Working through different spiral dynamics stages

[Pouya]

I used to be a green thinker and have blue ideologies and slowly I went throught it in 3 years and now I consider myself as an early yellow thinker and my philosophy and moral development would be more yellow. But as my actions and procrastinations show, I need to learn the useful stuff from orange stage and practice the "success-oriented self-help" techniques.

Recently my friend bought me the book "eat that frog" from Brian Tracy. I know him from his money management and goal based self help books. Tipical Orange author with great tips.

While I was reading it he was talking about an addiction to success and achivement and how much happy successful people are and how much happiness success brings to life. I understand that money is a nessecary element in a healthy life but success and achivement will never bring satisfaction and happiness in life. The Happiness i mean.

So what can I do about this? How can I know success doesn't bring happiness and put a lot of effort in getting more success?

Note: I'm a student and studying hard is the best thing for my life at this point.(i guess) A great university can change my life.

Edited March 16, 2019 by Pouya

[Markus]

@Pouya I don't understand your question.

[Pouya]

@Markus what i mean is i see the bullshit of the success industry but i need their orange insights for improving other aspects of my development.

The problem is that I can't take them seriously enough.

[Markus]

@Pouya It's like with anything, take the valuable parts and ignore the rest. I'd try to focus on the technical understanding of success and whatever fields you want to be successful in, while drawing your motivation and values from more high-consciousness sources.

Edited March 16, 2019 by Markus

[Pouya]

@Markus thanks. Seems like I'll be doing a lot of filtering @Markus

[Markus]

@Pouya Yea. Better get used to it cause the more you develop the more you'll see certain character flaws and lack of perspective in pretty much every source out there. Jordan Peterson, Noam Chomsky and Ken Wilber all have things they're knowledgeable about and good points they make, but they're also flawed like any human.

Edited March 16, 2019 by Markus