I was working in a video store.

Didn’t have a degree.
Didn’t have a plan.
But I was surrounded by what I loved — movies.

I watched them all day. Talked about them with friends.

It wasn’t my dream…

But it was close.

Dream-adjacent.

It made me comfortable.

Too comfortable.

And eventually, it put my ambitions to sleep.

I kept telling myself I’d start writing “one day.”

But that day never came.

Until one night...

I stayed up all night long.
No distractions. No excuses.

I looked at everything I was messing up in my life — everything I wasn’t doing.

I wrote it all down.

Then, in the last two hours, I asked myself the only question that mattered:

“How can I change it?”

I didn’t stop at one answer.

I made a list. Over and over.
100 ways to change my life.

And instead of going to sleep,
I changed.

I quit the job.

I moved closer to Hollywood — Koreatown, actually.
I met people who were making movies.
I surrounded myself with them.

And within a year and a half…
I was making a living as a writer.

That’s not my story.

That was Quentin Tarantino.

##1 The Tarantino Method

One quiet night.

One honest list.

One decision to stop waiting.

Tarantino didn’t need a guru.
He didn’t need a morning routine.
He needed a pen, a notepad, and the truth.

##2 You can do the same.

Here’s how:

1. Pick a night.Wait until the world is silent.
   Stay up. Sit with yourself.

2. Be brutally honest.Write down everything you’re doing wrong.
   No excuses. No filters.

3. Ask: How can I change it?List every idea.
   Big, small, bold, dumb. Doesn’t matter.
   Write 100 ways to change.

4. Act.
   Don’t go to sleep and forget.
   Do something now.

One night changed his life.

And if you're stuck — really stuck —

it might be time to stop searching for hacks and start telling yourself the truth.

Because the scariest moment in your life isn't when things go wrong.

It's when you realize you're just… coasting.

Not failing.

Not growing.

Just drifting in circles — quietly betraying your potential.

That’s why the Tarantino Method works.

It forces you to face the hard questions.

To write down your mess.

To see, in your own handwriting, how things need to change.

And once you do…

You just need a simple system to help you stick to what you wrote that night —

To start tracking those new goals so you don’t ignore them again, and become the person you said you would be.

That’s exactly what Second Brain 6.0 is for.

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Thank you for reading

Osama