Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth
What Is Personal Development for Smart People?
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Personal Development for Smart People
What Is Personal Development for Smart People?
Personal development for smart people is a phrase I use to describe my approach to personal g r o w t h . Instead of going after the low- hanging fruit and solving the easy problems, such as h o w to make healthier food choices or earn more money, I w a n t e d to answer a really tough question: w h a t does it mean for us to g r o w as conscious h u m a n beings, and h o w do we intelligently guide that process? There w e r e t w o threads in my life that led me to tackle this ques- tion. T h e first thread was my long-term fascination with the concept of intelligence. T h e second thread w a s my direct study of the field of personal development. W h i l e earning my computer-science degree, I specialized in ar- tificial intelligence ( A l ) . 1 learned h o w difficult it is to create intelli- gent computer programs, largely because we don't really understand intelligence. I incorporated basic Al techniques in some of my early xiv c o m p u t e r games, but those programs only mimicked intelligent be- havior and couldn't be considered truly intelligent. I soon asked my- serf: How do I actually know that I'm intelligent? I couldn't find an a n - swer that satisfied m e . Eventually my pursuit of personal development led me to adopt a n e w definition of intelligence that satisfied both my logic and intuition. You'll learn that definition in Chapter 7. While studying personal development for many years, I learned that this field is very broad and fragmented. Any area of your life can rea- sonably slide under the umbrella of self-improvement, including your health, career, finances, relationships, and spiritual beliefs. Each subset of this field has its o w n purported experts, all of them sharing different ideas, rules, and advice. Relationship experts tell y o u how to maintain successful relationships, wealth experts teach y o u h o w to manage your money, and health experts help y o u improve your body. Unfortunately, these experts often disagree with each other. S o m e people r e c o m m e n d a high-protein diet; others r e c o m m e n d high carb. S o m e say y o u can achieve success through hard work and self-disci- pline; others advise letting go and allowing G o d or the universe to handle the details. S o m e experts encourage y o u to c h a n g e ; others say y o u should accept yourself as y o u are. If y o u try to incorporate all these different ideas into your life, you'll end up with a fragmented, incongruent mess. I soon realized that an intelligent approach to personal develop- ment w o u l d have to resolve these incongruencies somehow. Such an approach w o u l d have to make logical and intuitive sense, satisfying both head and heart. It w o u l d have to appear logically correct in order to satisfy the left brain, and it w o u l d have to feel intuitively correct in order to engage the right brain. Download 1.6 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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