Mindset
- November 20, 2007
Who Were My Teachers in Transformation and Mindset… ?
Well, this could be a real long article, even a book.
I won’t go there… writing a book is way too long for my ADHD personality.
But there is one teacher, who I admire, Colin Wilson (of “Outsider” and “The Mind Parasites” fame, who wrote a book, “The Books In My Life” where he strung about 15 essays into a book, and I learned more from the writers he speaks of than I would have learned, had I read the original books.
So this is definitely a worthwhile endeavor, and I’ll see if I can do something on a much smaller scale. (Colin Wilson wrote 84 books in a short 30 years… I have written articles that would fill one book… Now you have it.)
Anyway, one of my teachers is Colin Wilson himself, another one is Robert Fritz. I was also in Landmark Education for 20 years, the Kabbalah Centre for almost 5 years, T. Harv Eker for the past 3 years, Pam Ragland for the past year…
To be continued… ADHD kicked in… I’ve got to go :-)
But before I go… who were the teachers that you would like to share?
Sophie BenShitta Maven is a Renaissance Woman... architect, publisher, photographer, coach, marketer, teacher, but most importantly the archetype of the Pathfinder.
One Response to “Who Were My Teachers in Transformation and Mindset… ?”
OK, I looked it up: the rubberband theory is called “oscillating structure”. The illustration is that you have two opposing, or mutually exclusive purposes, in the case of dieting, you want to be slim, and you want to be able to enjoy food, as much as you want. You can see, that you can have either the one or the other. Except for some rare individuals.
No imagine, that you are in an empty room, one wall is called comfort, the other wall, across from the first is called slim.
Imagine, that there is a rubber band tying you to either walls. If you “answer” one calling, the rubber band from the other gets tight, until it is so uncomfortable, that you quit dieting and resort to eating as much as you want. When the discomfort of being overweight stretches the other rubber band, you go back to dieting… until the discomfort of dieting gets too hard… and thus you oscillate between your two desires.
This is a very remarkable distinction, and if you don’t recognize it, you end up like a rocking chair: the illusion of something happening (rocking) but never going anywhere.
Fritz’s genius, and I mean the word, genius, is that he finds a way to put wheels on the rocking chair, and without stopping the rocking, it takes you (while rocking) to where you want to go.
Brilliant.
By admin on Nov 20, 2007