A New Life: A New World

Forget the “Deferred Life Plan” of “school-career-retirement.” The goal is not winning the rat race by breaking or bending their rules. The purpose is living your life, by freeing yourself from their game and creating your own world. Whether your dream is experiencing extraordinary global travel at 50% discounts; gaining prestigious degrees in ¼ the time and tuition; earning $100-$1,000 per hour doing what you love; joining exclusive, executive VIP networks, for free; or transforming your mind, body, and relationships, this program is the blueprint.

This step-by-step standard in universal education—to learn how to learn—shows anyone, from age 12 to age 72, from high school sophomores to college graduates, from corporate managers to entrepreneurs:

  • How to Go from One Major per Four Years and 70 Hours Per Week to Two Degrees per Year and 7 Hours per Week (Book 3: Mental Education)
  • How to Experience, Explore, and Enjoy the World as a VIP, with 20%-50% Discount Rates and Free Personal Assistants with AI (Book 2: Emotional Time)
  • How to Transform Your Body with Internal Health and External Fitness for 1000% Increase in Performance (Book 5: Physical Energy)
  • How to Trade, Negotiate, and Invest Your Time, Energy, and Money for ROI’s that Last a Lifetime (Book 6: Economic Strategy)
  • How to Attract Your Ideal Partners, Both Professional and Personal, With Executive Networks that Build Your Net-Worth (Book 7: Interpersonal Relationships)
  • How to Escape from Meaningless Careers and Create High-Learning, High-Earning, Fulfilling Callings That Serve a Greater Purpose (Book 4: Professional Skill)
  • How to Be Who You Want to Be, Do What You Love to Do, and Go Where You Need to Go, and Create Your Life So Well that You Give Value and Virtue for All People and Planet (Book 1: Spiritual Legacy)

Welcome to the 7 Hour School Week: Quick-Start Guide

A New Life: A New World

The days of “study hard to get into a good school to slave in a safe, secure job to climb the corporate ladder to save money to one day retire to finally be free” is over. A new age has begun.

An age of freedom—to be anyone, do anything, and go anywhere.

Not someday. Not maybe. Not if.

Now.

There is no reason to wait for the college graduation or job promotion or career retirement to live your dreams. Education is not a preparation for future living. It is a process of living. Wisdom does not come from reading or writing class assignments. It comes through learning, unlearning, and relearning through real world experiences. School teaches you how to memorize facts, accept authority, and consume conformity, so you might make a living. The 7 Hour School Week shows you how to learn freely, how to think critically, and how to lead creatively, that you must make a life.

The goal is not winning the rat race by breaking or bending their rules. The purpose is living your life, by freeing yourself from their game and creating your own system, standards, and rules. Do not waste your time fixing or improving a broken system. Build a new system, a new way, a new world. Revolutions require the destruction of the past for the creation of the future. What got you to where you are now won’t get you to where you need to be.

I was an obese, troubled, and timid youth who followed the Deferred Life Plan of “school-slave-save-spend-retire” until I discovered Bruce Lee, Dali Lama, and Tony Robbins at 12 years old. I transformed my body, mind, and life with martial arts, philosophy, and peak performance psychology and went after my dreams of being an Olympic Champion, a Fitness Celebrity, and a Health Empire. At 18, just as my career was about to take off with national sponsorships and show requests from NBC, Muscle Magazine, and Calvin Klein, I went through severe sport injuries that crippled my entire body and almost ended my life.

At 20, I did the impossible by rehabilitating everything, regaining all powers, and returning to sport competitions. In the finals of a grappling tournament, I flipped in the air, dislocated my shoulder, and twisted my spine. Soon, I lost over 70 pounds of muscles due to nerve damage, muscular atrophy, and musculoskeletal dysfunctions. My body aged 40 years in just 3 months. Doctors said it was a 1 in a billion injury. They thought I would never heal.

Sometimes, when you lose your dreams, you find your destiny. I had to do in one year what I once thought I had an entire lifetime to do. To survive, I had to do more in 1 hour than what I used to do in an entire day. To succeed, the warrior became an entrepreneur.

