Podcast - Episode 0223 - Why Culture Resists Personal Development

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• Ability to handle feedback can be a personal growth challenge.
• We objectify people in media.
• The Graves Model (aka Spiral Dynamics) is a vertical model.
• It feels like a hierarchy which is icky to some people.
• Is it a bad thing to look at hierarchical models?
• Graves Model podcast
• Vertical and Horizontal Models
• These are just lenses to see reality through.
• The horizontal model assumes everyone is at the same level of development (MBTI).
• A Vertical Model assumes everyone is at different levels of achievement (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs).
• Clare Graves discovered the Graves Model.
• Then there was an attempt to remove the hierarchical nature of it.
• The numbered levels were changed to colors to make it feel less hierarchical, and it came to be known as Spiral Dynamics.
• It is a hierarchical system, however.
• A horrible human being can be at any level just like an amazing human being can be at any level.
• Character isn’t related to Graves Level.
• It is an attempt to see where we were and where we are going.
• Are hierarchical models good or bad?
• Enneagram attempts to create distinctions between how people show up within their Enneagram type.
• Riso & Hudson Enneagram book had 9 point system within each type.
• At the bottom of this 9 point system is suicide and homicidal tendencies.
• At the top is transcendence.
• That version of the system is hierarchical.
• It is a good gauge for determining where you want to go vs. where you don’t want to be.
• No one has arrived. There is no end game.
• These hierarchical models are like a compass.
• Be at peace with where you’re at and accept there is still a better version of yourself you can manifest.
• This is the conversation of our time.
• Lots of social causes today: memes, gender viewpoints, wealth distribution, nationalism, etc.
• We tend to inject vertical models into horizontal models.
• Even within Myers-Briggs, we try to create a hierarchical structure.
• Zero to One Podcast
• SPOILER ALERT: Star Wars The Last Jedi
• The Force is available to everyone, which killed the hierarchy of the Jedi.
• We get a massive pushback whenever we invoke a vertical model.
• You are ultimately the person who navigates your healing and growth.
• How do we get us all on a horizontal level, so we all have the same possibilities?
• Personal empowerment is the birthplace of reform.
• The more you work on your empowerment, the more the culture sees the need to change.
• We oversimplify all this stuff which is why we like models because it gives us a simpler way of breaking down the nodes that contribute to the system.
• As an individual, we are responsible for our personal growth and empowerment.
• Models remind us that nobody has arrived. We are all on various paths.
• Time and the universe aren’t going to stop to accommodate us.
• Sometimes we have to start all over, and we don’t get rewarded for some of our hard work.
• The universe rewards determination, persistence, and personal responsibility.
• We cannot expect culture to do our work for us.
• If you don’t want to be perpetually victimized you have to figure out how not to be a victim.
• Our egos don’t do us any favors.
• “All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
• When looking at maps and models, the question isn’t ‘Is this wrong.’ It is ‘Is this useful.
• Don’t abandon a model just because your ego gets triggered and you don’t like how it feels.
• If that happens, that makes it a very useful model.
• It is shining a bright light in a dark place.
• “I don’t like this because I don’t like where I’m at.”
• It is your job to figure out where you want to be.
• A lot of systems have been democratized and there is an expectation that everything should be democratized.
• Not everything can be democratized.
• One of the best ways to understand our You Are Here dot as humanity is to look at long enough timelines.
• Forgetting history is easy.
• The world didn’t start when you were born.
• We are on an exponential growth curve, but we haven’t arrived.
• Human evolution is incredibly slow.
• You can tell when someone is doing personal growth willingly and when they are doing it unwillingly.
• When someone’s life has fallen apart, and they have to do growth work just to survive. They may approach growth kicking and screaming.
• Versus someone who has taken on the mantle of personal growth and does it willingly. They have a zen-like approach to change.
• Our collective egos are bucking against where we are really at.
• We don’t like it when reality gives us harsh reminders of how much work we still have to do.
• Isn’t it better to have a map even if you don’t like where your You Are Here dot is?
• The only way to get to where we want to be is to acknowledge where we are at and carve a path to where we want to be.
• If you have some definite ideas about how you think the world should be, grab a microphone and create a platform.
• Create content that moves the needle.
• Stand for something don’t just stand against things.

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