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

From Pain Island to Pleasure Island… how to get unstuck

Get comfortable with not knowing the answer

Because you won’t… and maybe for a long time.

But if you insist on knowing, then you won’t actually look, you won’t actually expand. You will keep on pondering, using only what you already ‘know’. And instead of questions that make you grow, you’ll be looking for answers, that confirm what you already ‘know’.

What you already ‘know’ is what keeps you where you are… Continue reading “From Pain Island to Pleasure Island… how to get unstuck”

What is the Tree of Knowledge? How does it work?

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Everything that you BELIEVE is Tree of Knowledge.

What does it mean believe? It means that you don’t actually know, because you don’t have any proof. You didn’t see it, didn’t experience it, so you have to believe it.

When I measure the truth value of something, I am measuring, in essence, the proportion of Tree of Life in what that something says…

Or I could say: I measure the ‘not Tree of Knowledge’ part. Continue reading “What is the Tree of Knowledge? How does it work?”

How to eat, what to eat according to muscletest

Before I go into the meat of the article, I want to share something that you probably don’t expect.

I do small-group, tiny group experimental courses to test out topic and methodology. One of these small groups is two people Last week I had to stop the session, because both participants were dull, stupid, and nothing I said registered for them. So we rescheduled the session for yesterday. Continue reading “How to eat, what to eat according to muscletest”

Need is not a feeling. Feeling is also not a thought.

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Canadian wildfires are painting the sky yellow. This is a good time to think about needs… are they real or are they made up?

Is clean air a need or a nice to have?

A need is real… It’s not just a feeling. Not just a thought. Without the need fulfilled, life itself is dimmed… or extinguished. Continue reading “Need is not a feeling. Feeling is also not a thought.”

Too good to leave, too bad to stay… Leave what exactly?

The book with the same title was about relationships, whether to stay or to go… But if you really look, the conundrum is applicable to work, applicable to lifestyle, opinion, attitude, diet, course, program, profession. Applicable to nearly everything where you need to make a choice… but instead or choosing you are on the fence.

This choice also includes choosing your worldview. Choosing to remain with the one you have, or look at the world differently. Continue reading “Too good to leave, too bad to stay… Leave what exactly?”

Worlds Apart: worldviews… Part 2: Comparing the two

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Worlds Apart: the two basic worldviews every worldview belongs to… Part 2: Comparing the two worldviews

If you haven’t read part 1, it’s here…

Like you, I want certainty. Like you, I want to be sure. And like you, I want to understand how the world works.

Why? Because we are coming from a personal worldview that Life is dangerous. Or something to that effect. Continue reading “Worlds Apart: worldviews… Part 2: Comparing the two”

Learning lessons the hard way or the easy way, choose 2

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The brilliance in the movie, It’s a wonderful life is that the angel creates a thought experiment: what the world would be like if our hero hadn’t been born.

Thought experiments are uniquely human: animals can’t do thought experiments. Continue reading “Learning lessons the hard way or the easy way, choose 2”

Dogs can’t see rainbows. People can see them, but don’t

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If you are discouraged, read how I got myself out of the rut and see the rainbow again

I just read Roy H. Williams’ Monday Morning Memo.

It was just the thing for me to read… it was a mixture of feeling shamed and encouraged at the same time… Whaat? Yeah.

I woke up depressed. Not new, I have been depressed to some degree all my life. Continue reading “Dogs can’t see rainbows. People can see them, but don’t”

How dead are you? If your life is not a roller coaster…

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What’s special about the roller coaster is the height it takes you and the depth it takes you… The experience is aliveness.

When your life has no highs and maybe no deep lows, what you are, instead of being alive, is a walking dead. Resigned, and settled for the scraps at life’s table.

You see others at the table, seemingly happy, seemingly alive, and you feel regret, shame, and envy. Continue reading “How dead are you? If your life is not a roller coaster…”

The principle of compounding is not only about money

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The principle of compounding is not only about money

It is also in attaining the good life: health, wealth, love and fulfillment.

But not understanding the principle, having a narrow cone of vision will rob you of a chance for a life you love and live powerfully. If that is what you want… listen up. This may be the most disturbing and the most beneficial article you have ever read. Continue reading “The principle of compounding is not only about money”