CHAPTER 1
Achieving Inner Peace
Inner Peace is the foundational building block of becoming a Hyper-Learner. To engage in Hyper-Learning requires your Best Self—your highest-quality performance emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally— and you cannot operate at that level until, as a baseline, you cultivate a state of Inner Peace.
Inner Peace is an internal quietness or stillness, which I define as being fully present in the moment with an open and nonjudgmental mind and a lack of self-absorption. It’s a state of positivity with limited stress and fear. With those internal qualities, you are more open to:
■Learning
■Stress-testing your beliefs (not values)
■Listening to learn, not to confirm
■Embracing opportunities, differences, novelty, and ...
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