Within two years of college (2006-2008), from age 20-22, I gained the equivalent of four degrees from two universities in just 7 hours per week; traveled over 40 cities during one full-time school year; experienced 5 diverse, high-learning and high-earning careers; started a national health franchise prototype; attended VIP events and executive networks, for free; read over 1,000 books; saved over $189,000 USD in education and experiences; created the love of my life; made peace with my past; connected with my family; and healed my body with Olympic Bio-Mechanics, Taoist Energy, and Zen Meditation.

I am now an author, trainer, and entrepreneur in education, fitness, marketing, products, and technology. I started seven businesses by age 23. I turned 24 in November 2009.

Is This Book for You?

“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

-Viktor E. Frankl

1. What Could You Do With an Extra 40-60 Hours a Week?

How would life change if you are graduated and promoted in one fourth the time? How much time, energy, and money would you save? Free yourself from the slavery of 40-80 hour weeks in classes, clubs, and careers. Invest your life in gaining skills you use daily in real life, rather than memorizing useless facts or working meaningless jobs.

  • Read 3-6 times faster with my speed reading method, which saved me over $4,000 in “required” college books and over $40,000 in personal education in just 2 years. I never bought any “required” school textbooks in college. I simply borrowed books from the library, friends, or Project Gutenberg (for classics and non-copyrighted materials). Most books can be read, analyzed, and applied in just 1-3 hours. There is no reason to buy something you use only once. The wisdom in books is meant to be acted on in life, not to be rested on bookshelves, displayed as condiments, or tossed away after tests. Less than .0000001% of the books in the world are actually worth reading more than once. Those sacred classics that change your life are the only ones worth buying and keeping.
  • Free over 10 years and $80,000 by gaining the equivalent of 4 degrees (1 major and 3 minor) in just 2 years from two top universities in America and Asia. Why wait 4 years to take the best classes? Use a minor of the top keystone classes in a major to learn in 1 year what took other people 4 years to learn. Take twice as many classes per quarter or semester as other people (cut tuition fees and time by half since most schools charge a fixed price for each quarter or semester, no matter how many classes you take) and use community college and summer courses (cheap, fast, and easy) so you can work full time as a student in prestigious positions. Transfer to top schools for just 1 semester or 1 year to graduate with social status, executive networks, and competitive careers (get all the benefits of going to a top institution without paying the 4 year price).
  • Travel the world with weekly 4-day weekends and save over $20,000 a year with technology, study abroad programs, and overseas work opportunities. Chunk vital classes, clubs, and careers to Tuesdays through Thursdays, so you have the freedom to travel from Friday through Monday every week. Use research projects, business plans, and consulting projects to travel the world at massive discounts and earn money at the same time. Study, work, or volunteer abroad for a year with exchange programs. Use your new home as a base to discover all the outer and inner treasures within you.
  • Experience in days what other people learned in years by using mentors, trades, and barters. Find people who have already achieved what you want to achieve. Tap into their strategies, skills, and resources by building personal relationships based on bartering, trading, and caring. You will gain more from close friends who help you because of love than you ever will from pure professionals who help you because of money. Most people waste decades studying or working before they finally realize that this is not what they want to do with their life. They wait until graduation, promotion, or retirement to face the truth. There is no reason to spend 4 years in school or 40 years in work to live your dreams. Demand real world results in 3 weeks to 3 months, not 4 years to 4 decades.

2. How Would Life Change If You Made $100-$1,000 an Hour Right Now?

Focus on productivity, not on production. Productivity is the ratio of output per unit of input. Total productivity = Output Quality and Quantity / Input Quality and Quantity

Production only measures the output, the end, the “what.” Productivity measures the ratio, the means, the “how.” The true cost of anything is not just what you had to give to get it, but what you had to give up. Everything in life has a trade-off.

