Apply · The Year · $100,000

Eight sections. About ninety minutes.

It is long on purpose. At this price the application is the first hour of the year, and a man who will not spend ninety minutes on it will not protect fifty-two.

The process, and the terms.

Written application, then one conversation of sixty minutes, then my decision. You hear either way inside fourteen days, with a reason.

$100,000, paid in full, before month one. No plan, no deposit structure, no instalments.

One protected hour a week for fifty-two weeks, the same day and the same time, plus two full days in Tallinn or online.

It ends at month twelve. There is no second year, no continuation and no alumni arrangement.

Most applications are refused, and the reasons are published. Read them before you start.

A · The facts

01Name, age, where you live, where you work, who you live with.

02What do you actually do all day? Walk me through yesterday, hour by hour.

03How many people depend on your decisions for their income?

04Who depends on you for something that is not money?

05What is the day and time you would protect for the next fifty-two weeks?

Give me one, not three.

B · The body

06Sleep: what time down, what time up, how many wakes, and for how long has that been true?

07Everything you take — prescribed, over the counter, supplements, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol — with doses and times.

Leave nothing off.

08Diagnoses, current and past. Surgeries. Injuries you are still working around.

09When was your last full blood panel, and do you have it?

10What does a doctor currently tell you that you are not doing?

11What is the longest you have gone without alcohol in the last ten years?

C · The pattern

12What takes you down? Describe the last time, from the first minute.

13How often, and what does it cost — money, hours, people?

14What have you already tried? List it, with what each one cost and how long it held.

15Why did each of those not hold?

Your honest answer, not the polite one.

16What do you do when you are tired that you never do when you are rested?

D · The rooms

17Where do you perform, and for whom?

18Who has never seen you tired?

19Who has seen you at your worst and stayed?

20What have you not told the person closest to you, and for how long?

21What would you lose if you stopped performing?

Name the money, the position, the people.

E · The story

22Ten sentences about who you are.

23Which of them did you decide before you were fifteen?

24What are you still defending that stopped being true years ago?

25What would you have to give up being right about?

26What do you believe about yourself that, if it were false, would change everything this month?

F · The end

27Describe the man who walks out of month twelve.

Not how he feels. What he does on a Tuesday.

28What will still be here that you wish were not?

29Who will you become responsible for?

30What will you do on the first Monday after this ends?

31If nothing changes, describe your life in five years.

Exact.

G · The terms

32Can you pay $100,000 in full before month one, without borrowing it and without it changing how you live? Yes or no.

33Who else has to agree to this, and have you asked them?

34Can you be in Tallinn for two full days, roughly month six and month twelve?

35What in the next twelve months could take the hour away — a birth, a sale, a court case, a build?

36Have you done any of the six steps? Which, and when?

37Is there anyone I should not take because of your history with them? Say so now.

38Who sent you here, and what did he say? Leave this blank if nobody did.

H · One page

39Write one page. No question, no structure, no guidance. Whatever you would say to me if we were sitting down and you had one page.

There is no word count and there is no right answer. This decides more applications than everything above it.

Nothing here is shared with anyone. If I turn you down, everything you wrote is deleted.