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10+ Years of
Personal Growth in
20 Minutes
James Norris
www.jamesnorris.org
[email protected]
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January 18, 2011
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Self-actualization
Transcendence
Self-transcendence
Secondary integration
Happiness/flourishing
Spiral wizard
Eudaimonia
Nirvana
Enlightenment
?
Who rocks?
A few of my experiments
• Personal development startup
• Personal development non-profit (19
events/”homework” assignments)
• One month sabbatical in desert
• One year quasi-sabbatical
• Two 7-person mastermind groups, one 4-person
Personal Advisory Board
• One personal advisory board
• Three mentors (personal development, business,
social innovation)
• 137 serious self-assessments
• 157 frivolous self-assessments
• 1,000+ documented pieces of feedback
•987 firsts
• 24 hours/day time tracking (9 months)
• Daily performance self-assessment (5-20 metrics,
2.5 years)
• Overload experiment (12 months, 60 academic
hours, 4 part-time jobs/internships, 2 senior year
capstone projects/quasi-theses, 1 girlfriend)
• 20 Get Stuff Done Days
• ROI days
• Discipline days
• Three month mobile phone free experiment
• Hunger fasts
• Daily training push
• Frugality experiment
• Caffeine fasts
• Facebook fasts
• Socializing fasts/hermit mode
• Internet fasts/information diets
• Computer fasts
• Courage experiments
• Artificial deadline experiments
• Partial vegetarian diet (2 day per week)
• Essentially giving up TV
• Essentially giving up video games
• Essentially giving up non-productive social life for
extended periods
• Moving to a completely foreign country
• (Temporarily) giving up 80% of my stuff upon
moving to foreign country
Life snapshot
• Founded/established 3 social enterprises, 8
organizations, and 5 clubs
• Helped build 3 other startups
• Learned from 22 jobs/internships
• Experimented with 7 microbusinesses
• Graduated with 3 majors, 4 minors, 2
programs
Talk snapshot
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Happiness is an engineering 9.
problem.
Happiness is a set of habits. 10.
Rap isn’t that bad. :)
11.
Triggers first. Then KISS
change.
12.
Timing really matters.
13.
Babies crawl, then walk,
then run. You’re a baby.
14.
21 days to change is rubbish. 15.
You’re a big fat elephant.
Love (and all emotion) lasts
6 seconds.
Self-control depletes
glucose. Eat.
Eat well.
Grit predicts success.
Self-compassion kicks the
ass of self-criticism.
Reframing rocks.
Mindfulness…Mmm mmm
good.
Biggest
Lessons
Lesson:
Happiness is
an engineering
problem.
Lesson:
Happiness is a
set of habits.
Lesson:
Rap isn’t that
bad. :)
Lesson:
Triggers first.
Then KISS
change.
Lesson:
Timing really
matters.
Lesson:
Babies crawl,
then walk, then
run.You’re a
baby.
Lesson:
21 days to
change is
rubbish.
Lesson:
You’re a big fat
elephant.
Lesson:
Love (and all
emotion) lasts
6 seconds.
Lesson:
Self-control
depletes
glucose. Eat.
Lesson:
Eat well.
Lesson:
Grit predicts
success.
Lesson:
Selfcompassion
kicks the ass of
self-criticism.
Lesson:
Reframing
rocks.
Lesson:
Mindfulness…
Mmm mmm
good.
Personal Growth Resource
Kit
www.jamesnorris.org/personalgrowthkit
150+ useful files for helping with all areas of your personal development,
including career, fitness, setting/reaching goals, life planning, nutrition,
productivity, self-awareness, sleep, and time and performance management.
Heavily turnkey and focused on immediately insight and progress.
No bullshit. All practical. Admittedly a little hodgepodge.
Free.
www.selfspark.com/beta
James Norris
[email protected]
www.jamesnorris.org