Do you share your spiritual beliefs all the time? I don’t.We all try and label things and thanks to my time in Indonesia, I now have so much in my mind about how people are my religion.

Human beings are my beliefs. Gathering places are my church.Humanity is a singular organism.

“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” – Brené Brown

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Minimalism is quite a hot topic at the moment, and although there are the minimalist celebrities out there, people seem to be focusing on the aesthetic of minimalism rather than the principle.

In this episode, we go through the current trend of minimalism and talk about the essence of it, along with some of the guiding lights in my life when it comes to minimalism.

“The things you own, end up owning you”- Tyler Durdin

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In this episode of Flip the Script, we dive into the magical world of Harry Potter. What if the Dursleys were actually good people? A pretty popular theory, the concept is simple: horcruxes will corrupt people, as seen when Ron wears the Slytherin pendant. So if Harry is a horcrux, it stands to reason that the Dursleys were exposed to him over at least 10 years and became horrible people thanks to his influence.

What if Harry was actually more Voldemort than Voldemort? From Film Theorists, does the act of separating your soul happen as a 50:50 split, in which case, each subsequent horcrux has exponentially less of the original soul, meaning that Harry had more of Voldemort’s soul in him by the final confrontation than even Voldemort himself!

And what if Voldemort is actually the victim? In this theory, looking at it from the perspective that Voldemort never had any choice whatsoever. His mother conceived him by duping a muggle with a love potion, which means that Voldemort was born without the ability to feel and respond to love. Then being raised in less than nurturing environments, and then the worst of the worst, Dumbledore coming in, recognizing this kid is not stable, and releasing him to a world that increases his power WITHOUT putting in any type of buffer or rails to help this child manage their clear emotional issues. Dumbledore is indirectly responsible for EVERY death in the Harry Potter series as well as using kids to fight his battles and using them as bait. The script being flipped results in the same conclusion. We need better leaders who care for others. Le fin.

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The 4 quadrants of change programming

You start out with the spirit of change with loads of motivation, you have a plan, you have all the equipment and everything is set!And then life kicks in…In this episode, we look into the the 4 quadrants that we need to plan for whenever you intend on bringing change into your life and making it stick!

“Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” - Abraham Lincoln

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The 3 must measure metrics to get the most of your practices!I have been involved in accelerated learning and performance for many years, and now the greatest movement that I can suggest to people is to make sure they are using the right metrics for their goals. Very often, people make the mistake of confusing their goals for the actual actions they also need to take.Do you have a mastery goal?1 - What action are you going to take? Did I do it?This is a quantity measurement; more often it is a binary measurement of "yes" or "no".Life gets in the way sometimes, and that’s ok. But being honest with yourself is super important too. A very simple question that you can’t cheat is simply “did I do it?”Allowing for flexibility of whether it is 5 mins or 5 hours, the simple question of “did I do it?” is enough for us to own our actions. This is usually a simple matter of scheduling a certain number of ‘doing sessions’ per week.Example time: Imagine you want to improve your cardio or learn a language, the simple question of “Did I do 3 cardio sessions this week?” or “Did I do 3 language learning sessions?” is exactly what we must measure. Once we comply with our intention, we can start fine-tuning the details. For now, we want to show ourselves we can commit to actions and create change2 - How did I do it?This is a quality measurement, more often we can measure multiple things here to define our quality.Once committed to your activities and showing yourself and others that you are doing this (which changes your beliefs about yourself and others’ beliefs about you too, which in turn influences how you see yourself, for more info, research the Pygmalian effect.), then you can begin the ‘tweaking’ process whereby we ask the question of “How should I really be spending my time?”Example time: For the cardio program, most people would think that measuring heart rate would be the best, it isn’t. Measuring distance, time, and rest periods allow you to track your pace (for more info, please research Chris Hinshaw). How far did you go? How long did it take to do that distance? How much rest did you have in the session? Changing any of these key elements to suit your feelings on the day can greatly help you in being compliant.3 - How do I feel about it?This is an emotional metric, based on our perception of our activity.What is our confidence level? Are we satisfied with our process? our sessions?If our confidence is strong but our performance is not consistent or good quality, especially over time, then we can see a misalignment, usually a compensation for value. Coaching around this calls us to unpack and see true value.Whilst if our confidence is low but our consistency and performance are high, then we also see a misalignment, usually a modesty compensation or a self-doubt trauma.Coaching around this helps us build confidence through and because of action taken, being mindful never to add too much difficulty to any single point because that can be detrimental to building confidence.So the 3 must metrics to measure are:1 - Did I do it? Quantity metric2 - How did I do it? Quality metric3 - How do I feel about it? Perception metricHaving these metrics and preparing your actions in advance, preparing for a relapse to your more automatic/ regular behaviors and differentiating between ‘activation’ or starting phases, and ‘maintenance’ or normal phases, is very important for managing change and to not be overwhelmed by the transformation we wish to see.Let me know your experiences with these metrics!

“The process is the goal.”

―Geneen Roth

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I hope you enjoy the first episode of “Flip the Script”.This is a series where I take a famous movie, idea, or person and flip the narrative that is popularly held about it/them.In today’s episode, I flip the script on The Hunted, a 2003 action thriller with Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. Enjoy

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There are so many things we all try to improve about ourselves and usually we are met with blocks of how to do it.One thing that everyone can agree on is: do the thing.But how do we do the thing without wasting time?Start by arming yourself with some knowledge.In this episode of Thought Architecture, I got into my thoughts and practices around my consumption of information!#productivity #change #transformation #data #learning

“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.”

— Charles Babbage

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Are you responsible for yourself?Even if you believe you are, you are not.Are you making choices out of convenience?Probably so.Do you understand that you are in a constant tug-of-war with your body about spending energy? Most people think it is their weak will power. It isn’t.Do you oversimplify things?Chances are.We are all, of course, only human#growth #change #transformation #groupthink #leadership

“the infectiousness of the unconflicted person.”

― Fritz Redl

References

* Situational Leadership

* Central Governor Theory

* How not to become a space monkey

* North Korea Joe Rogan Yeonmi Park interview

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Even if we are pretty zen, sometimes it helps us to look back and reflect to see where we have come from, if we are still moving towards our destination and if we still want to go there. Looking back and being past-minded helps us. Planning and being future-minded helps us. The ability to switch between the appropriate mind helps us. There is more than just the present.

““Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.””

― Dan Ariely

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Even if you are pretty solid in your understanding of life, we can always get great reminders from the older, wiser people who have come before us. I do enjoy the fact that they are all grouped together. A couple of rules of thumb to help navigate through life.

* Occam's razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct;

* Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

* Hitchens's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

* Hume's guillotine: What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is.

* Alder's razor: If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.

* Sagan standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

* Popper's falsifiability principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.

* Grice's razor: Conversational implications are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love…”

― Carl Sagan

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