The Stairway to Wisdom
The Stairway to Wisdom
The Stairway to Wisdom is a living document of becoming — raw, reflective and grounded in one question I have never been able to put down: how do you pursue greatness without losing your humanity?
I set out to become an unbreakable hockey player. What actually broke open was something else: the realisation that ambition without a centre of gravity doesn't make you stronger, it makes you smaller — smaller in your body, in your relationships, in the way you look at yourself. Injury, disappointment, a breakdown, the period I now call The Septic Tank, and long conversations with the coaches who kept me in the conversation taught me that the mind is not something you force. It is something you build.
This podcast is the building. Each episode is one step on the stairway: a principle from the 49 that run through my two books, The Magical Mindset and The (UN)BREAKABLE Mindset — ambition and intention, ego and ownership, vulnerability and recovery, identity and the roles we perform, gratitude, love, and the discipline of asking better questions.
Along the way I bring in the people and ideas that shaped me: philosophy and sport psychology, the monastery, a ninety-year-old former cyclist who taught me what "I can't" really means, and the relentless voices who never let comfort be the answer.
Not theory for its own sake. Every step ends with a question you have to answer for yourself, in your own time, privately. Because wisdom isn't a destination you arrive at. It is a way of climbing.
Greatness with a heart. Rise without losing yourself.
Welcome to The Stairway to Wisdom.
The Stairway to Wisdom
71. W.I.N.S. Why it starts at "THE END". #SUCCESS
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
What I Now See. From the book #Success, How teens can create their own brilliant future. Author Emma Aaron, 15 years old.
This chapter marks "the end" of the old you and the beginning of your new adventure. Whatever you aren't satisfied with in your current (soon to be old) life, whether it be your grades, your friends, your habits, or anything else, is about to improve, and your struggles will soon be just a distant memory. In this short book you will learn everything you need to know to have total control of your life and create whatever it is that you want from your future.
Some W.I.N.S. I had from the first chapter;
Being the best you can be is the best you can do for others. The power of setting a good example. Improving is not enough. Celebrate, validate small improvements during the process is the best you can do.
Learn from people that are doing things better than you.
Succes is the sum of all validated improvements.
#SUCCESS