![]() May you merrily make the 3rd MEANINGFUL MOVE! To move from a social parasite to an uncommon achiever, your effort must be deliberately applied towards maturing in a myriad of ways. One thing remains common between an excellent person and a mediocre one - they both have gifts and talents. However, one has settled in the wilderness, but the other has traversed the deserts of LIFE to reach the Promised Land. If we are to penetrate into the core of our ‘Psychic Adjustment’, we should not be surprised by the frequency at which the word ‘SELF’ recurs everywhere. We should also note that, our ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is not simply a one step act but a series of acts; a continuous process. Here is how you will attain to the possibly HIGHEST HEIGHT in your current LIFE:To move from a social parasite to an uncommon achiever, your effort must be deliberately applied towards maturing in a myriad of ways. One thing remains common between an excellent person and a mediocre one - they both have gifts and talents. However, one has settled in the wilderness, but the other has traversed the deserts of LIFE to reach the Promised Land. If we are to penetrate into the core of our ‘Psychic Adjustment’, we should not be surprised by the frequency at which the word ‘SELF’ recurs everywhere. We should also note that, our ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is not simply a one step act but a series of acts; a continuous process. Here is how you will attain to the possibly HIGHEST HEIGHT in your current LIFE:Hardening and tempering yourself in all vital aspects, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ entails a SELF-IMPOSED effort, directed towards achieving a radical reform of your habits and thoughts. It is remaking and building your character. It is a striving to rise from a contemptuous LIFE situation and moving further ashore, by breaking all ropes and all inhibitions that are holding you back from activating your selfhood, be they emanating from social custom or any kind of indolence. On your own effort, you shall irrigate, shower and flood your psyche with positive stimulants and undaunted determination to have a therapeautic thrive in this business of living. Integrating all diverse aspects in you, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-PROPELLED transitional process, from the dead past into the living present and fertile future. It is aimed at shattering the past mental crystallisation and wittingly arousing you towards bright goals. You will find within yourself the vitamins to nourish, fortify and strengthen your self-image. It means taking the wings of confidence and flying to new horizons for yourself, incorporating clear, rational thinking channelised into creative performance directed at goal of achievement. Gaining the necessary vigour, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-ELEVATING process, aimed at raising you to the level of being sovereign to your circumstance. It implies a rebellion against a background of a stagnatory and vegetative LIFE, passive sort of existence which have subjected you to being a victim of external circumstances. It entails evoking the built-in goal-striving mechanism that lies within the vast inner space of your mind. This is in order to discover the abundant wealth within. In this way, you will rise above the mere physical survival aspect of living to a form of successful, satisfying living, with an aim of achieving your complete fulfillment as a human being. Happy without being vain with your LIFE, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-AROUSAL process, within you of an atomic power, a new combustion of LIFE energy, that will propel you toward present and future opportunities; always keeping your eyes open and your ears attentive. It means cultivating in you the determination to reach your goals and ascertaining your right to succeed, by making yourself aware of your inner strengths, your basic identity and reorienting most of the positive forces within you. Entrenching yourself to your evolutional path, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-EVOKING process, of the need to realise who you know deep down you can be, by kindling that burning desire to ‘seize the day’ and realise that sense of vibrancy, integrity and passion that LIFE offers. It implies triggering the drive to make the most of your LIFE and to utilise fully your physical, mental and spiritual capacities. Stable and unwavering in your desires, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-ASSERTIVE process, of developing from a partially functioning person into a more fully functioning one. You will be able to solve each of the areas of LIFE weaknesses more co-operatively, more courageously, with a greater sense of contribution and a greater sense of satisfaction. You will identify and work toward becoming your best self. Traversing all false voices about your abilities, ‘Psychic Adjustment’ is a SELF-INDUCED process, aimed at helping you understand your ‘mode of being’ in the world. It is to facilitate shedding off your insecurities, in order to come out fighting and be ready to courageously take on whatever LIFE decides to throw at you. As human beings, we have physical, intellectual, social, emotional, vocational and spiritual needs – the neglect of which reduces the ability of one to live a FULLY FUNCTIONAL LIFE. SELF-ACTUALIZATION is what Educated Existence is all about. For members of the educated class, LIFE is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, peruses up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a Divine Diploma and lets them in.
