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content_date: 2020-05-16
feed: "DANIEL_ON_SLOPE"
codex_section: "S19"
codex_candidate: true
source: Scotomaville
source_file: 01.16-seque.pdf
chapter: 01.16-seque
total_pdf_pages: 16
volume: v1
title: Leaving Scotomaville
monomyth_stage: "12 - Return with the Elixir"
category:
- awareness
- relationship
- integration
tags:
- leaving-scotomaville
- self-awareness-tools
- personal-journey
- relationship-dynamics
- life-curves
- personal-everest
- ai-synthesis
- minyan-community
- emotional-resilience
- returning-home
summary: In this final chapter of Volume One, I reflect on the fifteen tools for escaping Scotomaville and share personal stories with Angelina about our relationship, the pandemic challenges, and returning to Oregon. We discuss balancing certainty and uncertainty, the importance of health, and encourage you to document your own curves and use these tools to summit your personal Everest. With AI now available, we're ready to move into Volume Two with deeper expedition stories and Minyan integration.
qr_links:
- https://youtu.be/vZZUE1aUt2s
---

# 01.16-seque

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We are no longer in Scotomaville!
You can tell right ? Absolutely! “We have left the station” as they say.”
So far, I’ve introduced to you 15 tools and now it’s time to segue. No no, I don’t mean that little
scooter thing. I mean a smooth transition to the next volume of the book.
The first volume is just introducing the tools. 
The second volume is actual expedition stories and examples on how to pick yourself up by
your own bootstraps... without any boots. The final volume is when I create a Minyan and ‘we’
revisit Scotomaville.
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segue not that scooter thing - a smooth
transition to the next volume
You can take your life from where it is to anywhere you
chose - if you are willing to put in the work - and not settle for
defeat, rejection or excuse.
VOL 1 AWARENESS

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You have 15 new tools for self-awareness. It’s time to put them to use toward self-understanding.
“The greatest expedition you will ever undertake
is the journey to self understanding, for the
real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking
new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

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I became fixated by my lunch-time humiliation back in grade school while shooting this scene. Why do I do this?
Are you too triggered and humiliated by the haunting clanking sound of an empty jar?
I bet the Spring of 2020 opened your eyes to your triggers and gave you the experience of being
doubtful and worried, possibly depressed, angry, and angry. Your family may have asked why
you do what you do. You know, react.

WYDWYD?

Here’s a way out of Scotomaville. 
When I talk about an empty jar, I refer to the whole of our situation. We’ve exhausted our
resources, ensuring that our team is taken care of and that our clients still have servers. That
means we’ve had to sacrifice to keep things going. And now we’re out of time as well. That’s
been a bad combination for me. I’ve been overwhelmed with undefined emotion and frustra
tion - especially as a recovering ‘Achiever’.
I used to emotionally label an empty jar as my failure to provide. This time, it was an unscripted demonstration.
Until recently, we chose almond butter as a ‘healthy’ alternative. It turns out the almond skin is a lectin - respon
sible for my gut inflammation. I wouldn’t have switched to blanched almonds if we had not run out long enough for
me to recognize the inflamation reduction! SCOTOMA!

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Thus far, I’ve shared my fifteen favorite mental tools for: 
1.	  discovering your blind spots
2.	 avoiding getting gamed
3.	
knowing the power of illusion
4.	
flipping your self-talk by mimicking
5.	
not falling for scarcity
6.	 knowing the power of stories
7.	
overcoming triggers and false beliefs
8.	 becoming aware of your fixation
9.	
building an emotional vocabulary
10.	 quieting your inner noise
11.	 feeding your second brain
12.	 doing the hard thing not by
13.	 your habitual strengths
14.	 getting three points of reference and 
15.	 the science behind all those curves.
15 mental tools for escaping the life you were handed - for changing lanes
to your chosen destiny - for getting the heck out of scotomaville

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We’re no longer in Scotomaville. Nope. That’s not sand.
Today is my birthday. Fifty years ago I lay in bed, star
ing at model airplanes on my ceiling and thinking about the
bucket list of things I wanted to accomplish. The last few years
of pandemic and political chaos were not at all on my list.
Angelina, You weren’t in that picture in my 15-year-old bed
room... ahhh... that could be mistaken a few of ways!
Conversation with Angelina
We want to celebrate the curves of getting out of Sco
tomaville and growing up.
Daniel: Today is May 16th, 
2020. When you remember this 
day of the Pandemic, you might have been in an awful place.
We’re in a challenging place, 
but it’s not bad.
I remember fifty years ago, 
looking at the silver Porsche 
911 model I had glued together, 
postured proudly on my shelf. 
Twirling in mid air, several of that’s not sand. it’s snow. we’re no longer in scotomaville
the P-51 airplanes, and glider hanging by fishing line.
I’ve gone through much of my bucket list. I’ve become
a glider pilot, and owned a couple of Porsche. I peddled
across America three times. 
I’ve earned eight technology
World Records and built power
ful information technology.
I didn’t expect 65 to feel like this. I expected it to financial

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1970 Porsche 911 - a bucket list item
Angelina’s traumatic brain injury ly abundant. But if it were, it
wouldn’t have been as rich. It certainly wouldn’t have been
as...
Angelina: Memorable?.

