
Find Your Purpose & Live With Greater Meaning | Betsy Wills & Alex Ellison
Thoughtful Money with Adam Taggart
Discovering Your Aptitudes
This chapter explores the journey of individuals uncovering their unique strengths through aptitude assessments and transformative experiences. It emphasizes the significance of aligning careers with personal aptitudes for greater fulfillment and personal growth.
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Speaker 2
Well, i think,
Speaker 1
i think the development in in the terms that i'm working with, is is a shows up and is demonstrated by people inhabiting more of their more of their depth, you know. And so development isn't an abandoning of, let's say, the depth of parts and a favouring and trying to get to the depth of non duality. That's just self improvement in different clothing, right? So really the idea here is is a unfolding more and more of our innate wholeness. So that's really what unfolding is, is unfolding is always an unfolding of wholeness into a greater expression of wholeness. So at no point is there any sense of deficiency. You know, i look at like a, you know, the the plant world. Maybe as a simple analogy here, you know, sometimes i talk about the unfolding of an acorn into an oak tree. You know, if we look at this acorn, we don't look at it and we think, osh, this is pathetic. Is such a deficient oak tree. It's got no roots and no branches and no leaves, and, oh my gosh, it should just give up and go home, right? Instead, we look at it as a miracle. We look at this acorn and we think, this turns into an oak tree. Oh my gosh, that is amazing, right? And then the how it does that is it does that through certain conditions. So when the conditions are right, that unfolding is a natural occurrence, and that unfolding is in a deep relationship with its environment, with the exact conditions that are present there. And what i find is, that's what we're trying to do, and arend in our coaching conversations, is create the conditions in which unfoldment, as a natural process of life, actually spontaneously emerges in in the conditions and the relationships that the person is in. And that is that can be viewed as a developmental a process that can be described in these developmental models. Um, academically, that's of interest, right? But pragmatically, for for you now, showing up in your relationship, not so much, right? But so it's, it's this, it's this deepening, a conscious, a embodiment and an ihabitation of our own innate depth that actually develops us. And when you have an ontology of depth and a way of working at each depth skilfully so that the client spontaneously deepens, then then that unfoldment in that development, is a natural outcome of that.
Speaker 2
And we're putting on e a course. We're puttng on a course with you in october this year. What do you what's the intention withthat? What do you hope people will get from it?
As we begin a new year, I thought it appropriate to continue Thoughtful Money's ongoing commitment to highlighting the principles components of true wealth -- of which money is simply a means, not the end in itself.
Research tells us that true wealth is primarily a function of quality relationships, purpose & health.
And today, we're going to drill down deep into the purpose part of that equation.
How can we live with greater meaning?
How do we even identify what our purpose is?
There's actually an empirical process for answering these important questions, and we're fortunate to be able to learn about it today from Betsy Wills and Alex Ellison, co-authors of the book Your Hidden Genius: The Science-Backed Strategy to Uncovering and Harnessing Your Innate Talents
And for those looking to get started living with greater purpose, there are exciting testing services now available -- based on the aptitudes research of Johnson O'Connor, whom longtime listeners have heard me rave about -- that can help accelerate your progress in 2025.
I'm really looking forward to this discussion.