Our Study of Aurelius's Meditations Begins on Saturday
Accessing "the curious soul that resides deep within" us.
There is still time to join Mindset Shifts U. On Saturday, we begin our study of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
For those still on the fence, I’m sharing three recent endorsements.
Jim Vinoski, a Forbes contributor, keynote speaker, and popular host at ManufacturingTalks, urged his network to consider joining:
I'll be joining the good Professor Barry Brownstein for his Mindset Shifts U.
Why?
Because after a good many years of following, admiring, and learning greatly from his work, I'm positive there are vanishingly few better uses for the time and effort I'll invest with him.
Susan May, the vibrant creator and guide at RiseUP with Susan May will also be joining us as we consider the timeless wisdom of great thinkers. She shared with her network:
Barry Brownstein continually reinspires me to live in alignment with my values and does so in a thought-provoking way. I also LOVE how he introduces me to amazing writers, books, philosophers and thinkers.
Barry is starting a new project called Mindset Shift University. If you are interested, you won’t regret it. Barry will take you to the next level of leading a purposeful, engaged and fulfilling life.
John Real, a project engineering manager, will also be part of our group. He shared with his network:
Barry’s essays and articles hit a nerve with me in a way that both challenge me to take a hard look at myself and at the same time cut through the noise of my mind in a way that seems almost providential. They have been somehow perfectly timed to settle a missing piece or unlock a new clue to settling the turmoil.
If you join me, Jim, Susan, John, and many others, together we can build a learning community to consider the ideas of great thinkers.
Philosopher C. Terry Warner is another author whose ideas we will be working with at Mindset Shifts U. Warner founded the Arbinger Institute to bring his ideas to the public in more accessible forms.
Arbinger’s The Choice in Teaching and Education points us to understand how real transformative learning occurs.
We all have an internal teacher, described by Arbinger as “the curious soul that resides deep within me, the river of inspiration and imagination that flows within.”
Arbinger adds, “The greatest teachers in my life have been those who have awakened me to these internal currents and rumblings—those who have brought me as it were to the water's edge and inspired me to jump and be swept around the bend.”
Arbinger explains that to be a master teacher, we must be master learners. “The presence of others” enhances our learning. They write, “There can be no learning without conversation with a person (or their thought or idea) and therefore no teaching as well.”
I will post my overview for the first week’s session on Meditations this Saturday, January 27th, with new sessions to follow each weekend. I am looking forward to learning together.
Your support for Mindset Shifts U and my essays is greatly appreciated.
Very much looking forward to participating in your book study forum. Am I correct in assuming that this will be a separate Substack for paying subscribers to Mindset Shifts? Exciting initiative!
I know I'm coming in late to this study but looking forward to it. I've been in a few Discord groups that have discussed Stoicism. I find myself repeatedly going back to read Seneca. I'm relatively new to philosophy. Although, I do track some of Plato's ideas better now in one of Seneca's abstract letters. Whereas that one went mostly over my head for several years.