Equanimitize

Man, some futurist say that knowledge is doubling every year. You can imagine that books are growing at a rapid rate as well. I think a better question would be, what books would be of most value at this specific time on my self actualization journey. Everyone needs work in different areas-so I am not sure I can recommend any specific books without knowing what exactly you need to work on. I suppose a good place to start to learn about self-actualization is the Man who popularized the term which is Abraham Maslow and check out some of his work. I'd also highly suggest buying Leo's book list as you are attracted to his content therefore you can see what his recommended readings are. Another way to find out good books is to find your virtual mentors-those who you respect and look up to, type their name on google with book list, recommended readings, etc. A lot of times you can find out what they are reading and triangulate important books. The more you read, the better you get at picking and choosing and finding. Of course you can use Amazon and GoodReads or Youtube for small synopsis of books to look up reviews. Hope this helps.

@Your place at HeartCool, Thanks.

Running from the herd is the first step for sure, but telling people to run from the herd is like telling them to stop drinking water. It goes against every ounce of their “survivability” as most of you know, being with the sheeple is hardwired from birth and so as we evolve and we no longer need breast milk from our fellow sheeple we can actually start walking our own path. I think there has to be an inner intuition sprinkled with some suffering for people to start breaking free from their own slavery. At least this was this case for me, I needed to hit my head a few times. ?

An existential crisis or "mid life crisis" which is a beautiful thing because it means that the individual is not congruent and the Universe is trying to auto correct him or her. Well, typically 2 choices continue hitting their heads on the wall, or make changes, or some combination of the two. The only thing thing that has remained since they can remember-consciousness.

@DavidKRight on, I found working in a toxic work environment and personal development to be a great combination too. Not so natural and not very easy, but there can be a lot of growth. Its all about being an alchemist turn shit into gold.

Understand, I would just focus on one practice and try and make it ingrained into your brain housing group. Just focus on Meditation, or if you’re not happy with your body just focus on your diet for 3-6 months let that be your priority, etc. An easy way to categorize personal development is personal and professional. You’re working on your professional by going to school, so with personal development look for your biggest opportunity for growth. In other words what thing is holding you back at this point in time. Just looking from the surface from what you said energy, maybe an option would be how to optimize your diet. Or learn how to learn most efficiently and effectively-there’s several courses on this. Sometimes we spend more time then is needed on a given task where we have diminishing returns, this may be a good place to start. Look into time blocking and work/rest cycles. In other words sometimes more is less and less is more. Hooe this helps

The actual self development work can be stressful, such as strong determination sitting, speaking your truth and setting boundaries even when your voice shakes, doing breathe work, doing shadow work and shining light on your inner psyche. If it was not stressful everyone would be fully developed capable human beings. However, the result of your personal development should not bring you more stress. The result should be less stress and and more durability.

I don’t see a duality with self actualization work and studying for college. In fact I see it as one in the same. You can do self actualization work everywhere, whenever, and how ever you like. All it takes is a deep drive to love thyself, accept thyself, and grow thyself. If you’re talking about what specific techniques you can do, that’s a different sort of question. if you’re tired for whatever reason look in to optimizing diet, rest, and exercise. Hope this helps.

You’ve already started the process by merely asking questions on a self development forum about your perceived issues. Which is a great thing. There’s nothing missing, there’s nothing wrong with you, put your focus on your suffering. Where is it coming from? Continue chipping away at the hammer for answers. Theres not “one” specific thing, this is a life long journey of becoming the best version of yourself. Be a mechanic and turn the wrench on yourself.

Meditate more.

A simple proactive practical way of developing your creation skills is to combine 2-3 things that have no relation to each other and figure out how they in fact do relate to each other. You can use a Venn diagram or mental gymnastics to do this. You do it for 90 days, you'll see how much is out there to be created. Your essentially re-wiring your brain to look at things differently, so that you can combine unique things to come up with something greater then the sum of its parts.