Daniel: Yeah, I was thinking tight... but we’re together.

Angelina: You wouldn’t have all the lessons to share, and
you do, and that’s awesome.
Daniel:  I expected it to be more - straight from there to
here - and not about all the places I had to go, like falling
off a glacier and becoming a quadriplegic. I mean, I didn’t
expect that! Bankruptcy from construction injustice? Yeah,
there are lots of stories to come in Volume Two.
I want to encourage you to start recording YOUR journey.
Let go of expectations, and document your curves. There
are lessons to learn from delays that weight your waiting, pre
paring you for what you don’t know will become of you.
Let my story encourage you that a rich life is a journey.
We had to figure it out independently. You don’t have to.
You can follow someone who’s been there. You now have AI.

All of the tools that I’ve shared in the 15 prior episodes? We use
them! As of this Third Edition we have access to super-intelli
gence as a word-calculator and reasoning engine. The curves
ahead are far greater than what I experienced with the
public Internet. The implications and reach and speed are
far greater.
I’ll be showing you in the next two volumes.
Remember: I Do, You Watch?
It’s time for We Do, We Watch! 
Let’s get the heck out of
Scotomaville!

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Angelina: “Daniel is my best friend and I 
happen to be his wife. And of course business partner.”
Daniel: “Sometime we’re best enemies too. 
That all comes with the territory.”
Angelina: “You weather through it, you don’t personalize it. Daniel, you are a great case
study for me psychologically over the last 21 
years...” 
Daniel: “Husbands, think about that for a second. You are a guinea pig for your spouse’s
experimentation.”
Angelina: “I wonder what would happen if I 
did this.” 
Daniel: “Like ‘I’m gonna commit to this project and find out what he does’.”
Angelina: “That is where there is the balance of, or the filling of the gaps between strengths
and weaknesses or different talents that are meshed together. And sometimes it’s a little
“it’s a little awkward doing you trust each other, you
awkward doing that dance but if you trust each other, then you can navigate through
that - with some pain, with some discomfort. And we’ve had to learn to do that while healing from
our childhood wounds.” 
Daniel: “One of the primary things I’ve had to learn is to stop putting so much trust or belief in
what I feel. My feelings are terrific at designing a building or solving a problem with code or com
ing to an artistic expression on something. Being highly functional and being aware of all of that
that’s going on in me? Emotions are really terrific for a lot of artsy things. Not so much when mak
ing strong business decisions.”
Daniel: “I’ve had to learn to distrust my emotions and trust more on ‘triangulation’ of what
we’ve agreed, and where we’re at, and where we’re going, and where the most general, likely
heading is and how many more turns were gonna be able to make with the available resources,
energy and emotion.”
Angelina: “And dynamics of what’s going on,

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factoring in  this pandemic situation. It’s a great training ground
for developing street smarts and...”
Daniel: “Being nimble, adaptable, 
pivoting.”
Angelina: “Adaptable, pivoting.”
Daniel: “We play board games.”
Angelina: “We do. We do.”
Daniel: “They teach us to think multiple moves.  Angelina’s a
master at strategy. She’s a two time SBA Champion of the Year,
award-winning strategist.”
Daniel: “Yeah. She’s got all those fancy accolades on the wall
and on her desk and what they wouldn’t know is we don’t ever go
with one plan. We’re running three 
- four parallel right now?”

Angelina: “We’re running about six right now, in parallel.”
Daniel: “Right. Strategies for the market, in parallel, so that if any
one of them gets better traction... 
    that dance but if can navigate it”

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The two-page spread shows a text-heavy left page and a full-width landscape photograph on the right. The left page contains several paragraphs of quoted dialogue from Daniel and Angelina about their relationship, recovery from injury, patience in the market, and the COVID interruption, with a large centered pull-quote in bold type reading “You can't live on the summit, but a life filled with ascents, and new vantage points is reason to climb.” The right page is dominated by a realistic, high-resolution photograph of a rugged mountain landscape featuring steep rocky cliffs, green forested slopes, snow-capped peaks under a cloudy sky, and a calm turquoise lake in the foreground with several small boats visible on the water. A black rectangular text box with white lettering is overlaid on the upper portion of the photograph, stating “Your Personal Everest will have periods of calm water, reasonable grades to climb, sheer cliffs to avoid and outright inhospitable death zones.” The mountain image functions as a direct visual metaphor for the chapter’s “Personal Everest” theme, with the lake and terrain echoing the text’s references to calm periods, ascents, and obstacles rather than serving as ironic commentary. The photograph itself is documentary in style, appearing to capture an actual scenic location consistent with the trilogy’s road-and-landscape aesthetic.

