Articles And Series
You can read part one of this interview here. In this part of the interview Tony and I talk about: The balance between business life and personal life, Having an online persona, Being embarrassed about our early efforts at blogging, What the place of goals is in living, and, The importance (or not) of money. [...]
Continue reading about Tony Teegarden on Living Authentically Part Two
This post, due to hassles getting it transcribed, has been a long time coming. Apologies for the delay. In this first part Tony and I talk about living authentically and how this affects his approach to business. This includes: our image of sales people, our self image, listening, about mixing self-development and business on one [...]
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Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: Critiquing self development and why we [...]
Continue reading about Lyman Reed on Authenticity and Self Development Part 3 of 3
Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: What authenticity is The difficult relationship [...]
Continue reading about Lyman Reed on Self Development and Authenticity Part 2 of 3
Lyman Reed blogs at Self Development for the Real World. I’d be hard pressed to think of a better name for a self development blog. The interview, when I typed it, was 11 A4 pages – so I’ve broken up into three parts. In this part we talk about: The Law of Attraction Lyman’s upbringing [...]
Continue reading about Lyman Reed on Self Development and Authenticity Part 1 of 3
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how – Nietzsche. When it comes to meaning I feel that I need to nail my colours to the mast. It is a big topic and sometimes a very controversial one. For me it implicates the core of who we are – which [...]
Continue reading about The Rough Guide to Self-Development Part Seven the meaning of (my) life
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called After the Breakthrough Comes the Work of Consolidation. Breakthroughs get our attention – they are gripping at the time and memorable in retrospect. But they aren’t a major part of our time – we spend most of the time [...]
Overemphasis on Thinking Our western culture I think overestimates the importance of thinking. For instance, our schooling (which I refuse to call education) is almost entirely focused on thinking. In Australia of late there is a push of the ‘back to basics’ variety – the basics being reading, writing and ‘rithmatic. The basics are not [...]
Continue reading about The Rough Guide to Self-Development Part Six learning from our feelings
Not so long ago, in a universe quite close to this one there was the realm of Slaog. I would like to take you on a tour. A Nice Place Slaog is in many ways a nice place to be – here, life works. People know what they need and want – and their set [...]
Continue reading about The Rough Guide to Self Development Part Five A Visit to Slaog
Our western culture emphasises linear rationality (such things as analysis, logic, sequence, prioritising and planning). So I’ll start our tour of the world of self-development here: it is a place that we are all familiar with – even if we don’t like it terribly much. The emphasis on linear rationality has lead to a reaction [...]
Continue reading about The Rough Guide to Self Development Part Two Our Experience and Our Thinking
