1. Outliers are products of adaption and psychological habits. 2. Why can things go well but we feel bad? 3. Big life events ( painful and productive) only leave in 3 locations post event . 4. Consciousness will do whatever you tell it, tell it something for long enough and no matter what happens you will find yourself in the same internal position. 5. Why positive, life supporting emotions may actually feel unsafe in you at the deepest level.

We have become powerful enough in thought and technology to pause and withhold our natural correction/ collapse cycles. listen to the extended intro of an audiobook I am releasing in January to hear for yourself what this means and how it relates to antifragility.

Ok so you're an Outlier... You can get shit done, you come up with creative ideas and sometimes they flow and other times you lose interest and you're  ok with it. Most of the time you wouldn't want life any other way and then bam!!! something comes and takes you out, a big swing of emotion or a need to escape and have a big night or a few big nights back to back. Maybe you just want to withdraw from the world and wish your thinking would just take a break for a while.. You know this about yourself so over the years you have developed means and ways of managing yourself in a GOOD way. You can stabilise yourself and get your head back in the game.  but.. What if the good thing that you would never suspect is the thing stopping your psychological growth? Give this one a listen for a closer look at the number one psychological skill for an Outlier.

1. Are you successfully moving towards a goal without encountering excessive error that require long amounts of recovery ? 2. Are you emotionally regulated or experiencing random swings of emotion without a clear pattern. 3. Are you socially engaged ? 4. Are you biologically and physiologically healthy, strong, fit and nourished? 5. Does meaning manifest in your life ?

Major points of interest in this episode  1. Typically the internal analyser is out of balance and therefore burdened with some emotion. 2. Outliers are typically not satisfied with simple or easily accessible solutions and feel the need to over enquire. 3. An increased level of personal complexity can awaken a 4th person (analysis) perspective which at the same time knocks out prioritisation and therefore inhibits your ability to act because all perspectives have enough merit to be correct. 4. Analysis normally comes down to a sense of control and trying to have foresight on all variables  5. The individual has come out of balance between 1st person realities and 3rd person realities. A simple remedy is to always consider 1st person intuitions, experiences, intimations and simple personal wants as viable and trusted sources of growth. 6. The 'spill over' point is when an individual has gone beyond the limits of variables in mind and feels helpless to act or change.

Success was once a nourishing game full of gold but now it's weighing on you. You may be trying to solve or squash these emotions with more success? Success comes naturally but nobody warned you of the deep contradiction down the road. The further you go the more devised you may become but the more unity you need. Simple solution at the end.

The Outlier commonly has one line of intelligence that stands head and shoulders stronger and more developed than the rest. although this will develop deep competence, it also creates separation and suffering. This can lead to the personality favouring this line as a 'go to' for all problems whether it's in its scope or not. This person can accidentally organise their entire self behind a single part confusing it for a whole. Leading to problems like  1. Competency bias - thinking they are good at all things because they are good at one thing 2. Using this line of intelligence in the wrong context or with poor timing  3. Insensitivity to others  4. Ignoring other areas of development by hiding behind their giftedness 

Continuing the theme of early success I explore some of the unforeseen challenges of chronological early achievement. - Learning that achievement equals love . - Bracketed morality/ The goal of achievement no matter the cost. - Inflated sense of self without the perspective of age and time - Coaching and training character alongside ambition. - When pride is too high the emotional cost of failure can traumatise an individual.

The image of success is never the experience of it.  In this episode I briefly outline the COST of early success and how it can contaminate your authenticity. The unforeseen negative consequences of early success can really leave people rattled, confused and avoiding their gifts. - Loved ones leaving you - Your personality changing into something you don't like - Isolation - Friendship fractures  - Critical judgments and bullying  - Losing all your personal time  - Partnerships that become toxic 

A 10 minute podcast on a new view towards mental illness and what it means to be alive in 2020. The world is demanding more of you now than it ever has in at the fastest rate in history .. What do we do with such immense challenge ?