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@DavidKRight on, I found working in a toxic work environment and personal development to be a great combination too. Not so natural and not very easy, but there can be a lot of growth. Its all about being an alchemist turn shit into gold.

Understand, I would just focus on one practice and try and make it ingrained into your brain housing group. Just focus on Meditation, or if you’re not happy with your body just focus on your diet for 3-6 months let that be your priority, etc. An easy way to categorize personal development is personal and professional. You’re working on your professional by going to school, so with personal development look for your biggest opportunity for growth. In other words what thing is holding you back at this point in time. Just looking from the surface from what you said energy, maybe an option would be how to optimize your diet. Or learn how to learn most efficiently and effectively-there’s several courses on this. Sometimes we spend more time then is needed on a given task where we have diminishing returns, this may be a good place to start. Look into time blocking and work/rest cycles. In other words sometimes more is less and less is more. Hooe this helps

The actual self development work can be stressful, such as strong determination sitting, speaking your truth and setting boundaries even when your voice shakes, doing breathe work, doing shadow work and shining light on your inner psyche. If it was not stressful everyone would be fully developed capable human beings. However, the result of your personal development should not bring you more stress. The result should be less stress and and more durability.

I don’t see a duality with self actualization work and studying for college. In fact I see it as one in the same. You can do self actualization work everywhere, whenever, and how ever you like. All it takes is a deep drive to love thyself, accept thyself, and grow thyself. If you’re talking about what specific techniques you can do, that’s a different sort of question. if you’re tired for whatever reason look in to optimizing diet, rest, and exercise. Hope this helps.

You’ve already started the process by merely asking questions on a self development forum about your perceived issues. Which is a great thing. There’s nothing missing, there’s nothing wrong with you, put your focus on your suffering. Where is it coming from? Continue chipping away at the hammer for answers. Theres not “one” specific thing, this is a life long journey of becoming the best version of yourself. Be a mechanic and turn the wrench on yourself.

Meditate more.

A simple proactive practical way of developing your creation skills is to combine 2-3 things that have no relation to each other and figure out how they in fact do relate to each other. You can use a Venn diagram or mental gymnastics to do this. You do it for 90 days, you'll see how much is out there to be created. Your essentially re-wiring your brain to look at things differently, so that you can combine unique things to come up with something greater then the sum of its parts.

Start chipping away at the hammer for the lifelong bad habits. Start digging deep and searching for where this unconscious behavior comes from. Pick one habit you'd like to get rid of, and every day you wake up commit to breaking that habit. It has worked best for me if you work in 24 hour blocks, every time you wake up commit to breaking that one habit. It takes on average about 66 days to break habits, this will vary of course. Once you break one habit, you'll see that you have the power to do this with all of your bad habits, which will snowball into all areas of your life. Whats really cool, is you can then replace the negative habit, with a positive habit and before you know it your life is transformed. As far as creativity, you can start combining 2 different things that you see or that come to mind, things that you would never think relate together. For example I see a Pencil and a Tree. What does a Pencil and a Tree have in common, well a pencil comes from a tree, they are both tall and skinny, etc. Or how about an iPhone and a highway, well the iPhone has a map of the highway, they are both man made, etc. Before you know it, you'll start seeing how everything connects together, you can do this with a journal or whenever/wherever you feel like it. Try and do it for 90 days, and it'll give you a new perspective. Also, if you don't have vision/purpose your creativity has no outlet. I am sure you know this, but life purpose and vision are extremely important.

@Leo Kaminski These organizations already exist. Check out Frederic Laloux he wrote a book about stage Yellow organizations, and how effective they are. https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539276107&sr=8-1&keywords=reinventing+organizations+by+frederic+laloux

Exactly, most people take actions which will slowly lead to a transitions, which then lead to transformations. You're going from the bottom of the stairs all the way to the top, so you are essentially forcing yourself to adapt to the environment in which you seek. When you combine this with the no retreat rule, in which you burn the ship so that the capability to retreat is not an option-where you have to fight the battle. You are left with Big results; results that were not foreseeable at your previous level.

Man on the Subway by Stephen Covey People were sitting quietly – some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene. Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly the whole climate changed. The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation. The children were yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people’s papers. It was very disturbing. And yet, the man sitting next to me did nothing. It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive as to let his children run wild like that and do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. It was easy to see that everyone else on the subway felt irritated, too. So finally, with what I felt like was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, “Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more?” The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly, “Oh, you’re right. I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don’t know what do think, and I guess they don’t know who to handle it either.” Can you imagine what I felt at that moment? My paradigm shifted. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. My irritation vanished. I didn’t have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man’s pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely. “Your wife just died? Oh I’m so sorry! Can you tell me about it? What can I do to help?” Everything changed in an instant.”

