Honestly this is some of the best thinking and new way forward that I have read in years. I’m a 62 year young female and this couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Thank you for so generously sharing your insights, work and a new way forward. Can’t wait to hear and learn more. Thank you.
I didn’t find much that felt creative, new, or practical here; it reads more like an old scripture than a usable guide. Linguistically it makes sense, but in practice many of the ideas would take a lifetime to apply, and some are hardly achievable for human beings at all, even if they look appealing on paper.
I’m also curious about the sheer volume of material. Have you personally read it fully, even once? Do you truly believe that a large collection of jargon and short explanations can meaningfully level up a person?
Moreover, I love your before human *.* blogs and enjoyed reading.
"I didn't find much that felt creative, new" - the author is clear throughout that he's synthesizing perspectives from multiple existing frameworks. He cites his primary influences constantly. It's not like he's trying to reinvent the wheel. However, the integration of these frameworks into a single system is value-add from my perspective, and fairly creative.
"I didn't find much that felt... practical here. It reads more like an old Scripture than a usable guide." - Did you read the part at the top of the article that says "the primary use case for this knowledge base is to give it to AI and converse with it (paste it into a chat or a project in Claude). Feed it problems. Feed it solutions. Feed it people you want to understand. Feed it your current sitaution and watch a path toward your potential reveal itself." It's in bold.
"many of the ideas would take a lifetime to apply" - that's the point; a lifelong pursuit of growth and personal development
"Hardly achievable for human beings at all" - also the point; as mentioned in the article, the vast majority of humanity doesn't get very far in developing through the levels. Level 4 individuals are rare enough that you might just never meet one... But if you did you'd probably know (the likes of Jesus, Buddha)
"Curious about the sheer volume of material" - did you expect a comprehensive overview of the process of personal development and its relationship to civilizational phase transition to be short?
"Have you personally read through it all, even once?" - the author specifically mentions reading through it 15+ times. Not sure the skepticism is warranted here, given the resonance with Dan's content on similar topics of agency and personal development. If it seems improbable to you that someone would read through a long article on a topic of special interest to them before publishing it, then you must have never been captured by the process of exploring an intrinsically fascinating idea to the point of temporary obsession.
"Do you truly believe a large collection of jargon and short explanations can level up a person?" - Is this a rhetorical question? You're embarrassing yourself by asking it. The jargon and short explanations are there for efficiency and readability. Much of the audience understands the jargon from exposure to the author's previous material or familiarity with the source material. Those who aren't can dive deeper if they feel inclined. More generally, Dan is well aware that the vast majority of his audience will not actually apply his advice. That's just the reality of writing for a broad audience on the internet. And yet, a fraction will, and they may indeed level up. Ultimately, the writing is for those people; the ones who get it, who resonate with it, who go for it, who were ready to hear it. You are simply admitting you aren't one of those people. The correct response is silence, not a tone deaf comment attacking the creator.
Thank you for taking the time to address this so excellently. Pessimism and contrarianism are often disguised as intelligence, when in reality they stem from intellectual laziness and a lack of clarity and balance. Of course, no one expects you to take every word someone says as scripture, but a true marker of intelligence is intellectual humility and a bias toward constructive insight. The sad part about this kind of thinking is that it becomes a magnet for other pessimists and contrarians, pulling them further away from ideas and perspectives that could have been deeply beneficial to their journey.
On the third attractor—ever since encountering Daniel’s work I’ve been curious about what form it could realistically take. In your H3 playbook, the core requirement seems to be an intentional metamorphosis at the individual level: becoming as capable as possible across all meaningful domains of life. From there, engaging society through generative, collaborative, education-oriented principles—more infinite game than finite. In my view, that’s accurate but it’s only part of the picture.
The challenge with focusing on individual transformation alone is that it leaves people to navigate the process in isolation or small, decentralized groups. This works for some, but given the scale of the metacrisis and the urgency of a civilizational shift, we also need collective infrastructures that accelerate development. A historical example: Nordic Folk High Schools at the turn of the 20th century. They functioned as retreat-like centers where citizens voluntarily learned together how to transition from agrarian to industrial society. The goal was not passive compliance but cultivating “co-creators of modernity”—people who could understand the world that was coming and actively participate in shaping it.
Our present transition—driven by AI and exponential technologies—demands something similar. Daniel’s framing and the playbook you’ve laid out are essential because they articulate the problems and pathways of personal development. But we also need large-scale modalities—modern equivalents of Folk High Schools, possibly “H3 centers”—that combine thought with action and give people a shared environment for building the capacities Human 3.0 requires. Education in its current form doesn’t meet this need.
