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…)
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What is Beyond Growth?
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.Tags
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addiction
Anthony Robbins
authenticity
authentic man program
Bill Harris
Centerpointe
Chris Guillebeau
consumerism
Core Transformation
cultural criticism
culture
Eben Pagan
Enlightenment
fight club
Four Hour Work Week
Frank Kern
Frank Kern scam
get rich quick
Holosync
identity
integral theory
James Arthur Ray
James Ray
James Ray sweatlodge
Jonathan Mead
Ken Wilber
Law of Attraction
Litigation
marketing
Mass Control
Merlin Mann
motivation
NLP
patriarchy
personal development
Positive Thinking
positivity
Robert Anton Wilson
self-actualization
self help
social media
Spiritual Warrior Event
The Secret
Tony Robbins
Tyler Durden
Recent Comments
- Personal Development and the SAID Principle (20):
- Duff McDuffee: Great example, Joy! The number of productive exercises one can do in a small space at home without any equipment is...
- Joy_Livingwell: Great post, Duff! I've noticed this phenomenon myself, especially in this form: I want to achieve tangible goal...
- Tony Robbins and the Cult of Aggressive Positivity, Part 1 (44):
- Duff McDuffee: Thanks for the comment, Sheri. Indeed, the rich will get richer in a recession, but is this good news for the middle...
- Sheri Lynn: Well done and provocative. I appreciate the reference to avoiding the reality of death – basically Robbin's...
