Make Growth The Ultimate Goal Flashcards
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Grow so fast that your friends who haven’t seen you in a month have to get to know you all over again.
Scared of failure???
The best have all experienced failure, I am not alone. To cause change in the world, I will commonly encounter failure. If it was easy, everyone will do it. Failure and pain are part of the game.
While failure is common, the pain felt can be optional!
What is work REALLY about?
The most important thing is that my work is not about my work. Rather my work is nothing more than my ultimate vehicle for my personal growth.
If I lose, it doesn’t matter. Did I GROW?
If I win, doesn’t matter. How did I GROW?
Success is not an if/then life. No role or title or wealth or specific material possession leads to success.
What is success?
Growth = Success
The only point of life is to grow
What is catching the horizon? How is it bad?
It is always wanting more to feel fulfilled. This results in never feeling fulfilled, despite what’s achieved.
Growth (Self Actualisation) is near the top of Malsow’s Pyramid. What is the perspective shift?
From trying to prove myself to others…
Into fulfilment of my talents and potential, especially considered as a drive. In other words, to be Unfuckwithable and to GROW
What is LEARNING? What is TRANSFORMING?
Learning = facts and ideas
Transforming = deep shift in perspective (thoughts, feelings, actions) that dramatically and irreversibly alters our way of being in this world. An exponential jump in who I am as a person
What 2 Things Cause Transformation?
The distorting dilemma (Kensho) = Growth through pain
Evolution of a new meaning schema (Satori) = Attainment of wisdom
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Oh ye who can’t take a good rub… how will you ever become a polished gem?
- Rumi
What is the special link between being human and growth?
We can deliberately create transformation. True masters of life create deliberate daily processes to transform and evolve themselves. Seek satori
If not, my soul will have to smack me on the back of my head to wake me up (Kensho)
What do the best leaders do for their team?
Care for their growth. As people who are growing and transforming are the best people to be around
Caring for growth for others = greater growth for myself. Win:Win
What is the true definition, and the most important job of a leader?
To always EVOLVE and GROW other leaders
View my life as a project to become the most extraordinary human possible. After all, the best leaders lead by example