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May you reverentially receive the 3rd LUMINOUS LIGHTNING!
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[prompt 1...Left hand palm placed on the chest, Right hand raised with a clenched fist rending the air] Hail BEYONDISM!===>[reply 1...imitating the prompter, but rending the air 3 times] Awakened. Blooming. Creative....... [prompt 2...Left hand clinching the waist, Right hand palm stroking the chest] I AM a Blessed Beyondist (BB)===>[reply 2...imitating the prompter, but stroking the chest 3 times] Which amounts to being The Anointed One (TAO).......[prompt 3...Hands resting on the belly, head slightly bowed] In as much as My ‘BEING’ is in holy harmony with Nature and The SUPREME BEING so WHAT?===>[reply 3...imitating the prompter, but bowing the head 3 times] GOD IS FOR ME. GOD IS IN ME. GOD IS WITH ME. [facing each other, hands lifted up with open palm, slashing the air 7 times] AFRICA. AFRICA. AFRICA! ARISE. ADVANCE. ACHIEVE! AMEN! May you celestially celebrate the 3rd BEYONDIST BOMBSHELL!
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THOU SHALL AWAKEN YOUR LATENT, IMMENSE ABILITIES--->THOU SHALL AWAKEN YOUR LATENT, IMMENSE ABILITIESWill-to-Selfhood Selfhood Code Sun Awakening Will-to-Strength Strength Code Mercury Success Will-to-Love Loving Code Venus Intimacy Will-to-Live Living Code Earth Progress Will-to-Health Health Code Mars Conquest Will-to-Lead Leading Code Jupiter Greatness Will-to-Relate Relating Code Saturn Goodwill Will-to-Parent Parenting Code Uranus Nurturing Will-to-Become Becoming Code Neptune Growth |
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May you whoopingly win the 3rd PURPOSIVE PRIZE! Which is the core and hub of Apparent (Psychic) Adustment? Seek to overcome the gnawing sense of ‘inner vacuum’ (hopelessness). Resist any sort of shrinking of your mental horizons (helplessness). These are the chief causes of predisposition to violence. You have to ‘SELF-IGNITE’ your psyche, to downplay all failures and ignore all limitations. You have to make yourself demand and expect more from the inexhaustible coffer of nature. You must overcome yourself with immense self-belief that you are destined for great things. This conviction is in itself a self-fulfilling prophesy. Why MUST you interact on your own terms? This may sound frighteningly morbid to many at first glance. It can be therapeautic when one considers just how toxic a huge swath of society really is. Cultivate positive energy within yourself. Avoid the negative that presents itself in others. If you are not in control of who you interact with and how, The negative energy of others will infect you from the inside out. And your mind will become an enemy of your desires; you will sabotage yourself. |
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iv. “When the crocodile jumps around, he ends up receiving the spear.” - Subi (Tanzania) proverb v. “When a palm-branch reaches its height, it gives way for fresh one to grow”. - Yoruba (Nigeria) proverb vi. “A tender bamboo cannot be eagerly desired”. - Chewa (Malawi) proverb vii. “When a person regrets endlessly, he gets to pay more for what he regrets”. - Yoruba (Nigeria) proverb The 3rd AFRICAN AFFIRMATION: i. “The reddish-brown biting ant that breaks away from the trail is the one that turns into the big blant ant”. - Buganda (Uganda) proverb ii. “Water flows the slope”. - Shubi (Tanzania) proverbiii. “Arguments are a source of strife”. - Kikuyu (Kenya) proverb ---> |
iv. “Follow not the vain desires of those who do not know”. - QURAN, Al-Jasiya 45:18 v. “And mankind was one humanity but later differed”. - QURAN, Yunus 10:19 vi. “Enjoin the good and forbid the evil and be patient against what befalls you; surely this is the task of steadfastness”. - QURAN; Luqman 31:17 vii. “From the mode of goodness, real knowledge develops; and from mode of passion, greed develops; and from the mode of ignorance develop foolishness, madness and illusion”. – BHAGAVAD-GITA, The Three Modes of Material Nature, XIV: 17 The 3rd SCRIPTURAL STANDING: |
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May you felicitously face the 3rd phase of DILIGENT DIMENSIONS |
In the Hegelian dialectics, BEING is the thesis while non-being is the anti-thesis. French existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980) goes on to affirm that BEING is by its very nature contingent. French Roman Catholic existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) takes a mystical approach to the issue, he sees BEING essentially as a mystery. German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) asked: Do we in our own time have an answer to the question of what we really mean by the word BEING? In his major work Being and Time (1927) he made three presuppositions; firstly, he maintains that BEING is the ‘most universal’ concept; secondly, that the concept of BEING is indefinable and thirdly that BEING is of all concepts the one that is self-evident. |
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i. Negotiate EFFECTIVELY with yourself.ii. Roll up your SLEEVES to get things done.iii. Take a STAND for your values.iv. Aspire to PRODUCE your own future.v. Gain INSIGHT into your underlying motives.vi. Seek to CREATE something wonderful.vii. Endeavour to EXCEL at challenges.Truly, this is your 3rd Mortal Mission, as a function of your Divine Duty. |
