Posts Tagged ‘Four Hour Work Week’

The Lifestyle Design (un)Manifesto

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

If you hadn’t noticed, Beyond Growth has been very quiet in 2010.  We had a few strong posts at the beginning of the year, but since then the feed has been quiet.  In a sense this is because Beyond Growth (and it’s authors) have been experiencing a kind of existential crisis within the personal development and marketing fields. When Beyond Growth launched, we really made few of our goals clear, aside from an intention set in the sidebar to focus on several broad topics.  All of our intent and ideas were exposed either in the context of the posts or our surprisingly successful comments section.  The truth is that our goals for Beyond Growth were and still remain quite broad.  We have plans to ramp up our posting in the coming weeks and months, and to begin this post will make one of our goals more clear. (more…)

Marketing as Freedom: Mead’s Mojave Manifesto

Friday, August 21st, 2009

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This post originally began life as an email exchange between a friend and I shortly after the Project Mohave Liberation Manifesto was released on May 15, 2009.  Project Mojave is essentially a get rich quick scheme led by Clay Collins of the blog Finance Your Freedom (formerly the Growing Life). The project encourages its subscribers who pay $97 per month to  find an expert in a field, create an information product with them such as an ebook and to sell it for $47 on the internet. The manifesto itself was written as a marketing tool for Mohave by Jonathan Mead, a personal development blogger and marketer who writes on IlluminatedMind.net and also as a guest writer on the ubiquitous ZenHabits.net I have followed Jonathan’s blog, projects, and other social media identities for almost as long as he has been writing. Illuminated Mind began as a spiritually minded blog that explored simple Buddhist-like concepts and was critical of both productivity and personal development.  However, over the past year the blog has changed into a guide to “become free” through a variety of “unconventional” methods, much like the ones highlighted later on in this post. (more…)

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Beyond Growth is a collaborative blogging project focused on critiquing and expanding the personal development field. Noting a lack of critical discourse in personal development, Duff McDuffee and Eric Schiller founded Beyond Growth in the hopes of using it as a platform to foster growth and responsibility. We touch on a wide variety of topics, mostly centered around whatever we are interested in at the time.
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