In the previous episode, we discussed how a collection of moxie efforts can be tightly woven together into something a person can repeat at will. This is what we call talent.

As a person continues to further her talent, she will develop other talents that then weave together. As expertise in weaving talents together is gained, other people begin to notice the level of skill being exercised.

People begin to pay extra attention to witness an uncommon experience.Remember back in episode 4, we saw Tom van Steenbergen throw his bike over a cliff, jump immediately afterward, land on the pedals and ride away. That was a mind blowing uncommon experience many of us watched repeatedly just to comprehend what he did. 

What is mind blowing kicks off a ripple effect that influences the trajectory of the world. Sometimes it’s small, like triggering a dawning of understanding in a child. Other times, it changes the trajectory for a few hundred million people, like what Malala Yousafzai has done for the women of Pakistan, the people of Pakistan, and countless others. She showed the world how actions speak louder than words.

In this episode, I'll map out the remaining details for how we blow minds.

• Unraveling what is mind blowing
• Defined
• Why stop there?
• Look, no hands
• The second quickening
• The purpose of the second quickening

Bonus content

• Filling our minds
• The limits of human potential
• Dictionaries 

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Talent is a special thing. It’s often referred to as a natural aptitude or skill. 

I disagree with this definition. Athletes at the Olympics are not naturals at what they do. They worked harder at developing their talent than others. They know how to persevere. Saying they have a natural aptitude or skill is just a way to drink the Kool-Aid.

There are two key ingredients for developing talent. The first is what I’ve already mentioned—perseverance. The second is being methodical. 

When a person is methodical, perseverance, which begins as trial and error, becomes directed through a process or method that leads to our intended goal.

This topic is now going very technical. Please listen to the previous episode on moxie before you continue.

Remember the visual metaphor for the Descartes’ four precepts I gave you in the previous episode. This is what I said about it…

Each step, and the efforts within each step of Descartes’ Four Precepts, takes moxie. When you tightly weave various moxie efforts together into something you can repeat as a whole at will, this becomes a skillset—a talent.

The Descartes’ Four Precepts is a particular talent. It’s a talent for developing any talent.

Did your jaw just drop? If not, listen to that again and again until it does because it should.

When people say you can't teach talent, you now know they are misinformed and you have the recipe, process or methodology to prove it.

Let’s look at the finer details to learn how we liberate talent.

• Recap
• The code
• Your touch
• Going further
• Patience 

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A common structure of adventure stories is called the hero’s journey. 

In the hero’s journey, the hero accepts a call to adventure because she receives some form of knowledge that makes her realize accepting the call is better than refusing the call. That the perseverance before her is much better than the comfort of conformity.

The hero transforms from the confident person she was into a novice at something new. Like a baby transforming from a talented crawler into a baby that has no idea how to walk. She has chosen to persevere through the wealth of failure before her. 

The hero is naturally intimidated. But she knows the two paths before her. 

The path of admiring the precarious façade of the status quo 

and 

the path of unraveling the status quo to build a solid foundation to the future.

Like for the hero, it takes moxie to accept the call to adventure and transform into who we are meant to be. 

It's time for us to get out of the sandbox and leave conformity behind. 

In this episode, I’m giving you a license to moxie, like James Bond has a license to kill. 

• A sample of moxie
• Perseverance and moxie 
• The oomph of moxie
• Unraveling moxie part 1
• Unraveling moxie part 2
• Defining moxie 
• Uncovering moxie

Bonus content

• Moxie
• List of people with moxie
• The easiest moxie
• The science behind cold showers
• Recruiting

For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com.

An adventure happens when we put effort into something that isn't the easiest way of doing something.

For example, if we work or live in a building and we choose to take the stairs instead of the elevator, we’ve had a simple adventure.

Imagine we decide to always take the stairs and that we get winded every time we do so. That is a bigger adventure because we persevere through an effort and it might make us proud of ourselves. 

There was a time when we climbed 2 flights of stairs and got winded. Today, we wonder how far we can push ourselves. As perseverance naturally gets easier the more we expose ourselves to it, we raise the level of our effort so it remains near the cutting edge while still being reasonably comfortable. When we find and remain at the cutting edge, the sweet spot, we will have achieved the adventure of a lifetime and we will know we have lived.

Notice that an adventure of a lifetime is never past tense. When it’s in the past, it was a grand adventure. 

An adventure of a lifetime naturally continues for a lifetime. While the greatest moment of the adventure of a lifetime might be in the past, when we continue to put effort into what we do, the adventure continues until the day we die. 

Notice, each level of adventure is a change of the game. Instead of taking the elevator, we take the stairs. Instead of taking the stairs once, we do it routinely. Instead of doing it routinely, we see how far we can push ourselves. When we remain at the cutting edge, the sweet spot of performance, we’ve lived. Each time we shift or pivot, we change the game.

In this episode, I'll share that there is much more to the game changer than our first glance.

• Introduction
• Examples of game changers
• The recipe for a game changer
• A hint

Bonus content

• Virtue signaling

For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com.

The hero’s journey is a story template. It’s often used to create action films and its first stage is the call to adventure.

The call is typically an ambitious goal that will change the world. There will be intense obstacles that will tempt our hero to refuse the call. This is what makes the audience excited to see how perseverance unfolds. 

What would it be like if you received a serious call to adventure? Would you refuse it to live the life you know today, or would you persevere through the years ahead to see how far the adventure really goes?

You’re about to find out.

Chapters

• Analogy
• The six roles of conformity
• How will you respond?
• Circumventing the refusal

Bonus content

• Nelson Mandela
• Gullible
• Social stigma—chess
• Mantra
• The last kick at the can
• Vincent van Gogh

For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com.

When people develop their next-level mindset, it is only natural that the byproduct of everyone’s effort targets something ambitious like the world's greatest moonshot. 

In this inaugural episode, we have a full summary of the next-level mindset, the bootcamp for your consciousness (the subtitle of this podcast) and the world’s greatest moonshot.

In the notes of each episode (like what you are reading now), you will see a table of contents of the episode. I suggest reading these notes as they assist in the understanding. This episode's table of contents is below.

Chapters

• Introduction
• Bootcamp for your consciousness
• The next-level mindset 
• Analogy
• Power
• The finishing strokes
• Back to square one
• The world’s greatest moonshot
• What to expect from this podcast
• Reflection
• Closure

Bonus content

• Metanarrative
• Consciousness
• A message to the next generation
• A message to the creative
• A message to the people with power
• A message to the wealthy
• A message to the weavers
• A message to the mental health profession
• A message to podcasters
• Sentient AI

For additional resources, visit www.moxiefrontier.com.