May you intimately immerse in the 3rd THERAPEUTIC TRANSCENDENCE |
Why is BEYONDISM effortlessly ECLECTIC, without being effetely ENIGMATIC? Here is the 3rd DIVINE DOSE to keenly keep your PSYCHE bounteously BOOSTED: BEYONDISM does not dilute—it deepens, uniting difference with discipline and soul-rooted coherence. |
| Our 3rd Therapeutic Transcendence rolls out as spiced by Three Philosophers and Three Psychologists. |
| See below how the ideas of these icons fuse in, in laying down a new African dispensation. (To conveniently rotate the 3D Cube below, mouseClick left inside, hold, drag abit and then release. Consequently, move the mouse in your desired XYZ direction; to stop double-click left again.) |
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The 3rd ONE Word (hover below) which Breeds SEVEN Words to Depict Who a BLESSED BEYONDIST Is:---> The 3rd of SEVEN reasons why you should be PROUD to be an AFRICAN:
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BEYONDIST Text to Speech ConverterHail Assertive African, click here to listen to what you have affirmatively ascribed unto thyself Your thoughts, if you think them over and over, and assign TRUTH to them, become BELIEFS. BELIEFS create a COGNITIVE lens through which you interpret the events of your world and this lens serves as a selective filter through which you sift the environment for evidence that matches up with what you BELIEVE to be true. You only took in the evidence from the environment that is consistent with your BELIEF, which then reinforces your original BELIEF. O Thee Blessed Beyondist, stop mark-timing in your low self-esteem. Seize this historical chance and merry moment to soulfully scribe for yourself a unique ‘Individually Inspiring Instruction’. ---> |
Born on 30th March 1968, Céline Marie Claudette Dion,Power of the Dream - CELINE DION Is a Canadian singer who has sung in English and French. This song ‘Power of Dream’, released in 1990 is so incisive. Deep within each and every heart, there lies a magic spark, That lights our imagination, and since the dawn of man, The strength of just ‘I can’ has brought together all people. Your mind will take you far, but the rest is just pure heart. Deep within each heart |
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BEYONDISM IS THE FIRST cock’s crow of an AFRICAN AWAKENING. BEYONDISM means the perception and establishment of law in the chaotic flux of things and desires. By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our past. This lies in seeing and acting, sub specie eternitatis - Greek, “under the form of eternity”; in making perception and action fit the eternal perspective of the whole. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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No myth, no fiction, no theology, no ideology should match the romance of your individual REALITY. Ennobled and consumed with a reconstructive vision, contemning no person’s observations or ideas, but lighting your torch at every human’s candle, is your mark of Godliness. With a nose for facts, and an eye for the clouds, to the extent that Locating your BEARING is to clarify your LIFE’S TASK and to affirm your DESTINY, it is to KNOW THYSELF, which is to live a worthy, examined LIFE. In as much as this means diligently deciphering your own personal RIDDLE “That which is necessary,” says German philosopher, poet, and classical philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), “does not offend me. Amor fati” – love of fate – “is the core of my nature.” Such a philosophy teaches us to say Yea to LIFE, and even to death, “a free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.” BEYONDISM is rooted in what German philosopher and educator Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814), referred to as: conatus esse preservandi - the effort to preserve one’s self. To channel your inherent powers, in the context of what is socially possible, is to Locate your BEARING. The greatest lesson according to German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), is: doss wir entsagen sollen - we must accept the limitations which nature puts upon us. But not those artificial barriers imposed by an envious society. |
i. BEYONDISM serves as the very sauce and flavour, by which a heavy dish of thought is made palatable and digestible, for minds unused to philosophic fare. Ours (Africa) is a continent invested with and haunted---> by political quacks, theological charlatans and enterpreneural vandals, who with unrivalled eloquence have sawed off the branch on which they sat. Your spirit having been intoxicated for so long, by empty rhetoricians who are in the words of Greek philosopher Plato (428 - 347 BC) “shopkeepers with spiritual ware”, here you will find a factual fount for your PSYCHIC nourishment. |
ii. Essentially, we cannot build a progressive African society, with young people corrupted at every turn by the bad example of their elders. We must start, so far as we can, with a clean slate. We must give to every child,---> and from the outset, full equality of educational opportunity. There is no telling where the light of talent or genius will break out. We must seek it impartially everywhere, in every rank and community. The first turn in our road, is emulating BEYONDISM with all our PSYCHIC powers. |
