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 [...]

Get ready to hear about two high-level concepts that can be applied to the process of developing cognitive mastery in this episode. These concepts are what we call the Alpha Mirror principle and the Inversion principle, and in the conversation that follows, we break down how each of them works. These concepts are implicated in thinking negative things about others, thinking others are having negative thoughts about ourselves, and feeling victimized in a situation where somebody says or does something [...]

Today we take a deep dive into the abstract idea of what it means to operate from the alpha state. Remember guys, we are born into the beta condition, so the alpha state is one that we need to contend for. When we reach the final stage of beta development, we experience a period of turmoil during which we are uncertain about ourselves in the context of a community and have the sense that things are not as they should [...]