Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm

Antonio Dodge. So we are on part two of a quick little three-part podcast series on what

is called the Hat Model and Hat stands for Healing Achievement and Transcendence. And

this model really helps us when we're in our personal growth phases of life as humans

to determine which area are we focused on in our growth journey? Are we in the process

of healing from trauma? Whether that's past trauma or current trauma? Are we in the

process of achieving something, setting goals for ourselves and achieving those goals?

Are we transcending maybe a belief system on ideology? Something that we were once

and now we're something different now? We're in a transcendence mode and we're working

toward that. So when we look at these three categories, usually people are in one area

primarily when they're in personal growth and it's kind of like a three-legged race.

Each of these influences the other. The moment we move forward in healing it might put pressure

on the achievement of transcendent pieces. We move forward in achievement and might put pressure

on the other two to have to address. Today is part two and the last episode we talked about

healing and we unpacked some of the concepts, some of the ideas behind that. In this episode

we want to talk about the achievement piece, that middle letter in the Hat Model. What

does it mean to achieve? How do we set goals for ourselves? What do we need to think about

as we move into achievement through our personal growth? So that's what we want to unpack

on this episode. We recorded a podcast dedicated to the Hat Model a couple of years ago, so feel

free to go check out that podcast as an overview of the model. But as Joel mentioned, we are

doing a deep dive into each of these categories and ways of thinking about them because depending

upon which area you're in in your growth, you're going to want to treat the subject and

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