Love Is The Opposite Of Fear
The more your work and life are energized by avoiding failure or fearing success, the more your creative ability erodes. Love is the opposite of fear. When your work and life are energized by love,...
View ArticleWe Develop Habits Based On Mental Models Established Early In Life
We develop habits based on mental models (mostly tacit) established early in life that guide our readiness to respond to perceived situations in similar ways. The brain protects established habits by...
View ArticleSpiritual Growth and Psychological Development Are Very Close To Each Other
Several people have asked me why I put the word “Business” before “Success” in the title of my recent book since it is a book that everyone could benefit from reading. My reason may have been flawed...
View ArticleThe Case For Self-Knowledge Is Now Being Made In Several Popular Books
I believe that the case for self-knowledge is now being made in several popular books and business forums. In previous posts I have suggested some things you can do to achieve greater objective...
View ArticleWhat Makes People Notice You and Seek Your Guidance?
First, it is the realization that you see them as worthy objects per se and are genuinely interested in what they are communicating. Second, their mirror neurons are stimulated by your resonance....
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean To See Another Person As A Narcissistic Extension Of You?
It means that you are not seeing or acknowledging them as separate with a right to their own ideas, dreams or pursuits. For example, what the other person thinks, feels, or does is connected to you in...
View ArticleWhat does it mean to be able to offer others who seek your wisdom clarity...
The short answer is self-knowledge. It means that you know yourself as you truly are. Early mental models and the illusions needed to sustain them require a lot of energy, sometimes against mountains...
View ArticleSelf-Knowledge Energizes Concentration and So Much More
Assuming you get adequate sleep, self-knowledge contributes to “flow” for extended periods of time. You tend to experience calm energy and relaxed alertness throughout the process. Self-knowledge...
View ArticleI Would Like To Imbrue Every CEO Of Every Company With Perfect Self-Knowledge
If I had magical powers (which I don’t) and wanted to do the greatest good for the largest number of people in the western world, I would imbrue every CEO of every company with perfect self-knowledge....
View ArticleThe Best Way To Control Someone Is To Love Them
Although hopefully not your intent, the best way to control someone is to love them. Love may be defined simply as “belief in the existence of the other per se.” If you want the best others have to...
View ArticleThe First Step Is To Facilitate Gaining Knowledge
The first step in helping others, or helping ourselves for that matter, is to facilitate gaining knowledge about our real self and hence our real potential. Perhaps the most critical step in this...
View ArticleDo You Have Clarity?
“One of the most popular TED talks ever is by Simon Sinek and is titled “Start With Why”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sioZd3AxmnE . In his talk Simon draws three embedded circles with “Why” at the...
View ArticleThe Key To Understanding The Power Of Self-Knowledge
This is a critical post and is the key to understanding the power of self-knowledge and enjoying the rapture of being fully alive. Read it carefully, then read tomorrow’s post, and re-read this one...
View ArticleAll Change Involves Loss – Even Positive Changes
The most efficient and time honored way to unravel years of powerful neurological circuitry sustaining early mental models and beliefs is through committed, genuine, and enduring relationships. Perhaps...
View ArticleSeek To Create Real Change
Business enrichment programs often tacitly preserve our early mental models while seeking to create real change. These programs tend to focus on information and accompanying exercises that repeatedly...
View ArticleInformation Does Little To Create Change
“We paid people for their hands for years and they would have given us their heads and their hearts for free if we had just known how to ask for them.” - Simon Sinek The psychological literature...
View ArticleEveryone Understands and Relates To Information Differently
If you offered ten business leaders the same book to read or video to watch, how they would understand it, relate to it, and create knowledge based on it would depend more on “who they are” at the time...
View ArticleRefinement of Existing Paradigms Is No Longer Enough To Embrace a Future...
Traditional business paradigms evolved from a long history of male and power dominated groups. Historically, these early group archetypes probably developed simply because they had survival value. They...
View ArticleWe Can Only Challenge A Belief In The Name Of Another Belief
One of the ways our defenses enable us to preserve outdated mental models and beliefs about ourselves and others is to align with belief systems shared by groups. Using an extreme example, there are...
View ArticleEveryone In The Workforce Is Someone’s Precious Child
Organizations (e.g. families) that are able to learn tend to have leaders who have undergone transformational learning themselves. As a result they are able to believe in the existence of the other per...
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