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Introduction to HeroPath for Teens

Michael Roach — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:55:26 +0000

Great new video from Jeff Leiken

The next program details are here: http://www.heropath.co.uk

Introduction to HeroPath for Teens is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

Why was US President Barack Obama awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize?

Michael Roach — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:26:16 +0000

The Nobel Committee said he won it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”

Under the previous US President George Bush the world seems to have been on an increasingly nightmare like path towards greater terrorism and fear. In business they say the company is a reflection of it’s leader, let’s hope the US and the rest of the world can be a reflection of a US President Nobel laureate on a path to peace and prosperity for us all.

So why is President Obama making the difference that President Bush couldn’t with all his military might?

My teacher and mentor leadership expert Dr. Joseph Riggio Ph.D. would no doubt talk about the Graves values system and that Bush was the typical Graves 5 who valued business above all while Obama is the evolution to Graves 6 who values community and agreement understanding that you can’t win if it’d just you that wins. The only real win is the win win situation where everybody wins.

It’s good to have a hero back as the leader of the western world. Just remember leaders are human just like you and me, so why not think how can you extend the peace yourself? How can you also be a hero both for yourself, your family and your country. That’s what the world needs.

Why was US President Barack Obama awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize? is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

How do you make success inevitable?

Michael Roach — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:16:24 +0000

Many clients that I see think they know what they want but don’t know how to get it. Or think it’s impossible that they could achieve what they dream about achieving.

“That’s just not me.” is the phrase I regularly hear.

It seems so many many people have accepted the limitation for themselves, that only certain people can be successful. And the criteria for that success is they need to have been born with the money, good looks or ability to go and do the things required which has now made them into the star or celebrity that they are.

The sad fact is that if you believe this you are right.

But if you also don’t believe this you are right.

I’m not talking about the Law of Attraction here and that if you just wish or have faith you’ll get what you place your attention on. That’s the kind of thinking that keeps people stuck in their limitations and not succeeding with the stimulation of the sweetness of feeling good about themselves. But that temporary high doesn’t last or translate into lasting success.

The bible says, God helps those who help themselves.

You help yourself by doing the work necessary to get the success you want. You plant seeds in the ground to grow food to feed yourself and your family.

Yet most people want the harvest before they’ve done the work of planting.

My teacher and mentor Dr. Joseph Riggio Ph.D has written about how people give up on themselves by failing to learn to think for themselves. I encourage you to read his blog post “Rethinking the Value of Language”. And the scary insidious part of this is that most people believe they can think critically, they know they are right.

This is the single thing that limits most people from getting the success they want, that they believe they are right. By thinking this they’ve closed their minds to the possibility of something more.

When clients leave a session with me they now know they can have what before they thought was impossible and that it’s just a question of doing the work necessary to achieve that. Or they’ve realised that they just don’t want to be that person who’s going to do that work which is just as valuable because now other things are possible for them.

The secret of how you make success inevitable is it’s about building from a foundation that will sustain and support you getting to where you want to go. Structural Wellformedness as Dr. Joseph Riggio Ph.D. would say.

How do you make success inevitable? is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

We are hard-wired to create the future, be it good or bad.

Michael Roach — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:18:57 +0000

The future you create depends on what Joseph calls the ‘Primary distinction’ (whether you’re in the excitatory or inhibitory). Chris Anderson whose book “FREE – the Future of a Radical Price” is brilliant imho, wrote the blog post below which I think is both enlightening and frightening at the same time because it illustrates that most people aren’t tracking for the implication of their actions through time. Which is probably no surprise to most of you reading this because you get that’s a large part of the reason we’re in the mess we’re in.

One of the benefits of learning the MythoSelf® process is that it is an embodied ethical decision making process, so you’re tracking for what you want in a well-formed way. But tracking according to the Scope of Decision™ model the implication of your actions through both time and space.

This is from Chris Anderson’s blog at: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/09/is-this-how-the-singularity-happens.html

Is this how the singularity happens?

This was one of those freaky moments when the future sneaks up and smacks you. I was on a plane earlier this week and took a break from work to watch the movie while they served dinner. It was Terminator Salvation, which once again tells us what happens when Skynet becomes self-aware and the machines take over. Then they cleared dinner, and I opened my laptop again and resumed work where I left off: programming unmanned aerial vehicles in RobotC.

Which is exactly, of course, how Skynet becomes self-aware. Have I learned nothing?!!

