Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

This is the third and final episode in a quick three-part series we've been releasing

on what we call the Hat Model. The Hat Model is an acronym it stands for Healing, Achievement,

or Transcendence. And in personal growth work, usually when we're doing work on ourselves

or in our lives, we're in one of these areas, typically. We might have some touch points

in the other two, but usually we're primarily in one of these zones. We're either a healing

and doing growth work through healing. We're doing growth work through achievement.

We're doing growth work through transcendence. We've already talked about an episode

one, healing. And last week, we talked about achievement in this third part, one tackle

that T, transcendence. What does it mean to transcend in personal growth terms? What

do we even mean by that? So let's talk about that. Let's unpack. What do we mean by transcendence

Antonio? Okay. So this one's tricky. The reason why transcendence is so difficult is because it

puts us in a completely different frame than healing and achievement do. Healing and achievement

are focused primarily on our relationship to our ego. It's our ego that becomes traumatized

or a physical body, right? We also talked about the four different areas of growth, the physical

area, the spiritual area, the psychological and the emotional arenas. And let's just pretend

that the physical body is also associated with ego, which is that that's what our ego is trying

to keep alive is our physical body. Healing work is addressing wounds, traumas. We are, we're sick

in some form or we're hurt in some way. And that needs to be addressed and we need to get brought

up to a baseline of of health. Achievement is taking our self taking where we're at to the next

level. It's getting out of our comfort zone. It's stretching. It's becoming more sophisticated

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