Levels.
A Level is how well you know your way around a Loop. It’s not a score for how you’re doing at life.
There is no leaderboard.
The Levels
Spot it, map it, navigate it.
Spot.
You catch the Loop, in the moment or looking back. Both count.
Map.
You know what sets it off, where it shows up and how often.
Navigate.
You build and test strategies, and keep what works in each Terrain.
The more you know this Loop, the more you can do with it. Explore the Levels and see what changes.
You’re here when you can point to one time it happened.
The form has been open in a tab since Monday. It has survived two restarts. You look back and think: that wasn’t laziness.
You’re here when you can predict where it shows up next.
You write down what you see: the task, what made it hard to begin, and the Terrain around it.
You’re here when a move has worked three real times.
You pick one move from your map and try it. Some tries won’t work. Your map helps you see why.
Hard days are part of the forecast
Mon
Sunny
Navigate
Tue
Partly Cloudy
Navigate
Wed
Cloudy
Map
Thu
Today
Stormy
Spot
Fri
Sunny
Navigate
On a clear day
You can Spot a Loop, Map it and Navigate your way through.
On a cloudy day
Spotting and Mapping might be as far as you get.
On a stormy day
You might only Spot it afterward, and that still counts.
Note from the founder
Spot, Map and Navigate are a teaching scale I built from my own experience. They are not a validated measure, and nothing here is scored or tracked. They’re a way to see where you are with one pattern, so the next step is smaller.
Still mapping. Follow along.
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