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how to launch into a completely new life

Dan Koe
8 min readMay 7, 2025

First, understand that life unfolds in chapters.

Each chapter is a predictable sequence of 4 phases:

  • Limbo — you don’t know what to do or what you want.
  • Vision — an image for the future forms, you act on a new path, momentum builds.
  • Flow — you can’t pull yourself away from the goal you’re pursuing.
  • Resistance — exponential progress doesn’t last forever, but you don’t want it to end, often to your own detriment.

But most people get stuck in the limbo phase.

Your entire life, you’ve been trained to follow a script.

You’re used to the linear results of schools and jobs.

You’re used to someone else giving you your certainty.

But when it comes to living an unconventional life (because that’s the only way to get unconventional results) you interpret “feeling lost” as a bad sign. So you jump ship and return to the comfortable life that was planned for you in a system that only cares for its own benefit.

And that’s probably why you’re reading this.

You hate the thought of ending up like everyone else.

But that means you’re on your own.

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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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