What Does Leveling Up Mean & How to Do it!
The art of gamifying…
Turning your life into a story.
At first, this seems like a children’s fantasy.
The next moment, it seems like the practical thing to do.
Humans are creatures of incentives.
Cultures are growing organisms that require work.
If a human lives in a culture, they should be strategic about working.
Rather than dragging their feet into their work atmosphere.
Do it with enthusiasm.
Use work as a vehicle to feel younger, smarter & full of life.
Leveling Up is the gateway to change life for the best in a practical sense.
This is when the mind, nervous system & daily routines are geared towards 1 goal.
The mind loves a target, as much as it will initially fight you in adopting it.
This article is going to give you a preview of my book, Level Up Mentality: A Guide to Re-Engineer your Mindset for Confidence.
You’ll learn a basic skeleton of how the philosophy works.
What is Leveling Up?
The art of leveling up is going on a competition with your prior day self, forever.
This is the way.
The human has a competitive spirit.
However, where that spirit is targeted is KEY.
The average person targets it to the outside world.
Which can lead to some initial success.
But over time, it causes them to resent others & feel separated from society.
Some fields may require external competition.
But most should implement internal competition.
- Compete with the prior day self.
This is strategic because it removes traffic from your life.
Now you have a clear lane mentality.
With the clear lane mentality, it’s a matter of driving forward (leveling up) every day in some regards.
‘What happens with others?’
Now it’s easier to collaborate with others.
Humans serve as puzzles pieces.
You help them level up.
They help you level up.
Finding a Target
A clear lane mentality makes it easier to think creative thoughts.
The mind is naturally wired to be creative.
However, with excessive competition, plus the negativity bias…
Tons of individuals use the creative faculty to plan revenge on others or plan their own demise.
The goal of finding a target is to find something to Level Up on.
This target should be a grand narrative that engages the feeling body.
Remember this…
Knowledge is not real until there are feelings charging the body.
That’s when the nervous system is on board.
Knowing how fast Saturn rotates is good and all. But until it relates to your life in some way, the nervous system is not going to care.
The vision is not something that just presents itself.
It’s a process of finding a target over time & refining it to clarity.
The grand narrative helps.
Rather than saying:
‘I will become the greatest realtor in my local neighborhood.’
This is not only thinking small but also using the narrative of competition.
Say:
‘I, Ricky Singh, will become the PERFECT realtor.’
Although “perfect” is not possible in a logical sense.
Notice the surge of feelings going through the nervous system.
Leveling Up requires emotional intelligence.
Get the feeling body & logic to work together rather than apart.
Let’s move on to the logical details.
Building Skills
One of the most popular chapters in the Level Up Mentality is the section on building skills and habits.
This chapter shows that people are like Play-Doh.
They can morph themselves to their desires.
‘What if I don’t morph myself?’
Then you will be morphed.
Mainstream news, mainstream gossip & mainstream beliefs will have a stronger impact.
The process of building skills can be summed up into 1 word:
Consistency.
How a person is consistent is also important.
It’s about having the snowball to avalanche mindset.
A snowball starts off light but builds momentum over time into an avalanche.
The only difference between snow & leveling up is that leveling up is an infinite process.
It happens forever.
As the famous saying goes:
‘Good people try to improve 10% at a time, great people try to improve 1% at a time.‘
In the last part, we were talking about creating a GRAND narrative.
Now we are telling about the MICRO 1% details.
This dance between GRAND and MICRO is where greatness forms.
Chronicling Your Journey
Imagine your friend, Picasso, used to be fat.
Over 350 pounds.
However, as months passed on by, he is now 310 pounds.
When you look at him, you immediately notice how much he changed.
But for him?
He doesn’t notice that much.
Any idea why?
‘Because he is always with himself, while I haven’t seen him in a while. That’s why I saw the difference.’
Correct.
The same thing happens with Leveling Up.
Since you are with yourself all the time, it’s difficult to notice MICRO changes adding up.
From others’ points of view, they are making eye contact with a brand new person.
Therefore, it’s important to chronicle the journey.
Some form of content creation turns you elite.
Twitter, journals, private YouTube channel, podcast.
Something!
Throughout the process of content creation, you will also be able to view your life as a story.
Watch it gradually unfold.
If you are looking for a journal designed to chronicle your Level Up Journey, check out the Story Mode Journal!
Level Up & Become Reborn
Humans are complex systems.
‘English please??’
Meaning that we have multiple parts which create a unified whole.
We have the physical parts of us like:
- Bones, skins, hair, etc.
We have the mental parts of us like:
- Thoughts, feelings, desires, etc.
We have the societal parts of us like:
- Family man, lawyer, club recruitment chair, etc.
At the fundamental level, a complex system has only 2 options.
- Level up or level down.
In the field, it looks like maintenance is possible.
However, when you get a bird’s eye view of that field, you’ll see:
- Maintenance = leveling down.
Decide to Level Up.
Don’t look back.
Turn your life into the greatest story ever told.
Looking to Level Up your life?
Then be sure to check out the Level Up Mentality: A Guide to Re-Engineer your Mindset for Confidence!
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