A Higher Level ⬆️

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This is a short video from my blog. Do you ever feel like you have to sacrifice your authentic self in order to build social capital?  I do.  And it's a struggle.  Recently I talked to my son, Arthur, who I think has a genius for authenticity, about how to be your authentic self, and it was a thought-provoking conversation. You can read the blog...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition - Part 1 - Copulatory Happenstance Copulatory Happenstance is the strange way that we humans almost don't exist.  The vast majority of theoretical humans maintain the quality of non-being, but a few of us are given the quality of being.  This is either a curse o...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This is a short video from my blog. Do you ever struggle with religious, political, or economical ideologies when you have to work with other people in leadership situations? It's no wonder! These topics, more than any other, connect to our deepest longings and aspirations as a human species and unleash a potent, sacred energy born of deep love....

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This is a short video from my blog. It's about my coaching & consulting "process".  I like to say that I have a perspective, not a process, but if I do think hard about I have a process too.  It involves 2 questions and 1 secret premise.  Give a listen if you're curious about my coaching and consulting. You can read the blog p...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome to a series about my 5 Perpetual, Perennial, Paradoxical, Problematic Dysfunctions of the Human Condition.  After the 5 Metaphysical Realms, these are the most helpful and important idea, and each of them reveals a way that we humans experience the strange and wonderful condition of being human in each moment. I call them "Dysfunctions&q...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Recently I discovered that I have access to AI tools in one of the blogging platforms I use, so I decided to take it out for a spin.  I hope you enjoy the results as much as I did! 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 re...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 17 is an overdue return to A Higher Level ⬆️!  It's been a while since I released an episode and energy has been shifting in a beautiful and interesting way.  Listen to hear what's new and what's on the horizon with me. Also, I captured another awesome conversation with my son Arthur one evening when we were driving to dinner. ...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome back to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 7, the final installment, is all about access points to the final realm, the Realm of Purpose.  Human life is strange and paradoxical.  As a collective we examine it from many different angles, all of which are implicitly designed...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome back to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 6 is the Realm of Purpose, by far my favorite, and in this episode you will hear why.  The Realm of Purpose is where we explore everything that makes us humans what we are.  There are many access points, and it is a conversation l...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome back to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 5 is the Realm of Strategy.  Strategy is a crucial and fascinating realm.  It's where we go once we've begun to examine our actions and resolve to align them all in the same direction toward the same goal.  Part of the m...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome back to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 3 is the Realm of Action.  This is the realm that unlocked metaphysics for me - fundamentally, mysteriously, and undeniably revelatory of the nature of reality itself, how we experience it, and how we think about it.  And understa...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome back to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 2 is the Realm of Life.  This mysterious, bewitching, even magical realm encompasses all plants and animals, including we humans.  It introduces processes of change and transformation, as well as the crucial concept of growth, whi...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome to the official guided tour of my central coaching and mentoring framework, the 5 Metaphysical Realms!  Part 1 is the Realm of Motion.  This mysterious, majestic realm encompasses all that is,  including us.  It brings up questions of narrative and meaning, the significance of how we explain the ultimate origin of the universe, and the observ...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 10 is an introduction to the concept of metaphysics, and the first in a 7-part series about my central metaphysical coaching model, the 5 Realms. I talk about the definition of metaphysics, its relevance to you as a leader, my past as a philosophical ponderer, and some fun stories from my Bar Mitzvah.  Enjoy! Listen to the Crushin' Compa...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 9 is a brief interlude before we get into an upcoming 7-part series about my central coaching and mentoring model, the 5 Metaphysical Realms. I also include 3 salient summaries of leadership themes that came from a recent presentation. And we wrap up with another preview of the 4 key and timeless issues that I help leaders navigate in their e...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 8 an update on my energy, as well as some patterns and narratives I have seen coming together in my life.  It's a vulnerable episode that comes from my heart, in the spirit of gratitude, humility, and service.  I also talk a little about the broad themes I see coming through in my work as I move forward. The end features a dialogue with...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 7 is about the 2 "-rations" that I use to bring people to the Realm of Purpose.  I also talk about why I consider myself to be a Platonist vision coach and how reality is constantly misaligned with our ideal, and why that's actually the best thing we could ask for as humans. Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everythi...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Episode 6 is about a paradox I often find when I ask leaders the question "What do you want?"  It opens up a vast, broad, intricate conversation about their life on every level. Thanks for listening 🎧 On A Higher Level ⬆️ everything is vast, rich, beautiful, and deeply optimistic. Everything we SEE 👁 THINK 🧠 and DO 💪 is about helping lea...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This episode is a reflection on existence and the difficulty of the human condition, facilitated by a couple scenes from one of my favorite TV shows.  Enjoy! 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 v...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This episode is about a very specific kind of conversation certain leaders need to renew their vision and generate effortless strategy. ⬆️ Something I'm getting better at talking about ⬆️ How I discovered I'm good at this kind of conversation ⬆️ Everyone looks to the leader ⬆️ Abdication of leadership ⬆️ Confiding and a safe space ⬆️ Leader...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This episode is all about the nature of absurdity and its importance to the work I do with leadership coaching clients. ⬆️ Thinking for days about how to start talking about this ⬆️ Absurdity is a self-aware human thing ⬆️ A highly simplistic framing dilemma ⬆️ Suffering, children, and love ⬆️ A theistic framing of absurdity and the Euthyphro dilemma...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! This episode is all about my story, how I got to where I am now, why I think the way that I do, and why I call myself what I do. ⬆️ Why I have 2 different titles ⬆️ Where to begin...it's all the same story! ⬆️ Listen to my thoughts on free will: https://anchor.fm/thinking-hard-or-hardly-t/episodes/Do-We-Have-Free-Will-eq3vqd ⬆️ The significance...

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 😌 ⬆️ Meet your host, Aaron J. Marx, Visionary Purpose Coach and Metaphysical Leadership Mentor ⬆️ Why people wo...

Got you thinking 🤔🧠💭💡? Tell us about it 📝! Welcome to  A Higher Level with Aaron J. Marx A Higher Level is all about conversations that help creative, entrepreneurial leaders see, think, and act on a higher level. It's full of insights from a purposeful realm that is vast, rich, deep, beautiful, and steeped in the joy and pain of the human condition.  It's where leaders come to be r...