Less Lyrics the better the way I see it These Artist are incredible, enjoy! Tycho: Emancipator: Bonobo:

@zenith Eben Pagans courses are awesome and have great value. You can also check out Seth Godin, he has several books and courses. You can also read some more foundational books on Marketing from David Ogilvy. You can check out Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, and Joe Polish. Marketing is essentially a superpower to manipulate people. Whether you use it for higher consciousness ideals and values is on you. I am learning about marketing myself and by no means am I an expert, but these are some of the things I have learned so far, good luck on your journey!

Here is a great example of a Yellow CEO in Holland. Realizes that a lot of companies are not sustainable with regards to energy, finance, healthcare, etc. and so develops a Stage Yellow Company. He is not saying "companies should be more like this" or "I wish more companies would care more about people" (green) he is being the change by implementing systemic principles to think with long term sustainability in mind.

David Shaw talks about combining two totally separate things in order to come up with research and outcomes. Talks about how scientist need to use more of their Right Brain so that they can use more of their creativity and artistic capabilities not just their logic (left brain).

Dr. Keith Witt is a great example of Yellow, knocking on Turquoise's Door.

Jeff Salzman has a podcast called Daily Evolver that is a Stage Yellow Podcast for those that are interested.

I am curious as to how Ramana Maharshi and some other older mystics, yogis, and spiritual tribes can be Turquoise when it came online only 30 years ago according to the Spiral Dynamics website. I understand that Maharshi was beyond Spiral Dynamics, however his world views didn't even exist back then. I just read Aubrey Marcus new book. He is Orange and Green, maybe Yellow if you are feeling generous. Definitely not Turquoise.

A good product doesn't necessarily sell itself in my opinion, how would you convince people to buy your product from the start? The mouse trap itself is marketing. Apple had incredible marketing that went along with their incredible product. Marketing is an absolute essential skill to have. Marketing often times is the major hiccup that differentiates a successful and unsuccessful business. Marketing entails putting yourself out there, which is what I think stops a lot of people from pursuing there Business.

Does anyone have any examples of a stage Yellow U.S. Politician (Other then Obama)?

@moon777light No problem! Thanks for the reply! I think Teal Swan definitely has stage Yellow aspects as she is extremely deep at analyzing problems and issues especially pertaining to human development. She talks about being fully integrated, etc. I am sure she sees the inner workings of people and societies deeply. From what I understand the idea is to transcend and include, so technically speaking you would still use aspects of green, orange, and even red at times to become more holistic and integrated and sort of build layers so you can understand through a birds eye view the workings of societies and individuals (which I believe is stage yellow).

@mostly harmless Fair enough, not sure whether he’s a sociopath or not. I don’t know the intricacies of the bill that he was trying to to shut down. Just because he was against a bill doesn’t make him a bad person. What happens if that bill that the government was trying to pass would actually perpetuate the very problem they’re trying to get rid of. Which the government tends to do frequently. Jeff Bezos is without a doubt a systemic thinker. He is known to attend the Burning Man festival, from what I understand he uses Amazon to fund Blue Origin which is looking down the road 5-10 generations from now. He also welcomes critics to his company as he says it is crazy for such a big company not to be kept in check. Again, I don’t know his level of consciousness, and whether he has fully integrated green or not. Just that he’s a systemic thinker and has many traces of yellow. From what I understand about stage Yellow is that they really do care about humanity and their fellow Man just from a detached point of view, they are able to see systemic problems and multilayered issues and try to fix them or at least view them as complicated organisms. Ray Kurzweil has something like an 85% accuracy rate on technological predictions of the future. He’s definitely a systems thinker, and is trying to improve humanity via technology. I don’t know the inner workings of his psyche and his level of consciousness, but he definitely has stage yellow traces and I believe is a good example of a stage yellow thinker. Thanks for your comments, I appreciate the dialogue with you!

@moon777light I wasn't sure if you were referring to me when you made that comment. I want to ensure that what I am posting is a good example of Yellow as to not ruin this thread with garbage material. The videos I posted were of Robert Sapolsky, Peter Senge, Ray Kurzweil, Jeff Bezos, Naval Ravikant, Bence Ganti, Steve Mcintosh which I am almost positive are all at stage yellow or at least are a very solid example of stage yellow thinking. Jason Silva, Julia Ormond, and Gabor Mate definitely have aspects of Yellow, and of course the youtube channel Kurzesagt which goes very deep with a wide range of social and systemic topics and compacts it into a 10 minute video or so. If you or anyone else has objections let me know please! I'd love to rethink any of these videos that I posted.

@moon777light which ones specifically are not yellow? Maybe I am confused as to what a good example of Yellow is. Thanks