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title: "SCOTOMAVILLE 01.12 - IT Needs Work"
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youtube_description: "There's a saying; \"when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.\" The street version of this goes; \"great opportunities always show up looking like hard work.\" John Kalench shares; \"Two things you can control: the quality and frequency of your message.\" You don't have to think long to recall the last opportunity for hard work that you declined. It's tough to imagine doing the hard thing, let alone being eager to do it well. And yet, this is what achievers do regularly. How about creating a video series during the pandemic stuck inside a room as small as your bathroom? What could be so attractive to changing my habit of taking short cuts, going the easy way, or simply ignoring it all together? Daniel shares personal insights into this topic with mirror time, and with examples from mountain biking, and Abraham Maslow. Working and living full-time in a '19 Airstream Bambi rather than their new 30' Globetrotter can be emotional, especially during a pandemic lock-down. Share your experience with a comment. Join the tribe at https://scotomaville.com"
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summary: "Daniel opens with: \"you have the power within you to design a life to make something different from whatever you've been handed to not just settle.\" He tells how his mentor John Kalench, who founded Millionaires in Motion, taught him that time at the mirror is time \"to get to know who you really are,\" and shares that he has served in the Navy, in ministry and in international economic development. That is agency over circumstance, the center of meaning beyond a job. The asxer keeps the same thread for owners in 2026."
keypoints:
  - "In Daniel's words, \"you have the power within you to design a life to make something different from whatever you've been handed to not just settle\""
  - "[Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_scotomaville-01-12-it-needs-work.html)"
  - "[Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/scotomaville-01-12-it-needs-work.html)"
  - "[Mission: Meaning Beyond the Job](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-4-meaning-beyond-the-job.html)"
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created: 2026-10-23
updated: 2026-10-23
date: 2020-04-22
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# SCOTOMAVILLE 01.12 - IT Needs Work

## Key lessons

- In Daniel's words, "you have the power within you to design a life to make something different from whatever you've been handed to not just settle"
- [Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_scotomaville-01-12-it-needs-work.html)
- [Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/scotomaville-01-12-it-needs-work.html)
- [Mission: Meaning Beyond the Job](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-4-meaning-beyond-the-job.html)

## Transcript

Auto-generated YouTube captions, fetched 2026-10-23. The vault transcript filed under this video turned out to be the 01.14 Triangulation transcript, so it is not used here. Names in auto captions may be garbled.

you have the power within you to design a life to make something different from whatever you've been handed to not just settle the reward for making your bed it's not about having a clean organized [Music] it's about demonstrating to yourself everyday that you have the will that you have the determination to continue your ascent into self-awareness I once had fabulous opportunity to be mentored by John Kay Lynch John founded a thing called millionaires in motion yeah I was in San Diego with him on one of those get-togethers there was about a dozen or so multimillionaires around the table and John came up to me and pointed out something kind of small and I didn't quite understand at the time what he meant he said Daniel look around the table all these guys are wishing they were where you are with an opportunity to go for their dreams again because they missed on the journey they're all rich but they can't reinstate abundantly aware but Johnson said hey Daniel look around the table tell me what you see and I said ah but you're nice guys you don't know what do you see different I go eventually I figured it out I was the only one that had a beard ask ruffle and he said so there's a clue and I was like what yeah you can't have a beard to be rich and eventually I figured out what he meant was not that you can't have a beard it's that you shouldn't give up an opportunity to shave not just to be clean-shaven but because of the time you have in front of the mirror the time with yourself to get to know who you really are the time in isolation during a pandemic or in the jail cell or in a hospital while living out of your car where you get to know who you really are see the point John was making was not that you couldn't become wealthy or affluent but that you were missing the whole opportunity to find out who you really are but what I really learned from John Kalish was not that shaving was about being clean-shaven it was about recognizing an opportunity to be face to face with yourself in cleaning a bowl a sink may seem trivial but it's not because it's time invested with yourself it's time invested in learning who you are and where you want to go with your character getting out of scotoma Ville it's not about where you end up it's about the journey of finding out who you are get it making breakfast cutting grapefruit those things are not about just fancy scrambled eggs with garnishing that no that's you're missing the point that's the scotoma cutting grapefruit it's not just about avoiding your finger it's about becoming aware of the thoughts that are going through your head recognizing who you are becoming and what you have left to work on and being respectful that you've come a long way but that you still have a long way to go maybe a simple way to say this don't miss an opportunity to do the hard thing you know let's just take a shortcut don't leave it I could enough don't leave it II don't do that don't give up an opportunity to find out who you really are by doing the hard thing there's a saying that goes when the student is ready the teacher will appear when the student is ready the opportunity will surface not when your needs are met here's a current event to drive home my point this is week five of the lockdown five weeks ago we came to north of Phoenix to pick up our 30-foot Airstream and I am able to execute all of this scotoma Ville in a 19-foot I'm regularly fighting the thought that geez if I just had the 30 foot if I only had something else see and I'm having to go wait a minute it's not about what I have it's about seizing the opportunity that I'm presented with it's not about what I need it's about utilizing what I have at that time it's about recognizing and putting to work the opportunity right in my hands where I'm at so that someone else can follow from where they are see the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy it's okay it's a life but it's not really living when you see the opportunity you're presented then you can go to the next level don't miss the opportunity right in front of you what you might not expect about me is that I have served in the Navy in ministry and international economic development I've been an entrepreneur for 40-something 46 47 years I have spent over 15 years not sleeping in my home sleeping on cots and in bunks and on mattresses and in sleeping bags in tents and vehicles and anything except my home why would you do that because of explanitory knowledge because I've been sold the story and believed in a higher calling a purpose a mission a an outcome that gave my life meaning and value you see the prefrontal cortex it gives us the ability to tell ourselves stories to motivate ourselves to do things that other people think are crazy and that is why you can be one of the few to summit awareness okay Daniel you a totally losing me here say it a little more simply and we were talking about tools yeah like this this tripod aha it's a grip it's a stand think of this as Maslow's hierarchy the original version the original version said you needed to take care of your basic needs your food your shelter your clothing before you could summit to actualization you couldn't find your purpose in life without having all of your basic needs met you see the classic Maslow's hierarchy is better illustrated like this right horizontally where you can sue multiple levels simultaneously meaning while you're locked down not sure about your income not sure about keeping your house or living in a 19-foot airstream you can pursue meaning purpose actualization simultaneously you're not limited to a vertical ascent you see ok still too complicated alright Toma ready Toma I want to show you something right here under my water bottle see there's this little tool right here AHA scotoma it was there all along it's just like Maslow's hierarchy right it's just like well let me show you first watch it's a whole bunch of different sized tools the story from John Kay Lynch these bunch individual tools all add up to function as one really nifty little Swiss Army knife ok let's look at them individually we have a prefrontal cortex that is the part of our brain unique to humans where we can do things a dog can worry about a human can use explanatory knowledge to talk about the Sun that he's under actually is a burning ball of gas which is actually called a star which is actually a hundred billion in our Unix E and then trillions of them across the universe and see we can create these explanations these stories of things you have that gift right there in your right there right there in your frame don't just be a dog don't just worry the bone don't let your emotions run away because you don't give in I'm overdoing it but it's really important it's a fabulous tool you really appreciated don't miss an opportunity to shave clean a bowl it's a slice grapefruit to get dressed make it bed don't miss an opportunity to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to make it different that your experience doesn't have to be locked in to the scotoma that you're living [Music]