--- id: scotomaville_01_12_it_needs_work title: SCOTOMAVILLE - 01.12 It Needs Work category: Stories predicted_narrative_arc: Honest a ppraisal without shame spiral sentiment: Matter-of-fact emotions: - honesty - resolve keypoints: - VOL 1 AWARENESS IT NEEDS WORK You don’t have to think long to recall the last opportunity for hard work you declined. - It’s to ughto do the hard thing, let alone be eager. - Imagine creating a video and print trilogy during the pandemic in a space the size of a bathroom? - You have the power within you to design a life! - Turn what you were handed into something to be proud of. summary: 'Leaving Scotomaville Volume 1 (Awareness) chapter on It Needs Work. Narrative arc: Honest a ppraisal without shame spiral. From the print/transcript corpus: VOL 1 AWARENESS IT NEEDS WORK You don’t have to think long to recall the last opportunity for hard work you declined. It’s to ughto do the hard thing, let alone be eager. And yet, this is what a chievers do. Imagine creating a video and print trilogy during the pandemic in a space the size of a bathroom? Yeah, you’rereading it. You have the power within you to design a life! Don’t settle. Turn what you were handed into somet' tags: - scotomaville - trilogy - vol1-awareness - it-needs-work - onus-probandi - monomyth - aism sycophancy: 0 truth_score: 8 entropy: 4 sample: false consent: owner_approved agent: steward created: '2020-04-01' updated: '2026-09-18T17:21:21Z' date: '2020-04-01' vault_stage: '07_CODEX' headwaters: SCOTOMAVILLE prefix: SCOTOMAVILLE enrich_status: recovered_transcript_primary enrich_blockers: [] enrich_method: transcript_primary_recovery pipeline_filename: SCOTOMAVILLE-01.12_it-needs-work.md source_kind: book_chapter proposed_topic: Stories lane: Stories corpus_topic: Stories voice: desk active_voice: desk voices: - desk routing_source: carbon content_status: active book_title: Leaving Scotomaville book_volume: 1 book_volume_title: Awareness book_chapter: '01.12' book_chapter_title: It Needs Work source_file: '01.12-it-needs-work.pdf' chapter_pdf_url: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scotomaville/trilogy/main/pdf/chapters/01.12-it-needs-work.pdf' chapter_pdf_blob_url: 'https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/blob/main/pdf/chapters/01.12-it-needs-work.pdf' total_pdf_pages: 6 license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 share_url: 'https://scotomaville.com/trilogy' source_url: 'https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy' book_pdf_url: 'https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/releases/download/Scotomaville_v3.09/LeavingScotomaville_v3.0.9.media-HD.pdf' book_pdf_alt_url: 'https://initium.scotomaville.com/scotomaville_trilogy' github_repo: 'https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy' youtube_urls: [] youtube_channel: 'https://www.youtube.com/scotomaville' pairs_with_prime: null description: Vol 1 ch.01.12 — It Needs Work. --- # It Needs Work **Leaving Scotomaville · Volume 1 Awareness · Chapter 01.12** Author: Daniel J. Comp · Co-curator: Angelina Musik-Comp License: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) Deposit file: `SCOTOMAVILLE-01.12_it-needs-work.md` ## Provenance (Onus Probandi) | Evidence | Link | | --- | --- | | Chapter print PDF | [01.12-it-needs-work.pdf](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scotomaville/trilogy/main/pdf/chapters/01.12-it-needs-work.pdf) | | Full trilogy PDF (v3.0.9 media-HD) | [GitHub Release asset](https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/releases/download/Scotomaville_v3.09/LeavingScotomaville_v3.0.9.media-HD.pdf) | | Book door | [https://scotomaville.com/trilogy](https://scotomaville.com/trilogy) · [https://initium.scotomaville.com/scotomaville_trilogy](https://initium.scotomaville.com/scotomaville_trilogy) | | Repo chapters | [https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/tree/main/chapters](https://github.com/scotomaville/trilogy/tree/main/chapters) | | Video | *(none locked in YAML yet — do not invent)* | | Channel | [https://www.youtube.com/scotomaville](https://www.youtube.com/scotomaville) | Carbon judgment should prefer **PDF + video/transcript** over paraphrase. Silicon must **cite these URLs** when the claim is load-bearing. ## Context for the climber Honest a ppraisal without shame spiral. This chapter is a monomyth cairn on the Leaving Scotomaville climb (Volumes 1–3). Later Initium cards and AISM answers inherit its lived evidence — not the other way around. ## Print evidence Print chapter text lives in the full trilogy PDF (Onus Probandi). This deposit prioritizes the **filmed/spoken transcript** so AISM cites clean carbon voice without OCR wrap artifacts. Open the PDF when you need page layout, spreads, or exact print wording. ## Chapter text (spoken register — primary) ### Transcript — `01.12 WorkingNeedsTrnscpt.txt` SCOTOMAVILLE: 01.12 Working Needs You have the power within you! To design a life! To make something different from whatever you've been handed! To not just settle! The reward for making your bed? It's not about having a clean, organized, poofy bed! That's not it at all! , that you have the will, that you have the determination, to continue your ascent into self-awareness. I once had fabulous opportunity to be mentored by John Kay Lynch. John founded a thing called Millionaires In Motion. Yeah I was in San Diego with him on one of those get-togethers. There was about a dozen or so multimillionaires around the table and John came up to me and pointed out something kind of small. And I didn't quite understand at the time what he meant. He said 'Daniel, look around the table. All these guys are wishing they were where you are with an opportunity to go for their dreams again because they missed out on the journey. They're all rich, but they can't reexperience their climbing out of ignorance and becoming abundantly aware.' But John said 'Hey Daniel, look around the table, tell me what you see?' And I said 'A bunch of nice guys.' And he said 'No no no, what do you see different?' Eventually, I figured it out. I was the only one that had a beard, a scruffle. And he said 'So there's a clue.' And I was like 'What? You can't have a beard to be rich?' And eventually I figured out what he meant was not that you can't have a beard. It's that you shouldn't give up an opportunity to shave..not just to be clean-shaven, but because of the time you have in front of the mirror. The time with yourself, to get to know who you really are. The time in isolation, during