Table of Contents - Growth Guide for Well-Living
For those of you who want the big picture to appreciate the individual pieces, here's the overall structure. I'll add links as the sections are posted.
Yes, for you, and also for me so I don’t try to jam ‘everything’ into each section. There is space for everything, in bite-sized pieces.
Introduction
If the overall goal of this book is to present a new approach to taking care of you and well-living, it’s essential to know what sort of approach you are using now. Without that we cannot identify the transition steps for you to get on the trajectory of growth.
Approach of Helping Industries
Natural for Industries to Be How They Area
Expanding Understanding, not Telling You What to Think
Potential for New Understanding
Part 1: Humans by Nature
We are infinitely complex, and it’s unlikely we’ll ever fully understand our functioning. No, AI, which is fed information created by humans, or other AI that was fed by human knowledge, cannot go beyond what humans comprehend. It can create its own ways of connecting pieces of the information and make up new information. That is not a “more complete” understanding. Just made up stuff by whatever algorithm it was programmed with. It may be useful, and it may be horseshit. Impossible to know without humans expanding their thinking capacity to distinguish it.
Human Guidance System
Adaptive Intelligence
Dynamics of Development
Amazingness Brings It’s Challenges
Summary: Your Insights
Part 2: Your Trailhead
Describe Current Functioning
Assess Survival and Guidance Systems
Identify Root Contributions
Explore Developmental Imprints
Summary: Where Are You
Part 3: Roadmap Forward
Reset the Threat Survival System
Recalibrate the Guidance System
Enjoy Growth Cycles
Summary: Your Next Steps
Growth & Well-Living Recap
Resources
Glossary
Bibliography
Supplemental Materials
What are you most excited to learn about?