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June 15 - September 23, 2021
I sent my résumé to every job I could find on craigslist.org
it’s often when we’re feeling down that we end up taking a step toward our next level of personal growth.
bump that would help me grow and learn.
A key part of what I had learned was listening to my inner voice or intuition.
The impulse often felt like guessing, but I heeded it.
Listening to my intuition seemed to quadruple the odds of my calling a receptive lawyer.
I started feeling happier and more positive about my days. My confidence and my rapport with people at work improved. I credit these to the fact that I was now meditating for about fifteen to thirty minutes every day, listening to my intuition and visualizing myself closing deals with ease.
I’d end the three-minute visualization with a mental affirmation that we’d close the deal if it was in the best interest of all the parties involved.
I also continued experimenting, adjusting, and refining my meditation practice. And with each refinement, my abilities at work seemed to grow.
Consciousness engineering is an operating system for the human mind.
our beliefs truly do shape our world in a very real sense.
while your beliefs make you, your beliefs are NOT you. You can use consciousness engineering to swap out old beliefs, swap in new ones, and take on new understandings of the world that might serve you better.
When an old belief no longer serves you, you have every right to swap it out.
Our models of reality do more than just create our feelings around an event or life in general. To an astonishing extent, they seem to influence the reality of the world that we experience every single day.
Change your accepted models of reality, and dramatic changes will happen in your world.
while your models of reality are not you, they make you who you are.
I’ve decided I’m going to live to be one hundred.
I’ve also decided on a belief that work is one of the most pleasurable things in life—so I enjoy what I do on a daily basis.
All of us have this ability to decide what models of reality we’ll adopt. You get to choose.
the single most effective model of reality you can adopt right now is the idea that your mode...
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Your habits, or systems for living, are how you put your models of reality into practice.
If models of reality are the hardware of the human “machine,” systems for living are the software.
Systems of living are easy to acquire.
The trick is recognizing what systems you’re running and doing enough self-checks to quickly identify the ones you need to upgrade.
growth depends on two things: their models of reality and their systems for living.
Getting outside our culturescape is easier said than done.
Our culture wasn’t created by pure rational choice. In many ways it took form merely by imitation and chance. Yet we cling to our culture, both the good and the bad, as if it’s the only way of living.
pretty much every aspect of human culture—of life as we live it day to day—is malleable, up for grabs, within our control, and open for questioning.
changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives.
when your monk calls, you listen.
You cannot take criticism. It’s all because of one thing: You have low self-esteem.”
What you know you believe is much smaller than what you don’t know you believe.
Our models of reality lie below the surface. Often we do not realize we have them until some intervention or contemplative practice makes us aware.
Much of growing wiser and moving toward the extraordinary is really about becoming aware of the models of reality that you carry with you without realizing it.
The first step is to discover how we take on these models of reality.
Where does this belief of “I am not enough” and other limiting models of reality come from? For most of us, they come from our childhood.
When a model of reality changes, the way you operate in the world changes, too.
We often carry disempowering models of reality that we inherited as far back as childhood.
with the right force, even entrenched childhood models of reality can be completely disrupted.
As we believe these things to be true, they become true.
The meaning-making machine never sleeps. It runs during childhood and in adulthood, too: while on a date, dealing with your mate and your kids, interacting with your boss, trying to close a business deal, getting a raise (or not), and much more.
We add meanings to every situation we see and then carry these meanings around as simplistic and often distorted and dangerous models of reality about our world.
Our beliefs about our bodies seem to have an uncanny impact on how we experience our bodies—for good or bad.
our lives are affected by other people’s models of reality, however true or false they might be.
Your beliefs can influence both you and the people around you. What you expect, you get.
our beliefs influence how others respond to us.
Extraordinary minds have models of reality that empower them to feel good about themselves and powerful in shifting the world to match the visions in their minds.
Each disempowering model of reality we have is really nothing more than a Brule we’ve set up for ourselves—and, like any Brule, it should be questioned.
Remember, our meaning-making machine never turns off—it doesn’t stop just because we aren’t kids anymore.
“No matter what you do, in any situation with your child, ask yourself, What beliefs is my child going to take away from this encounter?
