How to be excited about your business for over 22 years (The story of 5000bc)

We started 5000 BC as a way to explain the difficulties that people were having when they read the brain audit.

So it morphed from there into everything else, the forum, the vanishing reports, and then this huge archive.

Now, I get a lot of my energy from answering questions.

Probably that's the biggest reason why it has gone on for all of these years.

Because the same questions come up over and over again, and then I have to answer it in a different way.

When you take a pool of questions that pop up in life, I don't think you'd probably have more than a hundred.

Yet every time you ask the same question, the answer changes.

Sometimes it's because you've changed or because everything around us has changed.

A member asks something random or specific, and then I want to answer that question.

I want to explore it in a deeper way.

That exploration then becomes a framework.

The framework becomes a report, an article, a cartoon, a course, or a workshop.

And this progression is what drives me on a consistent basis.

I've often thought of whether 5000BC is for the members or whether it's for me.

In the most selfish way, it is about me.

I know that without members, it would not exist.

I've often mentioned that somehow I have the answers, but I don't know the questions.

And as pompous as that sounds, it's actually a bug.

I can only move forward if someone asks me the questions.

And then when I answer the question, they come up with another question and another one and another one.

And that's what people have been doing for all of these years.

They've kept that conversation alive by asking more and more questions.

Because if that were to suddenly stop, then 5000BC would stop as well.

There is this constant need to keep getting more questions because when you look at a product like the Brain Audit, it had a version one, and that was a draft, and then that became draft 2.0, which went to 3.2, and so that draft continues.

At the very core, the emphasis has been on solving the problem of the client, but also helping me to think.