A corporate slave who works 80 hours a week to make $100,000 a year is far poorer than the entrepreneur who works 10 hours a week to make $70,000 a year ($25 per hour for the corporate slave; $140 per hour for the entrepreneur). The entrepreneur is not just richer in financial productivity, but in all areas of life—mind, body, spirit, relationships, dreams, travel, and other passions—where he can invest all his additional time, energy, and emotion.

  • Make over $50-$500 per hour in high-learning and high-earning careers. Skip the low-paying, slow-learning, entry-level positions that other mediocre workers struggle to get. Use your business successes, executive networks, and entrepreneurial mindset to start at a top position in a company you love, or create your own! In high-earning careers (personal training and peak performance coaching), I got paid well to teach what I love, what I was great at, and what I would do for free. In high-learning careers (executive search and marketing consulting), I got paid to learn knowledge that I would have paid thousands of dollars of my own money to learn. Turn high-learning careers to high-earning careers as you grow your knowledge, skills, and resources.
  • Gain over $15,000 in free consulting from executive coaches, angel investors, and other professionals who normally charge $300-$500 an hour. When you use school to complete personal projects and start real world businesses, you tap into the university’s multi-million dollar resources. Allow school to pay for itself while you are in school, rather than years later. If you do not want to start your own business, then use school assignments to do real world projects for local companies. Get class units and internship credits, work experience and life skills, and industry networks and even money, all at the same time!
  • Enjoy VIP events, executive networks, and life-changing seminars at 50%-100% off with student, group, or time discounts. In 2 years, I saved over $25,000 and made over 2,000 personal contacts through workshops, organizations, and resources that have given me returns beyond my imagination. Life is not just about what you know. It is not even about who you know. It is about who knows you. Attract the perfect professional and personal partners into your life by raising your standards and stepping up your relationships.
  • Practice voluntary poverty. I saved over $5,000 a year by not buying clothes for 3 years, not buying useless products, and not paying rent for 3 months as an experiment. People who are overly concerned about money, position, or glory are poor, because they desire what they lack. The wealthy has everything he needs within him. He wants nothing more from the external world. Eliminate impulse buying, unessential products, and expired trash from your life. Invest your money in yourself—educations, experiences, and events. These internal investments will grow exponentially and generate further riches. You carry that wealth wherever you go, because it is within your mind-body-spirit. Do not waste money on superficial materialism—clothes, cars, or condiments. They are vain attempts to cover up your nakedness and weakness. Focus on being someone, not buying something.

3. What Is Getting a 1,000% More Results in All Areas of Life Worth to You?

What if you could do in 1 hour what takes other people 10 hours to do? It’s not about adding more years to your life. It’s about adding more life to your years. Use organizational strategies (time management, turnkey franchise models, and Zen), productivity principles (80-20 rule, context-chunking, and Parkinson Law), and energy cycles (state management, peak performance psychology, and biorhythm) to be effective—to do the right things. Use techniques to automate work (transform services to products), collaborate projects (leverage other people’s strengths, time, and resources to complete tasks), and eliminate waste (block useless information, interruption, and distraction from your life) to be efficient—to do things right.

