This article will discuss the general problem of productivity – how to increase your output of valuable work – but with a unique perspective. The purpose of this article is to illuminate a new paradigm of “productivity.” To put it succinctly, this article is about learning to go beyond productivity entirely. This new paradigm is […]
Hello Friends! I’m creating this post to invite you to my New Years Resolution Workshop, on December 31st at Noon CST. The workshop is a free, virtual gathering (held on Zoom) where we will work through a special writing exercise designed to make our goals for next year really stick. You’ll also have an opportunity […]
This is a story about transformation. It’s about how you can transform from a creative person to a creative professional by working in alignment with reality, instead of working against reality. Working in alignment means choosing to work consciously, playfully, and responsibly; in a way that honors the true nature of reality and provides real […]
Spending time clarifying my goals and understanding how I would achieve them has played a big role in my own process of growth and development. In my high school and college years, I was rather lazy and not motivated to do much at all. I had always known I was capable of doing something great […]
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who lived in the 20th century. Jung was trained as a doctor in Basel and was an active clinical psychologist for decades, but his most important works seem to transcend the categories of strict medical or psychological science. Deeply interested in mythology, stories, alchemy, and Gnosticism – Jung’s […]
An integral-age conception, Spiral Dynamics offers us a broad systems view of human potential and development. Weaving together psychology and statistical methods of inference, Spiral Dynamics offers us the best of both worlds. While retaining the data-driven edge, we can come to know the stages of human moral development at a fine-grained level. According to […]
Study: Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain’s Default Network (PDF) The first crucial step to understanding the science of meditation is to understand the Default Mode Network (DMN). The Default Mode Network (DMN) is an interconnected set of brain regions that play a particularly important role in the management of attention, awareness, and our internal sense […]