How would you know what a “thing” is if you had no words to define it?
If there were no words for pain, love, fear, happiness, doubt, joy, yin, yang, how would you know what “it” is?
Language is how we both create and perceive the world around us. “Things” are only “real” because we can define them.
Read MoreWhen we talk about Mastery, we often think about an endpoint. Some moment in time in which there is nothing left to learn because we have completed every task and unlocked every achievement within a specific skillset. Whether it’s cooking, tennis, basketball, martial arts, or yoga, we all think that the point of Mastery is some magical endpoint in which all learning stops.
Read MoreAlong the path of life, we developed a massive amount of anxiety from a myriad number of obligations that we had collected and could not drop or easily forget about. We spent the first third of our life gathering things which now served as the foundation for the rest of our lives; things which expected things from us and things that we could not ignore.
Read MoreHave you ever noticed that when you’re watch an action movie, your heart begins to race and your adrenaline goes up? Or when you’re listening to classical music, your mood starts to mellow? Or when you’re watching a mountain climbing documentary, you suddenly feel inspired?
Read MoreAstute practitioners of yoga (and Hinduism, for that matter—since they both come from the same tree) know that the primary objective is to escape the endless cycle of death and rebirth (Reincarnation) and achieve Moksha (Liberation).
Taken more allegorically, this can be better understood as escaping the endless cycle of death and rebirth in relation to one’s own suffering, or (more accurately) trauma.
Read MoreFar too often we can becomes so overly fixated on the granular differences between ourselves and others that we fail to see the forest for the trees.
Read MoreAs someone who has also spent a lot of time pursuing more esoteric disciplines (Martial Arts, Yoga, Meditation, Shamanism, Zen), these fields are less focused on Semantic Learning (though there is still some degree of that) and are more driven by Motor Learning.
Read MoreIt’s the same function that governs things like: when your dentist appointment is coming up, all of a sudden you start seeing dentist signs everywhere. Or, a friend tells you about the new model of Tesla and you start seeing that same model drive past you everywhere on the road.
Read More*PAY ATTENTION! YOU’RE SPACING OUT OF THIS WORLD!* That was then and this is now… you always have the potential and opportunity to change what you are currently doing and (in effect) your future and life choices for the better!
Read MoreSocial media is but a small window into the real. A very thin slice of the reality of the situation. If you like thin slices, but not the whole lemon, then you’re in for a rude awakening when social media is gone altogether…
Read MoreAs humans, we rely on heuristics to help us problem solve. We require imaginative foresight—assumptions—guesses—social heuristics—to help guide us in what we are going to do next.
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