  • Are you having a breakdown, or a breakthrough? Most people operate at 10% of their potential due to psychic stress, physical weakness, and environmental distractions. They are pulled in seven different directions at the same time—spiritual, emotional, mental, professional, physical, financial, and personal—and they wonder why they seem to be standing still, despite all the energy, money, and time they have spent. When you integrate all areas of life, you achieve synergy, where the whole is greater than the sum of its part. You are not only going 100% at everything you do, but your 100% is also greater than what it used to be. Commit 100% to each moment. Say 100% no to everything that does not matter, so you can say 100% yes to all that does. This is the only way to be present. The present is the greatest gift—the only gift—of life. That is why it is called the present. Do not miss it by living in the past or living for the future. There is only now.
  • Be a leader of few great clubs, not a member of many mediocre ones. Leaders have the responsibility, accountability, and authority for results. Leaders influence the world around them. They are the doors to elite networks, executive events, and exclusive resources that most people cannot get into. Be a leader in everything you do, be it class projects, student clubs, or volunteer groups. It takes the same 1 hour to sit as a member in a club as it takes to stand as a leader of one. No one cares how many clubs you belong to or what positions you held. They only care about what you achieved. You are judged by what you finish, not by what you start.
  • Focus on your competitive advantage and core competency. You cannot build a business out of people’s weaknesses. You must build it on top of people’s strengths. Do what you—and only you—can do. Joint venture, delegate, and outsource everything else to other people. Leverage their strengths, skills, knowledge, resources, and time. Economics is simply making strategic trade-offs so all resources are maximized. You can either grow yourself from good to great in something you love, or grow yourself from bad to average in something you like. If something is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
  • Legacy is greater than currency. Create automatable, scalable, and replicable businesses that will change the world. If you want to solve a local problem, you have to be a global solution. If some idea, service, or product helps certain people around you, then that idea, service, or product will also help similar people around the entire world. You must be more than your business for your business to be more than you. Transcend yourself to transform yourself. Shoot for the stars, and you will still fall in the sky. Aim for the ceiling, and you might not even get off the floor. The highest form of expression is not possession, but creation. You are an entrepreneur. You are here to create a world of your own, a world that continues to live on in the lives it touched, the thoughts it inspired, and the innovations it blessed. Creation is the act of gods, because in creating something out of nothing, man becomes immortal. Remember, no matter what you do, where you go, or who you are with, you always take you with you. Are you who you want to be?

Differences Between Education and School: Life or Death

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

-Mark Twain

Education comes from the Latin root “educo,” meaning to “educe,” to draw out from within. True education can only come from the self, not from others. The great autodidact knows that life is a mirror of his soul, while the average student knows more and more about less and less.

  1. Education is learning through real-world, life-changing experiences that become a part of your character, skills, and resources forever. School is memorizing information and doing work that you forget after the class.
  2. Education is learning directly from the few best leaders in your field who can do and teach; school is settling for the mediocre majority who cannot do and cannot teach.
  3. Education is creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to lead new worlds; school is logic, status quo, and employment to follow old ways.

Education is the opposite of school. Education is liberty from self. School is slavery to others. Slavery is mediocrity, and mediocrity is slavery. Over 64% of the population is overweight and over 50% of marriages end in divorce. Most households watch almost 7 hours of television a day and most workers earn an average of $17 per hour. 19 out of 20 people do not even know why they get out of bed in the morning. Good enough just isn’t good enough.

Conformity and poverty. Oppression and depression.

These are not the random, degraded glitches of a functioning system. These problems are the system. The changes we need will never come from the government, the corporation, or the school. It will only come from you. The changes happen the moment you choose to challenge their answers, to ask your questions, and to answer for your own life.

Why accept the 9-5 lifestyle? Who says you need 16 years of school to prepare for 40 years of work to finalize 20 years of retirement? What if this year was your last year of life?

How would your decisions change?

You can die vainly, hanging onto all the broken branches of a fallen tree. Or, you can live valiantly, changing the root of life itself. The question is not what makes you different than other people. The question is…what difference will you make?

  • If you knew you could not fail, who would you be? If money no longer mattered, what would you do? If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you start?
  • Does the way you invest your time, money, and energy reflect what you are committed to? Do your bank account, your calendar, and your actions show your values? Is your life what you dream it to be?
  • How would your perfect partner, both personal and professional, be like? Who would you have to be to attract that partner? How great would it be to share that life with the one you love?

My friend, there is one person who you will always, always, be with. And that’s you. Do you love yourself? Are you happy with every area of your life—spiritual, emotional, mental, professional, physical, financial, and personal? Are you doing what needs doing?

It is easy to just be a workaholic who sacrifices health and relationships for temporary riches and fame. It is simple to only be a monk who gives up the world to focus on the soul. It is strength without wisdom to just be an athlete. It is softness without virtue to just be dependent on relationships with others. It is pride without vindication to live only for oneself.

