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I have found - through research, personal experienceand indirect experience working with my executive coaching clients over 15 years that developing a deep, meaningful and practically powerful spirituality and set of spritual disciplines tremendously raises the bar my performance, fulfillment, resilience and overall capacity to live larger and more successfully.
How to do this on a secular basis, without the involvement of mysticism or supernaturalism has been my single biggest challenge in integrating Objectivist principles in my life.
I have found that beauty and the pursuit of it will energize my goal setting.
In my personal life, it was easy enough to find two wives (at different times) who read Ayn Rand's novels. Raising our daughter (2nd marriage), I relied on books that I knew from the Objectivist Newsletter 15 years before, such as How to Raise a Brighter Child and The Tyranny of Testing.
Overall, what I got from AR's novels generally and non-fiction in particular was the strength of my convictions. It is pretty easy to walk away from a bad deal, and even easier to throw my full support behind a good plan.
Allow me to recommend How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne. He was deeply influenced by Ayn Rand, though his presentation of his ideas is his own. His thesis is that we allow ourselves to be trapped by unquestioned assumptions. One of them is that the government is powerful enough to stop you from living your life by your own standards. Another is that you must join big causes to be involved in burning issues of the day. A third is that financial independence is impossible, especially in our mixed (and now collapsing) economy.
It is less challenging for my blood pressure to pick up the remote and go channel-surfing than to roar at the TV like a dino with rabies.
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
and here
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
See also, the prequel, Fallacies of Vision here in the Gulch
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts...
I'm not trying to talk down to you, but life's too short to doubt yourself to the point of never attempting to achieve. You only get one go (unless the Hindu's are right but you may come back as a flea (where's the fun in that). :)
And now for gratuitous inspirational music (remember I'm 47): https://youtu.be/Lf6ao8cvyoU
I don't really believe in myself enough to pursue any great ambitions.