Life is short. Make your backstory worth telling.

The Lore Checklist

• Host a dinner party with a super fancy dress code
• Keep a framed photo of someone who isn’t a relative and say “they saved my life once.”
  
• Tell people you almost got cast in a Netflix show.
• Spend 48 hours in a city you’ve never been to without using your phone GPS.
• Put a skull or ancient artifact on your bookshelf.
• Read at least one really old book by Dostoevsky, Homer, Wodehouse, Tolstoy, or Plato
• Do a silent retreat in the mountains and come back different.
• Attend a high-level summit in a niche topic like and just learn + vibe.
• Go to a retreat in central america
• Try to find God
• Start casually referring to “my time in the archives.”
• Try and find a lost treasure
• Fall in love with a stranger in another country. Maybe let them break your heart
• Ride a train somewhere far away
• Book an Airbnb in the middle of nowhere and start writing your memoir
• Create a fake name + identity and attend a networking event in a city where no one knows you. Stay in character the whole night.
• Ride a train somewhere far away
• Acquire an arch-nemesis
• Go 72 hours without any screen time
• Create a spotify playlist for your deathbed
• Sneak into a hotel pool at night with your best friend, just to swim under the stars and drink canned rosé.
• Fall in love with a bartender for exactly one weekend. Never get their number.
• Write a message in a bottle and get a response.
• Wake up at 5am for a week to film sunrises and train like you’re in a Nike commercial.
• Get insanely good at something random (yo-yo, chess, Rubik’s cube, lock-picking).
• Buy a camera and document one weekend with your best friends like it’s the last one ever. Edit it like a film trailer.
• Write a letter to your future spouse
• To be continued...