# Chapter 82

“Most people exist between the on and off switch. They are unable to turn on and put out high power, and they are unable to turn off completely and enjoy true rest.” - Tim Ferris

In other words they stay in the gray zone. The don’t regularly experience the wonders of true rest, nor the intense satisfaction of putting out high power and getting the job done well. I think most folks stay in the gray zone, just existing and rarely reaching their potential. Let’s face it, I am in the people-assessment business, and it is not a pleasing sight most days.

But I get it, the gray zone is the path of least resistance. It is what the majority do, fall into, end up with, whatever. Its what the neighbors do and their neighbors do. It looks normal in most neighborhoods. Normal being another word for average. And if you don’t have ambitions to be more, then perhaps normal is ok for you. But if you want to find your capacity limits, if you want to change the outcomes and the output, if you want to experience the best, then you have to reject the normal average.

You have to not stay locked to your TV, radio, screens, TV dinners, three big meals a day, 6 packs, whiskeys, pills, (notice that these are all inputs) and instead lock your focus on your outputs, your systems, your habits, your goals your direction that you want to go. Replace the average normal world inputs, for high power outputs, and then turn it all off completely and disconnect and rest. This sounds like the life I want to continue living. What about you?