Seriously, it was a kinda weird moment. After all, if we ever do hit a singularity when the collective ability of machines (I won’t use the word “intelligence”, since we neither really know what that means, nor are we likely to recognize it in machines) exceed that of humans, it will because of lots of people like me doing just what I was doing.

And yet, I couldn’t imagine not doing it. I was programming UAVs in RobotC because I can—the technological opportunity was in front of me and I couldn’t resist taking it. Indeed, I was working rather than watching the rest of the movie because I was keen to finish the project faster, so nobody could beat me to it. My competitive drive was pushing to me to do what was possible, mostly just because it was possible and hadn’t been done yet.

In a sense, I couldn’t help myself. We are innovative animals. If something can be invented, we feel compelled to invent it. If I don’t do it, someone else will. That which can be invented, must be. It almost doesn’t matter how useful it will be or even if it might be dangerous. Matches must be struck, just to watch them burn.

I wondered if the inventors of the atomic bomb felt the same way. Atoms can fuse, so let’s fuse them. Chain reactions can take place, so let’s start one. They can happen faster with the right materials and conditions, so let’s create them. And so on. Each step of the way is just grabbing the natural opportunity in front of us, but the end result is a weapon of mass destruction.

Of course with the atomic bomb, it was eventually clear that the next step would lead to a terrifying weapon and wise minds considered whether or not to take that step (they decided to do so because they knew that others would get there soon, and with perhaps worse consequences).

But in the case of “Skynet becoming self-aware” (yes, I know that’s just a movie, but indulge me for the sake of the thought experiment), would that threshold be as clear?

Will it come someday with some guy like me fixing the last bug in his code and pressing compile? Will he even know what he has done? Or will it be more gradual, with loads of us building it bit by bit, with no single moment, technology or decision marking the point where we crossed the line?

Maybe that day will never come. But it stopped me in my tracks for a few minutes as I reflected on how amoral invention is. Technology wants to be invented and we are almost powerless to stop it. We are hard-wired to create the future, be it good or bad. Invention is its own master.

And then I went back to programming the robot. After all if I don’t make airplanes self-aware someone else will. And I can’t let them get the glory!

(Diagram of the real Skynet from the BBC.)

We are hard-wired to create the future, be it good or bad. is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

Catch Me If You Can (and they did).

Michael Roach — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:19:58 +0000

On the subject of teenagers doing extraordinary things, some of you will remember the Leonardo DiCapri film Catch Me If You Can about Frank Abagnale Jr. who between the ages of 16 and 21 posed as an airline pilot, a lawyer, a college professor and a paediatrician, fraudulently earning millions of dollars. Well in todays Times newspaper an unnamed 17 year old has been caught up to the same kind of thing, it’s a great story that shows the intelligence and enthusiasm of what some young men and women can do. Of course if he’d been on Des’s Empowered Life for Teens he’d be building from structural wellformedness or in other worlds building a future that works rather than moving in the other direction.

Here’s the story from the London Times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article6719191.ece

And here’s Des’s HeroPath website: http://www.heropath.co.uk/cms/ The next Empowered Life for Teens Workshop is on the 11-13th September in Harpenden, call Des for more details on 01923 267 107

Catch Me If You Can (and they did). is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

Smoking’ with Joe no.2

Michael Roach — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:20:44 +0000

Another great video from Joseph:

Smoking’ with Joe no.2 is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

July 4th is Interdependence day in the UK

Michael Roach — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:48:49 +0000

To celebrate interdependence day in the UK and thank the founding father of the MythoSelf Dr. Joseph Riggio we’re offering you FREE FACILITATION for this day only at a venue just outside central London (approx 50-60 minutes from London Victoria).

In the spirit of the 4th of July celebration in the US we’re donating our time free of charge to give you the opportunity to join the party that is life LIVED IN THE EXCITATORY, the gift of the MythoSelf process. You’ll be stuffed like a turkey full of the realisation that ANYTHING is possible and with all the trimmings, taking you where your problems are not we will cook you to perfection, the perfection of living a life well lived where you get what you want by being who you want to be.

Step up and declare your interdependence, the UK Mytho crew are waiting to pounce on you.

Time: 11am to 3pm Saturday 4th of July
Where: We’re taking over a museum in Horsham, Sussex. (So no fondling the exhibits please).

Contact me by email to reserve one of the strictly limited places, michaelroach@mac.com and I’ll send you details of exactly how to get to where you want to go.

Michael Roach
http://www.PredatoryEnlightenment.com

PS. Just in case you’re wondering WHY INTERDEPENDENCE? It’s the evolutionary move you need to make from dependence where you just get told what to do, to independence where you think you’re free, and then to interdependence where other people want to help you get what you want because of who you are.