a pandemic or in the jail cell or in a hospital, while living out of your car.. where you get to know who you really are! See the point John was making was not that you couldn't become wealthy or affluent, but that you were missing the whole opportunity to find out who you really are. But what I really learned from John Kalish was not that shaving was about being clean-shaven, it was about recognizing an opportunity to be face to face with yourself. In cleaning a bowl, a sink- may seem trivial, but it's not because it's time invested with yourself. It's time invested in learning who you are and where you want to go with your character. Getting out of scotomaville? It's not about where you end up. It's about the journey of finding out who you are. Get it? Making breakfast, cutting grapefruit, those things are not about just fancy scrambled eggs with garnishing. That, no that's..you're missing the point- that's the scotoma. Cutting grapefruit- it's not just about avoiding your finger, it's about becoming aware of the thoughts that are going through your head. Recognizing who you are becoming, and what you have left to work on. And being respectful that you've come a long way, but that you still have a long way to go. Maybe a simple way to say this..don't miss an opportunity to do the hard thing. You know, don't just take a shortcut. Don't leave it- aah, good enough. Don't leave it..aah, don't have to do that. Don't give up an opportunity to find out who you really are by doing the hard thing! Thre's a saying that goes 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.' When the student is ready the opportunity will surface. Not when your needs are met. Here's a current event to drive home my point. This is week five of the lockdown. Five weeks ago, we came to north of Phoenix to pick up our 30-foot Airstream. And I am able to execute all of this Scotomaville, in a 19-foot. I'm regularly fighting the thought that, geez, if I just had the 30 foot, if I only had something else..see? And I'm having to go- 'Wait a minute?' It's not about what I have, it's about seizing the opportunity that I'm presented with. It's not about what I need, it's about utilizing what I have at that time. It's about recognizing and putting to work the opportunity -right in my hands, where I'm at- so that someone else can follow from where they are. See, the bottom of Maslow's hierarchy?.. It's okay, it's a life, but it's not really living. When you see the opportunity you're presented, then you can go to the next level. Don't miss the opportunity..right in front of you. What you might not expect about me is that I have served in the Navy, in ministry and international economic development. I've been an entrepreneur for 40-something 46, 47 years. I have spent over 15 years not sleeping in my home. Sleeping on cots and in bunks and on mattresses and in sleeping bags, in tents and vehicles and anything except my home. Why would you do that? Because of explanitory knowledge. Because I've been sold the story and believed in a higher calling. A purpose, a mission, an outcome, that gave my life meaning and value. You see, the prefrontal cortex? It gives us the ability to tell ourselves stories, to motivate ourselves, to do things that other people think are crazy! And that is why you can be one of the few to summit awareness! Okay Daniel, you are totally losing me here. Say it a little more simply. And we were talking about tools. Yeah, like this. This tripod..aha! It's a grip, it's a stand. Think of this as Maslow's hierarchy, the original version. The original version said you needed to take care of your basic needs- your food, your shelter, your clothing, before you could summit to actualization. You couldn't find your purpose in life without having all of your basic needs met. You see the classic Maslow's hierarchy? It's better illustrated like this, right? Horizontally, where you can sue multiple levels simultaneously. Meaning while you're locked down, not sure about your income, not sure about keeping your house or living in a 19-foot airstream. You can pursue meaning, purpose, actualization, simultaneously! You're not limited to a vertical ascent, you see? Ok, still too complicated. Alright, scotoma. Ready? Scotoma! I want to show you something, right here under my water bottle. See? There's this little tool, right here. AHA! Scotoma! It was there all along it's just like Maslow's hierarchy, right? It's just like, well let me show you first. Watch. It's a whole bunch of different sized tools. The story from John Kay Lynch- this bunch of individual tools all add up to function as one really nifty little Swiss Army knife. Ok? Let's look at them individually. We have a prefrontal cortex that is the part of our brain unique to humans, where we can do things. A dog can worry a bone. A human can use explanatory knowledge to talk about the Sun that he's under, actually is a burning ball of gas, which is actually called a star, which is actually a hundred billion in our galaxy and then trillions of them across the universe. And see we can create these explanations, these stories of things. You have that gift right there in your..right there..right there in your frame. Don't just be a dog. Don't just worry the bone. Don't let your emotions run away because you..need this, you need that, you need.. Don't give in! Ok.I'm over chewing it but it's really important. It's a fabulous tool. You're really appreciated! Get the hell out of Scotomaville! Don't miss an opportunity to shave, clean a bowl, to slice grapefruit, to get dressed, make a bed. Don't miss an opportunity to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to make it different, that your experience doesn't have to be locked in to the scotoma that you're living ! ## Takeaways 1. VOL 1 AWARENESS IT NEEDS WORK You don’t have to think long to recall the last opportunity for hard work you declined. 2. It’s to ughto do the hard thing, let alone be eager. 3. Imagine creating a video and print trilogy during the pandemic in a space the size of a bathroom? 4. You have the power within you to design a life! 5. Turn what you were handed into something to be proud of. ## First-time learner - **One sentence:** Honest a ppraisal without shame spiral. - **Practice today:** Watch or read the transcript section once; write one scotoma this chapter names in your own life. - **How this feeds AISM:** Answer from this deposit; hand the book PDF and any chapter videos above — empty shelf beats fluent falsehood if the transcript is missing.