Patrick McAndrew
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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It might threaten their sense of how they're perceived by their boss. And if that's not met and if that's not worked on, I can offer as much content and information about how the brain works and how to organize yourself, but it won't make a difference because the human beings are in a very survivalistic state.
And that's driving the show, not the rational mind, but a very, very emotional, unsure, unsecure internal state.
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Because I think we've been given these incredible tools, which are there to support us, but they're there to support what we have to actually develop us so that we can develop internally. Whereas I think on many circumstances, there's a regression taking place.
we're completely divorcing ourselves or neglecting how we need to develop internally to meet the demands of what's being presented to us externally. And we're just sort of playing the victim to how life is playing out around us. And through HARA, the work that I'm doing is I'm fundamentally trying to show people you have a huge amount of agency here, but
The way that you live your life is what's shaping this. If you feel like there's no space or time for that, you'll continue to suffer. And that's the truth because you'll find that your attention is constantly going out. It's constantly about what's happening outside of you. Whereas what we give people are practices and ways to develop themselves internally because we need that.
Every time, our whole range of evolution as we develop as a human species is dependent on changes to the external environment. Changes to temperature, changes to food, changes to threats, changes towards opportunities. We're being given an immense amount of comfort and so much of the products that are being designed around this are more primal and primitive aspects of us.
So yeah, there's definitely a lot that's happening here in recognizing that the world is changing around us. So how are we changing internally to rise from top as opposed to rising to the top? Thinking and recognizing that we have so many of these qualities in us that are incredible.
Well, are there places that your attention is often getting brought to that you know is not serving you yet? It keeps happening. But then there's a reflective tendency, right, to observe and say, wow, that was not where I needed to spend my time, that that was not useful to me. So there is different states of mind that arise.
So what's the observation or the thing that you notice in yourself afterwards, the things that are sort of you keep going towards and you spend a lot of time? So if we take a bit more of an objective perspective, so you're looking at yourself from an outside body because you're in it at the moment and you're sort of like, you're analyzing and reasoning at the same time.
So if we can be just more objective, so the analysis and the reasoning is separate, where is your attention going where it's being wasteful? If we just look at it hard and fast, because once again, I'm not of the opinion that you need to be This sense of being productive, which is bringing utility to every moment. You're building a business and you're running a business.
You need clarity of mind, thinking. I chatted with a guy a couple of months ago. He was joining Hara and he was saying to me, you know, I want to map out a five year plan if I could only find four hours. to just sit down and map out a five-year plan. I know how crazy that sounds.
And I said, is it crazy that you're mapping out a five-year plan or is it crazy that you think that you need four hours to map out a five-year plan? He said, it's crazy that I think I need four hours. I should be able to do it in less. So there's this constant sense that I should be able to condense and do things very quickly
When the reality is my days, if you're going to think about a five-year plan, which I personally feel is maybe it's a five-year vision, but it's hard to implement a plan. You need more than four hours for that, I think. It should take a lot of time and self-reflection. So from an objective view, where is your attention going that feels as though it's wasteful?
And the loop of distraction is the constant pattern of the mind. It's just the constant state, you know, in the evening watching TV, but also being on our phone and then at dinner table, then at the dinner table watching something or there, but your mind is being taken elsewhere.
So whether we appreciate it or not, we might consider that we're training or we're working out when we go to the gym and we do specific things on our body. But when it comes to our character and our state of mind, we're constantly developing and shaping ourselves to better or worse.
If you're running a business and if you're doing something for yourself, it's your clarity and your vision that shapes everything. Because I think you know as well as I do, when the value system of the business or as a way to generate interest starts going through the lens of social media and posts and engagement,
Suddenly it can sort of start to get warped that the opportunity comes from the degree of engagement. The opportunity comes from responding to what's happening in that space. But, you know, I have a friend who will share the dark truth, which is he runs a business around productivity. He wanted to build more leads.
He spent a day, a year posting and had a team of freelancers helping him build up his Instagram to 360,000 followers. The Instagram page is solely about this topic of productivity, running a digital marketing agency. 0.06%. of his followers converted to actually purchasing his product. Wow.
So it can become a trap in and of itself, where now I've lost, the direction and the vision has become skewed. I just saw that there was a lot of engagement on the post, so maybe we need to double down in more of those posts. And now we're getting more followers, and now we're growing the engagement. But is that tethered to the ultimate vision of the business?
I for that I need it's not unless your vision is to become a content creator. You know, when you're a small business owner, you can get caught in that loop.
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