It’s something else to be a lover, a warrior, a scholar; a philosopher, an entrepreneur. When you have the power to do everything in this world, and the wisdom to not be of it, you got something special. Each breath is poetry. Each act is art. Each life is love. You don’t need to buy a thousand things to be successful. You just need to be three themes:

  • Health: Live your dreams with all your mind-body-spirit
  • Wealth: Be the best at your niche to create value for the whole world
  • Relationships: Love the people who matter the most to your world

Imagine the excitement, the energy, and the ecstasy of living that life full of purpose, passion, and peace. You want to know the best part? You don’t need to sacrifice your present for the future. You don’t need an Ivy League education or a million dollar bank account or years of corporate drudgery.  You don’t need to be busy.

Media, advertisements, and corporations want you to think you need to buy something to be happy. They want you to have trashy and trivial personalities, so they can sell you their trash and trivialities. They need you to waste your life studying what you don’t want so you can work jobs you hate to buy things you don’t need.  They lied to you.

Selling out is a matter of buying in. You sell out your dreams, your values, and your voice, and you buy into someone else’s rewards, rules, and routines. You learn to accept their answers, and you forget to ask your questions. You lower your standards; you settle down; you give up. You keep losing and losing until you ask yourself, “What the hell am I living for?”

This program will not answer that question for you. Rather, it will help you ask even more questions, so that you may create the answers within yourself. This book will not just show you my world. Rather, it will teach you new ways to look, think, and make your own world. And that’s the best gift, the only gift, anyone can really give you.

My Life, a Story of Chang (e): Creative Destruction

“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”

-George Eliot

This is the story of two students searching for the meaning of life. They were very much alike, these two young souls. Both were above average students, both were likeable, and both—as most young men are—were filled with big dreams.

Both studied hard in classes. Both lead clubs. Both were in relationships. And both, it turned out, had graduated in four years from universities that were the best in their majors.

But, there was a difference. One was only a small manager of a health company. The other was its president, its model, its inventor, its speaker, and much, much more.

Do you ever wonder, as I have, what makes the difference in people’s lives? It isn’t always genetics, or talents, or even resources. It isn’t that one person desires greatness and the other doesn’t.

The difference is in how each person acquires knowledge and how each person applies that knowledge to make it his experience, his wisdom, his heart.

I know this, because I knew those two young men. I was them. The 7 Hour School Week shows you the exact strategies, techniques, and tactics I used to transform my life in just 2 years, age 20-22, as a full time student, to be more than anything I ever dreamed to be:

  • World Adventurer of over 40 Cities and 10 Countries During One School Year
  • Peak Performance Psychology and Productivity Coach
  • Bodybuilding Champion, Power Lifter, and National Grappling Finalist
  • Miracle Athlete Who Overcame Two Severe Injuries with Zen, Tao, and Bio-Mechanics
  • Fitness Model with Sponsorship Offers and Candidate for National Media
  • Martial Arts, Wrestling, and Fitness Coach
  • Author, Personal Trainer, and Entrepreneur in Health, with Franchise Model Prototype
  • Practitioner of Spiritual-Medical-Martial Qi, Massage, Meditation, Hypnosis, and NLP
  • Marketing, Sales, and Copywriting Consultant
  • Research Analyst of Retained Executive Search Firm for Private Equity and Hedge Funds
  • Networker in Executive Events, Investor Meetings, and Elite Seminars, For Free
  • Partner of Japanese Web 2.0 Celebrity, Author, Producer, Speaker, Consultant, and Chef
  • Student Success Coach and Leader of Over Seven Organizations in One School Year
  • 4.0 GPA in Business Minor from Asia’s Best Business University in One Year (HKU, Ranked Number One in Asia in 2008)
  • 3.5 Overall GPA in Professional Financial Analyst Certificate, Sociology Minor, and Psychology Major from One of America’s Top Seven Social Science University in One Year (UCSD, Ranked Top Three in Nation in Behavioral Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology, and Top Six in Nation in Experimental Psychology and Sociology in 2006)

These experiences were not the results of any natural talents, resources, or even desires. They did not come from genetics gifts or annual investments. They came from a moment of change—the revelation of the will, the redemption of the spirit, and the revolution of actions.

