Breakthrough Approach to Personal Growth

Listening to Reprogram

Just Listen to Reprogram Your Brain

There are a wide variety of products and programs that offer to help you grow and achieve in various ways.  Many of these programs offer substantial benefits over a period of weeks or months.  Very few personal growth approaches offer significant long term change and help you operate at a higher level.  The market is also saturated with copycat products and simplistic placebos.  This has ultimately convinced many people that the personal development and self-help field is less than wonderful.

I have tried and reviewed many of these and look for the theory and core efficacy in every offering and technique. In every article, book, or study, I look for repeatable gains and benefits.  Though many products and individual techniques offer some benefits, none offer the long term potential I believe is possible.  I’ve always believed personal development programs could be taken to vastly improved levels.  The journey and commitment is still long, but the accumulated results could be much greater.

Over time, I’ve used passionate curiosity and mental rigor as a guide.  I discuss and validate the concepts at length, including working with psychiatrists and psychologists to get their perspective on these non-medical products.  My current theory and perspective in personal development builds on many great teachers, researchers, leaders, and thinkers.

I have gradually synthesized a hybrid neurological, psychological, and developmental framework for human growth and achievement.  For over three decades, I have been creating programs of various types to help people in their quest for personal growth and achievement.

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The Evolving Person - Are You Static or Dynamic?

I’m about to divide people into two rough groups.  Please excuse my stereotyping of the complexity that is inherent in each of as individuals and as a society.  The world is not neatly divided into categories and types.  I’m using this for illustrative purposes, to give insight into how people grow at the deepest levels.  This is not “true” or “right” in any sense.  It is not a judgment of people’s value or potential.  Interpret this with an open mind and look for a preponderance of characteristics, not a literal interpretation.  Everyone has elements of both, but look at the most central issues and desires and see how they fit.  Consider the approach and see if it helps you understand the personal growth process and two wildly different sorts of paths.

With regard to personal growth, people seem to fall into two rough groups.  The first is a group that stabilizes early in life, from a personality, trans-formative growth perspective.  The second is a somewhat smaller group that mixes in varying doses of seeking, reflecting, and thriving on paradigm shifts.

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The Talent Code - Daniel Coyle

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle, is a four star book that deserves an extra star if you track the hidden sub-text. Coyle covers a crucial topic on brain learning entirely from the perspective of developing extreme talent.  For example, developing skills such as becoming an extremely talented soccer player, violinist, vocalist, golfer, and so on.  He indicates that recent studies show two very interesting properties related to myelin.

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