❀ the cult of: ➥motivational speakers ➥life coaches ➥personal growth gurus ➥new-age charlatans ➥AWESOMENESS FEST

this is it this is happening

• Happiness
• A Noble Mission
• The Gamification of the Workplace
• A Focus on Personal Growth
• Tribal Dynamics

hey i found something!

http://www.bilconference.com/

ilx should throw a conference, pay for hosting costs

http://bilconference.pbworks.com/w/page/49917283/BIL%202012-%20Speakers

the (former?) mayor of beverly hills!

nina hartley!

Jeremy Donovan Acord

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Talk: What do the Social and Cognitive Sciences Tell Us About Being Sex Positive Activists?

Jeremy Donovan Acord is a sex-positive feminist and language geek living in Venice beach, surrounded by cats and queer feminist sex workers. A computer scientist by training, programmer by trade, he Erlangs among Rubyists for a local start-up. He swears by Carl Sagan, and is likely to be found in his natural habitat, buried up to his cheekbones in a book.

wow ned's really had a lifestyle change since i last checked in with him.

Mencius Moldbug

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Talk: How to Reboot the US Government

Is your government infected with viruses, worms, malware and spyware? Do you keep calling tech support but end up playing phone tag? Did your brother-in-law who's supposedly this big expert come over last year to fix it, but only make it worse? Do you feel frustrated, confused, apathetic and annoyed? Does your stomach cramp up every time you hear the word "change"?

Neighbor, we have just the red pill for you. Don't ask what's in it. You don't want to know. Here's a glass of water - don't think, just swallow.

Mencius Moldbug of Unqualified Reservations is your gateway to the lost world of pre-democratic thought.

^^ btw this guy is one of the internet's premier scientific racist goldbug types

xp lol yeah i bet that guy is sex-positive

can that really be his name

"sex hacker"

so this thing is pretty porny huh. er 'tantric' i guess

surrounded by cats and queer feminist sex workers

speakers list is a goldmine

http://reidaboutsex.com/

lol how is this not from bhideas

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OMG Jeremy Donovan Acord needs to be played by Martin Starr in The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Erlanging Among Rubyists

The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Buried Up to My Cheekbones
The Jeremy Donovan Acord Story: Surrounded by Cats

fair trade porn!

He swears by Carl Sagan

buried up to his cheekbones

moldbug

mencius moldbug

this is an elaborate prank

his blog is really longwinded fyi

probably one for the rightwingery thread tho

from the gawd vishen's fb page:

Best email I got all day ------- :-)

Bro - tell your team that the work they did in creating the creation method is outstanding.

I'm not talking about just the course... and I'll get to that in a second... I'm talking about the stylistic design, the copywriting ... It's all amazing and inspiring. I am one of the pickiest people you'll know about what is 'good quality' and what is crap quality... and your team is consistently on fire.

And get this: I don't even NEED something like the creation method. It is absolutely awesome material... I bought the teleseminar and appreciate the content due to how relevant it is for so many people... It will truly unleash some fire in them. For me, I didn't really feel it was for me simply because I can get myself 'in that space' already. Do I take the step to get a refund though? No! Instead I find myself pulling out my credit card and ordering the upsell!

I'm hypnotized Vishen!

Hypnotized!!

Give your team my gratitude.

They deserve all the gratitude in the world for the work you're doing together.

With Love & Gratitude,
Sean Patrick Simpson

I am one of the pickiest people you'll know about what is 'good quality' and what is crap quality... and your team is consistently on fire.

otm

wanna write a book about these guys called 'creating the creation method'

He swears by Carl Sagan

I find myself taking this very literally -- like, his favorite mild oath is "By Sagan!"

I find myself pulling out my credit card and ordering the upsell!

I think it was gr80 who wanted to know how you can be invited to Awesomeness Fest? From what a friend who works there told me, you need to be in the you apply for it, then they'll interview you. And then you pay a few thousand dollars and you're in.
Also, while ilx was talking about TED this link was posted multiple times by mindvalley folks ( http://www.rohitbhargava.com/2012/03/how-mindvalley-is-building-the-next-ted-only-more-useful.html ).

that was supposed to be : You need to be in the personal growth industry to apply for it

lol only more useful

just to be clear here folks

Put on your flying pants: Oprah goes to Fairfield, IA
http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/Sneak-Preview-Oprah-Visits-Americas-Most-Unusual-Town-Video

oh god

so many complicated feelings...

basically only other iowans get to make fun of fairfield, is how i feel. and not iowans who are crazier.

The angle she puts on the coverage will be way more interesting than the coverage itself, I expect.

Could be "this is a marvelous place of healing" or "what are these charlatans selling us?" but my guess is that it will not be "wtf lol vedic city".

what are these charlatans selling us?

i wouldn't expect this attitude coming from oprah winfrey tbh

well no, i wouldn't either but it's got an edge on just straight mocking the place for being weird

Met some folks from Fairfield. Liked them.

Every time I see this thread topic get bumped I get so excited.

Met some folks from Fairfield. Liked them.

TM people or townies? I am married to a townie who grew up there, have never actually interacted with anyone from the TM community tbh and I have been there many times over the last...12 years or so. Just wondering because I have been there so many times, but I still have never seen David Lynch levels of celebrity or devotion or w/e.

Both grew up there. One is the child of TM people, and the other was a townie (I think?) who seemed to have come from a back-to-the-land type background.

http://www.visionboardsite.com/

http://christinekane.com/how-to-make-a-vision-board/

What is a Vision Board?

A vision board (also called a Treasure Map or a Visual Explorer or Creativity Collage) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines. It’s simple.

The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you want to vacation, your life changes to match those images and those desires.

For instance, before I ever started performing music and I had no idea how I’d ever get a gig, write enough songs, or assemble a press kit, I drew a picture of myself in a bar with people watching me perform (I’m a terrible visual artist, so I actually had to label the people “people!”). And though it wasn’t the only factor in making it happen, I had a calendar full of bar and coffeehouse gigs by the next year.

My drawing was a kind of a vision board. Vision boards do the same thing as my drawing did. They add clarity to your desires, and feeling to your visions. For instance, at the time I did my drawing, I knew I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. (I have since left the that circuit, and I’m performing in theatres and at conferences. But in my early twenties, I wanted to play in bars and coffeehouses. I was pretty clear about that!) Taking the time to draw it out, even poorly, made it indelible in my mind.

There are several methods you can use for creating your vision board. I’ve written about each one below. You can choose which one works best for you, depending on where you find yourself on this path of creating your life.

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So basically, Pinterest.

haha yes