Meta Skill For Mastering A Lot Of Personal Development Principles?

[Jayson G]

For years I've been trying to figure out how to master a lot of personal development principles: gaining more experience, making fine distinctions, visualizing more, becoming more fearless, pushing my comfort zone, etc. 

The one that really sticks is a life training program where I incorporate habitual activities that lead to automatically embodying these principles. Like I have an app I'm building that makes me more intelligent, socializing every week for pushing my comfort zone and being more bold, etc. 

Of course having a life training program is a meta technique that organizes it all together, which has allowed me to tap into all these personal development principles systematically. I've already sort of proven this in my own life, and Leo confirms it in his video "Valuable things require development over time". And like I jump rope Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and each session I add 10 seconds, and over time I try to reduce breaks, increase speed, etc. The typical mastery path. So I noticed that leads to a lot of personal development mastery like pushing comfort zone, mastery, confidence, health, etc. 

But there's another meta principle or skill I've been eyeing for some time now, that I'm not sure if it will work or not in mastering a lot of personal development principles. 

In the book mastery by George Leonard, he talks about going into finer and finer distinctions. Like when you're driving a car, rather than doing it unconsciously, first you adjust the seat, then the mirror, then maybe you notice your breathing is tense so you relax it, then maybe you see your emotions are in the past so you let that go, etc. And Leo even talks about this in his video "Learning = making fine distinctions". But I'm getting this feeling that this could be a sort of meta 24/7 practice, that you intend to do sort of all day every day, that can master a lot of personal development techniques. 

So like I'm taking a shower, and then notice (making a distinction) I'm overthinking, so I observe that, maybe let that go, then I notice the temperature of the water, and (make a distinction) and make it colder out of exploration of temperature and adventure and pushing comfort zone, and then I notice that my mind's eye is empty (another distinction) so I visualize my self-image out of choice. I don't know if I'm making sense or not. But I'm seeing that if I just live, operationally, in a manner where I'm making distinctions as a way of life, I can sort of accomplish a lot of personal development principles. I can push my comfort zone, visualize, be more in the moment, learn rapidly, develop masculinity, etc. Has anyone confirmed this in their own experience, or think along these lines? @Leo Gura do you have any input on this? 

Or perhaps does anyone else have an alternative way of mastering life, various personal development principles, inner game, outer game, etc.? Is there perhaps another meta skill out there? Leo mentioned a sort of "24/7 emotional mastery jiu jitsu" in the past where when say you're feeling anger you breathe deeper, or when you're feeling tense, then you let go of body tension, etc. I can see that being great for a 24/7 jiu jitsu on life principles, but I think making distinctions as a way of life feels more enjoyable and legit. There is also what Benjamin franklin did. (1 week he'd embody 1 new principle to make it a habit). There is that, if that has worked for anyone? 

Lastly, there is psycho-cybernetics. By visualizing daily, I can see a lot of personal development principles being integrated. 

I mostly want to get your input on the 24/7 meta practice of making distinctions as a way of life and mastering various personal development principles. But if you have input on these other techniques, I'm very open to that as well. 

[Ramanujan]

There are lot of information out there on self improvement . Many actors post their stuff online. There is no consensus on how to consume it. Everyone will say " my stuff is the best "

 

[Rishabh R]

@Jayson G As per emotional mastery , I have noticed that we must accept the negative emotions ( after doing years of CBT ) and feel through it which lead to their dissolution as positive emotions are easy to accept and its easy to say to accept negative emotions (as I am just saying) but when one is in the midst of suffering just accepting one's suffering leads to it's dissolution. This is called emotional mastery.

[Jayson G]

On 9/29/2024 at 7:06 AM, Ramanujan said:

There are lot of information out there on self improvement . Many actors post their stuff online. There is no consensus on how to consume it. Everyone will say " my stuff is the best "

 

@Ramanujan yeah there really is no best answer, still input helps I guess