Grand Strategy

So one of the. The side things that I see and I. I can correlate what I've learned from Mike about this. But then when you read about Kobe and Jordan and these guys that performed at these crazy levels and Brady, to some degree, there's always this element of people on the other side that don't like them. And one of the things they'll say is, oh, they were in my head. And so one thing that it seems that I, you know, taking these lessons from Mike and kind of visualizing the sm, kind of almost the art of it, like you were saying, the poetry and living in it is. It makes you, in an odd way, be two steps ahead of everybody. And so you're. You're playing on a different level of influence with them because you already have done the basic stuff in your head. You're. You're playing an advanced game when everybody else is just getting to the starting line, if that makes sense. Like, Mike is always five steps ahead. Like, he calls it a grand strategy, but he has the ability to create a grand strategy. And everybody's focused on where he's letting them focus, but he's already 10 steps beyond. Like, he. When he didn't have a jet, nobody knew that he was gonna. You know, it's the jet. Maybe it's not an analogy, but his numbers that he's done in the performance, nobody knew that or would have bet money on it, but he. He was. He was just letting him play the game in front of him right then. But because you visualized it so much by the way time you get there, they don't understand that they were.

I'm already ahead.

Yeah, there was a. They were just a step in the cog. Does that make sense?

Yep.

Explain the future or add a little clarity to what I'm trying to say with that.

Where.

How you're always a step ahead, but they don't know it in the time because you visualize it so much. You've seen all the contingencies.

Yeah, I've. I've. Oh, man. Like, I live inside my head in Myers Briggs. I'm an intj, if anyone wants to look that up. Kind of a weird lot, but I live inside my head, so I run a lot of different scenarios in my head, and I try to look at things in all these different ways. That's why actually, canvas helps. At the end of the day, I'll get high and I'll look, and it opens up a different way, and it gives me more of a perspective all the way around to Things to look at that I didn't think of looking at before. So I get a complete picture, and I already know what the outcome of that is supposed to be. If I do this, this, and this. I'm also open to flexibility as well, because shit goes sideways. But for the most part, like.

Where I'm like, in the cannabis world, I'm already at the finish line. I already know where this thing is going.

But that's 10 years out.

No, it's 30 years out. It is, but that's just how I think.

Yeah. Can you.

Can you correlate that to Tyson and Ollie?

And it's like what we discussed before. I'm like, I don't know a lot of fighters that'll spend the extra 20 minutes in the gym working on one combination. Not a dozen combinations running the same combination over 20 times. Or a Muhammad that gets up and does three miles in, and then he's starting his workout, and then after he's done with his workout, he's running back home another three miles. And then you envision. You know, not a lot of people want to sit in a room and just close their eyes and envision that they're going to do something. They think it's a waste of time. And I think that's what separates. Like I said, again, a champion from a contender.

I would. I would say with myself, like, one thing that when I've been visualizing more, not only does the world bring me and attract me some of the answers, but it makes me work harder because I'm looking for that edge, because it becomes, like Mike has said, it becomes my identity. And so then when. Once it's your identity, you're kind of obsessed.

Yeah.

I think, because there's such a personal connection.

Yeah. I mean, I think in the beginning, when you start doing the visionary stuff, you're like, I want to do this to win, say, like, a champ, championship or whatever. And then when you see it works, it's like what you said, it's just like you're. It's second nature. It's like breathing. It's kind of like when I'm training Mike and he's, you know, wants to know all this information, and I'm trying. He's trying to process it. Like, he gets it, and he takes his time with it, and he doesn't mind, like, if we have to work on a combination for, say, two or three rounds or two or three weeks, he doesn't give a. He's like, I'm getting this combination. I'm gonna find out why I need to do it. Like, let's say, like, with his reach. Though sometimes in the beginning, he would crowd me a little bit, where. With his reach. For a fighter, with his reach, his inside game isn't gonna be good as his outside game. But now he's sitting on the outside, and he's really popping shots, so. And now he sees it, like, he's like, man, there's so much to think I gotta process. And all this. I'm like, don't worry, dude. It's gonna come, like, second nature. And all of a sudden, we'll start doing these combinations on the mitts. And he's like, she starts throwing us in. I got it. I got it. I'm like, I told you. He doesn't. He doesn't even have to think about it anymore. He just. He just gets it.

Chris, what is one thing that you've manifested in your life that you look back on? You're like, I did that. I worked hard for that. I made that happen.

There's. There's a. There's a ton.

Like, give me, like, one, like, one of your favorites.

Writing a book, I guess that was. It's a hard thing to do.

Manifested.

Yeah. Certain sales numbers. Yeah.