Learning How To Learn & Skill Up: The Beginner’s Hump
The beginning of any pursuit is a testing time, but learning how to learn and skill up can help you sidestep this tricky period. This stretch of the journey acts as a mirror for our psychology,...
View ArticleSpiral Dynamics For Newbies: The 8 Stages + Level Test
Too often the theory of Spiral Dynamics and the stages is oversimplified, and doing a simple level test can be misleading. Many teachers and writers simply discuss the Spiral Dynamics stages, missing...
View ArticleWhat Is Mindfulness Practice, Really?
Let’s answer the question: what is mindfulness practice? Though mindfulness and meditation are all the rage, multiplying and proliferating through apps, books, groups and social media, they still carry...
View ArticleThe Stunning Long-Term Benefits Of Meditation
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View ArticleStephen Covey’s Four Quadrants Of Productivity: Fundamentals
Let’s look at Stephen Covey’s Four Quadrants of Productivity, an eye-opening productivity tool that’ll help you rethink your time and decide how to direct your energy to what matters most. It’s useful...
View ArticleIntegral Theory: The Core Concepts
Keen to dive into Integral Theory and understand its implications for your personal life and your view of the world? In this article, we thoroughly introduce the core concepts in Integral Theory, and...
View ArticleExploit The 10,000-Hour Rule For High Performance
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View ArticleSpiral Dynamics Stage Green: The Good and The Bad
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View ArticleSayadaw’s Vipassana Meditation: The Four Phases + Extra Tips
Keen to get going with Vipassana meditation? In this article, we’ll cover Mahasi Sayadaw’s system for Vipassana meditation, including the four fundamental phases of his practice. This system is based...
View ArticleThe 5 Best Mindfulness Meditation Practices For Beginners
In this article, we’ll look at the five best mindfulness meditation practices for beginners. I’ve chosen these because they are simple yet powerful and serve as the bedrock for all future practice....
View ArticleU Ba Khin & Vipassana Meditation: All You Need to Know
Let’s cover in detail one of the best-known meditation methods: the U Ba Khin Vipassana meditation system. This is the variety taught at S.N. Goenka retreat centres globally, and its popularity has...
View ArticleThe Joe Dispenza Meditation For Stunning Personal Growth
Let’s look at this powerful Joe Dispenza meditation that you can use to experience enormous personal growth in any domain of life. Though I love Joe Dispenza’s work, I found his explanation of this...
View ArticleComparing Rinzai vs Soto Zen Meditation
In this article, we look at the key practices and principles from the two leading modern Zen schools, Rinzai and Soto, including the Zazen techniques found in both. Having a background in meditation or...
View ArticleLearn Advanced Unified Mindfulness for Powerful Meditation
Let’s venture into advanced territory in my favourite meditation system: the Unified Mindfulness method from Shinzen Young. We look at the absolute fundamentals in my article Intro to Unified...
View ArticleTranscendental Meditation: The No-Nonsense Guide to TM
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View ArticleMentality & Mindset: Your Ticket to Mastery in Learning
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View ArticleMastery: The Fail-Proof Guide to Learning Success
Let’s look at the essential principles of the process of mastery and learning. If you want to get good in your pursuits – whether it’s a new language, instrument, sport or handicraft – you simply must...
View ArticleAutodidacticism: The 6 Traits You Need
When I picture an autodidact, I see a certain kind of person – and since I’m obsessed with autodidacticism, I decided to paint a portrait of that ideal autonomous learner. This article is just that...
View ArticleAutodidactism: Top Pros & Cons and How to Overcome Them
Let’s look at the top pros and cons of autodidactism and how to overcome its downsides. If you want to become a serious autodidact, this article is for you. I’m a serial autodidact and a huge proponent...
View ArticleRobert Greene’s 3 Levels of Mastery, Part 1: Newbie to Pro
Let’s look deeply at the three levels of mastery proposed by Robert Greene, who analysed many great people in a slew of fields and their journey towards extreme creativity and breakthrough discoveries....
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