iii. A BLESSED BEYONDIST, will be a person of action rather than merely one of thought – a human being seasoned to high purposes and noble temper, by long experience and trial. BEYONDISM means---> an active culture, and wisdom that mixes with concrete busyness of LIFE. You will be a cleansing whirlwind for a continent rotten with delusions, illusions, fantasies and superstitions. In you .............. alone, BEYONDISM will find voice and audacity, and Africa will be utterly changed. |
iv. Realistically armoured by the distinguishing characteristics of the powerful instincts of acquisition and competition, one will be free from the fever of combative possession (which consumes many people).---> Hungering and thirsting not after possessions endlessly multiplied, but after righteousness and honour, BEYONDISM is categorically convinced that, a handful of RIGHT is better than a bagful of MIGHT. Consequently, GOOD is that which survives, which wins, while BAD is that which gives way and fails. |
v. In the context of BEYONDISM, a practically perfect and jovially just society (not utopia), would be that in which each class and each unit would be doing the work to which its nature and aptitude is best adapted to.---> It is a society in which no class or individual would interfere with others, but all would co-operate in difference to produce an efficient and harmonious whole. Equality here means giving each person a chance to develop one’s abilities, while repecting other’s different, but equally unique propensities. |
vi. Nurtured in total consideration of one’s “Nature”, each person shall receive the equivalent of what he or she produces, and shall perform the function for which he or she is best fit. According to BEYONDISM,---> a just person is one just in the right place, doing his or her best, and giving the full equivalent of what he or she receives. A society of just people would be therefore a highly harmonious and effectively efficient group; for every element would be in its place, fulfilling its appropriate function like pieces in a perfect orchestra. |
vii. Going forward, BEYONDISM will eventually facilitate a ruthless weeding out; the Great Elimination, we might call it. The test for any individual’s REALISTIC RELEVANCE in the society, will be no mere---> academic examination; it will be practical as well as theoretical. Every kind of ability will have a chance to show itself, and every sort of stupidity will be hunted out into the light. The test will be impartial and impersonal; whether one is to be farmer or a philosopher will be determined not by monopolised opportunity or nepotic favouritism. The selection will be more democratic than democracy. To devise a method of barring incompetence and knavery from public office, and of selecting and preparing the best to rule for the common good, is the affluent assignment of BEYONDISM (the presumption that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to lead is the worst malady of democracy). |
Towards this end, BEYONDISM gently guides you: “What is madness?” French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694 - 1778) asked and answered: “To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly about them”. |
SECOND, you MUST understand the essential and core meaning of EDUCATION. As a STUDENT your major condemnation is to have a good education. What is EDUCATION therefore? Education is the most persuasive ‘suitable survival strategy’, to be won to the service of the individual and the general community. Education ought to be the key to general social improvement, and to your growth as a dynamic psychological, as well as biological entity. Like religion, the pure purpose of education is to potently produce the best in a human being. As such, education should not simply be a preparation for future living, but rather a process of living, its own end. Towards this end, BEYONDISM gently guides you: As a ‘Self-Stimulated Student’ committed to success;Here now flows the BEYONDISM’S definition of EDUCATION:Enhancing your general outlook with all knowledge acquired. Directing learning to affect all your behaviour and desires. Using and verifying what is learned in class, in general LIFE. Cultivating all your resources to being a productive person. Arousing critical thinking and perpetual thirst for more ideas. Transforming all your old notions into self-enhancing percepts. Interrogating and reflecting on the world and all its unfolding. Opening up and clearly seeing for yourself new perspectives. Nurturing and developing every potential capacity within you. |
An indispensable element in ACTIVATION of your SELFHOOD, is to win the hearts and minds of your teachers/lecturers. Good communication skills affect how well you do in the lecture hall, with your lecturer, and in your studies! Teachers/lecturers will evaluate you on your participation and demonstrated interest in, and accomplishment with, the course work. Impressing teachers/lecturers is simply a matter of asking good questions, and responding with good answers. Being an “interested” student will determine how you influence your lecturer. The first attribute of a serious STUDENT is an insatiable curiosity. |
“If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.” Effective communication skills that build a positive learning environment are: |
