Nobody thinks they need this one.

This is you if.

• It holds. Most of it. You run your own life well.
• And you still check. Not with a doctor and not with your wife — with a teacher, a method, a book, a man like me.
• You are looking over your shoulder for confirmation that you are doing it correctly, and you have been doing that for years without calling it that.
• You want it to stop, and you would rather it stopped on purpose than by drifting away.

This is not you if.

• You want to stay. There is nothing after this. No advanced level, no alumni group, no annual gathering. I do not run one and I will not.

You do not have to have done any of the other five. Come straight here if this is where you are.

Who I refuse for this one.

• Anyone who has not actually built anything yet. There is nothing here to make independent.

What is required of you.

Three hours a week. And thirty days at the end of which you write your own protocol — the one you will run for the rest of your life, without me.

The last week has no instruction at all. Seven days, nothing sent. Some men find it the hardest week of the lot. It is not an oversight.