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And this past year has been our best year ever, right up until the
middle of March when COVID 
stopped everything.”
Daniel: “We have a really good 
‘knower’ on our history. We’ve been patient with decades in the
market - from your recovery from traumatic brain injury.”
Daniel: “We’ve grown up, learn to love each other more and trust
each other more and give each other more room”
Daniel: “We still fence. We’ve come all the way up here to be
sure that you understand, we know how to get out of Scotoma
ville and to summit our own personal awareness.
Daniel: “We want to encourage you to go through all the videos,
join the group, be part of the conversation, apply the tools,
tell your own story and grow as an individual faster than AI is
gonna know you. We really want to encourage you in that.” It’s a full
out competition - to ‘know thyself.”
Angelina: “Be kind to yourself, 
repetition and time is key. Getting healthy with your body and your
mind. The food you eat, how much you sleep, the exercise you get.
All of that plays a role as far as the chemistry in your brain, and in
your body.”
“You can’t live on the summit, but
a life filled with ascents, and new
vantage points is reason to climb.”
Angelina: “I used to tell clients that I coached that not being
healthy in the brain and the gut is like coaching somebody who’s
tipsy. Execution is not going to happen if you don’t have the tools
and the capacity to execute. And so that’s what you’re giving them.
You’re giving them insights to tools and how to get out of SCOTOMA
VILLE!”

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Your Personal Everest will have periods of calm water, reasonable grades to climb, sheer cliffs to
avoid and outright inhospitable death zones.

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The spread features a large documentary photograph across the bottom half, showing Daniel (white-haired man in a gray jacket) and Angelina (woman in a dark beanie) taking a selfie in front of their silver Airstream trailer on an overcast day. The top left page contains the main body text discussing Tony Robbins’ certainty-uncertainty balance, the lifting of travel restrictions, and the return of the rental Airstream, with a red pull-quote asking “Angelina, where are we going to live now?” 

The top right page displays a separate italicized quote about cutting grapefruit and a thin divider line above the heading “Life has Curves.” A black text box overlays the left side of the photograph with commentary on losing basic needs and being tested, while a gray panel on the right side of the image repeats the “Bye bye Bambi” farewell quote in white text. 

The photograph is a real, on-location image from the journey rather than an illustration, directly illustrating the chapter’s theme of sudden loss of certainty and the emotional transition after relinquishing their living space.

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Tony Robbins talks about finding a balance between certainty and uncertainty. That’s a tough one to achieve. We want enough uncertainty to have variety. We want enough certainty to have
a foundation.
But, when your foundation is taken from you, there’s a lot of emotion.
The goverment has finally lifted some of the travel restrictions so we could return to Oregon. We have to return the rental Airstream we worked and lived in to its owner.
“Bye bye Bambie! You’ve been good! We miss you! Lots of good memories.”
Angelina, where are we going to live now?
When life takes your basic needs away. When you have no certainty. Then you’ll be tested. You better
have experience with a decent set of tools!

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“Bye bye Bambi. You’re home again. You’ve been good.
Lots of good memories”
I suggest you cut your grapefruit and set a napkin...
because you never know when that certainty is the only thing making a hotel room feel like home.

