AoE #22 - Can We REALLY Change Ourselves (and Our Lives)?

🎙️Episode 22: Can We REALLY Change Ourselves (and Our Lives)? 🎧

Welcome to the Agents of Everything podcast! In today's episode, 'Can We REALLY Change Ourselves (and Our Lives)?', we unpack the possibility and process of personal change. Host James Tripp shares his insights on accessing different versions of ourselves and breaking free from limiting beliefs. From understanding neuroplasticity to the impact of dominant narratives on our self-concept, this episode challenges common myths about change being impossible in adulthood. Join the conversation, subscribe, and engage with us as we explore how to create a future that we would truly love to live in. It's time to be the agents of change in our own lives and in the world. Join us in this transformative journey!

🔍 Episode Contents:

00:00 Introduction.

04:53 Embracing personal change leads to a fulfilling life.

09:05 Teen angst culminates in epiphany about agency.

11:20 Adapt and reorganising self vs the World

13:57 People are patterned, but those patterns are changeable.

18:07 Worldview shapes experience and life, positively or otherwise.

23:08 True ‘open-mindedness’ is the simple key to change, but often hard to access.

25:37 Neurolinguistics skills help uncover and reweave existing potential.

27:19 Releasing psychological blocks can unlock personal growth.

32:21 Challenging the doctor's belief in depression.

34:29 Different ‘selves’ contain different information and recall different memories.

37:42 Example: helping daughter access a confident state mentally.

44:06 People resist seeing things differently, thus limiting possibilities.

47:28 Why some people struggle with personal change.

49:48 Different selves and our overall sense of self.

51:41 Self-empowerment through generative self-narratives creates destiny.

55:01 The role of optimism.

As always, I hope you get much goodness from this episode of Agents of Everything - if you so and would like to deepen your engagement, please consider joining the Agents of Everything Nexus - a Live monthly open frame mentoring call plus ongoing license to ask me anything plus access to the nexus resource library (over 270 sessions on creating yourself creator of a life that you love).

All the very best

James Tripp