The Surrender Experiment

Hey,

Before I do anything else, thank you for being here.

This is the first edition of Moments of Growth. I will be fully transparent here. Although I’m mostly an introvert, I like the idea of building in public and letting life flow. 

I got the idea of letting life flow from a guy who built a $5 billion business by not getting in the way of life.

The Surrender Principle

In his book, The Surrender Experiment, Michael Singer lets life shape him.

His principle of surrender is about letting go of the need to control life and trusting that the universe knows what it’s doing.

He argues life did perfectly fine without our personal support for billions of years—so it’s pretty bold of us to think we know better than life itself about how things should unfold.

This doesn’t mean you should stop trying or give up your free will. It means you should allow life to take its course. It means one should recognise when life presents you with an opportunity, even if it’s not something you want, and let it take its course.

So in trusting life, you allow these experiences to shape you in unexpected ways.

I think you got the idea, so I’ll stop, as this is not a book review newsletter.(or is it, Life?)

Unlike Michael from above, I’ve always been trying to control life. Looking back I realise how wrong that is.

We often see this happen. Some people work hard to achieve things. They try to control every aspect of every minute. Then there are other people for whom things just seem to happen.

So I am done trying to control life. Time to let it flow.

With that in mind, there are 16 of us here.

I expected the number to be lower. And if you think that’s low—imagine yourself speaking to 16 people.

This newsletter does not have a logo yet, so that will be the first thing we get to vote on.

I like a tree logo. I see the branches as growth and the roots as knowledge, one nurturing the other.

Talk Friday,

George

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