Ant Taylor emphasizes there was no single “Carpe Diem, stand on the desk and scream” breakthrough moment. His transformation was “a series of experiments and really kind of an ebb and flow of intensity that was just pushing ever wider into undiscovered country.”
Even the pivotal moment with Joe was only the beginning — it took “so many reps to really get or feel” the mind-to-somatic connection. The Harrison assessment episode came a full year later, where Ant spent three hours failing in front of his team trying to make the tool work. Each failure was another experiment, another rep.
He describes the ongoing nature of it: labeling a summer “The Summer of Resistance” because old stories kept showing up in new forms. The work isn’t done — it’s a practice. He compares it to “emotional base jumping” that has scared him more than actual base jumping on many occasions.
This framing — transformation as accumulated experiments rather than a single insight — matters because it’s honest about the process and makes it accessible. You don’t need a dramatic breakthrough. You need to keep running experiments.
Related Concepts
- Experiments make knowledge embodied
- Confidence comes from reps, not reading
- Insight requires embodied integration
- Watching a leader fail openly teaches more than their success