Believing "experts" and accepting culturally ingrained lies (you CAN"T live there! you can't be a book author! You can't travel the world! ... add whatever all those teachers told you ... or your parents might have told you ETC). Holding that in your subconscious mind is the kiss of death.
Truth is: there are so few people who aim for big results, that those goals actually have relatively little competition. I said "relatively little" not none.
Hey, I'm no big hot shot, but it took me 25 years to learn that ... better late than never.
Have a friend who is a "brilliant" man ... high IQ, mensa, all that stuff ... and he's conventionally educated in business (MBA, along with oodles of other credentials) ... but he has turned into a dismal failure, financially and socially.
WHY?
It's EGO ... pure and simple. The ego is that part of our brain that stops us from being open to NEW ideas. Ideas that challenge our current belief system. If it doesn't fit our model, then the ego gets angry and fights like mad to keep the status quo. Getting rid of SUBCONSCIOUSLY held ideas is the only way to make progress. But dumping the ego can be painful.
Best to all, C.C.
Edited by calmcookie, 30 June 2007 - 12:32 PM.