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

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fair trade porn!

brownie, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

He swears by Carl Sagan

i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link

buried up to his cheekbones

horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link

moldbug

horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link

mencius moldbug

horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

this is an elaborate prank

horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link

his blog is really longwinded fyi

goole, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

probably one for the rightwingery thread tho

goole, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

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

art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Saturday, 17 March 2012 10:56 (twelve years ago) link

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

lag∞n, Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link

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

art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Saturday, 17 March 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link

He swears by Carl Sagan

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

Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

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

A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Saturday, 17 March 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link

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 ).

KLurker, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link

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

KLurker, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link

lol only more useful

lag∞n, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

just to be clear here folks

lag∞n, Sunday, 18 March 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

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

Paul Smon (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

oh god

goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

so many complicated feelings...

goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link

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

goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

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

Paul Smon (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link

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".

Paul Smon (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link

what are these charlatans selling us?

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

goole, Thursday, 22 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link

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

Paul Smon (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link

Met some folks from Fairfield. Liked them.

(he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link

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

polyphonic, Thursday, 22 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link

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.

Paul Smon (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

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.

(he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link

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.

shur fine (am0n), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link

http://christinekane.com/images/freebie_vision_img.png

shur fine (am0n), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link

So basically, Pinterest.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

haha yes

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link

how to create your perfect life effortlessly

caek, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

pinterest.com

caek, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link

how to create your perfect life effortlessly

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lady should be sent to the gulag IMO

flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/cMmhQ.jpg

Wall Photos
So while having dinner with Sir Richard Branson on Necker Island, his private hangout in the British Virgin Islands, I finally got to ask him a question I've always wanted to ask.

We had been talking about life, fatherhood, kids, spiritual ideas, business and more. And I finally asked him...

"Richard, there has been so many theories about what makes you tick. I mean the 300+ companies, taking man to space, and all the other crazy epic things you do. But if YOU had to boil it down to ONE thing. Just one thing. What would your advice be?"

And this is what Branson told me. (Note that I'm paraphrasing a bit, because I did not record this.)

"It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION."

I was flying out to Dubai the next day to deliver a TEDx talk on "How to Build the World's Greatest Workplace". Richard's quote seemed so perfect for the talk. I asked him permission to quote him and he said yes.

I'll leave it to you to interprete Branson's words in your own way. Share your comments :-)

Note on the pic below: It was taken on my iPhone the next day. It shows Richard scribbling down ideas in his notebook during a brainstorming session.
By: Mindvalley Insights

dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link

you'd think if Branson wanted to give you permission to quote him in a speech, he'd at least ask you not to paraphrase it

stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

richard branson also smoked hell of w33d iirc

mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link

i am friends w/ a really awesome girl who keeps asking me to attend one of her vision board workshops that she leads :-\

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

XD

shur fine (am0n), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link

do you think your friendship would survive it?

mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link

tbh i am kind of worried i would enjoy it so much it would kill my cynicism

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link

some days, I would happily take the challenge if someone offered something that might bust my cynicism

mh, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link

The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images [that you’ve torn out from various magazines] 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.

Sweet grief! I have seen magazines. They do not contain images of "who I want to become." This is why I read books. The kind without pictures on every page.

Aimless, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link

dont forget abt the people who do it via youtube slideshow, as covered upthread.

it reminds me of friends i had growing up who had 40 year old moms that would tape photos to the fridge of 20 year old models they cut out of Cosmo and Redbook, as a way of somehow motivating them to lose weight

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link

i'm a visual person, and visual reminders can be effective motivators... but still, the whole practice of anyone participating in something like this after finishing the 9th grade is such a bummer to me

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link

A.K.A. "treasure mapping"

shur fine (am0n), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link


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