Personal Development

The Simple Path to Self Actualization

By: John Cousins

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

How do we pick the course of our lives? How do we know where to put our efforts? What will make the most significant contribution to society and personal success? “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less.” ―Norman Mailer Personal Development leads to self-actualization, becoming who you were meant to become. It's cultivating the seed to become the mighty oak. What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Get some answers and direction in this great new book. Praise for John Cousins Once he starts speaking, you feel the peculiar velocity of his mind. A master of the art of neither-nor. A polymath at the height of his powers. It requires a great enthusiasm to successfully bridge, year after year, the wide gulf which lies between the comforts of the known and the very real risks and penalties which dog every footstep in the unexplored realms. He commands instant attention - an atmosphere of conscious dignity and power that immediately single him out. He has the courage, the wonder and the imagination of an outsider. His whole instinct is to explore, to push out, to go beyond the boundaries. Always illuminated, always clear and decided and endowed at every hour with energy enough to carry out whatever he considers necessary. One of the great benefits of engineering is that it has trained him to focus on options rather than obstacles and to think in terms of systems. Like a mythic hero his actions and happenings appear foreordained. He has a splendid, upright physique and a clarity of complexion that indicate perfect health and habits that know no excess. The capacity for love - and the slight ascetic restraint - makes one think of the knights of the Grail. The kind of man who listens hard for the better angels of his nature and obeys the advice they provide. One of a kind. Or, perhaps, first of a breed. A natural aristocrat keeping his appointment with destiny. Has the vision, managerial experience, and technical sophistication to carry out this extraordinary plan. CEO: part visionary, part executive, and part strategist. In contrast to his more doctrinaire disciples, he is a genius capable of holding two opposing truths in his mind. One of the very few entrepreneurs who possesses the leadership qualities necessary to take a company from a great idea to an international powerhouse. A well trained and trim dynamic individual A culture hero A magical healer An unyielding drive and an action oriented style. In a career that has gone from strength to strength. One of the handful of men (not a half dozen) who can keep the whole equation of business enterprise in their heads. Entering his office is almost like going into a church. Patient by nature, made thorough and meticulous by training He is a catalyst for action. His opinions are backed with considerable knowledge on any imaginable subject. Capacity for hard work and mental focus. An entirely original man. His quiet self-assurance makes him a man of constant surprises - making sudden decisions and steering unexpected courses of action. A polymath at the height of his powers. The brains, the personal élan, and the savoir-faire requisite of a big-leaguer. Has equipped him with a very large reserve of inner strength and discipline to draw upon. Modesty joined with panoramic wisdom. A self-created and self-willed man who moves through life at a calculated pace toward calculated ends. His career has reached such dizzying heights that the deal was merely a delightful footnote. Protean: The dizzying diversity of his gifts. Massive probity. An extremely cool and serenely civil man of considerable grace. You can sense that he knows much more than he says. It’s implied like an iceberg's whose dignity of movement.