Enjoy The Plateau
Sustainable growth comes with mastery mindset.
We live in an age of frivolity, dopamine, instant gratification, disgrace, cancel culture, separation, polarisation. Are you exhausted by that? I know I am.
The list goes on. We live in the most frantic and scarcity driven society that human culture has ever seen. Individualism has turned into a battleground.
Obsessive thoughts on the bottom line, a culture that drives legitimate consequences if the graph isn’t continually upwards. Losing your job, your livelihood, possibly your marriage if it is based on your career status — hey, it happens.
What is the price for this excess?
Disconnection.
The price for consistent doing is health; the need for endless climactic experience pushes us into a fever which ends with sleepless nights, burnt out adrenal glands, ticks, and pill popping. Our relationships suffer under this stress.
Stress response in the body is a different state to the rest and digest from which connection and love come from.
On talking about this state of culture in the Western, and primarily American, world, George Leonard, writing in “Mastery — The Keys To Success And Long Term Fulfilment” says this:
The victory is real…
