Tag Archive: Journey

Self-Help Courses as Entertainment

“Taking any course that cannot translate into a practice that you incorporate into your life is like going to a movie.”      Francis Wade Francis Wade is a fellow philosopher, entrepreneur and a good friend of mine. He said the above quote in a conversation I was having with ...

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Learning to love the “plateau”

George Leonard has a book called "Mastery" that is essentially about living your life as a practice, and in it he talks about the nature of developing mastery in any chosen endeavor. According to Leonard, you develop in fits and spurts characterized by periods of apparent no-growth or "plateaus" as Leonard calls ...

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Mastery and why you shouldn’t try to attain it

Going through the personal growth or self-help sections of books stores or looking at the course titles at places like the learning Annex, I'm struck at the ridiculous promises being made. "Master relationships/money/career." "How to earn a fortune in real estate, how to make her beg for ...

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