I’d be interested in your take on this meso-level approach and how you see the situation playing out more broadly. Individual sovereignty is crucial, but collective accelerators may be just as necessary if we want widespread development within the narrowing window we face. Either way, it’s cool to see others engaging deeply with Daniel’s work and sketching paths forward.
Отличная идея, Кэмпбелл! Я тоже придерживаюсь подобных взглядов, только давайте не забывать, что Бильдунг или "народные университеты" возникли не вдруг и этому предшествовала большая интеллектуальная работа - сначала в Германии и позже в Скандинавии. Более того, потом возникли группы элиты, которые переложили эту концепцию на практическую основу - реализовали их. Но не везде и не всегда эта концепция приживается. Так в России конца 19-го века "народники" не нашли должной поддержки. Да и сейчас в Швеции бильдунг - это, скорее, повод для почтения светлой ностальгии, хотя есть активисты, предпринимающие настойчивые попытки возродить эту методику. Надеюсь, что подобные практики получат второе дыхание и уже мы с вами будем наблюдать их Ренессанс )
Wow, everything really speaks to me. You boil it down. However, you forgot the meta reality we live in. We are hampered by our political system.
Here is my two cents in reordering everything and giving people the right framework and impetus to do everything you propose here, excellent they may be but we need more.
Human 3.0 Dan is a nice marketing approach to get visible, fulfill your passive income goals, and an amateur attempt at complex philosophy.
The experts in this area include Richard Rudd (GeneKeys), Michael Singer (Surrender Experiment), Gregg Braden (The Divine Matrix), Yogananda (Kriya Yoga), Michael Lomax (Light energy and Shamanism)….
My partner studied with Michael, and has been qualified to teach his Gift of the Dao method which took over ten years of mentored training.
Should I keep going? How about Vedic traditions (Yoga, Diamond, and Flower Sutras), The Kabbalah, Rumi, and Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do.
You don’t know what you are talking about, are working through your own subjective experiments, and selling this to entrepreneurs who believe you.
The fact that you know how to market online does not make you an expert in this area, having not completed the journey through these modalities.
You are in the raft / shore confusion phase. That’s normal. As a beginner into these practices you need a passive income to have time to settle.
Here’s what you got wrong, why I know it’s wrong, and how people can find the answers that they desire.
The first step is to not follow Dan Koe, unless you want a popularity marketing solopreneur copywriting business.
That he’s done, he’s good at it, and I know because I was in his groups.
In specific, I wanted to include each of your claims and refute them:
Personal principles do not exist. Creative energy is an immutable field. You confused values (personal) with law and principles (constants).
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s “Metacrisis” - This is a form meaning another’s work that you don’t fully understand yet. Raft versus shore.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s - Flow is great. He has fantastic ideas. You don’t have your own. You are a student as I was of this in the 90s.
Steven Kotler’s expansion on flow psychology - Same thing. You may want to consider only speaking about how you experience flow.
The connections to various developmental psychology models throughout the entirety of H3.0 - You are not able to do this yet.
Einstein explains. Energy is the constant. Experience within that energy is subjective. You started to learn how this works when you found Daoism.
Being in energy, release of pain inside the body, tuning yourself in the emotional field, and allowing creative energy to flow is your work.
Do the work, shut up, and learn something. Talk about marketing.
Am I a troll, or sharing my experience from experience with your audience?
My expertise is business success. I’ve created new models. My inner work goes back through not learning about but practicing Yang family Tai Chi. I no longer use the Tai Chi forms. It’s not necessary. The energy just flows.
That’s where you think that you are, but you are in fact on a raft floating in the middle of the stream, wanting to be a professor with a passive income.
Does this help or confuse people? What I found when I was doing what you are doing right now years ago was the latter. At least I wasn’t popular.
I feel so grateful for the prompt you provided, Dan. Thank you. It felt eye-opening to understand that I was a lot in the Mind, but not in the Body. And that all the quadrants are inter-connected. There’s so much insight, the prompt feels like an intelligent therapy session. It’s definitely going to impact how I view myself and my creative life.
This is the most comprehensive life guide I’ve ever come across. It has helped me understand where I am, the obstacles ahead, and what to do about them by illuminating and articulating the frameworks and phases of life in such a profound and clear way. Thank you, Dan, for sharing this. Thank you for the gift of clarity. More life 🥂
Honestly this is some of the best thinking and new way forward that I have read in years. I’m a 62 year young female and this couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Thank you for so generously sharing your insights, work and a new way forward. Can’t wait to hear and learn more. Thank you.
