One of our 3 Percent Acceleration program members asked a great question about how to develop and nurture our disowned selves when building our new wealth foundations. Click the play icon to listen to Paul Counsels response below.
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Prashant: I was watching this video about the Psychology of the Selves. It talks about developing and nurturing our disowned selves. I would like to know more about how we can further and develop and nurture our disowned selves which is more important for our work in building new foundations.
Paul: That’s an excellent question. So basically once you understand you’re not one thing. We always refer to ourselves in the singular. We, my and I. We say myself as though there is only one self. There is actually a multitude of selves. When you look at social engineering. Our whole cultural environment. It doesn’t matter what culture you come from. If I say by and large, what does the culture of India want you to be
Prashant: To get married, get a job, have kids…
Paul: Yes. In other words, it wants you to become a good example of an Indian citizen. You’ve got more challenges than we tend to have in Western cultures. Even though we have similar challenges they’re not just as clearly defined. Whereas in India you also have the caste system. What is a good example of a lower caste, what is a good example of a middle caste, what is a good example of a higher caste, you know?
So, you’re trained with these attitudes, you’re trained with these thoughts, you’re trained with these behaviours. Because all Indian society wants to do is for most people in India to do something that supports the few people in India. And the few people in India are the super super rich people.
So, they want the majority buying and consuming so that the minority can have absolute untold wealth and untold freedom. It’s the same in any mainstream economic system. Even if you go into the Kalahari Desert. If you were born into the Kalahari society, you could still learn to be a good Indian citizen, couldn’t you? You could learn to be a good American citizen or a good Australian citizen.
But you’re not you’re going to learn to be a good Kalahari bush citizen. Because every culture wants to reproduce itself so that it lives on and on and on. So how old is the Indian culture? You know, you can go back thousands of years. And it’s always been developing and developing. It didn’t develop into anything else. It developed into more and more and more Indian culture. So that’s the same thing that we have.
Now, within that there are certain selves that suit the cultural engineering of your cultural engineers. Work hard, be good, get married, you know, become a consumer. Now, you do have entrepreneur somewhere there but see they didn’t want lots of people to become entrepreneurs because then they would be free and who would do the work? Because there’s not enough now on the majority side for the minority to keep their wealth.
So, if you understand that whatever self you need you’ve got to give it a name. You’ve got to give it a job description. The four that I already developed for me I already had worker self because my social engineering created worker self. You know, work hard get a job. I already had that. And my father was a working-class man, so I learnt from him. My father was a timber cutter, so you know that’s hard work.
So, I developed opportunity self. Opportunity had to be able to see difference. Opportunity didn’t have to do the hard work because I already had hard worker there. So, I wrote out for opportunity (a job description). Now what’s opportunity’s job? It’s got to see the world differently. It’s got to look at things and see if opportunity is there. It’s got to understand what would be an opportunity. It’s got to understand how money floats through our society. How does money exchange. It’s got to understand the nature of our transactional universe. You do something, somebody else does something and there’s an exchange of energy either in labour or produce or money.
And then I thought ok, so once opportunity can see opportunity then opportunity self didn’t actually have to have the skills to make something. I made another person that was enterprise self. How can I now take that opportunity and monetise it? So, enterprise self then had to start to learn different skills.
And then I had entrepreneurial self. Once I’ve got those different skills then how do I take those different skills and monetise them out there in the world. So, monetise them more than me exchanging my time and labour. Now it’s me exchanging my knowledge and my skills because now I can share my knowledge and my skills with more people than I can share my labour with. But I didn’t read a book about entrepreneurial self I just made them up. Because I knew that somewhere hidden in my psyche there was a self that would be able to do that task. And we know that it is because we know that it exists in other people and if it exists in other people then it has to exist in me. I was just supressing it or unacknowledged or disowned.