Become all you can become by raising yourself higher on the Tree of Life

Is what you want attainable through your methods?

Yesterday I asked people who subscribe to my weekly digest to recommend some topics they are would be willing to spend a whole week with.

And I got only a trickle of suggestions.

One suggestion was really interesting. It was from a woman who endeavors to play a ‘best friend’ to me with her suggestions.

Let’s not forget, we are at the zenith of the we-generation.

So in her email she suggests that I look differently. She asks: ‘what can you teach to people who aren’t looking for a teacher anymore? I’m not looking for a mentor anymore, I’m looking for a peer.‘

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When Life, people seem to work against you…

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When Life seems to work against you… or does opposite of what you expected

One of my teachers, via Ayn Rand, has been Aristotle.

He taught me one thing. Most people will not teach you much… they will attempt to do one thing and one thing only: alter your foundation.

And with regards to foundation altering: Aristotle’s teaching is the most jarring, and the most transformative.

Here is the teaching:

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.

If you are doing all the right things and still don’t get your results… that is a contradiction. Check your premises.

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Steve Jobs said: only looking backwards you can…

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Why did Steve Jobs say: You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards? Why couldn’t he connect the dots forward?

Very few people, mainly only chess masters and strategists, have the ability to hold as many as 16 items in their brains so they can connect the dots forward.

Steve Jobs didn’t. Couldn’t. Could not even see that it’s possible. Continue reading “Steve Jobs said: only looking backwards you can…”

How to innovate yourself out of a bad situation

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On the other side of pain, on the other side of unpleasant… How firewalking is an analogy to life… Or how to innovate yourself out of a bad situation

Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones.

Firewalking has been practiced by many people and cultures in all parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating back to Iron Age India – c. 1200 BC. It is often used as a rite of passage, as a test of an individual’s strength and courage, or in religion as a test of one’s faith.

One of the buzz-words Tai uses in several of his steps is ‘innovate yourself out of’ the trouble you are in… the stuck states, the problem, etc. It’s Jeff Bezos’ favorite method of growth… Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame…

I have never met a person, I have never met a student who even remotely could imagine this accurately, including Tai. Continue reading “How to innovate yourself out of a bad situation”

What does it take to change your limiting core belief?

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How the famous ‘probable future exercise’ can correct missteps, acting blindly without ever looking where the path leads?

In my experience, if you can allow your eyes to look into the future, you can see that unless you change something, you’ll get to a point where there is no more road… no more future for you… And that may allow you to take the plunge, and change your fundamental and limiting core belief about the world…

Because the issue is not always what you believe about yourself; the issue is what you believe to be true about reality. Continue reading “What does it take to change your limiting core belief?”