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🌀 Welcome to Not Knowing! 🌀 Start Here
We are glad you decided to join! The purpose here is simple: finding out what's true for yourself, in your own experience without any assumptions, beliefs or hearsay. What is true, what is really true? Real insight always arises from not knowing. Here's how to begin: 🌱 Step 1: Say hello Introduce yourself in the comments and tell us: what are you curious about, what are you investigating? A sentence or two is plenty. 💬 2. Share your insights, ask others Find someone with a question or interest you share and let them know. You don't need to have an answer. 🧭 3. Take the Start Here course Five short videos by Brendan to get you going: https://www.skool.com/not-knowing/classroom/2da2cfdc 📅 4. Join a Check-in Session with Brendan We meet every Tuesday for a live session for new members. Find the next one in the Calendar tab: https://www.skool.com/not-knowing/calendar P.S. Levels here run on likes. So when you say hello and reply to someone, like what you read too. That's how everyone gets to Level 2, which opens up more courses. Higher levels bring more rewards, including free online workshop seats. Have a look around the Classroom: https://www.skool.com/not-knowing/classroom “Increasing consciousness is the most important pursuit any human can undertake. Generally, people are stuck in a great deal of false realities that produce struggle, suffering, and discontent. Increasing consciousness frees us from this falsely limited world so we can access greater freedom and happiness, not to mention gain more effectiveness and creativity. Becoming more conscious takes investigation, learning, and contemplation. We provide these tools and support.” — Peter Ralston
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I am Preparing the Next Master Class on Limiting Beliefs and Need Your Help
The people have spoken! You want to see a video on Limiting Beliefs. I want to hear back from you because I have started working on this next masterclass and your input will help. If it's really good I will address it in the video. In terms of working with limiting beliefs: What have you tried already? What were the results and how did it work? What do you envision you need this course for? Please answer in the comments! Best, Brendan
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Which Peter Ralston book did you read first?
📚 Interested to hear which one got you started. Why did you read this book and what did you love or hate about it? (Choose the first one you picked up, even if you're still reading it)
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The Ease of Simply Being a Body
I was surprised to discover lately how much energy I burn selfing. When I feel physically tired, it is not necessarily the physical tasks that have tired me. Actually, I can do lots of physical tasks every day, one after another, and not get tired. My tiredness comes from mental activity, and a great part of it turns out to be unnecessary. There is a common mental state shared in my family, called 'waiting for the postman'. Every month, on a fixed day, a postman brings my grandparents their pension. On the day he comes, everyone sits quietly in suspense from early morning. Laughter is not allowed because we are 'waiting for the postman'. When the postman comes, it usually takes us five minutes to greet him and receive the pension. Then he leaves, and so does the tension. How exhausting it is to wait for the postman! I noticed I tend to wait for the postman too often. Simply being a body, a living organism, is so much easier than that.
Skill and unpredictability
I have been dwelling on a facet of skill that I've labeled unpredictability. I have been coaching kids on what makes a player skillful in association football compared to less skilled ones, and one central aspect seems to be unpredictability. This aspect seems to apply to many other endeavors, like writing, humor, fighting, and chess: if your opponent or audience knows what your next move is, then you are nowhere near top level. I'm new at coaching and find it rewarding to spread Peter Ralston's ideas about principles whenever I find the chance
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