Go Ghost for a Year?

Let me gently remind you of a truth that too many good souls are forgetting: distraction is the enemy of mastery.

The giants of history—from Leonardo da Vinci to Mahatma Gandhi to Hedy Lamarr—were not people who dabbled. They were people who focused. Monomaniacally.

They carved out sacred spaces of solitude and isolation to produce their masterwork. They honored their craft with the fullness of their presence.

Each time you allow your phone to interrupt you, you weaken your focus. Each moment you spend scrolling through someone else’s life is a moment stolen from building your own. The cost of distraction is not just time—it’s your dreams, your genius, your legacy.

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Transcript

Go ghost. It's really important for you. If you can do it for a year, go on a sabbatical, take your family. Or if you don't have a family, go alone. Maybe it's on a boat. I remember there was a book I read called The WatersIn Between. And it was about a medical student. He just had a broken heart, lost a relationship, lived in Vancouver, Canada. And he did something quite stunning. He was walking down by the ocean and there was a yacht club and he had a conversation with this gentleman. who turned out to be selling a sailboat. And this young medical
student with a broken heart had never sailed before, but on a whim and trusting his instinct, he bought the boat. And the book, The Water in Between, I think it's called, is about him on this boat crossing an entire ocean. You might not want to do something that dramatic. You might not want to take a year's sabbatical where you buy a boat. go out on a voyage, but maybe for a month, over the next three months. Maybe you'll take a month off and you'll get away from your usual world
and you'll take a sabbatical and you'll go to Bali or you'll go to Japan. One of the things I want to do is spend three months in Japan. I don't want to understand how the culture works and how they do it. Maybe I'll go skiing because there's great skiing in Japan. Maybe for you, you want to go to Medellin. Maybe you're going to want to go to Agra and look at the Taj Mahal. Maybe you are going to want to go to Finland or Iceland. Maybe for you it's Argentina. I don't know where on the planet you'd like to voyage to, to go ghost. So you get away from your responsibilities and
you get away from digital and you get away from maybe troubles or you get away from routine. And if you can't do it for a month, do it for a week, but do it fast because Even the longest life is a very short ride. And trust me, going ghost on a regular basis is not a waste of time. When I shared this with my clients, the first thing they do is, what would people think? My reply is, be careless of the good opinions of others. Do you. Run your own race. Stay in your own lane. Build your
own life. Secondly, they say, well, know, the thought of going ghost makes me feel guilty. And what I say to them is, Going ghost is not a waste of time. It's when you're not working and it's when you're away from your usual life that your best ideas are going to incubate.