Sometimes it's hard to know what to do with your life. It's much easier to know what would ruin it.
That's a trick I use when a goal feels too big. Instead of asking how to get there, I ask the opposite: what would I do, every single day, to make sure I fail? Charlie Munger had a line for this. All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
Try it with your body. Say you want to get fit. Now write the plan for the opposite. Eat whatever comes in a bag. Sleep five hours. Sit all day. Never walk anywhere you can drive. Sell your running shoes, just to be safe. Follow that for a year and the result is guaranteed.
The list is easy to write, and that's the point. Nobody needs a coach to know what failure looks like. So do it with your whole life. What's the fastest, cheapest, easiest way to wreck it?
I think I found it. I call it doomscroll maxxing. The rules are simple. Open TikTok, Reels or Shorts. Scroll as many hours as you can. Repeat every day.
It works on everything at once. Your sleep goes first, because the last video is never the last. Then your focus, because nothing else moves as fast as the feed. Then your goals, because there's no time left for them. Then the people around you, because you're in the room, but not really.
And look at how good the plan is. It's free. It needs no equipment, no training and no willpower. It fits in your pocket. It's open at 3 a.m. It even pays you a little reward every few seconds, so you never want to quit.
No other way to ruin your life is this cheap or this easy. That's the funny part.
The scary part is that you don't have to start. Most of us are already on the program.
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