The skill of achieving goals
metatraining pipelines are structured as a sequence of accumulated practice. First you learn to notice and recognize what is actually happening, then adjust conditions, assemble a system of habits, and gradually move toward creating your own approaches for unconventional goals.
How pipelines are structured
You do not need to study anything to complete the pipelines. Theory stays under the hood and becomes the order of practice.
Each pipeline goes through a similar cycle of preparation, practice, and analysis.
Every pipeline contains the full methodology, but its main focus is a specific set of skills.
The logic of pipelines
The logic of the program is not to go through seven different topics. The user goes through the same practical loop many times, each time focusing on something specific.
Methodology
The core of the methodology is built on scientific research and work studying the phenomena of habits and willpower. The methodology is the structure of the pipeline, not a library of materials, so each pipeline contains the entire methodology. Habits, metahabits, and individual metaskills begin forming from the very start, not at the end.
what makes the journey worth it
We do not teach you to maintain motivation, but by making small daily wins in the form of check-ins, you learn to win while creating your own system of motivation.
what gets things started
We do not give exercises for developing willpower, but by working through your own pipeline toward the goal, you learn to use it as a tool for starting and returning.
what keeps things going
We do not give exercises for creating habits, but by completing pipeline tasks, you naturally form system-building habits.
Seven pipelines
Seven pipelines lead from the first observation of your own behavior to the ability to assemble a system of actions, chains, reviews, and decisions around a goal. Duration shows the time of one active attempt after onboarding.
Observation. We begin noticing what is actually happening
Notice actions, distractions, and repeated scenarios that usually pass by attention, but affect achievement of the goal.
Environment. We begin removing what gets in the way and adding what helps
We use the skill of observation to work with influencing factors - neutralizing those that interfere and strengthening those that support.
System. We begin consciously assembling the first habits around the goal
We use the skill of working with the environment and turn it into a systematic approach. Habits harmful to the goal are neutralized, while useful ones are created or strengthened.
Habits. We learn to create new habits and integrate them into existing ones
Using a systematic approach to habits, we design a consistent and coherent system of habits, creating chains and connections between them.
Awareness. We create a perception filter
Using the skill of forming a system of habits, we create a perception filter - looking at what happens in life through the lens of approaching or moving away from the goal.
Metaskills. We develop them through experience
Turn noticing, recognition, and evaluation into a habitual perception filter that helps automatically identify events related to the goal and form practical critical thinking.
Integration. We bring everything together
Combine observation, environment, habits, and metaskills into working methods, techniques, and approaches that are created anew for a specific unconventional goal, instead of trying to achieve it with standard methods.
The pipelines are built on a library of methods, works by Charles Duhigg, James Clear, BJ Fogg, Wendy Wood, Katy Milkman, and Kelly McGonigal, studies by Gollwitzer & Sheeran, Lally et al., Wood & Neal, Gardner et al., and a separate layer for motivation, goal, and the image of the future, including Focusing, Best Possible Self, Possible Selves, and ACT. We do not present this foundation as required reading, because for most goals studying theory easily becomes a way to postpone practice. If this depth itself is your goal, you can study it separately. In metatraining, it stays under the hood and becomes the order of practice.
If you see that a method, approach, model, or practice contradicts proven and recognized scientific evidence, send us your point of view and reasoning. We will examine the arguments carefully and give them an assessment. This will help metatraining become more precise.
Where do you start?
Before we can propose a practice for achieving a goal, we first need to understand two things - whether you have a medium-term or long-term goal, and whether you have the motivation to sustain extended practice. The decision about readiness remains yours. For this, we prepared the entry brief.
After completing the brief, you will be able to:
Motivation
Understand whether the goal has a sufficient basis - something for which you are ready to make regular effort over a long horizon.
Goal
Check whether the goal requires not a one-off effort, but extended practice and a system of habits.
Lifestyle
Make sure that achieving the goal leads somewhere you genuinely want to be and remain.
What next?
If you need to understand how a pipeline works from the inside, open practice. If you need to start the first step, take the entry brief.