As a child, I was told to study hard for 16 years, so I could get a job for 40 years, so I can finally be free in my last 20 years of life. I obeyed those orders, because it was all I knew at the time. Yet, no matter how high my grades were, I was down. My schedule was full of extracurricular activities and studies, but I was empty, completely empty.

I was a timid, insecure, and obese youth who had no mentors, role models, nor friends. I came to America from Taiwan at 9 to start a new life, but I felt like I had no home. Everything changed when I was 12. I saw Bruce Lee while I was sitting on the coach, stuffing my face with junk food to fill the void that had existed since I could remember.

I always dreamed of being a martial artist—strong, quick, and powerful—but I was told no. You don’t know the right people; you don’t have the time; you don’t have the genetics. Your fantasies are just from movies; no humans can actually do that; be realistic with your life.

That day, I saw a man who had become a superhuman, and I knew what was possible. That moment, I lost the ability to make excuses, and gained the courage to make dreams. I realized that I didn’t have to follow the “Deferred Life Plan” of “school-slave-save-spend-retire.” There was another way.

There is absolutely no reason to waste a single moment to prepare for a future life—memorize useless facts to take meaningless tests to get lifeless jobs. There is every reason to live now—experience useful knowledge to apply meaningful skills to create life-changing businesses.

You didn’t have to take down notes for when you fell in love or when you stood up for a dream. You know it forever, because they are a part of you. What if you did that with all of your life—classes, clubs, and careers? How much more exciting, energizing, and ecstatic, would it be to feel life within your heart, rather than shove facts into your brain that you forget after a test or a job?

Education is not about memorizing accepted answers from other people. Any fool in school can do that. Real education—self-education—is about learning to question bravely, to think critically, and to act differently.

Do not waste your time with people who can talk, but cannot do; nor invest your money with people who can do, but cannot teach. In India, it is said that everyone can be a yogi—a spiritual practitioner—but only a few can ever be gurus—a yogi who can guide others to enlightenment. All throughout history, there were only a few great masters that disciples traveled miles to see and learn from. It is only in the recent industrial school system that teaching has increased so greatly in its quantity, and decreased too horribly in its quality.

Raise your standards. Do not learn from sheep who have achieved superficial success or social status by years of the same sacrifices and rules that others have made. They may be hard workers, but certainly not smart thinkers. There is no honor in gaining wealth by losing health, truth, or relationships. They probably cannot teach you their ways, nor would you even want to learn them, except to know what mistakes to avoid.

Learn from the geniuses who created revolutions, not just by changing the rules of the game, but the game itself. They have found ways to do things faster, cheaper, and better than others, and they can show you how.

And that is why I am writing to you.

Over 10 years ago, an obese, depressed, and suicidal 12 year old kid felt hope for the first time in his life when he discovered Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee changed the world of martial arts, philosophy, fitness, movies, and culture forever. He was a hero to a world that desperately needed one. He single handily ushered in a new era of mixed martial arts, of cross training, and of honest expression. He broke down the dogma of styles, labels, and limits. He created a revolution.

Now, almost 24 in November 2009, I wish to give that gift to you. The goal of this program is not just “saving 40-60 hours a week, making $100-$1,000 an hour, and gaining a 1,000% increase in performance.” The purpose is living your life, freely, completely, and honestly.

If one idea makes you dream just a little bit bigger, if one story makes you glow just a little bit brighter, if one strategy makes you grow just a little bit better, then the spark has been lit. That little spark will become a flame; the flame will form a fire; the fire will forge a roaring blaze.

Darkness seems powerful because it consumes everything. Yet, a single flicker of light can pierce through a room full of darkness. Darkness cannot do that to light. It has no such powers.

A candle can give its flame to another candle and still continue to shine. Its fire may one day die, but its light lives on forever in the lives it touched, the warmth it gave, and the love it shared.

Go after your dreams. Do what you love. Be who you might have been.

Welcome to the 7 Hour School Week: Quick-Start Guide

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