still open to learning and growing. And I’m hoping you don’t already know this. Seriously invest the time, this is gold.

You can listen to the interview here

Three moments in it that will give you the flavour without spoiling the walk.

Early on, Paul asks how someone survives a stretch in prison without hardening. I give him Napoleon Hill's line, the one I have been carrying around for the best part of thirty years. Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. Not a slogan. A working assumption. Pentonville was not the exception to that rule, it was the clearest evidence of it I have.

Later, Paul asks about happiness, and I walk him through the hamster wheel trap most people spend their running on without realising it. That distinction alone is worth the whole listen.

And near the middle of the interview, Paul asks what has actually shifted in me across the last several years. The answer that came out was one I have been circling all week. Life is a growth-centric experience, not a comfort-centric one. Once you accept that, the whole thing gets joyously easier and wonderfully harder in exactly the ways it needs to.

The full runtime is long. Sit with it in sections if that is what your week allows.

Have a beautiful Sunday.

All the best,