When you're self-aware, it means that there's a full expression of you happening. It's why the great

artists, you see their full expression. And they can only get to that self-expression. They can only get to that

level of ease by having more and more self-awareness. Welcome to the art of accomplishment,

where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kisler, here today with my co-host, Joe Hudson.

A lot of people have a sense that self-development and accomplishment are mutually exclusive, that in order to be maximally productive,

it's necessary to sacrifice parts of who we are

or to backburner our own personal evolution.

We focus on creating systems for setting and achieving goals.

We imagine that by doing this,

we'll somehow arrive at our fully developed self

without examining where these goals came from in the first place.

And so a question I often hear asked is,

how will self-inquiry help me be productive

and lead to more accomplishment?

It's an amazing thing about the human brain

is what we really like to create false distinctions.

It's something that we do.

I think it's because the brain in general, its job is create false distinctions. It's something that we do. I think it's because the brain

in general, its job is to create distinction. It likes to create false distinction. You know, it's very

much to me like the way it was in 1970s when you could either be a businessman or you could be an

environmentalist, but you couldn't be both, that they were at odds. And then somewhere in the 90s, they figured out, nope, you can do both.

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