1. Your lecturer reviews yesterday’s assignment in class. What should you do? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
2. Privately your lecturer wants to know what you think about your course subject choice. What do you say? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
3. In the hallway, your lecturer just said hello. How do you respond? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
4. In class, your lecturer starts talking about his or her career. What do you do? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
5. Your lecturer invites you to talk to about your course work after class. You are busy then. What do you do? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
6. Your lecturer helps you out with some homework that you were having trouble with. What do you do? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
7. In class your lecturer just said something that you do not agree with. What do you do? Best BEYONDIST communication: |
To churn out the value of that paper is a different matter altogether. You must ingest and digest the content in all your units. You must make the course material part of your PSYCHE. You must go the extra mile and study materials related to your field (though not stipulated in your course). You must use the course materials to expand your view of the world. So far so good, about your robust relationship with your lecturers. But if you are to separate yourself from the many YOUTHS who simply pass through college or university (graduates and get that paper), you must differentiate between having a degree or diploma, and the value of that paper. |
It is not an easy task to remove psychology and philosophy from the “Ivory Tower” of specialists and thinkers (without diluting these noble professions with the mediocre waters of intellectual dishonesty, social conformity or political correctness), and put these Invigorating Ideas into your young growing mind. Perhaps our success will be measured by the extent we will have ironed out any problem of comprehension and interpretation. To complete the pyramid of Activating your SELFHOOD, and put an end to all superficial speculations, about the general human nature, and your specific situation, is the supreme end of BEYONDISM. When you will have ACTIVATED your SELFHOOD, you will be able to easily follow your BEING. In this way you will be able to spread your wings to the furthest possible distance. As you do this, remember that the path without obstacles leads nowhere. Challenges are the spices for the diet of existence, which makes the business of LIFE to be highly palatable. |
As you emerge from your academics, into work world, you must become increasingly bold. Instead of feeling complacent about what you know, you must expand your knowledge to related fields, giving your mind fuel to make new associations between different ideas. You must experiment and look at problems from all possible angles. You will turn against the very rules you internalised. You need to gain knowledge simply to make it through LIFE. If ever (and God forbid) you may be disabled, or crippled, LIFE will still have enough MEANING so long as you are constantly learning. Learning changes what YOU WISH FOR WHEN YOU PRAY. Learning means appreciating, benefitting and taking advantage of the infinite heritage of human knowledge and experience. |
SUBSTANTIALLY, what do you basically need to start a thriving business?---> Many reasons affluently abide, but THREE simple things are critical: know your product better than anyone. Know your customers, and have a burning desire to succeed. |
THE best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.---> An entrepreneur is someone who has a VISION for something and a want to CREATE. Chase the VISION, not the MONEY; and MONEY will end up following you. |
ALL humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies,---> but because the WILL-to-CREATE is encoded in human DNA. Transforming this WILL into ACTION is very vital. The VALUE of an IDEA lies in the USING of it. |
REALLY, the fastest way to CHANGE yourself, is to hang out with people ---> who are already the way you want to be (mentors or role models). At the same time, the secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to CHANGE the WORLD. |
TIMING, perseverance, and ten years of trying (persistence) will eventually---> make you look like an overnight success. In the end, a VISION without the ability to EXECUTE it (to make it a reality) is probably an illussion, if not a hallucination. |
USUALLY embrace what you do not know, especially in the beginning,---> because what you do not know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things differently from everybody else. |
PRUDENTLY, whether you think you can, or think you cannot – you are right.---> As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. Solid success is not about having infinite ideas. It is about making ideas PRACTICAL. |
