• The Job-Jail Dilemma

• The Time Paradigm

• The Quit Question: The #1 Sign You NEED To Quit Yo …

• Simple Summary

Drained. Unfulfilled.

Stuck in a soul-sucking job you hate?

You're not alone.

Millions waste their time just surviving work.

I was one of them.

In 2020, I was helpless, miserable and one year away from graduating law school and becoming a lawyer.

But I QUIT! And it was the second-best decision of my life.

But how do you know when it's time to walk away?

There's one simple process that will reveal the #1 sign you NEED to QUIT your job.

I’ve spent the last 4 years refining this process.

It’s all yours so you can escape this…

The Job-Jail Dilemma

The Job-Jail Dilemma is the mental trap where you feel obligated to stay in an unfulfilling job instead of pursuing something meaningful.

• You feel trapped by societal expectations and the fear of being seen as a quitter.

  • It's like watching the movie Cats to the end just because you paid for the ticket, even though it’s objectively terrible. But the movie is your life!

• You dream of being creative and making a difference, not just adding to a corporation's profits.

You stay safe, clinging to your paycheck, avoiding risks like a ship that never leaves the harbour, forgetting it was built for the sea.

• You're stuck in a cycle of living for the weekends and dreading Mondays.

• Your work lacks passion and is just a means to an end.

That’s exactly how I felt in 2020.

• I thought I had to be a lawyer. It was as certain as the air I breathe.

  • It’s just there. I don’t question it.

• Until October…

  • I’m walking down a main street in the city to meet my partner for dinner.

  • The past few months have been some of the worst of my life.

  • And for the first time in my life, I start questioning why…

  • For the first time in my life, I ask myself,

    • “Lennox, why do you want to be a lawyer?”

      • I stop in my tracks as the truth hits me.

      • Money. That is the only answer.

      • Then I zoom out and imagine what the rest of my life would look like as a lawyer.

      • I look through the crystal ball and see my mid-life crisis in 4K resolution.

        • 45-year-old Lennox is an overweight shell of a human with all the life, passion and enthusiasm sucked out of him.

        • He’s wasted the last 20 years imprisoned in a dead-end and unfulfilling job jail.

        • The image sickened me.

  • At that point in October 2020 I honestly would have rather died than seeing that vision come to life. That’s how bad it was.

Thankfully, just moments later, I stumble upon the solution.

The Time Paradigm

The Time Paradigm is about realizing that time is your most precious resource and using it as a key consideration when making big decisions in life.

It’s a lens that forces you to zoom out and look at the timeline of your life as an observer, not a participant.

When you use this lens, you realise, and I quote:

Think about that for a second…

And remember:

• But you can find more money.

Everything changes when you accept that.

• You regain control over your life.

• You understand that autonomy (control over your time) is the key indicator of happiness, not money.

• Trading time for money in a job you hate leads to misery.

These are the things I realised back in October 2020.

• As I walk down the street to dinner and confront the reality that I don’t want to be a lawyer, I ask myself another question:

  • “What should I do instead of law?”

  • The answer’s obvious: start a tutoring business.

• And that’s what I did after graduating.

  • It gave me a sense of purpose, a sense of mission, that I had never felt before.

  • I learned more in business after a month than I did after 6 years and $70,000 at law school.

Starting the business is the second best decision I’ve made.

But — just like the law — it’s time to quit that too.

Here’s the question I asked myself to make that decision easily.

The Quit Question: The #1 Sign You NEED To Quit Your Job

The Quit Question is, “Does this still serve me?”.

• If the answer’s No, that’s the #1 sign you’re wasting time and need to quit.

• If the answer’s Yes, keep doing the job.

That’s it.

Use the Ponder-Prompt-Proceed Process to answer the Quit Question.

1. Ponder**

1. Is the hardship worth the rewards on offer?

   • If no → quit.

   • If yes / unsure → go to next question.

   For me:

   • The hardship was:

     • students lacking motivation to use the product

     • parents not understanding my product

     • teachers not liking my product

     • lots of mental resistance

   • The rewards on offer:

     • helping students get into university

     • potentially making money later

2. Do you believe you could make it not suck?

   • If no → quit.

   • If yes / unsure → go to next question.

   For me:

   • I believed I could make it not suck by:

     • motivating students to use the product

     • educating parents about the product

     • convincing teachers my product’s good

     • somehow overcoming my mental resistance

3. Is the effort that it would take to make it not suck worth the rewards on offer?

   • If no → quit.

   • If yes / unsure → go to Prompt.

   For me:

   • I didn’t think the effort to make it not suck was worth potentially making money later and helping students get into university.

   • But I wanted to make sure I was making the right decision, so I moved to the next step.

2. Prompt

Two sub-steps:

1. Brain dump

   • Type all your thoughts about your job in a Notes page.

     • Think: pros and cons, but don’t worry about structuring your thoughts.

     • The point of the exercise is to dump all of them onto the page in an unfiltered way.

2. Ask AI

   1. Copy and paste your brain dump into the prompt section of your preferred LLM (like ChatGPT or Google Gemini).

   2. Beneath the brain dump, insert the following prompt:

      Give me a comprehensive pros and cons list based on the above regarding whether I should quit [job]. Give me a clear answer. Do not sit on the fence.

   3. Hit enter.

This is what I did as I was sitting in my home office on 23 February, 2024.

• I'm dumping my thoughts on a Notes page.

• The answer emerges as I delve deeper. It's so obvious.

• But I still want to see what ChatGPT and Gemini say, so I hit enter.

  • ChatGPT: “… it seems that going all-in on your personal brand aligns better with your current interests and future goals.”

  • Gemini: “going all-in on your personal brand seems like the most fulfilling and promising path.”

3. Proceed

Take action based on the answer.

• i.e. Don’t quit or quit.

I see the answers from ChatGPT and Gemini and make it official by writing this in my Notion diary.

I quit, and it was the best decision of my life.

• It’s been almost 2 months since that day I decided to quit. And I’ve never been happier.

• But I realised something.

  • One of the rewards on offer for my tutoring business was “helping students get into university.”

  • I can still do that.

  • The business charged $1,495 for an online course I spent $80,000 and 3,000 hours creating.

    • The online course helps students get into university.

  • So I just published the entire thing for free on YouTube.

Now it’s official 😇

So I’ve technically ‘Quit’ twice now.

If I never quit law, I’d still be depressed — or worse.

It’s that simple — quitting made me happy and saved my life.

It could save yours.

Simple Summary

Job-Jail Dilemma = Feeling stuck in a job you hate because of fear and societal pressure.

Time Paradigm = Remembering that time is your most valuable resource and should guide your major life choices.

The Quit Question = “Does this still serve me?”

Ponder-Prompt-Proceed Process = How to answer the Quit Question.

The Lesson

Overcome the Job-Jail Dilemma with the Time Paradigm and the Quit Question.

Cya

If that doesn’t push you over the line:

1. Ask yourself: “What’s the worst thing that can happen?”

   • A: You try and fail. So what? That’s 1,000X better than never trying and forever regretting.

2. Join my online community — Saints College — to get the tools you need to start pursuing your passion!

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Anyway, that’s it for this Lesson.

Keep it simple until the next one.

1  Community Acknowledgements: Many thanks to the following members of the Saints College community for their help in creating this Lesson 🙏 Roya, Han, Rohith, Caitlyn, Thib, Macley, Houssem.