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As a personal trainer with years of experience I'll tell you: building your body can be extremely complex. Good workout programs are personalized, and they're based on your workout preferences and what you enjoy doing for sports or exercise (so that you stay consistent), your current level of fitness and creating a program that's not too challenging and not too easy, your individual health and wellness goals will determine what exercises are needed and how often you should workout, your genetics and body: what works best for you will not necessarily work well for others, if you have any health conditions your workout should avoid and/or try to build on the areas that are damaged, etc. Add on top of that all the other details and habits you could add to your life to build your body even more, including nutrition, sleep, slow cardio (walking, biking, hiking, swimming), and more. Your ideas and techniques seem to be a good way to learn a good amount about a field very quickly. But you can't run away from complexity. Every atom in the universe is infinitely complex, and that's what makes life so beautiful. To try to run away from complexity and boil life down to a few "simple steps" is to completely ignore every intricate detail life has to offer. It will certainly make life simpler to think that complexity is an illusion, but don't be crying when life throws complex curveballs you never expected. All information is unapplied advice. It's all of our jobs to experiment and see what works best for us. Hope this helps

I'm in the midst of hiring employees for my business, and want to quickly guage the level of development of the applicants during the in-person interview (or more ideally over the phone). Are there questions that help determines their stage on the spiral? Has anyone found specific questionnaires?

@Sartanion If you want to, you can track your progress towards your goal. What are your major goals for your life? How specific is your vision and understanding of your goals? Are there ways that you can measure the progress towards your goal? (For exmaple, if my goal was to get stronger and gain muscle, maybe I would measure my progress by how much I can squat, bench-press, and deadlift) How much time have you spent envisioning the process that will get you to your goal? Do you understand ALL of the traps and pitfalls, as well as the skills and abilities needed for your success? You also seem to be struggling with understanding meaning. Contemplate meaning more, and try to get a better grasp of what role it plays in your life and others. Is meaning real? Do certain things have an inherent meaning? What meaning do I give the things in my life? Is the meaning I place on certain aspects of my life serving my best interests? How can I expand what is meaningful in my life? Hope this helps!

Mastery is too vague. Get specific

@Yannik Good question! Coffee is not necessarily unhealthy, so no major health risks here. But your coffee habit is, most likely, a short-term solution that masks the long-term problem. You might want to investigate: what are the deeper reasons that you don't have enough energy without coffee? Is your diet not giving you the energy and nutrition you need? Do you workout almost every day? Are you meditating and relaxing to restore your energy? Are you not getting enough sleep or is it low quality? Are you doing everything you can to promote your health? Are you developing your concentration abilities to focus without the need for stimulants?

@Commodent You got lucky man! At a young age, you realized that the path you're currently on is not going to be fulfilling enough. Most people have a mid-life crisis and 2 heart attacks to get there Getting your degree could be important if you want to get a job in engineering or working for someone else. But if you want to help others, you have to get a little more specific. Are you thinking more of therapy sessions, or one-on-one personal development sessions? What type of personal development would you focus on, and how can you advertise and market for that? What I'm saying is, if you want to start your own business in the field of personal development or artwork, a degree is probably not a necessity. A few questions: Can you really live for 2 years without any income? During that time you can work your tail off and create the foundations and groundwork for your personal development/therapy/whatever-you-want-to-call-it business. Could you simply switch your major to psychology or philosophy? That would lessen the burden of deciding what you should be doing right now, and give you a few years to study and gain knowledge while contemplating what your next professional moves are. What are your financial goals for the next few years? If you want to live a minimalist lifestyle, you can take on very different work compared to if you wanted to own a mansion and Lamborghini. I think the most important question you should ask yourself is: What kind of work and job will challenge you and help you grow and learn in the direction you want to improve? Hope this helps!

@exhale There's no best way to think. Either you prepared well and will do a good job, or you didn't work hard enough and will not. The amount of confidence you bring before the test or challenge isn't particularly relevant. Although a general sense of confidence, especially when preparing and practicing, can be very powerful!

