The Process is the Outcome

Show Notes

We all know that goals are transient. They might bring us some short-term pleasure but the periods between the goals, the goals we actually get that is, are often peppered with consistent feelings of lack, frustration and disappointment.

Despite knowing this, we still live lives where we’re mostly striving for, and only occasionally arriving at, a state of fulfillment. It’s a hamster wheel that’s kept billions of us busy through countless lifetimes.

In this episode, Thom explains that we do this because we’ve got our achievement process backwards. He exposes the ‘fulfillment fallacy’ and gives us a practical method whereby fulfillment becomes an input into the process, rather than being a result of the process. 

So if you’re ready to get off the hamster wheel, this episode is just what you need.

Episode Highlights: 

[00:40] Did I Make a Difference?

[03:02] How Do You Get What (You Think) You Want?

[04:49] Creativity and Action

[06:51] Achievement… Then What?

[08:12] What is the Source of Thought?

[09:47] Thought Has Energy

[11:22] Thought Has Measurable Energy

[12:55] Thought Has Intelligence

[14:24] Consciousness Has Thought

[16:20] The Purpose of Thinking

[18:02] Self-Generating Charm Through Vedic Meditation

[19:36] Nothing Gets Better Than This

[21:06] Being - Complete Fulfillment

[22:38] AKA Samadhi

[24:39] How Desperate Are You?

[26:00] The Fulfillment Fallacy

[27:41] Collateral Damage

[29:02] What Needs to be Done?

[30:36] Let It Go

[31:55] An Evolutionary Agenda

[33:46] Exporting Fulfillment

[35:55] The Need of the Time

[38:36] Stirring the Warm Bath

[40:00] You Won’t Get Fulfillment From That

[41:41] Scaling New Heights

[42:56] Baseline Happiness First

[44:12] Stop Seeking It Where It is Not

[46:21] One Percent

[47:52] An Ingenious Thing

[49:36] Living the Outcome While Engaged in the Process

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Creators & Guests

Producer

Brett Jarman

I'm a long-term Vedic meditator, learning from Thom Knoles in the early 1990s. Having put my skills to work as a business consultant and mentor since 1999, I'm currently in training to become a Vedic Meditation Initiator myself. Once qualified I'll combine the two passions, showing business owners and professionals how to enhance their professional and personal performance with Vedic Meditation being a key component.

Producer

Susan Chen

A former Wall Street Research Analyst, with a BA from Harvard under my belt, I studied with Thom Knoles, the pre-eminent authority of Vedic knowledge, and spend two months of the year continuing my study of Vedic knowledge in India. I was inducted into the Shankaracharya tradition in a 12-week immersion program by Thom, with Shri Shri 1008 Mahamandaleshwar Swami Kailashanand Giri, Supreme Authority of Vedic knowledge in India in 2106.

What is Vedic Worldview?

Join philosopher, educator and celebrated speaker on the cognitive sciences, Thom Knoles for inspiring insights and wisdom to support your personal evolution. Thom is an renowned expert on the relationship between quantum physics and human consciousness, and on the 5,000 year-old body of wisdom known as The Veda. For over 50 years, he has personally taught Vedic Meditation to tens of thousands of students and consulted to governments and private corporations throughout the world.