Free Guides
Career Decision Map -To have the career you want, you have to know where you’re going. You need a map. This guide helps you determine the landscape of your career goals, and chart a path toward them.
The Map includes:
- Step-by-step directions for powerful decision making
- An airtight structure for clarifying goals
- The key components of plan implementation
- Immediately actionable steps to build momentum
The Ultimate Guide to Smart Streaming – A free guide to revealing inspirations and personal blind spots by watching movies. Includes:
- A description of what Smart Streaming is and what it can do for you
- A step-by-step breakdown of how to use movies to discover your most deeply held values
Ultimate Guide to the Future Authoring Program – the most comprehensive online guide to Dr. Jordan B. Peterson’s Future Authoring program
Future Authoring Planner – Free planner for completing the Future Authoring exercise in the Self Authoring Suite. Includes:
- An outline of the exercise
- Approximately how long each section takes
- Tips related to the exercise
- 3 sample schedules for completion (1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks)
Past Authoring Planner – Free planner for completing the Past Authoring exercise in the Self Authoring Suite. Includes:
- A thorough map & outline of the exercise
- Approx completion times for each section
- Tips related to the exercise
- 2 gamified sample schedules for completion
Movies I love to Smart Stream
The Talented Mr Ripley (1997)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2006)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Children of Men (2006)
The Lion King (1994)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Once (2007)
The Game (1997)
Books that blew my mind
Fiction
Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlen
The Stand by Stephen King
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Non-Fiction
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do by Michael Sandel
On Becoming a Person: A Therapists View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
Podcasts that entertain and inspire me
The Character Arc Podcast (iTunes/Stitcher/Soundcloud/Spotify) – This is a podcast I host discussing the various ways that stories help us make sense of the world, how that ties into the fiction we love, and the practical implications of that in our daily lives.
Hardcore History (iTunes) – Dan Carlin narrates periods and events in history with a strong focus on characterization and narrative.
The Making Sense Podcast (iTunes) – Sam Harris speaks with various fascinating guest about science, philosophy, politics, and other topics.
Courses & programs I’ve benefited from
The Landmark Forum
From the site: “Landmark Worldwide is a personal and professional growth, training and development company focusing on people achieving success, fulfillment and greatness.”
I’ve taken 3 courses through Landmark in the last 15 years and have found them invaluable for helping make sense of the past and building/repairing relationships.
The Self Authoring Suite
From the site: “The Self-Authoring Suite is a series of online writing programs that collectively help you explore your past, present and future.”
The Future Authoring exercise in particular was a fantastic tool for catalyzing goal formation behavior.
Understand Myself Personality Test
Knowing the landscape of YOU helps you orient yourself. But your personality does not limit or constrain you. It simply shows you features of the landscape, like potential pitfalls and potential opportunities. There are many personality tests, but only a few based on advanced statistical techniques. This is the best one I’ve come across.