Can’t wait to learn more about this, thanks Dan
I didn’t find much that felt creative, new, or practical here; it reads more like an old scripture than a usable guide. Linguistically it makes sense, but in practice many of the ideas would take a lifetime to apply, and some are hardly achievable for human beings at all, even if they look appealing on paper.
I’m also curious about the sheer volume of material. Have you personally read it fully, even once? Do you truly believe that a large collection of jargon and short explanations can meaningfully level up a person?
Moreover, I love your before human *.* blogs and enjoyed reading.
"I didn't find much that felt creative, new" - the author is clear throughout that he's synthesizing perspectives from multiple existing frameworks. He cites his primary influences constantly. It's not like he's trying to reinvent the wheel. However, the integration of these frameworks into a single system is value-add from my perspective, and fairly creative.
"I didn't find much that felt... practical here. It reads more like an old Scripture than a usable guide." - Did you read the part at the top of the article that says "the primary use case for this knowledge base is to give it to AI and converse with it (paste it into a chat or a project in Claude). Feed it problems. Feed it solutions. Feed it people you want to understand. Feed it your current sitaution and watch a path toward your potential reveal itself." It's in bold.
"many of the ideas would take a lifetime to apply" - that's the point; a lifelong pursuit of growth and personal development
"Hardly achievable for human beings at all" - also the point; as mentioned in the article, the vast majority of humanity doesn't get very far in developing through the levels. Level 4 individuals are rare enough that you might just never meet one... But if you did you'd probably know (the likes of Jesus, Buddha)
"Curious about the sheer volume of material" - did you expect a comprehensive overview of the process of personal development and its relationship to civilizational phase transition to be short?
"Have you personally read through it all, even once?" - the author specifically mentions reading through it 15+ times. Not sure the skepticism is warranted here, given the resonance with Dan's content on similar topics of agency and personal development. If it seems improbable to you that someone would read through a long article on a topic of special interest to them before publishing it, then you must have never been captured by the process of exploring an intrinsically fascinating idea to the point of temporary obsession.
"Do you truly believe a large collection of jargon and short explanations can level up a person?" - Is this a rhetorical question? You're embarrassing yourself by asking it. The jargon and short explanations are there for efficiency and readability. Much of the audience understands the jargon from exposure to the author's previous material or familiarity with the source material. Those who aren't can dive deeper if they feel inclined. More generally, Dan is well aware that the vast majority of his audience will not actually apply his advice. That's just the reality of writing for a broad audience on the internet. And yet, a fraction will, and they may indeed level up. Ultimately, the writing is for those people; the ones who get it, who resonate with it, who go for it, who were ready to hear it. You are simply admitting you aren't one of those people. The correct response is silence, not a tone deaf comment attacking the creator.
Thank you for taking the time to address this so excellently. Pessimism and contrarianism are often disguised as intelligence, when in reality they stem from intellectual laziness and a lack of clarity and balance. Of course, no one expects you to take every word someone says as scripture, but a true marker of intelligence is intellectual humility and a bias toward constructive insight. The sad part about this kind of thinking is that it becomes a magnet for other pessimists and contrarians, pulling them further away from ideas and perspectives that could have been deeply beneficial to their journey.
Every post from you is a game changer
On the third attractor—ever since encountering Daniel’s work I’ve been curious about what form it could realistically take. In your H3 playbook, the core requirement seems to be an intentional metamorphosis at the individual level: becoming as capable as possible across all meaningful domains of life. From there, engaging society through generative, collaborative, education-oriented principles—more infinite game than finite. In my view, that’s accurate but it’s only part of the picture.
The challenge with focusing on individual transformation alone is that it leaves people to navigate the process in isolation or small, decentralized groups. This works for some, but given the scale of the metacrisis and the urgency of a civilizational shift, we also need collective infrastructures that accelerate development. A historical example: Nordic Folk High Schools at the turn of the 20th century. They functioned as retreat-like centers where citizens voluntarily learned together how to transition from agrarian to industrial society. The goal was not passive compliance but cultivating “co-creators of modernity”—people who could understand the world that was coming and actively participate in shaping it.
Our present transition—driven by AI and exponential technologies—demands something similar. Daniel’s framing and the playbook you’ve laid out are essential because they articulate the problems and pathways of personal development. But we also need large-scale modalities—modern equivalents of Folk High Schools, possibly “H3 centers”—that combine thought with action and give people a shared environment for building the capacities Human 3.0 requires. Education in its current form doesn’t meet this need.
I’d be interested in your take on this meso-level approach and how you see the situation playing out more broadly. Individual sovereignty is crucial, but collective accelerators may be just as necessary if we want widespread development within the narrowing window we face. Either way, it’s cool to see others engaging deeply with Daniel’s work and sketching paths forward.
