3 Tips from Think and Grow Rich in the Age of A.I.
Understanding Manifestation tech times
In my FB self-improvement lifestyle group, and my Eastern Mystic Wisdom Community people are always asking me questions about the book, Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, and the link between mindfulness, visualization, meditation, A.I. and manifestation. They may frame the questions through concepts like the Law of Attraction, “The Secret”, “Quantum Thought” and even the Chinese concept of “Wuwui” — The action that requires no action.
To explain all of these words and terms in the simplest of ways, think of it in this way…
“Manifestation, eve in th digital age, is still a self-improvement, personal development, self-help, and positive psychology exercise that refers to focusing your thoughts on some desired outcome.”
The process of manifestation is done through practices like mindfulness, visualization, and meditation (MVM). Essentially, the idea is to guide, harness, and direct your thoughts, in such a way that it seems as if you have brought those thoughts into reality.
With manifestation and MVM its appears as if you are essentially thinking your personal goals into existence.
With some of my students and clients, I cannot explain MLW intellectually. They just don’t get it. However, if I give my explanation a bit of an esoteric or spiritual sensibility they do.
One of my peak performance coaching clients explained it as such…”I practiced MLW (manifestation, law of attraction, wuwei) exercises for 2 years. I had my up and downs with it. Yet, the one thing that I found that worked the best was to surrender, rather than force the process. Forcing shows lack of something and was putting me in a negative vibration.
Think and Grow Rich explore this idea of surrender.
To apply MLW PEEPASA (Practicality, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Productivity, Accuracy, and with Self-awareness), you have to find a way that works the best for you. For me writing a list of what I want or need on paper didn’t work for me. My process was to imagine, and visualize the experience I was seeking. I only had to imagine one time before bed and say I trust in the universe, and it worked in my favor. I was patient, that is very important and one of the hardest things. But once I did that things began to show up.
Here is how one skeptic explained they’re experience in practicing MLW exercises, and how he finally mastered the philosophy and technique… “There was a time in my life when I read the The Secret and Think and Grow Rich and every popular self-help book on the planet.
I read a lot about MLW (manifestation, law of attraction, wuwei). Seems too good — just close your eyes and imagine the things you want, and you’ll get it. The girl of your dreams, the job, the money, the house, the health.
I, too, wanted certain things. A publishing contract, get to know my passion, make a career in writing etc.
For a long time I believed in MLW (manifestation, law of attraction, wuwei). Before going to bed and after waking up, I just closed my eyes and I wished that these things would come to me.
They didn’t!
Then I realized I was focusing on what I wanted, rather than what I needed, and what meaningful experiences I really desired. With this small shift, it all opened up for me and the philosophy and technique now worked.
Where Does A.I. Fit Into a Discussion on Manifestation?
The Turing Test is a test by equivalence: we can’t yet define intelligence in a sufficiently precise manner by its workings (processes), so we have to compare by results of processes we observe to decide whether to label a given system as “intelligent” or not.
Turing neatly dodged the essential question: what, precisely, is intelligence? How (by what process), exactly, does intelligence manifest?
Check out these video stories about A.I., manifestation and self-programing humanoid robots on 60-Minutes Australia.
I also highly recommend that you watch the Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg underappreciated masterpiece “A.I.”
Here is the trailer:
Here is a Medium story on this subject @brindakoushik
Here is one from the archives @LewisCoaches
This story is an excerpt from my Module for making the best choices, from my online Course, “The Self Improvement Lifestyle”. To learn more email me at [email protected]
Author: Lewis Harrison is a Manifestation Coach, professional futurist (forecaster), and a philanthropy consultant. He is the creator of the Ask Lewis Mentoring Method as well as HAGT — Harrison’s Applied Game Theory. He is the Executive Director of the International Association of Healing Professionals an educational organization that offers programs around the world in Intentional Living. He is also Independent Scholar, with a passion for knowledge, personal development, self-improvement, creativity, innovation, and problem-solving. You can read all of his Medium stories at [email protected].
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This story is an excerpt from my Module for making the best choices, from my online Course, “The Self Improvement Lifestyle”. To learn more email me at [email protected]
If you have any ideas you would like me to write about, just email me at [email protected] or check out all of my books, blogs, and videos through my portal www.asklewis.com