Introspect

✍ Scribed by Visakan Veerasamy

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Edition: v0.9
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   0.1 What is INTROSPECT about?
   0.2 Light the heart-beacon, illuminate the fog
   0.3 A warning
   0.4 A lament
   0.5 What to expect
   ACT I. The Call to Adventure
   1.1 Face the desire for personal sovereignty
   1.2 Execute the jailbreak
   1.3 Refusal of the call: Face your inner conflict
   Now for some unedited rambling
   ACT II. The Sword and the Thread
   2.1 Experiment with stream-of-consciousness journaling
   2.2 Learn storytelling to encourage yourself
   Shamanism, talismans and meaning-work
   2.3 Experiment with frames
   2.4 Unlearn catastrophizing → learn project management
   Learn Project Management
   The MVP model of personal development
   What my ex-boss taught me
   2.5 Take baby steps
   2.6 Do 100 things
   2.7 Ask questions
   2.8 Define problems and solve them
   Examples of misframed problems
   2.9 Investigate your desires
   Walk and then pave the desire paths
   2.10 Learn to ask for help
   2.11 Cultivate a sense of humor
   Joke about the outcomes you want
   2.12 Embrace your mistakes
   2.13 Cultivate casual optimism
   2.14 Celebrate your wins
   Rambling
   ACT III. Enter the Labyrinth
   3.1 Investigate your boredom
   3.2 Get in tune with your body
   3.3 Face your fears: you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
   3.4 Declare trust bankruptcy (if you need to)
   3.5 Uninstall social bloatware
   3.6 Investigate your copes
   3.7 Face your anger
   3.8 Be aware of exhaustion funnels
   And now for more unedited rambling
   ACT IV. Confront the Minotaur
   4.1 Confront the propaganda department of the mind
   4.2 Face your inner authoritarian-tyrant
   Trickster Energy
   Some notes on narcissism
   4.3 Put the gun down
   4.4 Death and rebirth: The Dark Night Of The Soul
   Rambling
   ACT V. Return with the Elixir
   5.1 Integrate the shadow
   5.2 Focus on what you want to see more of
   5.3 Show Up, Don’t Die, Don’t Quit
   5.4 Pay it forward
   Appendix
   Recurring motifs throughout this book
   What I was hoping to do:
   Thank you
   About the author