When people start on a self-development journey, they'll sometimes create a bucket list -- all the things, all the typically exciting and pleasurable things, they hope to do before they die. My guest started his own self-improvement journey very differently, by creating an anti-bucket list consisting of things he didn't want to do, and embarking on a "year of adversity."

His name is Ben Aldridge and he's the author of How to Be Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable: 43 Weird & Wonderful Ways to Build a Strong, Resilient Mindset. Ben and I begin our conversation with how his struggle with debilitating panic attacks inspired him to study philosophical and psychological ideas on how to fight back against his anxiety, what he learned that can benefit anyone looking to be more resilient, and how he was particularly inspired by the Stoic idea of intentionally practicing adversity to prepare for adversity. We then talk about the project Ben set for himself of embarking on a year of mental, physical, and skill-based challenges designed to push himself outside his comfort zone, how he decided what kinds of challenges to do, and how doing hard things changed him. From there we get into the specific challenges Ben completed, from taking cold showers to learning Japanese, and what they taught him about self-discipline, facing your fears, and the human potential for growth. We end our conversation with the ways he's continued to push himself after the year of challenges was through, even in the midst of the pandemic lockdown, including climbing Mt. Everest from inside his house.

Get the show notes at aom.is/getuncomfortable.

#640: Weird and Wonderful Ways to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

A systems Thinker making social change invisible through my own learning journey through super coherence - nurturing and nourishing my environment through deep feelings and invisible feelings and dimensionalities in my dialogues, generational dialogues is the new tactical action for world change - I am your ambassador for the Systems Science Movement- talking the talk and translating this for everyone who has this wish to learn more from this perspective - This is where the Akashic Holofield comes into play.  Since the Akasha dimension is omnipresent and ever present, it surrounds and flows through everything.  And everything flows through it, too — not just metaphorically, quite literally!  This means that things — stars, atoms, you and me — continually flow into existence through the information binding action of the holofield.  What we do, who we are, and how we are is directly correlated with how well and how deeply we access the Akasha dimension of existence.  


Hier komt de Akashic Holofield in het spel. Aangezien de Akasha-dimensie alomvattend en altijd aanwezig is, omsluit het en stroomt het door alles. En alles stroomt er ook doorheen - niet alleen metaforisch, echt letterlijk! 

Dit betekent dat dingen - sterren, atomen, jij en ik - voortdurend door de informatie bindende actie van het holofield doorgaan. Wat we doen, wie we zijn en hoe we zijn, is direct gecorreleerd met hoe goed en hoe diep we toegang hebben tot deze Akasha dimensie van het bestaan.

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#640: Weird and Wonderful Ways to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

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