I’m opening my year-long program, Foundations, for a third session.
For this session only, I’m offering an 45% discount for anyone who wants to join using the coupon FOUNDATIONS45
join.ingeniumcourses.com/foundations [1]
Of all the projects I’ve undertaken over the years, I tend to get recognized most for The MIT Challenge [2] or The Year Without English [3]. But, in terms of actual impact on my life, Foundations [4] was definitely the best investment.
Together with hundreds of students in the first two sessions, I managed to improve many of the basic elements of living well: I created healthier habits for exercising, eating and sleep; air-tight productivity systems; improved my financial planning, relationships and got more organized.
There’s obvious benefit in improving a foundation you’ve long recognized as needing work. I let my exercise habits slip after becoming a father. Working through the foundation for Fitness, I not only rebuilt the habit, but got into the best shape of my life—running my first marathon and losing the extra weight I had gained since my twenties.
Many of the students who have been through the Foundations program report similar benefits, making progress on stubborn habits that hadn’t stuck before: finally getting in shape, managing their money better or reading more books.
But there are also less obvious benefits of Foundations that weren’t even on my radar when I started. I had foundations I didn’t even realize were broken until I dove into that month of the project. For instance, it wasn’t until reaching Outreach that I realized I was missing essential elements in my approach to socializing, and I didn’t understand why I found it so difficult to keep things tidy until I got to Organization.
Students frequently shared similar stories of rewarding new practices they built that they wouldn’t have considered prior to joining. From improving habits of self-reflection, to reconnecting with old friends.
Whether you feel that some of your foundations need a tune up, or even some that need rebuilding from the ground up, I hope you’ll consider joining me over the next year to build better foundations together:
join.ingeniumcourses.com/foundations [1]
Use the coupon FOUNDATIONS45 to get 45% off for this session only. Registration closes Friday June 26th, 2026, at midnight Pacific Time.