Start chipping away at the hammer for the lifelong bad habits. Start digging deep and searching for where this unconscious behavior comes from. Pick one habit you'd like to get rid of, and every day you wake up commit to breaking that habit. It has worked best for me if you work in 24 hour blocks, every time you wake up commit to breaking that one habit. It takes on average about 66 days to break habits, this will vary of course. Once you break one habit, you'll see that you have the power to do this with all of your bad habits, which will snowball into all areas of your life. Whats really cool, is you can then replace the negative habit, with a positive habit and before you know it your life is transformed. As far as creativity, you can start combining 2 different things that you see or that come to mind, things that you would never think relate together. For example I see a Pencil and a Tree. What does a Pencil and a Tree have in common, well a pencil comes from a tree, they are both tall and skinny, etc. Or how about an iPhone and a highway, well the iPhone has a map of the highway, they are both man made, etc. Before you know it, you'll start seeing how everything connects together, you can do this with a journal or whenever/wherever you feel like it. Try and do it for 90 days, and it'll give you a new perspective. Also, if you don't have vision/purpose your creativity has no outlet. I am sure you know this, but life purpose and vision are extremely important.

@Leo Kaminski These organizations already exist. Check out Frederic Laloux he wrote a book about stage Yellow organizations, and how effective they are. https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539276107&sr=8-1&keywords=reinventing+organizations+by+frederic+laloux

Exactly, most people take actions which will slowly lead to a transitions, which then lead to transformations. You're going from the bottom of the stairs all the way to the top, so you are essentially forcing yourself to adapt to the environment in which you seek. When you combine this with the no retreat rule, in which you burn the ship so that the capability to retreat is not an option-where you have to fight the battle. You are left with Big results; results that were not foreseeable at your previous level.

Man on the Subway by Stephen Covey People were sitting quietly – some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene. Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly the whole climate changed. The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation. The children were yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people’s papers. It was very disturbing. And yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing. It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive as to let his children run wild like that and do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. It was easy to see that everyone else on the subway felt irritated, too. So finally, with what I felt like was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, “Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more?” The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly, “Oh, you’re right. I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don’t know what do think, and I guess they don’t know who to handle it either.” Can you imagine what I felt at that moment? My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. My irritation vanished. I didn’t have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man’s pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely. “Your wife just died? Oh I’m so sorry! Can you tell me about it? What can I do to help?” Everything changed in an instant.”

Less Lyrics the better the way I see it These Artist are incredible, enjoy! Tycho: Emancipator: Bonobo:

@zenith Eben Pagans courses are awesome and have great value. You can also check out Seth Godin, he has several books and courses. You can also read some more foundational books on Marketing from David Ogilvy. You can check out Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, and Joe Polish. Marketing is essentially a superpower to manipulate people. Whether you use it for higher consciousness ideals and values is on you. I am learning about marketing myself and by no means am I an expert, but these are some of the things I have learned so far, good luck on your journey!

Here is a great example of a Yellow CEO in Holland. Realizes that a lot of companies are not sustainable with regards to energy, finance, healthcare, etc. and so develops a Stage Yellow Company. He is not saying "companies should be more like this" or "I wish more companies would care more about people" (green) he is being the change by implementing systemic principles to think with long term sustainability in mind.

David Shaw talks about combining two totally separate things in order to come up with research and outcomes. Talks about how scientist need to use more of their Right Brain so that they can use more of their creativity and artistic capabilities not just their logic (left brain).

Dr. Keith Witt is a great example of Yellow, knocking on Turquoise's Door.

Jeff Salzman has a podcast called Daily Evolver that is a Stage Yellow Podcast for those that are interested.

I am curious as to how Ramana Maharshi and some other older mystics, yogis, and spiritual tribes can be Turquoise when it came online only 30 years ago according to the Spiral Dynamics website. I understand that Maharshi was beyond Spiral Dynamics, however his world views didn't even exist back then. I just read Aubrey Marcus new book. He is Orange and Green, maybe Yellow if you are feeling generous. Definitely not Turquoise.

A good product doesn't necessarily sell itself in my opinion, how would you convince people to buy your product from the start? The mouse trap itself is marketing. Apple had incredible marketing that went along with their incredible product. Marketing is an absolute essential skill to have. Marketing often times is the major hiccup that differentiates a successful and unsuccessful business. Marketing entails putting yourself out there, which is what I think stops a lot of people from pursuing there Business.

Does anyone have any examples of a stage Yellow U.S. Politician (Other then Obama)?