The six
These are six places a man gets stuck. They are numbered because that is the order they usually come apart in — usually, not always. Yours may have come apart in a different order, or only in one place.
So this is not a queue. Every one of the six can be entered directly. You choose the door. I read your application and, if you have chosen wrong, I say so and tell you which one instead.
You sleep without an alarm pulling you out of it. Your energy stops arriving in spikes and crashes.
You catch the pattern while it is running instead of a day later.
The noise drops. Not because you silenced it, but because you stopped being inside every sentence of it.
You stop performing in the rooms where you always performed.
The stories you have carried about yourself stop being facts.
You stop looking for the next person to explain your life to you. Including me.
Read these six and one of them will be uncomfortable to read. That is usually the answer.
Almost every man who writes to me picks one of the first four. That is fair enough — they are the ones you can feel.
But look at the last two. The Maze, where you stop collecting methods. And Independence, where you stop looking over your shoulder at teachers, books and men like me.
If you read those two and think you need neither, one of two things is true. Either you do not need me, which is fine, and I will tell you so plainly. Or you are too certain to be worked with, and I will tell you that too.
That is not a sales line. It is the single most useful thing I learned about who this works for.
Not for three months — a man whose body is already in order does not need Capacity. But every application asks about your sleep, your food and what you take, because a tired man cannot catch a pattern, hear himself think, or examine anything honestly.
If your answers show the floor is missing, I will say so and point you at Capacity instead of the one you asked for. That is not an upsell. It is cheaper than the one you wanted and it is the only honest answer I have.
The six steps are what I can write down. The Year is what I cannot.
The six places are the same in both. What differs is not the map. It is that a printed programme cannot look at you.
In the steps, everything is decided before I know your name. That is honest and it works, because the order is right and most of what goes wrong goes wrong for the same reasons in most men. It will take you a long way and it costs a fraction of the year, because it is a fraction of the year — the part that fits on paper.
The rest does not fit on paper. Half of the year cannot be written in advance because it depends on who you have become by month eight, and I do not know that yet. The tests only work if you have not read about them. Months nine and ten have no plan at all — what we do there is decided by what you turned into. Month eleven goes wherever it goes, and I will not sell that to a man with nobody on the phone.
So they are not two sizes of the same thing. The steps are the road, printed. The Year is a man who has walked it, standing next to you, throwing the printed version away every time your ground does not match it.
Write to me and say where you think you are. One paragraph is enough and it costs nothing.