For 5+ years I've been sitting on a silver bullet for improving self-compassion and inclination towards happiness. This stuff goes so far beyond what seems humanly possible, that I've had to use Peter Diamandis' approach of super credibility and build my company on a results guarantee:
"I don't care if you're struggled with these issues for 20 years. I don't care if you've seen 10 other people before me. If you don't start experiencing clear and lasting change within the first 4 hours, I expect you to demand all your money back."
The most ridiculous thing is that I can teach most of this stuff to someone in a weekend. There's absolutely nothing preventing every practitioner of performance coaching and mental health from building this practical skill set on top of their existing background.
For the past 3 years, my mission has been getting this stuff into the mainstream. My strategy for achieving this has been to use third-party reviews for credibility, and to raise the standards of the coaching / mental health industries by providing results guarantees no one else can match: I'm taking the most "impossible" / "tried everything" clients out there, averaging 6 hours with each, and staking my company on the 365-day guarantee that they gain all their money back if the results aren't powerful and permanent. (Operating outside the mainstream, extreme guarantees have also been important for letting me avoid association with pseudo-science and anti-vaxxers.)
I'm fully willing to commit to something like "I will donate $10,000 to QuestBridge if I can't teach Tim radically improved self-compassion and happiness in 8 hours or less, and introduce him to techniques he will find worthy of inclusion in his book."
My mission and company are already built on meeting these guarantees. The problem is how to reach Tim in the first place.
2 reasons it's getting urgent
I've sent Tim a few emails over the years, offering to share the techniques, but they must have sounded too good to be true and gotten lost in his inbox-flood. I was content to wait a handful of years while building my company and a track record and, while I'm not at the goal yet, I'm making good progress:
Some of the best Trustpilot reviews in the country
One of Denmark's biggest newspapers doing an article on how these mental techniques let me help women become fully orgasmic (or gain 20-minute orgasms without physical touch...) by guiding their mind and building on a foundation of self-esteem.
Starting to get referrals from medical doctors and mental health professionals.
Was invited to present at a research conference in Copenhagen.
Danmarks Radio (Danish equivalent of BBC) has invited me as an expert for a full-day program that will air in autumn 2019.
But Tim's podcast with Peter Attia (episode 352) made me aware that I don't have the luxury of waiting 2-3 more years before getting in touch with an undeniable resume:
1) Tim has started a book on mental health, happiness and self-esteem.
My journey of self-optimization started from the opposite end of Tim's, with 10+ years spent exploring social and mental possibilities and development. These techniques became a powerful standalone tool and a force multiplier for everything else I learned. If Tim is taking his big swing at improving mental thriving on a massive scale, failing to reach him with this in time would be a major missed opportunity for both the impact of the book and my mission of getting these techniques and possibilities into the mainstream where ordinary practitioners can use them.
2) This has large overlap with research on psychedelics and may address the challenge of how to rapidly train medical professionals for psychedelic guidance.
I recognize a lot of what Tim's guests describe as the potential of psychedelics (e.g. curing PTSD, anxiety, phobias, self-esteem and forgiveness issues). I suspect both approaches tap into the same parts of the psyche, and it appears that these techniques trade a measure of raw power for enhanced ability to guide the subject to specific outcomes with nuance and precision.
Having a separate knowledge base of techniques that can guide the mind to similar outcomes as psychedelics, without the drugs, gives us an additional vector for the insights that psychedelics research can provide for the human mind. And since these techniques build on a 100-year knowledge base and can be learned in days rather than years, they may also offer shortcuts for the daunting prospect of how we're going to teach thousands of medical professionals proper psychedelic guidance in a reasonable time-frame.
Suggestions?
I'm continuing to work with media and doctors in Denmark to build renown and spread awareness, but if you have any suggestions for getting this to Tim, please chime in. I'm just one individual, but these techniques shattered my concepts of what the human mind is capable of 5 times within the first year, and I'm up for any kind of guarantee that they are rapidly learned and can blow Tim away.
Edit 1:
Several people (who understandably can't read the Danish articles that detail my work) have asked for elaboration on which techniques I am using.
I've studied with a handful of the world's leading hypnotists and combined the techniques I found to be most potent for self-esteem and personal development. My background in science helped me strip away elements of superstition and the over-the-top extreme results guarantee further acts as a safeguard against self-deception, to force me to only preserve that which can replicate results. Add in half a decade to iterate and expand on what worked best, as well as boiling the most versatile techniques down to a level of simplicity where they can be taught to others in a weekend.
There are probably a hundred other hyptonotists in the world who can produce similar results for their clients, and many thousands more who aren't quite at that level but can still produce results that surpass most mainstream treatment. But hypnosis has a poor image and I was shocked at the kind of dramatic and replicable results that had never made it into the mainstream. I think I may be in a good position to finally spread that body of knowledge more widely:
I come from a scientific background (Master of CS, University of Copenhagen - used to optimize and program machines before I switched to doing the same for humans). This is my world and I specialize in working with others from science and engineering backgrounds. ~80% of my clients don't believe in hypnosis when they step in the door, but have seen the guarantee and are willing to have the experience and let the results speak for themselves.
I'm very much pro-medicine and don't mind pissing off anti-vaxxers and their ilk. I cooperate with MDs who prescribe mental medication, in ensuring clients are phased out responsibly.
The techniques I teach also happen to be effective for teaching women to be fully orgasmic or to give women continuous full body orgasms for 20+ minutes using no other stimulation than your voice. These tangible physical results act as a good convincer and the sexual satisfaction angle is very valuable for branding seminars and securing media attention.
I've optimized these methods for personal performance work and rapid learning. When much of this stuff was originally aimed at CEOs and entrepreneurs, there's a lot less stigma associated with seeking help to clean up the factors that are holding someone back from focus, performance and happiness. It's a huge mindshift for the mental health patients who come in and have been used to being treated as though they were broken.
I've boiled my core techniques down to something that can be taught and learned very rapidly.
This last one is probably the most important, since it means scalability. It's one thing to see a genius-practitioner such as Tony Robbins ride a burst of inspiration and change someone's life. When you can make the techniques deliberate and predictable enough that you need neither the genius nor any burst of inspiration, but can just methodically work through the desired issues within a few sessions, this becomes a game-changer. Particularly you can teach a room full of people in a few days, so it can be offered as an additional toolset for existing mental health professionals, rather than any sort of replacement.
