Most people are living an unfortunate, shoddy, superficial or ordinary life; focusing on impermanent life pursuits; with no sense of direction, no sense of purpose, no hope for integrated living, no meaningful relationships, but just dragging through life on autopilot and accumulating worldly experiences and artifacts. Most people live a life without meaning; spending most of their time tied to a nine-to-five job, living a shallow, empty life, and everlastingly fighting, both inwardly and outwardly. Can anything be achieved in the midst of inward and outward conflict?
5. Exceptionality must be discovered through self-knowledge, doing something
that ordinary man won’t do, and upholding to certain principles that guide
integrated exceptional living.
The journey to exceptionality is a creative intelligent and self-powered wheel
to escape from the wilderness moment.
This requires self-knowledge, the renewal of the mind, and the awakening of
intelligence.
6. Exceptionality is the state of deviance
which leads to a standing-out life.
It is that state of being at ease with life or
being in a state of absolute happiness and
joy. It is the ‘state of bliss’ in all areas of
life.
This state is only achieved by those who
intentionally renew their mind; step-out of
their comfort zone, persevere through the
challenges, confusion, and conflict of the
journey; and start doing the unusual as
primarily guided by intentional episodes
of solitude, reflection and pretense.
7. Exceptionality Without Relapse
Discover &
Understand your
creative ability
Solitude &
Reflection
Imagination Intentional
Pretense
Create Personal
Clarity
Personal Code
Create a support
network
Learn Personal Audit
The journey to significance requires involves:
8. Existence Mode
Characteristics
Perpetuating the conditioned
mind
Exclusive focus on
developing techniques
Lack self-knowledge
‘Robot-kind of life’-
senseless mule
Conformity
Mindlessness and Passive
learning
Fear of failure
Seek approval from others
Parochial mentality
epidemic
Negative self-talk
Catastrophizing
Start living in an attitude
of discovery, access
potential, and learning
from the past and from
every experience.
Be totally free
Remove any masks and
turn-down any noises.
Engage into constructive
exceptionality disciplines
Do not live an
ordinary life
To be ordinary is to be like the rest of men; with their worries, with their
corruption, violence, brutality, indifference, callousness. It is to want a job, to
want to hold on to a job, to die in the job. It is to life a life of conformance, a
life of fear, always seeking others’ approval, catastrophizing, and having a
parochial mentality. That is what is called ordinary – to have nothing new,
9. Emergence Mode
There is more to life than mere living.
To emerge is to demonstrate new discoveries, to unearth original answers, to be
proud about your future in the present moment. It is to stand-out, to gain
strength and hope, to break from the bondage of mediocrity and to rise above
all limitations imposed by society, imposed from the innumerable conditioning
influences, and imposed by values, traditions, and beliefs. It involves fully
comprehending the moment-to-moment experiences of life, the relevance of
these experiences, and partnering with them for co-creation.
Agility based on a heightened sense of purpose, clarity, and spontaneity
Self-confident and vibrate positive energy
Rationally go against the norm and create new possibilities
Immersion into the world of possibilities
Driven by a compelling vision, purpose, and passion
Active intelligence, clarity of perception, grit and incisive effort
Enthusiastic and diligent – focusing on the impermanent.
Mindfulness
10. Exceptionality State
The modern society has reduced the notion of exceptional living to possessions,
popularity, and power. However, exceptionality without relapse supports the
need for “a Third Metric of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money
and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and
giving” – Arianna Huffington.
It signifies the successful transition from the dysfunctional to the significance
state.
Freedom from any form of attachment
Deeper connection with self
Create ease
Exceptionality is not about what you have; it’s about what you give, what you
gave, and what you have done and are doing for the betterment of humanity.
Don’t look at the mountain top or search under the oceans to see exceptionality
– look at yourself.
Exceptionality is about understanding your magnificence and being significant.
11. Most people are tired of the worldly
experience of fame, notorierity,
wealth, sex, and so on; and are
searching for a wider and nobler
experience. To live a life
exclusively focused on these
worldly experiences is tawdry,
trivial, and stupid – it has no
meaning.
Exceptionality pathways focus on
the form of exceptional living
whilst exceptionality principles are
the essence of avoiding RELAPSE
or toppling-over.
The exceptionality principles help
us to sustain the exceptionality state
by being in touch with the deeper
experience of life; thereby building