Side Quests are the Cure for Brainrot

Free Community for HT Consultants & Agency Owners 🎁 https://www.skool.com/modernmonk If you’re new here, my name is Cormac Taylor. I’m the founder of Modern Monk. I help high ticket consultants & agency owners master their time so they can grow their business faster spending less time at the desk. As a byproduct, time mastery allows you to achieve mastery across multiple domains & experience everything they've unlocked along the way. It hasn't always been this way. In my teenage years I was addicted to online entertainment - specifically video games & binge watching videos. Consuming all of this cheap dopamine killed my drive & focus. At age 17, I was diagnosed with ADHD and told I needed medication for my brain to work normally. From 18-21 I studied finance and economics at the University of Melbourne before following the traditional career path into corporate work. Despite doing what I was supposed to do, I quickly realised I didn’t want to spend my life working on someone else’s schedule and building someone else’s dream. So at 23, I quit my job to build Modern Monk. Since then, I've become obsessed with one question: How can I master my time to achieve lifetimes of progress in years? At the end of 2024, I stopped consuming online entertainment by myself completely. I scaled Modern Monk to the point where it provided me time & location freedom as well as the impact I wanted. In May of 2025 I gave myself 6 weeks to run a marathon as a beginner runner. After completing the marathon I decided to continue to run a marathon every month (currently at marathon 13). In September of 2025, I decided to learn Spanish. Over 7 months I spent on average 4 hours every day receiving comprehensible input to reach conversational fluency. Now I travel around the world while growing my brand, business & side quests with the goal to continue to master my time & live an exceptional life. If you can master your time, you can have it all.