Identity Publications
The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth
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- Gregory V Diehl
- Identity Publications
- Paperback
- 9781945884214
- 9 X 6 X 0.48 inches
- 0.69 pounds
- Philosophy > Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Many people struggle throughout their lives, unable to identify the source of great inner existential discontent. No matter their material comfort or good fortune, they cannot escape the idea that they do not live the lives they ought to. They are not in environments that support their deepest personal growth and development. They are not the people they feel they are meant to be, and the world never works the way they know it could.
Every day, exceptional minds like these begin to suspect that the way they operate is different than the norm. They realize early on that they have profound capacities for original insight, feeling, action, choice, and meaning. But without mentoring guidance or a sense of social belonging, they feel lost-alone and alienated in their individuality.
What can we do to better understand the hidden parts of ourselves, to prevent our uncommon personal growth and development from becoming bridled by pressures toward the conventional? How can we learn to identify and embody the heroic values that matter most to us? The answer lies in deep personal inquiry about the shared existential strengths and limitations that define us, including how to apply them to our self-improvement in an incompatible world.
The Heroic and Exceptional Minority is an audacious call to self-development for men, women, and teens plagued by mythological doubt, who feel stuck in a mediocre environment and an unheroic era. Its premise is timeless, clear, and simple: The only way to understand oneself, realize our potential, and change the world for the better is to embrace who and what we really are.
Author Bio
Gregory V. Diehl has been described as being among the toughest, most direct personal development coach in the world. He has earned this reputation through the frank and unique way he interacts with clients: prodding into hidden motivators, pointing out internal contradictions, and strategically antagonizing their unconscious sacred ideas until only the foundation of truth remains.
A sort of cryptic sensei, Diehl fosters conversations in the most element (and too often overlooked) form of coaching: to listen with fierce intensity to the unfiltered expressions of his clients, codify them, challenge them, and restate them without the narrative personal bias. The result is to instantly separate the client from the attachment to the story they tell themselves about the most important issues of their lives so they can focus on what actually matters and make progress they once thought to be impossible.
Diehl’s primary coaching technique is a strategy he calls strategic aggravation or antagonization. He works to upset the static ebb and flow of coach-client communication with persistent questions and skepticism. He is dismissive, argumentative, and at times downright rude – whatever it takes to create radical breakthroughs in the people he works with.
What Clients Say about Gregory:
“He’s not one of the hyper-empathic, hyper-feeling, trauma-healing, focused-listening-but-not-real-opinions kind of coaches. He startles me. He can be adversarial, provocative during our coaching, but that’s not his only coaching technique. He only pushes your buttons when you’re not logical, or he pushes them when you settle for mediocrity. He’ll try to jar you when you’re stuck in a story or are sitting unaware of the rest of the world.”
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“He doesn’t care what you think coming in. I don’t even think he cares what you end up thinking. He wants to see your thinking and rethinking as it happens. He’s impatient and demanding. But it works somehow. He makes you stronger.”
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“I like the questioning Gregory does. Just having a mentor who’s dissected even the most rudimentary of things about being a human has really helped me feel less lonely and allowed me to relax more into the path that I carve through life.”
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