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10+ Years of Personal Growth in 20 Minutes James Norris www.jamesnorris.org [email protected] blinkBL-NK January 18, 2011 Blu Jaz 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 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 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