Отличная идея, Кэмпбелл! Я тоже придерживаюсь подобных взглядов, только давайте не забывать, что Бильдунг или "народные университеты" возникли не вдруг и этому предшествовала большая интеллектуальная работа - сначала в Германии и позже в Скандинавии. Более того, потом возникли группы элиты, которые переложили эту концепцию на практическую основу - реализовали их. Но не везде и не всегда эта концепция приживается. Так в России конца 19-го века "народники" не нашли должной поддержки. Да и сейчас в Швеции бильдунг - это, скорее, повод для почтения светлой ностальгии, хотя есть активисты, предпринимающие настойчивые попытки возродить эту методику. Надеюсь, что подобные практики получат второе дыхание и уже мы с вами будем наблюдать их Ренессанс )
Wow, everything really speaks to me. You boil it down. However, you forgot the meta reality we live in. We are hampered by our political system.
Here is my two cents in reordering everything and giving people the right framework and impetus to do everything you propose here, excellent they may be but we need more.
Https://open.substack.com/pub/marniekhaw/p/status-trust-and-the-power-of-proximalism?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=29b1i&utm_medium=ios
This is very cool!
You are a modern day Aristotle my friend. Really love your work
Really wanted to ask you this
https://substack.com/@unboundcraft/note/c-151089903?r=5cvxj2&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Wow amazing! Never read anything so meaningful as this. Thank you !
Love this! Will follow your journey!
basically the 2-hour writer on steroids. lots of information. definitely going to have to reread a few times. great piece.
Human 3.0 Dan is a nice marketing approach to get visible, fulfill your passive income goals, and an amateur attempt at complex philosophy.
The experts in this area include Richard Rudd (GeneKeys), Michael Singer (Surrender Experiment), Gregg Braden (The Divine Matrix), Yogananda (Kriya Yoga), Michael Lomax (Light energy and Shamanism)….
My partner studied with Michael, and has been qualified to teach his Gift of the Dao method which took over ten years of mentored training.
Should I keep going? How about Vedic traditions (Yoga, Diamond, and Flower Sutras), The Kabbalah, Rumi, and Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do.
You don’t know what you are talking about, are working through your own subjective experiments, and selling this to entrepreneurs who believe you.
The fact that you know how to market online does not make you an expert in this area, having not completed the journey through these modalities.
You are in the raft / shore confusion phase. That’s normal. As a beginner into these practices you need a passive income to have time to settle.
Here’s what you got wrong, why I know it’s wrong, and how people can find the answers that they desire.
The first step is to not follow Dan Koe, unless you want a popularity marketing solopreneur copywriting business.
That he’s done, he’s good at it, and I know because I was in his groups.
In specific, I wanted to include each of your claims and refute them:
Personal principles do not exist. Creative energy is an immutable field. You confused values (personal) with law and principles (constants).
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s “Metacrisis” - This is a form meaning another’s work that you don’t fully understand yet. Raft versus shore.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s - Flow is great. He has fantastic ideas. You don’t have your own. You are a student as I was of this in the 90s.
Steven Kotler’s expansion on flow psychology - Same thing. You may want to consider only speaking about how you experience flow.
The connections to various developmental psychology models throughout the entirety of H3.0 - You are not able to do this yet.
Einstein explains. Energy is the constant. Experience within that energy is subjective. You started to learn how this works when you found Daoism.
Being in energy, release of pain inside the body, tuning yourself in the emotional field, and allowing creative energy to flow is your work.
Do the work, shut up, and learn something. Talk about marketing.
Am I a troll, or sharing my experience from experience with your audience?
My expertise is business success. I’ve created new models. My inner work goes back through not learning about but practicing Yang family Tai Chi. I no longer use the Tai Chi forms. It’s not necessary. The energy just flows.
That’s where you think that you are, but you are in fact on a raft floating in the middle of the stream, wanting to be a professor with a passive income.
Does this help or confuse people? What I found when I was doing what you are doing right now years ago was the latter. At least I wasn’t popular.
I feel so grateful for the prompt you provided, Dan. Thank you. It felt eye-opening to understand that I was a lot in the Mind, but not in the Body. And that all the quadrants are inter-connected. There’s so much insight, the prompt feels like an intelligent therapy session. It’s definitely going to impact how I view myself and my creative life.
This is the most comprehensive life guide I’ve ever come across. It has helped me understand where I am, the obstacles ahead, and what to do about them by illuminating and articulating the frameworks and phases of life in such a profound and clear way. Thank you, Dan, for sharing this. Thank you for the gift of clarity. More life 🥂