Become Wiser in Three Months: Use This Forgotten Tool in a New Way
Can we help our minds evolve without a coach, a personal guru, or a significant financial investment in training?
The body of guidance on personal growth and self-improvement existent out there is simply overwhelming. One way to deal with the apparent confusion entailed by so many options is to remember that there are so many entrances, going towards the same center. There are no two identical roads to self-fulfillment: some are fast, others are anecdotic; some are proven, while others are counter-intuitive; some are scientific, others are more of a “been-there-done-that” kind of thing.
The entire journey of search and practice is unique to everyone, the combination between failure and success is the result of an entanglement between own qualities (for example perseverance, self-confidence or pre-existent skills) and external moderators (such as existence and accessibility of resources, physical conditions or support from significant ones).
Some self-improvement goals focus on a very specific niche, skill, or cognitive ability: learning a new language, mastering martial arts, playing an instrument. This is not what I want to focus this article on. Rather, the question is: how can we aim for a…
