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Ok, this might be a contradictory post.
I recently listened to a podcast episode of Eventual Millionaire by Jaime Tardy. The guest of this episode was Derek Rydall, who seems to be somewhat of a mindset coach for business people (never heard of him before).
He spoke about the law of emergence, which is not about getting something from the world (law of attraction) but about making things welcome internally and allowing them to come out from within. According to him, self-improvement is an oxymoron because feeling the need to improve anything only delays true fulfillment. ‘Self-improvement’ is an illusion, a clever misconception since the Self, when truly comprehended, is whole and complete. Your circumstances, abilities and skills may improve, but who you are is already perfect. The purpose of our lifes should not be to be happy but to start being, meaning that you become the person you are supposed to be by accepting that you are already enough. So it's a really spiritual approach that a lot of you might not agree on, but I found that a lot of what he said rang true to me. E.g. he speaks about signs of the outer world that you're going in the wrong direction.
Derek's story in this episode is that he decided that he wanted to have a successful career, and thus he took action to become the best waiter ever at his restaurant. Yet, he was fired three times because nobody understood why he was so friendly and helping (the other waiters were angry because he made them look bad). He kept taking the job again and again because he did not unterstood that this was the wrong direction for him, afterwards he switched to a much better paying consultant job.
Thinking back, I had a lot of times in my life were something felt unnecessarily tough to master and didn't seem to fit well. I kept pushing through because I thought that was a challenge I had to overcome, but similar situations kept arising until I decided to change the direction. For example (non business), when I was younger I had the wish to be popular, but I was mocked by some friends and not taken serious because I was trying to be someone who I wasn't by acting cool. My first reaction after this happened again and again was that it was my friends' fault (that they were just arrogant) and hence I tried to make new friends. The same result came up again and again. Finally, I understood after a very long time that my approach was flawed. There was nothing I had to prove to anyone to like me, I had to accept and like myself first before other people could like me.
Overall, I really liked this podcast episode, even though his explanations seem fluff at first, after thinking about it a bit it reminded me that mindset is the most important aspect of success, but that your mindset has to be aligned with the outer world.
TLDR: Podcast episode about business mindset. Most important takeaway -> law of emergency: self-improvement is an oxymoron, you are already good enough. For achieving success you have to align your mindset with the outer world by taking directions from the latter. Ultimately, have trust in that process.
Looking forward to your (critical) remarks
Careful here
Ok, this might be a contradictory post.
I recently listened to a podcast episode of Eventual Millionaire by Jaime Tardy. The guest of this episode was Derek Rydall, who seems to be somewhat of a mindset coach for business people (never heard of him before).
He spoke about the law of emergence, which is not about getting something from the world (law of attraction) but about making things welcome internally and allowing them to come out from within. According to him, self-improvement is an oxymoron because feeling the need to improve anything only delays true fulfillment. ‘Self-improvement’ is an illusion, a clever misconception since the Self, when truly comprehended, is whole and complete. Your circumstances, abilities and skills may improve, but who you are is already perfect. The purpose of our lifes should not be to be happy but to start being, meaning that you become the person you are supposed to be by accepting that you are already enough. So it's a really spiritual approach that a lot of you might not agree on, but I found that a lot of what he said rang true to me. E.g. he speaks about signs of the outer world that you're going in the wrong direction.
Derek's story in this episode is that he decided that he wanted to have a successful career, and thus he took action to become the best waiter ever at his restaurant. Yet, he was fired three times because nobody understood why he was so friendly and helping (the other waiters were angry because he made them look bad). He kept taking the job again and again because he did not unterstood that this was the wrong direction for him, afterwards he switched to a much better paying consultant job.
Thinking back, I had a lot of times in my life were something felt unnecessarily tough to master and didn't seem to fit well. I kept pushing through because I thought that was a challenge I had to overcome, but similar situations kept arising until I decided to change the direction. For example (non business), when I was younger I had the wish to be popular, but I was mocked by some friends and not taken serious because I was trying to be someone who I wasn't by acting cool. My first reaction after this happened again and again was that it was my friends' fault (that they were just arrogant) and hence I tried to make new friends. The same result came up again and again. Finally, I understood after a very long time that my approach was flawed. There was nothing I had to prove to anyone to like me, I had to accept and like myself first before other people could like me.
Overall, I really liked this podcast episode, even though his explanations seem fluff at first, after thinking about it a bit it reminded me that mindset is the most important aspect of success, but that your mindset has to be aligned with the outer world.
TLDR: Podcast episode about business mindset. Most important takeaway -> law of emergency: self-improvement is an oxymoron, you are already good enough. For achieving success you have to align your mindset with the outer world by taking directions from the latter. Ultimately, have trust in that process.
Looking forward to your (critical) remarks
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