Trickle Down Mindset: The Missing Element in Your Personal Success by Michal Stawicki

Author:Michal Stawicki [Stawicki, Michal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Free Will & Determinism, Self-Help, Spiritual, Consciousness & Thought, Personal Transformation
Amazon: B00S39OFZ6
Published: 2015-01-18T16:00:00+00:00

The Ten-Minute Philosophy

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“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,

whatever he does, whoever he is.”

― C.S. Lewis

I called my personal philosophy The Ten-Minute Philosophy, because it’s built around ten-minute activities. It’s based on The Slight Edge philosophy, but modified to my personal needs and circumstances. It was not fully formed initially. I just tried different things and kept what was working. It was the trial and error process.

When I read The Slight Edge in August 2012, I decided to give the philosophy presented there a try. I had quite a lot of time to spare. I started new habits, six of which were ten minutes long. Others varied in terms of time investment, but at the beginning, the longest—listening to podcasts and motivational materials—was only fifteen minutes maximum.

Once I gave this new attitude and these new habits a chance, my life changed rapidly. And at the core of my transformation were those ten-minute activities, which I considered easy to do (or to not do). It was amazing how such tiny actions repeated over time revolutionized my whole life.

While developing my new habits, I was determined to stick with them for a minimum of 30 days. However, in the case of studying the Bible, I was determined to form a lifelong habit.

The basis of my determination was my frustration. I wasn’t satisfied with how my life had turned out so far. My recent philosophy hadn’t brought me much closer to the things and qualities I desired. I needed something new. My past experiences convinced me that there was a lot of merit in The Slight Edge philosophy. And at the basis of this philosophy lies the law of errors and disciplines.

So the core assumption of my new philosophy was this Law. The longer I adhered to it, the better results I observed, up to the point where I was fully convinced it was true and universal. Then I committed to it even more. I built a multitude of disciplines, just for the fun of it. And there were always some results.

Developing my new personal philosophy, I didn’t mimic big gurus and their systems of belief. Firstly, I’m highly skeptical about anyone who claims to want only good things for me and then asks for money to help me. Also, my culture does not worship success the way Western culture does. We received our unfair share of communist indoctrination about blood-lusting capitalists and then the transformation of my country, which I’m sad to say, confirmed a lot of these stereotypes. Lots of people with no remorse abused the system, abused their employees and clients, and made fortunes. We experienced in Poland over a period of fifteen years the kind of wild capitalism that prevailed in America throughout the nineteenth century.

But an even greater factor was that I very quickly realized that the advice of millionaires applies best to millionaires. Most of those people live in ivory towers. They enjoy levels of freedom that are unattainable for most people.

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