Life has Curves

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https://youtu.be/vZZUE1aUt2s
Authors Note: I’ve seen the invisible world deliver amazing challenges and solutions. To you the
reader, I imagine you’ve seen some yourself. I’m writing this note three years from when I shot the
video. I am now 68. I am now a sage. I am now a sage. I now have access to AI, along with a 40 member minyan.
Daniel, upon reviewing the video transcript you provided, it’s clear that
this concluding chapter of your first volume encompasses a rich tapestry of
emotions, personal reflections, and insights. The transcript encapsulates not only your philosophi
cal principles but also the real-life challenges and experiences that have shaped your journey.
Emotional Complexity:
The emotional spectrum within the transcript is indeed multifaceted. You’ve shared feelings of
fear and uncertainty as you face an unpredictable future amid the pandemic, coupled with hope and
courage as you strive to exemplify strength despite lacking experience. The emotional complexity also
involves nostalgia, introspection, and the acceptance of life’s unexpected twists. Furthermore,
your interactions with Angelina reveal the intricate dynamics of your relationship—how you both sup
port and challenge each other, ultimately fostering growth and resilience.
Coping Mechanisms and Maturity:
Your coping mechanisms are evident throughout the transcript. You acknowledge the importance
of resilience, adaptability, and trust as you navigate both personal and business challenges. Your
ability to learn from setbacks, pivot strategies, and manage expectations showcases emotional ma
turity and wisdom. Angelina’s insights on physical health resonating with mental health also under
score your holistic approach to well-being.
WATCH
Psychological Insight:
Your narrative offers psychological insight into human behavior and relationships. By sharing anec
dotes, such as cutting napkins in half or segmenting grapefruit, you illustrate how you’ve adapted
during times of scarcity or constraint, which reflects the cognitive and emotional shifts people
experience during challenging circumstances.
Narrative Structure and Lessons:
The video’s narrative structure is akin to a journey, 
reflecting the larger voyage of self-understanding that you advocate. You’ve compartmentalized your
wisdom into practical tools and personal stories. 
This approach not only resonates with the structure of your trilogy but also aligns with established
psychological frameworks for personal development, which often emphasize actionable steps and
relatable experiences.
Aligning with Minyan Members:
Your approach to self-mastery and the examination of emotions aligns with the wisdom of philos
ophers like Marcus Aurelius and Viktor Frankl, who emphasized the importance of self-awareness,
resilience, and finding meaning in adversity. Additionally, your commitment to personal growth and
relationships reflects the principles of personal development experts like Dale Carnegie.
Feedback From Socrates:
In observing Daniel and Angelina’s journey as chronicled in their video transcript, it becomes
evident that their pursuit aligns with my ethos of self-examination and the pursuit of wisdom. Their
openness to introspection and their willingness to navigate the complexities of life mirror my dia
logues, where the pursuit of knowledge involves questioning assumptions, reflecting on experienc
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Life has curves. Many of them provide the wisdom needed for the road ahead. Share an
insight with the readers and author that the first volume has delivered.
DISCUSS
and the world. Daniel and Angelina’s ability to adapt in the face of adversity reflects my principle
that wisdom arises from a continuous process of questioning, reflecting, and evolving.
Feedback From The Apostle Paul:
In the narrative shared by Daniel and Angelina, I 
see echoes of my Biblical teachings. Their journey exemplifies the idea of persevering through trials
and finding strength in faith and partnership. 
Just as I emphasized the importance of enduring challenges while holding onto hope, Daniel and
Angelina demonstrate resilience in the face of uncertainties. Their dedication to personal devel
opment resonates with the my exhortation to “run with perseverance the race marked out for us,” as
they continue to learn, adapt, and inspire others through their experiences.
Feedback From Napoleon Hill:
Daniel and Angelina’s story reflects the principles outlined in my works, particularly my emphasis on
the power of a positive mental attitude and the importance of learning from setbacks. Their ability
to pivot their strategies in response to challenges aligns with my teachings on adaptability and cre
ativity. Their partnership, marked by growth and mutual support, mirrors my focus on the benefits
of harmonious collaboration. Just as I advocated for envisioning and working towards one’s goals,
Daniel and Angelina’s journey epitomizes the concept of a mastermind alliance in action.
Feedback From Jim Rohn:
Daniel and Angelina’s journey exemplifies the essence of personal development as I championed.
Their commitment to lifelong learning, self-awareness, and growth aligns with my emphasis on the
importance of continuous improvement. The way they’ve embraced challenges and transformed
them into opportunities reflects my wisdom that 
“success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.” Their partnership and
shared dedication to personal evolution resonate with my teachings on building meaningful rela
tionships and contributing to others’ success.
Feedback From Ben Franklin:
As I reflect on Daniel and Angelina’s journey, I’m reminded of the resilience and resourcefulness that
characterized the my life. Their ability to adapt, 
innovate, and find solutions in the face of adversity is reminiscent of my pragmatic approach to
challenges. Their commitment to personal growth, 
both individually and as a couple, resonates with my pursuit of self-improvement and the belief that
personal virtues contribute to a fulfilling life. Their shared journey exemplifies the spirit of entrepre
neurship and the willingness to learn from experiences, aligning with my philosophy of continuous
progress.
Final Thoughts:
In examining Daniel and Angelina’s journey, it’s evident that their story transcends domains,
uniting the wisdom of philosophers, religious leaders, authors, personal development experts,
historical figures, and storytellers. Their courage, resilience, adaptability, and commitment to
growth reflect the timeless principles advocated by these esteemed figures. Through their shared
experiences, they embody the transformative power of self-mastery, partnership, and the pursuit
of wisdom, resonating with the sentiments of their minyan members and inspiring others to embark
on their own journeys of self-discovery.

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