@Wisebaxter I've totally been there where if you really try to concentrate, there's nothing that really comes to mind. You should ask yourself: are you more of a visual or auditory learner? Do you think more in visual images and moving parts, or more in words and sounds? This can help you figure out where to focus your attention. For me, I write down the question, allow words and images to show themselves, and write them down. Sometimes I have very clear vision and can answer tons of complex questions deeply and effortlessly, and other times it's challenging to eek out a simple answer. Just depends how you're feeling.

What you're saying is, you want to start a business giving massages but have almost no experience? I'd say spend the few months you have left until school finishes training and learning as much as possible. Finish the course, and then take another. Ask others if you can give them massages for free if they give you feedback on what you can improve. Go on youtube and start watching videos from many different instructors. Read massage technique books. Get a well-rounded education on massage. On top of all that, you probably don't know how to market and advertise effectively, how customer relationships work, have the funds to open your own studio, or have the knowledge of running a business. Of course, you can learn all that after you open your business, but that will be a painful process that must happen quickly or you'll find yourself in debt very soon. I'd say build your skills and knowledge, then get a job at a massage studio. Learn from the workers/massagers there, watch how the owner runs the business, learn how to handle and keep customers, and continue working on your craft while earning money and becoming financially independent. Then, you will start to have the base knowledge to open your own business. Hope this helps!

@Quaker great information and advice. @emind If you have no experience with interviewing, you will need to start to educate yourself and practice. Study some of the best interviewers that are popular now: Joe Rogan, Howard Stern, even the Ellen Show. Find what makes the great talk shows similar, and how yours can be different. I think to make a great interview channel, it boils down to 3 factors: The interviewer asks great questions (and is entertaining!), the conversation is fun and interesting, and the guest is comfortable to say what's really on their mind. The other great way to improve your interviewing abilities is to interview the people closest to you. Your family, friends, or even coworkers. Get experience with asking questions and creating a conversation. Film the interview. Watch it again and see where you went right, and where you went wrong. Let experience be your teacher You also need to answer a few questions: What is the purpose of the podcast (entertain, inform, opinion piece)? What types of people do you talk to (scientists, politicians, entertainers, business people, etc.)? Who is your audience? Can you make a profit doing this? Best of luck!

I think you need to define power better. Power comes in many forms: money, prestige, physical strength, willpower, aggressiveness. Do you mean hierarchical power? Like a slaveowner has power over a slave? A boss having power over an employee? A person having power over himself? The dominance hierarchy and economic 'pyramid scheme' aren't based on the standard definition of power. They focus on what you were born into. Were you born in a healthy body? Were you born a good-looking person? Were you born with a functional brain? Do your parents have lots of money? Then you will probably benefit from all of these things and be high on the social hierarchy. If you are given a lot, you will have even more. If you aren't given much, you may end up with less. That's the nature of society right now. Also, there are so many different facets of society that are constantly in motion and changing. Each person and each group values things a little bit different than any other. Some highly value power and dominance, others value intelligence and knowledge and competency. If you want to find out more about what traits different groups value, study spiral dynamics.

Doesn't really matter what school you go to or what program you go into. You'll be there and do your best, and redirect course to a different major (or different school) if you need to. Trust yourself! If you don't like music record, what about being a music manager? Helping artists get recording contracts? Maybe you could get a job or internship at a music company and observe all the jobs, see which one gets you excited. Hope this helps!

