When Cleaners achieve their objectives, they don’t celebrate for long because they always want more. To Cleaners, winning is addictive, and they always go back to work with a new ambition. Grover urges his players to aim even higher than they think they should. While their outlook yields results, Cleaners can feel quite lonely and are at risk of experiencing burnout because of their intense work ethic. Yet most Cleaners ultimately crave the feeling of victory and feel more stressed at the thought of resting than of working. They continue to embrace pressure and use it to propel themselves to new heights. Grover urges the reader to be like Cleaners and never to stop until they have made their fantasies a reality. He feels that the most important conflict people have is with themselves: to succeed, one must conquer oneself. In his parting words, he urges the reader to become a Cleaner and go claim what they want in life.

In his final chapter, the author acknowledges the drawbacks of operating as a Cleaner. In citing the loneliness that comes with this mindset, Grover tacitly acknowledges the individualistic ethos that underpins his model of success. 

Chapter Lessons

• Anticipate facing loneliness and burnout if you adopt the Cleaner mindset.
• Success starts with conquering your own doubts and fears.
• Do not dismiss your dreams as “fantasies”; embrace them as instinctual signs.

Reflection Questions

• How might you cope with the loneliness of succeeding on your own? Would this experience still make success worth it to you?
• Grover acknowledges that burnout is a real problem amongst Cleaners. What steps might you take now to avoid burnout in the future?
• What ideas have you previously dismissed as “fantasy”? What might your instincts be telling you through these dreams? Will you pursue these ideas?