“For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed over 4,000 ancestors over the last 400 years alone. Do you think you are the result of people spending their energy and time recklessly?”
Episode Summary:
Welcome to a new week of Morning Thunder, and a new arc designed for anyone to drop in at any point and extract value.
This week focuses on Awareness: seeing clearly before we act. Before you can Campaign into 2026, you need to know who’s in your life, why they’re there, and whether they’ve earned continued access.
To start, we have the Concentric Circle Security Model: a framework for mapping relationships based on earned trust rather than obligation. Circle of Trust, Triangle of Suspicion, Rhombus of Doubt, Outside All Shapes. Biological relation doesn’t grant automatic access. Neither does historical connection. Trust is earned daily through reciprocal effort.
The Proximity Principle extends this audit beyond people to ideas, media, and environments. You become the average of what you expose yourself to. Passive absorption is how basements happen. Intentional curation is how escape velocity is achieved.
Key Takeaways:
Your energy is currency. Most people grant access like it’s free. It’s not. Spend wisely or become a husk as others withdraw from you like an ATM.
Proximity is privilege, not birthright. Access is earned through consistent reciprocity.
The Zones: Circle of Trust (protected inner ring), Triangle of Suspicion (under observation), Rhombus of Doubt (maintained distance), Outside All Shapes (not relevant to mission).
For you to be born today, you needed over 4,000 ancestors over the last 400 years. Do you think you are the result of people spending their energy recklessly?
You become the average of what you expose yourself to… people, ideas, media, environments. Passive absorption is how you drift. Intentional curation is how dream designers achieve escape velocity.
You can’t leave what you can’t see. Start by seeing who has access.
Assignment:
Map every significant person in your life to the zones. Ask: Do they inspire growth or encourage stagnation? Is energy reciprocal or drained? Are they in their position because of present behavior or past history?
Secondary audit:
What ideas, media, and environments have proximity to your core?
“You become the average of what you expose yourself to… people, ideas, media, environments. Audit ruthlessly.”
Patience in your Persistence. Progress will come.
Lux Ex Tenebris | Light From Darkness
Per Aspera Ad Astra
Through Hardships to the Gorydamn Stars
