Managing thought processes in support of high performance demands intentionality in all three dimensions of human thinking: words, pictures, and emotions.

What goes up must come down--and what goes in must come out. In this episode, Tom revisits the input network and limbic gatekeeper to conclude the discussion on aspects of the mind. Root, bud, blossom, and fruit--it's the way of things!

Everyone feels pain, and without exception, everyone prefers pleasure! The key question of life is how to get there. How do we move from discomfort to joy, from distress to happiness? We can take a short-cut to our destination through self-medication with money, sex, drugs, anger, or depression--or we can take action that leads to accomplishment. The former makes things worse, the latter makes things much, much, better.

The subconscious mind, home to habits, attitudes, and personal versions of the truth, is the executor of our earthly estate. In other words, what we allow into our subconscious determines our inheritance.

In the book of Romans, chapter 7, verse 19, the Apostle Paul lamented, "The evil I don't want to do--is what I do do!" Thomas A. Wilson, author of Authentic Man School, calls this the do-do passage. And it describes exactly how Wilson felt as he struggled toward authentic manhood. Tom talks about his journey in the podcast.

Thinking drives behavior. Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you're now getting. To get what you've never had, you have to do what you've never done. You have to change your system. This episode lays the foundation on how to be intentional in evolving one's system to the next level.

Being teachable is the single most important ingredient necessary for next-level living. But some aren't teachable right now, and some never will be. Telling the difference in others--and self--means the difference between progress and stagnation... or worse.

Underliving people leave a trail of trauma--a debris-field of failure and frustration. Recognizing the characteristics of underliving in others, and ourselves, enables a redemptive response.And the sooner, the better!

Evolutionary biologists and theologians in the Abrahamic traditions agree, albeit reluctantly, that humans are hardwired toward four things. The limbic gatekeeper (hypothalamus or heart, depending on perspective) wants to fight, feed, flee, and procreate. Understanding brain function and mind process is the first step to managing both.