AoE #017: You Cannot Change What You Cannot See

🎙️Episode Highlight: You Cannot Change What You Cannot See! 🎧

Welcome to episode 17 of Agents of Everything! In this episode, titled "You Cannot Change What You Cannot See," we unpack the importance of awareness and witnessing and their crucial roles in initiating and facilitating personal change.

Through a combination of personal experiences and other illustrative examples, we explore the importance of recognizing our own behavior and the power it holds in shaping our lives.

Uncover the transformative potential of conscious participation in personal evolution and self-transformation as you tune in for an enlightening discussion on the role of witnessing our experiences and making intentional choices… ultimately leading to personal mastery and profound change.

🔍 Episode Contents (AI picks):

* 00:00 Our being shapes our results from within.

* 05:00 Professional change work and helping people make changes.

* 07:53 Understanding ‘resistance’, promoting open-mindedness, doubting cherished truths.

* 12:43 Resistance as rigidity and inflexibility.

* 14:19 Cycle of change, motivational interviewing, respecting people's autonomy.

* 17:33 People can only change what they are able to see.

* 21:41 Overcoming fear and other personal issues.

* 26:05 Do things your way, implement deeper work.

* 28:26 Self-awareness and observation lead to transformation.

* 32:39 Understanding increased adaptiveness and choice.

* 36:41 Three ways of ‘seeing’ - example from guitar playing.

* 38:26 Becoming a better witness starts with curiosity.

* 43:28 The surprising power of doubt

* 44:47 Self-transformation involves clarity in witnessing and connection to choice.

* 47:39 Releasing, acceptance and finding inner strength.

I hope you get a lot of 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