This is an introduction to some of the work being done to re-assess the current state of the personal development tools and processes and what we can learn from the business world.

1. Let’s hack Personal
Development

2. There’s a chronic
disconnect between
what people set out to
do and what they
actually achieve in life

3. The tools for personal growth are
out-dated

4. Earl Nightingale back in the 1950’s
“We live today in a golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked
forward to, dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We
live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth ... a land
of abundant opportunity for everyone.
However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do
you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the
time they’re 65? These 100 people believe they’re going to be
successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their
eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting
adventure to them.
But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich, four will be financially
independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be broke —
depending on others for life’s necessities.
Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has
happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has
become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans ... and why is there such a
large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they
actually accomplished?”
These are not new problems

5. Set the scene

6. What is the forecast for the future?

7. Increasing depth and
complexity of
relationships and
interdependencies

8. Increasing
uncertainty

9. Unrelenting & ever
surprising change

10. Exponential Change
The number of internet
connections globally
The number of mobile
devices connected to the
internet
DNA Genome Sequencing
co2 emmissions
Data Storage

11. 6 years ago we didn’t have....

12. The Winds of Creative
Destruction

13. ...are producing a bare knuckle fight

14. ?
That has brought about hyper-
competition
10 years

15. This is understandably leaving people a
little confused and concerned

16. Are the tools we are
using still relevant?

17. Tools are designed for
a more certain world

18. Where would you rather go to get your
tooth removed?

19. A different way of
thinking is needed

21. "If you want to teach people a new way of
thinking, don't bother trying to teach them.
Instead, give them a tool, the use of which
will lead to new ways of thinking."
Buckminster Fuller

23. This is where the real learning happens
We must continuously push
ourselves to the edge of our
comfort zone and challenge our
thinking

24. We must challenge the
status quo

25. We need a new
approach- an iterative
and adaptive approach

26. We are kidding
ourselves if we think
we can predict the
future

28. The business world is
starting to understand this
(Led by tech startups)

31. What can
personal
development
learn from the
business world?

32. Accept that everything
is an assumption- a
hypothesis to be tested
our daily lives

35. Fail fast, fail often
In a managed and controllable manner

36. Adopt a continuous
process of ‘validated
learning’

38. We must take a holistic, integrated view

39. Things can look ok in isolation...

40. ...but we have to look at the whole picture

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Let’s start building new tools

42. Here’s my map as it looks at the
moment..not sure if it will make any sense

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This is just the

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Of a long journey

45. There are a lot of questions...

46. We’re more likey to answer them by working together

47. Join the conversation
at
www.project-flux.com

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Most of all...

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That’s me
Scott Torrance

50. I’d love to connect
Scott Torrance- uk.linkedin.com/scotttorrance
@ProjectFlux1
@scottorrance
scott@project-flux.com
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