It is worth realising that, most of the important things in the world, have been accomplished by men and women who were ‘persistent’ enough even when there seemed to be no hope at all. You are not necessarily obligated to have an instant win in whatever you do; you are nevertheless obligated to keep trying to do the best you can everyday. “Things are to be tried, an old lady cooked stones and produced soup”, thus goes Shona, Zimbabwean proverb. “When one is driven by an impulse of thought, adopting an intense bulldog determination and a definite purpose in standing back of a particular goal, really desiring a thing so deeply until it becomes an all-consuming passion, willing to stake one’s entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, one is destined to mow down all opposition, and one should be guaranteed of unconditional achievement.”---> “Once people tell me I can’t do stuff, I’m going to go and make it happen,” so sung American rapper Faheem Rasheed Najm, alias T-Pain (b. 1985). Victory and success will accrue to you, only through persistent effort. There is no shortcut in this regard. No stroke of luck. Listen to British poet Henry Wadsworth Longefellow (1807 - 82): The heights by great men reached and kept, |
One who masters, conquers all. DO YOU WISH TO JOIN THE LEAGUE of the learned(?) ‘intellectual manambas wearing academic buibuis’? Would you want to be counted among men and women who are furnished with many theories, but who have no practical idea of how to solve the menacing problem of daily LIFE? Of course not. Your desire MUST be to become a learner, who is a thinker dedicated to be a MASTER in your specific field of interest. Being solution-oriented as opposed to being problem-centered, you will have answers to the Big Questions in your immediate society (in your line of specialty). You will eventually rise to the possible highest peaks of MASTERY and POWER. |
i. Personally, there is something you are good at, and one in which you can become outstanding at if you just pay attention to it. Your training should be in the area of your skill. Education should be geared ---> towards area of skill, and your LIFE designed around the appreciation of that skill, regardless of its popularity or lack of it. Understand your lane, stay in it and sharpen what you have and let the results speak for you. If you genuinely pursue your skill with diligence and focus, those who once laughed at you will one day laugh with you. Those who asked you “who are you?” will one day ask; “how are you?” ii. In this part of the world where people wait for one person’s success in an area and then everybody flocks into the same direction, stay true to your gift. The path of “copycatting” leads to lack of creativity, ---> disorientation and ultimate disillusionment. Around the globe, people are facing the same problem - that we are born as individuals but are forced to conform to the rules of society if we want to succeed. In other words, we are born originals, but perhaps we will die as copies. iii. Orienting yourself, to see your uniqueness expressed in your achievements, you must first learn the rules - and then how to change them completely. Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882), British scientist, who laid ---> the foundation of modern evolutionary theory with his concept of the development of all forms of LIFE through the slow-working process of natural selection, began as an underachieving schoolboy. Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist started off as an illegitimate outcast. In his youth German-born American physicist Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) was an academic dwarf, who through persistent effort rose to be an academic giant; who is revered as the greatest scientific genius of all times. iv. No stupid person ever made a substantial breakthrough. Greatness is never bequethed, it is amassed. The secret of those men and women who have rose higher in any realm lies in a ‘rigorous apprenticeship’.---> By paying close and careful attention, they learnt to master the ‘hidden codes’ which determine ultimate success or failure. Then, they rewrote the rules as a reflection of their own individuality, blasting previous patterns of achievement open from within. v. Essentially, as a student, your ultimate goal is to discover your LIFE’s TASK, or vocation, and carving out a path that will lead you to its fulfillment on various levels. As a culmination of your active SELFHOOD,---> BEYONDISM sets the ground for you to rise above the current evolutional level of Homo Sapien, and become a Homo Magister, a man or woman the MASTER. What does German philosopher G. W. F. Hegel (1770 - 1831) has to say about MASTERY as the purest form of CONSCIOUSNESS? “Consciousness is thoroughgoing dialectical restlessness, this melee of presentations derived from sense and thought, whose differences collapse into oneness...For consciousness is, on the one hand, consciousness of the object, on the other, consciousness of itself...In work consciousness becomes aware of itself as it in truth is, and its empty notion of itself disappears.” vi. Engaged fully in your profession, MASTERY is central to finding your purpose. However, we undervalue it; we are afraid of hard work and conform to social pressures. The great danger is that we give in---> to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt. U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894 - 1964) gives his idea of a scientist (and which applies to all fields where mastery is required): “The independent scientist who is worth the slightest consideration as a scientist has a consecration which comes entirely from within himself: a vocation which demands the possibility of supreme self-sacrifice.” vii. Redudantly, we assume that only a select few are capable, but ANYONE can become a MASTER. Over the centuries, people have placed a wall around such MASTERY.They have called it genius---> and have thought of it as inaccessible. However, that wall is imaginary. The evolution of the brain was designed to lead us to MASTERY, the latent power within us all. Unfortunately there are some great detterent as pointed out by U.S. academic John P. Kotter (1947 - ): “Bureaucratic and risk-averse environments are career killers because of their impact on learning.” “Any economy in which more individuals escape entrapment in sterile, bureaucratic corporate slots or menial roles and expand their potential can be argued to be morally superior,” so illumined British-born U.S. business executive George Poste (1944 - ). |
