Kevin begins this week with a 3 part series titled "Training for Chaos" for the current situation we are all dealing with. We may be in a quarantine, but that isn't a reason to stop elevating your alpha! We will go over mind management, and why the world needs us more than ever. Want to know more about what I do and how I can help you? Sign up for a free 45-minute [...]
In this final installment of the belief series Kevin goes into his experience of radical change from victim (beta) to the alpha mindset. The progressive change of thought patterns that were the building blocks of the model. We won't be going into the details behind this, as Kevin explained this on other podcasts. We're going to look at how the mind shifted both slowly, and quickly from beta to alpha. Want to know more [...]
Continuing with beliefs this week, we're discussing how thoughts turn into beliefs. We use the brain to practice thoughts, in order to turn them into beliefs. We then use our belief to drive our actions, which will then reinforce the belief that gives us an emotion. In this episode we learn a technique called "ladder thoughts" and why it works better than positive affirmations. An overly positive affirmation is often rejected by the brain. Thinking a thought that's further than [...]
Continuing the belief series, we look at the benefits of believing in the model. The model reveals what our beliefs are, no matter how the beliefs affect us. We look at the idea "thought-swapping" and how it leads to different feelings, actions, and results. Our life doesn't happen to us, our thoughts happen to us. And when we start changing our thoughts, we change our life. Want to know more about what I do and how [...]
Last week we went over beliefs in a general overview, as we view them in the model. This week we are going to go deep into binary beliefs: why we believe something is "good" or "bad". We review how understanding that circumstances are neutral plays into the alpha mindset. How we communicate with ourselves and others often reveals to us what we are believing in. We think these beliefs are facts, and allow them to determine how we feel. In [...]
March is the month of creating new beliefs with the Spartan Academy. We are going to take a deep look at what a belief actually is, and the defining characteristics of beliefs. There is a relationship between your thoughts and beliefs that we will break down in this episode. You will understand that beliefs are NOT facts. Beliefs are binding and separating, we're diving into the how these beliefs effect our actions and relationships. Many of these beliefs come from [...]
We’re keeping with the theme this month of practicing emotional intelligence by talking about the big ones—vulnerability and intimacy. We’re discussing how vulnerability has been framed in pop culture, the pitfalls of that model, and most importantly, talking about who we are really most vulnerable too. The common theory of vulnerability says that our fear of intimacy and vulnerability comes from the judgement and validation of others—but that simply isn’t true. Get ready to dive deep brothers, because we are [...]
February is the month for talking about emotional intelligence at the Spartan Academy and this episode is one that’s been a long-time coming: Love languages. This thought-model is based on an international best-selling book, yet it is clear as day that there are flaws with the thinking it’s based on it. While this is not a book review, we look at the ways that this type of thinking leaves you stuck in the beta condition. As the love language theory [...]
Our entire lives are controlled by how we feel. If we have not developed emotional intelligence, we end up suffering under the perceived negativity of emotions we think we have no control over. In this episode, we get into what it means to develop emotional intelligence and how it makes us free. We talk about how humans tend to seek out good feelings while avoiding bad ones, but how that tendency leads to buffering and addiction. A far superior strategy [...]
Recently listeners have been asking whether the Alpha state, due to having the emotions ‘under control,’ is, therefore, a purely rational state. In this episode, we discuss how the Alpha state, rather than being rational, is in fact beyond both rationality and the emotions. The Alpha state is a quantum state! We look at some concepts in quantum mechanics such as superposition and wave function collapse, discovering how the Alpha mindset works in incredibly similar ways. Rather than being in [...]