PPS. A special message for any Americans reading, we guarantee you’ll have so much fun, so much TRANSFORMATIONAL fun that you’ll want to rejoin Great Britain…

July 4th is Interdependence day in the UK is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

Smokin’ with Joe

Michael Roach — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:27:41 +0000

Great new video from Joseph Riggio: Smokin’ with Joe:

Smokin’ with Joe is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

Why Michael Jackson is dead at 50 and why talent is not enough

Michael Roach — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:02:07 +0000

If you looked up talent in the dictionary you’d expect to see a picture of Michael Jackson. I can think of few people more naturally talented who have developed their talent with hard work into such a skilled and beautiful expression of their art. Yet you can’t help but to have been exposed to the news storied about the troubles Michael has had for quite a long time now. Even though he once had an extraordinary amount of money and with such extraordinary talent which he had spent years refining and developing how could things go so wrong?

The answer is simple it’s what my mentor and teacher Dr. Joseph Riggio calls Structural Illformedness and it’s what the workshop Patterns of Personal Transformation in July is about, and it’s the secret of how successful people not just make themselves successful but it’s how they maintain that success through time. In his book Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human-Systems: A Neurolinguistically-Modeled Phenomenography Joseph talks about the transpersonal nature of decision making and how his proprietary models the MythoSelf process® and the Scope of Decision™ model show how to establish this structural wellformedness and use it in making decisions in your life.

Put simply it’s the foundation that you need to get right before you build the empire on top. Shaky or badly built foundations and at some point it all ends in tears.

But most people don’t get how to build foundations that will not only enable success but sustain that success through time. The magic is in including the transpersonal consideration and it’s what Joseph’s model the MythoSelf process teaches people, how to access a way of being where literally anything is possible and then how to use that as the foundation of building a life that works.

I love watching shows like Britain’s Got Talent or America’s Got Talent because it reminds us that among the ordinary people like you and me there are people with such gifts of extraordinary talent perhaps the next Michael Jackson I just wish they would take advantage of the technology that’s available today. Any good architect knows that unless you build a good foundation you can’t reach the heights of success and sustain that success. Take advantage of what the Architect and designer of the MythoSelf process Dr. Joseph Riggio offers and at the minimum you’ll live a happy life and anything more than that will truly be a blessing.

Why Michael Jackson is dead at 50 and why talent is not enough is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com

What use are the primal drivers?

Michael Roach — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:36:11 +0000

A post to Daryl on the MythoSelf list:

What use are the primal drivers?

It’s the SECRET for how you get people to take action, to get the results they want.

If I said most coaching and consulting doesn’t work you’d think that was hype. But you want to understand what most peoples expectations are. They don’t expect transformation. They want to not have their problem or be somewhere other than where they currently are. They’ve also been falsely led to believe that by understanding the problem in more detail they can then do what’s necessary to not have it or when they have sufficient data that will tell them how to get to where they want to go.

Most coaches, consultants, or therapists have a skillset for getting their client more information, more understanding which gives a temporary feeling of satisfaction which the client likes and often wants more of which a coach, consultant, therapist can like a parasite make use of… But this relationship isn’t sustainable which is why most coaches don’t make a good living they effectively kill their clients off.

The magic of Joseph’s EPC2 coaching and consulting is it’s purely generative, the reason why you want to be operating aesthetically is you’re changing the filter through which you have your experience.

MOST PEOPLE ARE NEVER SATISFIED BY WHAT THEY DO NO MATTER HOW GOOD, THEY LIVE STRIVING FOR SOMETHING THEY CAN’T QUITE SEE, TOUCH, OR FEEL AND THEY END UP TELLING THEMSELVES IT DOESN’T EXIST, AND SO LIVE LIVES OF QUIET DESPERATION PALE SHADOWS OF WHAT COULD BE MAGNIFICENT, FULL, RICH, JUCY AND THOROUGHLY SATISFIED.

This is what an EPC2 certified coach offers to their clients that deep satiation not of pale intellectual understanding but of embodied knowing.

Daryl you don’t teach someone how to pull the trigger before they’ve learnt how to aim. Ready, fire, aim is not what the elite sniper does instead it’s the precision of knowing you’ve hit the target before pulling the trigger. It’s why Joseph’s Beyond Elite Performance Coach training is from the live programs in July then a years worth of tele-coaching to the following June… Then you can be an assassin of limitations.

What use are the primal drivers? is a post by Michael William Roach from: Hero-Myth.com