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We’re seeing an explosion of dialog around exploitative systems. People have varying degrees of awareness that they’ve been stuck in systems that affect their lives and the lives of others. Many are withdrawing their consent to participate in such systems going forward. Of course many feel they never consented to begin with. The social contracts…
Read Human Privilege by Steve Pavlina
When I first started blogging in 2004, it surprised me how much people actually applied and tested the ideas I wrote about. I wasn’t sure how much traction there would be on the action side, so at first I was pleased to see that. However, this also gave me a weightier feeling of responsibility, especially…
Read You Are an Influencer by Steve Pavlina
I learned about spirit guides and how to communicate with them around 1994. For many years afterwards, I practiced this mode of gaining insight through various visualizations and meditations. I found it semi-useful, but I don’t use this interface much today anymore. Are spirit guides real or not? There’s no way to know, and it…
One thing I love about blogging is that by writing about many aspects of personal growth, I improve and deepen my understanding of those aspects. Writing helps me glean fresh insights connect the dots in new ways. This has been especially true of workshops and courses. Initially such projects felt daunting, but eventually I got…
This morning I got up at 4:30am and set out to do a 6.5-mile run (10.5km), which would be my longest in at least the past year. The weather was nice, starting out at 76 degrees, and I knew would continue to get cooler into the morning, at least until an hour or so after…
Read Training Your Mind by Steve Pavlina
While you can regard thoughts as arising from within you, it’s interesting to view thoughts as transmissions that come to you, like waves of energy that create eddies within your consciousness. Perhaps consciousness is like an antenna that can tune into different frequencies of thoughts and translate them into forms you can perceive and understand.…
Read Think a Thought You’ve Never Thought of Before by Steve Pavlina
This morning while running, I started listening to The Art of Possibility audiobook, which is about stepping outside of our mental boxes. The first tool in the book is to acknowledge that whatever story you tell yourself is all an invention anyway, so you may as well create your own story. If your old story…
Read You Can’t Do That by Steve Pavlina
This morning I went for my usual run, starting before dawn. Lately I’ve been going for 45-50 minutes. This time, however, I was listening to the audiobook Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins. After hearing the part about his 100-mile run and how he had to push himself to get through it, I felt like…
Read Pushing Yourself by Steve Pavlina
Lately I’ve been thinking about how the concept of open loops (i.e. incomplete tasks and projects) connects with our models of reality. When we have holes and inconsistencies in our mental models, those models remain incomplete. It’s hard to act rationally when we lack a decent model of reality. How are you supposed to make…
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on facing personal weaknesses, one step I took to deal with such weaknesses many years ago was to brainstorm a list of qualities I wanted to experience instead of those weaknesses. Here’s what I came up with back then: Confidence – holding a strong belief in my own self…
Read Personal Desires by Steve Pavlina
