A Higher Level ⬆️

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! How do I know that YOU 🫵 have a leadership vision? A few days ago I was listening to an interview with Tom Hanks on a podcast I enjoy,  Chinwag with actor Paul Giamatti and philosopher Stephen Asma. Hanks talked about the phenomenon of "cognitive modernity", which is the period in history when our ancestors' brains evolved the ability...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Learn more and register for Leadership Level Up ⬆️ here . Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everything is vast, rich, beautiful, and deeply optimistic. Everything we SEE 👁 THINK 🧠 and DO 💪 is about helping leaders reach a higher level of vision, insight, and clarity so they can effectively work and build in the world 🌏 with peace ☮️ and...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Level-Up ⬆️ Your Life A 4-day virtual leadership workshop for ambitious professionals, entrepreneurs, executives, public servants, and more. Become MUCH clearer on the work you are here to do, plan your highest-impact next steps, and develop a personalized plan for growth with other like-minded individuals. Dramatically improve your: Vision Sense of...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome to Season 2 of A Higher Level ⬆️ This season will consist of 3 series: 1️⃣ The 9 Facets of My Work - People tell me that I am categorically different from most coaches, consultants, and advisors that they know, and this creates a persistent marketing challenge for me.  This series explores the 9 ways that I help my clients and their organizat...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! You're heard of leaving your comfort zone?  Comfort zones are none too comfortable, and here's why... Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/comfort-zone-of-contradiction Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/dtvIB701i14 Schedule a FREE Discovery Call about your leadership: https://calendly.com/aaronjmarx/3...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! The finale ultimo of Season 1 of A Higher Level ⬆️.  Recording from Christmas/New Year limbo, before 2024 gets going.  Season 2 will start next year.  A taste of my new project, Commerce Theory, and a time-sensitive announcement about an upcoming presentation that you can catch if you happen to be in the Central Wisconsin region.  Also, touching brie...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Not a day goes by that I don't hear some kind of injunction against the dangers of overthinking.  But...what if I told you underthinking is just as harmful, if not more? Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/overthinking-or-underthinking Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/mpO73oGmIVY Schedule a FREE Discover...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! What would I say to my kids if they asked for advice about their lives?  I would offer them 3 points.  Give a listen. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/the-advice-i-would-give-to-my-kids-if-they-asked-today Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/BlxDwOAaswc Schedule a FREE Discovery Call about your leadership: ht...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! As leaders and creators, we have power.  But there is one thing that stands in our way and threatens to rob us of this power.  What is it?  Watch, listen, and read this post to find out. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/the-one-thing-that-stands-in-your-way Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/eQBfePhVlBE Sche...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! I have heard Alan Watts and Carl Sagan, philosopher and cosmologist respectively, and both influential in their own ways, express the sentiment that humans are the universe becoming aware of itself.  I would go further.  In short, we are the universe becoming aware of its self-awareness.  Watch, listen, and read this post to understand what that mean...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! All leaders and creatives experience an endless cycle that I call the Authenticity 🔄 Attraction Loop.  Our visions start within, in response to what we see missing in the world.  And then we must offer them to our audiences as we enlist people to support our causes, which inevitably changes them, and forces us to look inward again. Read the blog pos...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Thank God for...divorce lawyers?!  Really?  Yes, really.  Because even divorce lawyers love their work, and there's an absurdity to that.  But perhaps you too have a such a calling.  Whatever your calling, it is helpful to someone in need, and it might be a dire situation. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/thank...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Do you every worry that you are selfish?  Many people do, especially those in leadership positions.  But I actually don't think it's possible, and here's why... Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/reframing-selfishness Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/6vZ9bI2beno Schedule a FREE Discovery Call...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 25 marks the conclusion of Season 1.  I hadn't necessarily intended to release this podcast in seasons, but taking stock of my energy and momentum reveals a clear, new chapter opening up before me, and revealing directions my work will take. This is a housekeeping episode in which I talk about: My new book, The Complete Science of Human...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 24 is about the fourth of my 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition, the Sublime, Sublimated Absurdity of the Ideal of Imperfectability. 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition - Part 5 - The Sublime, Sublimated Absurdity of the Ideal of Imperfectabilit...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 23 is about the fourth of my 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition, Combinatorial Explosion. 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition - Part 4 - Combinatorial Explosion Combinatorial Explosion is what we experience when we proceed into the future from E...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Do you suffer from self-doubt?  Most worthwhile leaders do.  There are three reasons why it's actually a good thing.  This is Part 2. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/the-tripartite-goodness-of-self-doubt-part-2 Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/AzNGQMY2jGg Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Do you suffer from self-doubt?  Most worthwhile leaders do.  There are three reasons why it's actually a good thing.  This is Part 1. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/the-tripartite-goodness-of-self-doubt-part-1 Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/BAHQ1wub03E Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! A reflection on the counterintuitive importance of negativity in our lives. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/the-power-ofnegativity Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/Tkydu0ytKh4 Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everything is vast, rich, beautiful, and deeply optimistic. Everything we SEE 👁 THINK...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! A reflection on the film Oppenheimer and the trailer for The Holdovers. Read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/when-you-say-it-that-way-and-throw-in-some-pornography Watch this on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/Ia46RrRulhU Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everything is vast, rich, beautiful, and deeply optimisti...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome to A Higher Level ⬆️, where everything we SEE  👁 THINK 🧠 and DO 💪 is about helping leaders reach a higher level of vision, insight, and clarity so they can effectively work and build in the world 🌏 with peace ☮️ and satisfaction 😌 Episode 22 is about the third of my 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Huma...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Communication is ultimately the only thing that ever makes anything else happen, so why do we tend to avoid it?  I think it's because we fear one of these 6 A's.  See if you don't agree... Listen to my thoughts, and read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/6-as-the-fundamental-human-fears Watch this on YouTub...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Last week I met a friend and fellow entrepreneur for coffee.  We each shared a business word we don't like, and the words we prefer to use instead. Listen to my thoughts, and read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog/a-word-i-dont-like Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everything is vast, rich, beautiful, and...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition - Part 2 - Narrative Trauma Narrative Trauma is about our distinctively human relationship with the past, both individual and collective, and how that shapes our experience of the present and  decisions about the future. All living things can be traumatized, but huma...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! “Your soul sometimes plays a note Against the Sky's ear that excites The birds and planets. Stay close to any sounds That make you glad you are alive.” Recently I have been enjoying lyric verses by Hafez.  Who was Hafez and why have I been reading him? Listen to my thoughts, and read the blog post I wrote about it at: https://aaronjmarx.com/blog...