A very important consideration in your Jovial Journey of becoming a MASTER, is that you must start at this very early age of YOUTH, to harness and control your emotions. It is an emotional quality that separates those who master a field from the many who simply work at a job. Your levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence are central in MASTERY. Talent and high IQ cannot explain MASTERY. It is all about hard work and persistence. Thousands upon thousands of children display exceptional skill and talent in some field, yet relatively few of them ever amount to anything, whereas those who are less brilliant in their youth can often attain much more. Natural talent or a high IQ cannot explain future achievement. As a classic example of MASTERY, compare the lives of Sir Francis Galton and his older cousin, Sir Charles Darwin. By all accounts, Galton was a super-genius with an exceptionally high IQ, quite a bit higher than Darwin’s (these are estimates done by experts years after the invention of the measurement). Galton was a boy wonder who went on to have an illustrious scientific career, but he never quite mastered any of the fields he went into. He was notoriously restless, as is often the case with child prodigies. Darwin, by contrast, is rightly celebrated as the superior scientist, one of the few who has forever changed our view of LIFE. Listen to these powerful and inspiring words of German philosopher, poet, and classical philologist Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900): Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole. |
1. Find out the things you feel you do well.---> Think about the talents you already know you have, and ask friends and family what they think you are good at. You might be surprised by what they say. Are these what challenges you? The things that challenge you might be opportunities to improve and move toward your goals — and they might suggest areas of study and work that will keep you interested long into the future. |
2. Engage in what you like to do for fun.--->
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3. Rise up to those who you do look up to.--->
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4. Things you have always wanted to try are vital.---> Consider your reasons for wanting to do this — and why it is you have not done this yet. Do you find it exciting? What do you expect to get out of it? Which are the accomplishment that has made you most proud? Your answer might have nothing to do with a hard-won A or a trophy — it might be the time you stuck up for someone who needed your help. What you are proud of can help you see what matters most to you. |
5. Indulge in your favourite class. Do not limit---> yourself to the subjects that come easiest to you. Think about which classes make you lose track of time. Is it the teacher/lecturer or the subject matter that holds your interest? What do you read about in your free time? The kinds of stories you follow in the news, your favourite books and websites — these can help you figure out what really makes you curious. |
6. List the jobs you could do job for a day.--->
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7. Entertain the things you wanted to be when--->
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WHAT NOW? These personal explorations will go along way in heping you to make important discoveries about who you are. Stay open to the places and interests they lead to. |
![]() The 3rd Enduring Excerpt English philosopher, scientist, statesman, and lawyer Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) rose through the ranks of the Elizabethan bureaucracy to achieve the position of Lord Chancellor during the reign of King James I. Bacon wrote important literary and philosophical works and was a major contributor to modern scientific thought. His Essays (published sporadically between 1597 and 1625), excerpted below, are considered his chief contribution to literature. ...““What is truth?” said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer... yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently well: “It is a pleasure, to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth” (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), “and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below”; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling, or pride. Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man’s mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth...” |
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