The modern world is screaming at you. It’s telling you that you’re falling behind.

But let’s be honest. That is a lie.
Let’s unpack this once and for all so you don’t fall for it anymore.

Why, just WHY?

The problem with our current perception of the world and time we live in is that it is designed from the ground up to trigger our stone age responses to make us constantly anxious that we are “not good enough” so that we “work jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need” (Fight Club).

This means that the above mentioned lie is a manipulative inception, permanently feeding our most effective survival mechanism in earlier times, the scarcity mindset.

But in today’s world, we don’t have to hunt for calories all the time, so these old mechanisms don’t really serve us anymore. And yet, everybody and their blog tells you that if you don’t master every new AI tool by noon today, you’re obsolete.

The truth of the matter is:

If you want to build your best future, you don’t need to add more. You need the courage to ignore almost everything.

The Tyranny of “More”

We are drowning in noise. You know those “Old Greed Warriors” I talk about in my webinars and on stage? The ones from the corporate world? Well, they’ve migrated online. And now they are selling you panic.

They want you to learn GPT prompting, vibe coding, online marketing, personal branding, and biohacking all at the same time. They are selling you the idea that you (your Present You at least) are not enough. Just like every tv ad did in decades past. Same trigger, same agenda.

So it’s not your fault, all this overwhelm and confusion, hopelessness and exhaustion. But from now on, since you learn to look behind the curtain while we speak, it will be your own response-ability (!) to resist this urge.

Image credit: classical meme, re-imagined by ChatGPT

This “need” to stay on high alert all the effing time, tiring your dopamine and cortisol levels to a point where all you can feel is “I’m too late. I will never be able to catch up. It’s too much, and I don’t understand any of this. This probably means I’m worthless, old, irrelevant.” Right?

Wrong.

See, I’ve spent years wandering from the high-rise boardrooms of Germany to the absolute silence of a Thai monastery. And in that silence, I learned one singular truth:

Clarity doesn’t come from consumption. It comes from elimination.

Think about a sculptor. You don’t carve a statue by adding more clay. You carve it by chipping away the unessential. Your “Future You” is that statue. Like Michelangelo’s David still hiding in the marble block.

The Compass Before the Map

So, before you pick up a new skill or buy the next shiny object (course, book, tool), I want you to ask yourself a tough question: Does this really serve my Unique Purposeful Offer? My Future Me? My Ideal Future Life?

Most people are just hoarding knowledge. They’re packing their bags for a life they don’t even want to live. They climb these massive ladders only to realize—too late—that they’re leaning against the wrong wall.

From the inside, a hamster wheel looks like a success ladder.

Rule of thumb: If a new trend doesn’t align with the value you want to create for humanity, it’s not an opportunity. It’s a distraction.

A Question for the Road

The future belongs to the focused, not the frantic. To the relaxed, not the exhausted. To the laser beams, not the light bulbs.

So, here is my challenge to you today: What is the one “essential skill” everyone is obsessing over, that you are going to be brave enough to ignore?

Drop it in the comments. And from now on try to remember as often as possible until it becomes your more sovereign world view:

Hoarding knowledge is based on scarcity anxiety (“add more to be more”). The only way to truly accumulate relaxed wisdom is by tuning out the noise, recognizing other’s distraction agenda, and by focusing on what really matters.

To you, your loved ones, your team, your community, and the World of Tomorrow.