This is the experience we intended on both Emperor Black and RoM. I know everyone is hyped for the business prospects (and I understand, believe me), but remember that the initial goal was to reveal the things about yourself and your mind that you didn’t know or understand before.
It’s a very transformational sub. It’s helped restore me back to who I was when I was younger. Very much monk-like. Practiced multiple martial arts, studied tons of topics, lived like a spartan, etc. Even though I had a good career and good money, I always chose a very plain living place and the space itself was pretty much barren, outside of some inspirational art. It made my life very simple and kept things focused on self-development rather than pursuing luxury. Somewhere along the line, I lost that.
Now I’m engaged a huge stripping down of my life. Either selling or donating all these electronics I’m not using, engaging in more meditative practices, looking around the area for a new martial art to try (I’m thinking of Wing Chun, as I’ve always wanted to try it but kept gravitating to Muay Thai), and most important, back to writing and being creative.
It seems that martial arts, meditation, creativity, silence and solitude are the foundations of my life. RoM and RoS helped those realizations.
EDIT: In fact, this Christmas, my goal is to actually give out more than I receive, so I’ve literally dodged any questions of “what do you want,” since I genuinely want nothing. No more things.