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@Moritz_1996 If the position you're in is really giving you unbearable pain, lie down on a bed or just stand up for a while. Experiment and see what works. A big part of meditation is to suffer purposefully and consciously. The more your mind is distracted and bored (focusing on timer, thoughts all over the place, wondering when you will be done), the better. This is a chance to take the controls on your mind and awareness and bring yourself from discomfort and boredom to peace and positive emotions! hope this helps

Good luck finding a job that you only have to work 3 months and still pay for all your survival needs for the year, let alone traveling and anything else enjoyable. Most people work their ass off every weekday of the year and still barely have enough. You don’t have to find your one true life purpose at this very moment. It’s like thinking that you’re going to find your soul-mate next week. Even if you did, you’d probably be too inexperienced and ignorant to realize it. You need more experience and practice to see what relationships and people work well with you and which ones don’t, and you’ll evolve along the way. Same exact thing with your life purpose. Give something a try that seems like it fits you well and feels right, and readjust your course if it’s not. Hope this helps!

@herghly Experiment and find what works for you! That's the ultimate teacher. What works best for me is to make a huge document with everything I want to accomplish. Then I segment it into 3 categories: things I need to do this week (pressing and important), this month, and this year. I put the things I need to do this week into my calendar and schedule times to get them done. Inevitably, life gets in the way and I can't achieve everything I set out to do for the day/week, but I am able to do WAY more than if I didn't schedule it. I also use the Pomodoro Technique as much as possible, and turn off my phone and computer and other distractions. Hope this helps

Pete Buttigieg is running for president in 2020. To me, he seems to be at stage yellow. Am I over-compensating his development because of his oratorial abilities, intelligence, and other skills, or is he truly an incredibly developed politician?

@Harikrishnan You haven't clearly defined what you mean by "successful." For some, doing pick up and having sex with one girl is extremely successful. For others, getting a girl every other night is a failure. Success is subjective and determined by the individual. Societal definitions of success are not objective, and for most somewhat unhealthy.

I think you're spending unneeded energy criticizing other people's development. If you are right, they will find that out for themselves with more life experience how clueless they really are. If you're not, thank god we have people who are highly developed on this planet

Green wants to convert those in beige and purple to green. They will look at some of their barbaric practices and traditions and say "No! That's not how you love each other and take care of each other! You need to be peaceful and share your emotions. Here, let's do yoga together." Green is not developed enough to see that purple can't jump 4 stages and come right up to green. Really, what these people need the most may be a powerful leader who brings them up to red. I also wouldn't necessarily put a stage label on your autistic brother. Spiral dynamics is very accurate, but it only works in about 80% of cases, and it excludes those with mental illness (hope that doesn't offend). I would take your brother's case individually and not place him on the spiral. Maybe he needs more freedom and less structure, and that's why he's hitting people?

@Jakethehoff Amsterdam is moving towards yellow. Their open-minded ideals in their government, laws, and countrymen is very unique. It's a space for people to express themselves how they damn-well please, and people there love it. If you're looking for a place where people are interested in listening to a diverse array of music, this may be the place, especially in the next 30 years.

Communism has a strong focus on the community/group and how they serve the whole. That means that communism can only be a stage that focuses on society rather than the individual. So communism can be purple, blue, green, or turquoise. I think we can quickly rule out purple and turquoise for obvious reasons. Green has a strong emphasis on people and their interactions, and whose values are centered around making the community happy, sharing and caring, and everyone is equal and shares as friends. This is not communism. Communism is structured so that people work not for eachother because they care so much for their fellow countrymen. They are directed and told to work by their government or "higher power". In healthy forms, by a caring and respected group of leaders. In unhealthy forms, by dictators who ruthlessly murder their civilians in the name of nationalism. Communism is a very Blue form of government

@John Iverson Nobody can give you the answer of what you should master. What do you tend to focus on? What things in life really turn you on? What makes your heart sing? These are things to master

@Shiva 's got a good grasp of this. Reasons aren't objective, they're stories and ideas to justify thoughts and actions and events. On the other hand, there is kind of a reason for everything. Because of all of the things that have happened in the past, it created the opportunity for a thing to happen. So in a way, the past was the reason. If you really want to know, contemplate meaning vs meaninglessness

Go out and introduce yourself to as many people in the industry as possible. It's all about who knows you. Open your life up to the possibility that someone will offer you something amazing