M2M Day 116: Challenge complete! I landed my first backflip

Max Deutsch
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

This post is part of Month to Master, a 12-month accelerated learning project. For February, my goal is to land a backflip.

Today, I I landed my first completely unassisted backflip, which means February’s challenge is complete!

Here are the first two I landed. They aren’t beautiful, but I stayed on my feet.

After these, I was able to throw a few better ones.

I wish I could now say that I can land a backflip whenever and wherever I want, but that’s not quite the case.

In fact, after throwing about ten good backflips today, I completely depleted my willpower and became crippled by fear. It was a bizarre experience, which I’ll discuss tomorrow.

In the meantime, I’ll celebrate the fact that I successfully landed a few backflips. I guess that means I’m now a person that “can do a backflip”, or, at least a person who has “done a backflip”, which is something I’m definitely psyched about.

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Max Deutsch is an obsessive learner, product builder, guinea pig for Month to Master, and founder at Openmind.

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