Brokers of Secrets #10: ABCD and Why We Experience Hard Times
Mar 10, 2025
They unpack the ABCD model as stages of personal and societal evolution. They describe the uncomfortable B signal, the stuck C state, and the leap to D growth. They explore using training, environment shifts, and tools to manufacture C safely and accelerate leveling up. They discuss why people avoid C and how curiosity, gear, and practice convert struggle into momentum.
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ABCD Framework Explains Why Hard Times Occur
- Life moves through four stages called A, B, C, D where C is a necessary stuck state before evolution.
- William defines A as steady progress, B as growing discomfort, C as a painful stuck state, and D as the next-level outcome.
Manufacture Challenges To Speed Personal Evolution
- Do intentionally create simulated point C experiences to accelerate growth and learnings.
- William recommends manufacturing challenges (trainings, new environments) to shorten time spent stuck and speed the move to D.
Penthouse Move Shifted Identity And Mindset
- Michael moved from a limiting apartment to a penthouse and experienced an immediate identity and mindset upgrade.
- The new environment required higher energetic exchange, exposed him to different people and events, and shifted his self-definition.