Hal Elrod and Matt King argue that committing to ambitious goals before you know how to achieve them forces the path to reveal itself. Hal announced a Mexico-to-Canada bike ride without a plan. Both describe how bold commitments trigger personal transformation and shift who you become.
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I think there's a big lesson for everybody that you commit and then the how, H-O-W, the how reveals itself. You announced on a call, I'm going to ride a bike from Mexico to Canada. And they're like, well, how? I don't know. I just am committing to it. I'm going to figure it out. Going back to this personal development philosophy of who you become by committing to this, who is the version of Matt King that is going to be crossing the finish line with his bike in Canada. Like, have you visualized that? Have you thought about that?
I've thought about what it could look like, and for a while I was really obsessing on what it would feel like. I know the hero's journey, the journey of man, like anything, it's about the journey. I'm just gonna obsess with every single mile, and then whatever comes, I'm not gonna have judgment, resentment. I'm just gonna have pure curiosity to like, wow, how special is that? How great is that? You've done a good job of that as well. Like, you didn't write a book to create a movement that would go global. You changed your life, and now you've changed way more than you probably ever dreamed was possible. And that's really how I'm thinking about it.
