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StarfoxEpiphany

Domain Of Mastery

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Hello,

I've taken a short break recently from the Life Purpose course because I am having so much trouble choosing a domain of mastery.  As of now, my life purpose looks as follows:

 

Connecting with people to create a bigger artisan/middle class

Ideal Medium:  Videos of me teaching an individual.  (I love looking at and listening to myself talk to other people)

Domain of Mastery: Chiropractor?, Physical Therapist?, Marketer?, Artistic Writer??

It just feels right for me to have someones legs and feet in my hands.  I'm so good at handling leg pain because of my extensive experience as a long distance runner.

I would really like to be a chiropractor or physical therapist, but it is so hard to get into school for physical therapy and I'm currently about to begin a beautiful engagement in southeast asia (where I'm teaching English to kids and developing an aggressive, male physical form.) I just have such a hesitation about this thing, because I know it will be so expensive and I just turned 30!  If I don't hurry up, I'll be too old to live out my fantasies in life and school will take 3 or 4 years to complete while I'm crippled with debt!.

Marketing, is interesting.  I've had success in the past over something I was really excited about.  However, all of the visual artwork has to be outsourced and I would end working on other people's life purposes instead of my own.   As of writing, it would really just be a medium for me to express my imagination, but I don't think I can tolerate sitting inside for hours and hours a day like that.

I'm having a lot of trouble with this domain of mastery thing.  Any tips, advice?  Is this supposed to be this difficult?

 

 

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Hi there! I really recommend a book, funnily enough called Mastery by Robert Greene. One of the most important pieces of practical advise that I took from it was to combine your passions into something completely unique. This, Greene speculates, is how the greatest examples of mastery and some of the greatest achievements in history have occurred. Not through the narrowing of focus into one area, but the encompassing of many smaller pieces of mastery into a greater individual whole.

Say, for example, that your great passions are anthropology, writing, and teaching, do you really need to choose one of those to focus your 'life purpose'? Or can you see anyway those things could be combined into something creating a life purpose unique to that person?

 

Anyway good luck and have a great time exploring Asia!

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Mr Green makes a good point. It seems the age of making your own, unique, multi-faceted career  and therefore, Life Purpose, is here. Writing could be your ideal medium, or not, if you don't enjoy it, Starfox.

 

On 28/02/2016 at 3:15 PM, StarfoxEpiphany said:

It just feels right for me to have someones legs and feet in my hands.  I'm so good at handling leg pain because of my extensive experience as a long distance runner.

It sounds like being a chiropractor is a psaaion and may contain your LP. If your motivations for it is intrinsic (i.e. you love it and not the money it could bring) then do it. In which case, may I suggest you make chirporactor school a priority and book yourself on the right course of study, once you can afford it.

You may or may not want to use you marketing somewhere down the line; up to you. Well done about being aware of getting trapped in someone else's LP. You may feel you need do that temporarily if trying to earn money for YOUR passion, but don't do it for long.

You also seem to value your creative autonomy, so don't let go of that.

Not sure about the writing. Maybe writing books is not your ideal medium, if you dread composing long corpora?

Hope this gives food for usefu thought and action.

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This is great!  I was waiting for days for someone to respond and gave up, then, you guys nailed it!  

 

On 3/1/2016 at 7:45 PM, Mr Green said:

Hi there! I really recommend a book, funnily enough called Mastery by Robert Greene. One of the most important pieces of practical advise that I took from it was to combine your passions into something completely unique. This, Greene speculates, is how the greatest examples of mastery and some of the greatest achievements in history have occurred. Not through the narrowing of focus into one area, but the encompassing of many smaller pieces of mastery into a greater individual whole.

Say, for example, that your great passions are anthropology, writing, and teaching, do you really need to choose one of those to focus your 'life purpose'? Or can you see anyway those things could be combined into something creating a life purpose unique to that person?

 

Anyway good luck and have a great time exploring Asia!

 

On 3/1/2016 at 1:07 PM, Gus said:

Mr Green makes a good point. It seems the age of making your own, unique, multi-faceted career  and therefore, Life Purpose, is here. Writing could be your ideal medium, or not, if you don't enjoy it, Starfox.

 

It sounds like being a chiropractor is a psaaion and may contain your LP. If your motivations for it is intrinsic (i.e. you love it and not the money it could bring) then do it. In which case, may I suggest you make chirporactor school a priority and book yourself on the right course of study, once you can afford it.

You may or may not want to use you marketing somewhere down the line; up to you. Well done about being aware of getting trapped in someone else's LP. You may feel you need do that temporarily if trying to earn money for YOUR passion, but don't do it for long.

You also seem to value your creative autonomy, so don't let go of that.

Not sure about the writing. Maybe writing books is not your ideal medium, if you dread composing long corpora?

Hope this gives food for usefu thought and action.

 

 

I was thinking about paying for an audio version of Mastery, but I wasn't sure because I didn't know if the book was about finding or mastering a domain of mastery.  Now I know the part that I wanted to hear, so I'll definitely be getting that book within the next 5 minutes!  Thank you so much!  
I do see a way that many of my passions can be combined.  I keep seeing myself studying physique arts.  This one is the most scary and the most fun.  If someone like Leo and other life coaches can just study life in general (and they kick ass at it), certainly I can study strong, healthy, beautiful, active physique and be successful, right? It is something I love.  I do question whether it is a negative value though because even though I enjoy (Im at home with running shoes on) the actual activities while I'm performing them, the extrinsic rewards are just so pleasing. And the competition with so many specialists... Competing with workout coaches, martial arts instructors, massage therapists, nutritionists, physical therapists, chiropractors, and even doctors/orthopedic surgeons sounds like quite a market to compete in.  And building a portfolio! How?! These are tough questions, and I hope that Robert Greene's book and the rest of Leo's course really help a lot.  I certainly do need to maintain my autonomy as well.

Cheers! I really appreciate the food for thought, and I'm very encouraged now. 

Thanks Gus! Thanks Mr. Green!

 

 

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On 01/03/2016 at 1:45 AM, Mr Green said:

Hi there! I really recommend a book, funnily enough called Mastery by Robert Greene. One of the most important pieces of practical advise that I took from it was to combine your passions into something completely unique. This, Greene speculates, is how the greatest examples of mastery and some of the greatest achievements in history have occurred. Not through the narrowing of focus into one area, but the encompassing of many smaller pieces of mastery into a greater individual whole.

Say, for example, that your great passions are anthropology, writing, and teaching, do you really need to choose one of those to focus your 'life purpose'? Or can you see anyway those things could be combined into something creating a life purpose unique to that person?

 

Anyway good luck and have a great time exploring Asia!

   Basically do a Leonardo da Vinci? Study a wide range of fields,

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