Brandi Lust is the founder of Learning Lab Consulting which is focused on mindful, creative growth both at the individual level as well as at the large group and corporate level. In this episode, she and Eric discuss her book, Myths of Being Human: Four Paths to Connecting to What Matters. In their conversation, they cover important and very real topics such as how to grow through suffering, being alive and present in the moment and operating from a state of flow. You may be familiar with these topics on some level, but regardless of your starting point, you’ll dive deeper into them through listening to this episode.
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In This Interview, Brandi Lust and I Discuss…
- Her book, Myths of Being Human: Four Paths to Connecting to What Matters
- Four myths we have as people
- We are not rational creatures, we are emotional creatures
- The way we interact with the moment
- How if your metric is external, it’s never enough
- The tools she uses to operate from a state of flow
- How suffering has an important place on the spiritual path
- That we hold past trauma in our bodies
- Emotional Residue
- Feeling it all in the moment so you don’t have to carry it around with you
- That pain in life isn’t personal – it’s a natural part of the human experience
- Post Traumatic Growth
- Making meaning from our difficult experiences
- Having a belief system of something larger than yourself
- Can we grow without suffering?
- Experiencing awe in the moment
- Secondary Post Traumatic Growth through empathy and understanding
- Psychological safety
- Self-transcendence