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Disappear And Come Back Unrecognizable (12 Rules To Change Your Life)

Dan Koe
9 min readMar 17, 2025

I don’t say this to sound arrogant.

But I’ve never had a problem with knowing what I want in the future.

When people say “I don’t know what I want,” what they’re really saying is “I don’t want to do the work it takes to get what I want.”

It’s not that you don’t know what you want. It’s that you know what you don’t want — meaning you know what you want — and are hiding from it it takes to get away from it.

I’ve always known what I wanted because it’s extremely simple to observe society and know what I don’t want:

  • A job I hate
  • Work I hate
  • A body I hate
  • A partner I hate
  • A mind that hates me

From that alone, it’s easy to figure out what I had to do:

  • Become an entrepreneur no matter how many times I fail (it took 7 failures)
  • Gain the power to get rid of work I don’t want to do (writing on social media for leverage)
  • Go to the gym and work on my nutrition
  • Allow those 3 things to open up more opportunities in every domain of life
  • Let that path create a peaceful mind from the…

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Dan Koe
Dan Koe

Written by Dan Koe

Building Kortex, the future of writing apps. Find me everywhere @thedankoe

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