Become all you can become with Sophie
He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
Knowing what you want to achieve, is one thing that is missing in you. Another name for that is called “mental representation” of what you want to achieve.
Mental representation is a detailed picture, so detailed and so tangible, that you can pinpoint where reality is deviating from it… and how. Continue reading “Why is it important to know what you want?”
Life is like being in a train: you can look out on the left side, the right side, the back, the front… but it won’t change that you are on a train that will arrive to its destination, no matter where you look.
Most of us live this way most of the time. Continue reading “Life is a lot like traveling by train… like a train trip”
One of the most useful things I have ever done is this:
I would find a mentor. I offered my services to do whatever needed done. More often than not I learned useful skills through the doing. Skills that I needed for myself. And while I was around the mentor, I could learn from him.
Life needs a lot of skills to do life successfully. The opportunities to learn those skills is sparse… Because skills are not knowledge, even if they are mental, intellectual skills: they are the ability to do, to perform a skill… not to understand it.
Continue reading “One of the most useful things I have ever done for myself”
I am reading a book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. I am reading it because I want to be able to teach my students better, so they can leave behind the level of ordinary school learning, the pedestrian learning that always produces pedestrian result.
Amateurish performance, amateurish life. 1
The DNA, the blueprint that heralds the evolution of humans, the inactive 160 spiritual capacities, don’t become needed, and therefore won’t turn on, or won’t stay on, in a pedestrian, amateurish life where one doesn’t go consistently beyond their limits, intellectually, spiritually.
Continue reading “The capacity of seeing patterns…the threshold capacity”
Everyone can get to the good life, but not everyone will get to the good life. Why? Because not everyone is willing to do what they need to do to get to the good life.
Tai Lopez said that. What he didn’t say: you need to go beyond where you are comfortable, so you’ll need a second wind.
And it is true on certain conditions. Continue reading “Second Wind: Abilities or effort? The role of effort”
I just discovered that the version of the Freecell game is “forgiving”, i.e. you can go back more than one step… “start over again” without a penalty point.
This makes the game an even better modeling tool than it used to be.
I always suspected that the first step really decides the rest of the journey… but being a Quickstart… jumping-without-thinking-type-of-person, this would not have really mattered.
But now, all morning, I have been testing.
I noticed that I get a tightening of the stomach from the idea and the practice of looking before I leap. It’s fear.
When I manage to include the fear, and actually look, systematically, the success rate is 100%.
What could be the reason? After all I can’t see, consciously, and hold any more in memory than three steps ahead… so why would it be that the success rate is so dramatically different?
What would explain this, and my experience that “something” moves my hand?
I am starting to formulate a new theory.
Continue reading “One reason you have no peace inside… And how you could…”
I found this article in my inbox. I think it is perfect for what I teach… So let’s see how it applies… The article is about hypnosis secrets: a way to manipulate others through hypnotic language… I don’t recommend it. The more you use it the less integrity you’ll have.
On the other hand, there is a non-manipulative way you can produce the same results, if what you have to say is good… If what you have to say is crap… even g-o-d can’t help you.
OK, here is the article… I drive it home at the end.
Take this test:
Count up all the people you spoke to (or emailed or messaged) over the last week.
The people at work.
At home.
And the people you spoke to as you went about your day.
You probably won’t be able to remember the exact number.
That’s okay – just guess.
Let’s say it was 20 people.
Now, here’s something to digest:
The responses you got from those 20 people (or however many it was) determined the options and opportunities available to you from last week forward.
If 18 out of those 20 people shot down your ideas or ignored your requests — your options and opportunities will be…
SEVERELY RESTRICTED!
Your machine: Cycles, patterns, spiritual path: Life is a circle of repeating changes, rising and falling like the seasons.
Although all models are wrong, some are useful. This model is useful.
Robert Fritz, author of the book, The Path of Least Resistance, can offer a lot of information on the topic.
Fritz’s oscillating structures is a model and it is useful. Continue reading “Your machine: Cycles, patterns, spiritual path”
What is happening when you can’t see what is in front of you, only your mind, only the filter?
There are several reasons why you wouldn’t be able to see and respond correctly to what is in front of you.
You really think that you are interacting with reality…
Continue reading “Reality, filtered, is not reality… it’s unreality. You only have power when you interact with reality directly”
I am about as religious as a teacup… and that is actually one of the freedoms that allow me to experiment, to allow myself to be guided through torturous paths, to use my life to discover law-like phenomena, to read everything and the opposite, to allow myself to go from despair to elation and back…
Life, the Universe is largely unknowable. You can, by the way, call it “god” if you wish… and please do that if that will allow you to follow this discussion.
This article will be a little bit hodge-podge, given that I have to gather a lot of disparate stuff to make sense in the end. So bear with me.
Your ability to bear with me will be consistent with the number of capacities you have active on your DNA… If you, like most of humanity, have seven capacities active: you’ll have to hang in there, and maybe read it a few times.
OK, let’s begin:
Continue reading “The role of structures in happiness, in achievement, in a life worth living”
