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I’ve said many times that there are two types of people who will survive and perhaps even thrive during the civilizational collapse of the West, especially the Collapsing Trifecta (USA, Canada, and Europe) which will happen in your lifetime.

The first type of person is wealthy people. As always, I define “wealthy” as someone with a net worth of at least $10 million or more. Most of these people will probably be fine during the collapse because they can afford the resources that will protect them and they can live on their wealth if they lose all of their income (provided they’re invested in the right things, which is a complex discussion outside the scope of this article).

The second type of person who will survive/thrive during the collapse is those who are hyper-flexible. Even if they don’t have a lot of money they will probably be okay provided they’ve internationalized, meaning they’ve at least set up an international backup plan before the collapse in their particular country or region occurs.

Hyper-flexible means that you are more or less happy regardless of the specifics of your living conditions.

I’ll give you several examples.

As I type these words, I’m living in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Dubai. It’s in a cool part of town, it has a nice view, and it’s in a brand new building (I’m the apartment’s first occupant) but it’s very, very small, smaller even than my apartment in Paraguay. I’m pretty sure a queen bed wouldn’t fit in either the bedroom or the living area outside of the bedroom. My entire Dubai apartment could fit inside into two bedrooms in the house I had last year.

Speaking of that house, last year I was in a five-bedroom two-story house in a gated community in one of Dubai’s nicer neighborhoods. It had a giant kitchen, a huge living room, a second living room upstairs, a big backyard, and so on. It was a nice place; the rent there was over $9,000 USD per month and the air conditioning bill alone was often $1,200 a month or more.

I decided to move into this tiny apartment last year so I could 100% focus on building my companies instead of focusing on comfort or lifestyle. I consider my apartment an office where I also happen to sleep, and that’s exactly what it is. Everything in this apartment is focused on one thing: me being effective so I can scale my companies. Nothing else. So it’s tiny, ugly, but very effective.

You might be thinking that I’m less happy living in this tiny apartment than in that big beautiful house.

But I’m hyper-flexible. So I am just as happy living in this tiny apartment as I was living in that big home. I’m serious and I’m being 100% literal… I am just as happy with my living conditions right now as I was in that house last year.

Does that mean I consider my apartment perfect? No. Because it’s so small, sometimes I have to move items out of the way to get to other items which is irritating. Sometimes I have to stand on a little stool to reach certain items that are really high up because there’s nowhere else to put them.

I didn’t have to do any of that when I lived in my big house… but… there were things about the big house I found irritating also. For example, very similar to the 3,500 square foot house I had in the USA before I left, whenever I left something in another room in the big house or had to go get something, I had to walk all the way across the house to get it, often having to go all the way upstairs or downstairs and then come back. It was irritating as shit and it happened all the time.

In my tiny apartment, 100% of everything I want is only a few steps away. Extremely efficient.

The negatives of my tiny apartment equal the negatives of my big house, at least for me, because I’m hyper-flexible.

Most Westerners would lose their fucking minds if they were accustomed to living in a five-bedroom house and then moved to a microscopic little one-bedroom apartment, because most Westerners, Americans in particular, aren’t hyper-flexible.

I’m not just talking about your home. You can identify non-flexible people by the questions they ask and the concerns they raise.

For example, if I talk about a cool non-Western country to move to or use as a flag (UAE, Mexico, Paraguay, Thailand, whatever), hyper-flexible people get very interested, but other people ask questions like this:

What if I move there and there’s a war???

It’s dangerous there! Won’t I get kidnapped or killed by cartels???

What if I do something wrong or say something they don’t like and the cops throw me in jail???

What if I get some kind of disease there??? Do they have good hospitals there???

Do they respect gun rights???

What’s the water quality like there???

Asking or thinking any of these questions indicates you are not hyper-flexible. This in turn means that likely you’re one of the people who be completely thwacked by Western collapse when it comes knocking on your door, which it will in your lifetime.

(This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. But I’ll get to that in a minute.)

This is why I’ve joked that if you’re not hyper-flexible then I hope you’ve got $10 million in the bank because that’s the only other thing that will save you. That is unless you start re-orienting your personality and preferences, which is possible but takes a degree of work, time, and practice.

Since being hyper-flexible is about your living conditions, it also relates to your dating and marital status. Many people absolutely can’t be alone and must either be dating someone or living with someone at all times. Obviously, these people aren’t hyper-flexible. I’m hyper-flexible so I’m happy being 100% single, living alone, dating someone, living part-time with someone, or living full-time with someone, all of which I’ve done in my life and all of which I’ve enjoyed. It’s all good to me, baby.

Some people hate cities so they would hate Dubai, but I love Dubai. Some people are very worried about being in lower-end, emerging market countries like Paraguay, but I love Paraguay. I’m hyper-flexible, so I’m happy with all of it, rural, city, rich, poor, whatever.

If you’re not hyper-flexible, that doesn’t mean you’re a bad person or an asshole or that anything is wrong with you. Non-hyper-flexible people can be great. My wife isn’t hyper-flexible nor are most people I know and love.

The problem isn’t you, the problem is the era you happen to live in. Non-hyper-flexible people were perfectly fine living in the 1950s, the 1980s, or even the early 2000s. But now we’re in the midst of Western collapse, America is fucked (and Trump can’t fix it), Canada has gone insane, and Europe is going down the toilet. Non-hyper-flexible people are now exposed to all kinds of huge and catastrophic problems they haven’t needed to worry about in the last 150 years.

If you’re one of these non-hyper-flexible people, my life Mission is to help you survive and thrive during the collapse. This means you have two options:

Option 1: Start working on becoming more flexible, which is hard. Start looking at new things, trying new things. Travel some more and live in different environments than you’re accustomed to. Try to be a little more accepting and brave about other countries, other systems, other cultures, and especially lower levels of economic development.

Option 2: Put down the weed, turn off the Netflix, get all the social media apps off of your phone, stop playing video games, stop watching porn, and get your ass to work. Blow your brains out with your Alpha 2.0 business and earn shitloads of money so you have your $10 million or more by the time the West collapses. You have some time… not a lot of time, but some. (My new book coming in January focuses on this. More on this soon.)

Those really are your only two options. I wish you had more choices than that, but we have to face reality as it is.

For extra credit, you can be hyper-flexible and wealthy. That’s the path I’m on. If you have millions of dollars and you’re hyper-flexible, man, the world is your oyster, even during times of collapse.

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