Andy62
10-30-2008, 01:08 PM
Last night while I was watching TV I pulled out my old copy of "The Survivor Personality." It is heavily underlined and with a lot on notes in the margins. It brought back a lot of memories and I realized that I have already been through the circumstances that the whole world is now facing only on a limited geographic scale. Those were the years of 10% unemployment, 20% + interest rates, and the beginning of terrorist attacks [ The US Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran]. I was employed in the Commercial Real Estate Finance and Investment Industry and it was in chaos. At the time I was working for a Savings And Loan Association where I had been hired, prior to the crisis, to adapt them to professional Commerical Real Estate Finance Standards And Procedures. Previously I had been a District President Of BankAmerica Mortgage And International Realty Corporation and had headed the startup of one of their districts. The Chief Appraiser of the 12th Federal Home Loan Bank Board District, realizing my backgound, asked me to be on his team to travel around to various cities and put on seminars and training sessions to help transform the Savings And Loan Industry to a new reality in the changed world that they were facing as they became deregulated.
As we were going through the changes the challenge became evident. The Mortage Banking environment that I had come from was a very aggressive, in your face, competitive, and sometimes ruthless environment. By contrast Savings and Loans up to that point were a very structured, regulated, and protected industry. Different environments attract different personality types. Many of the people in the industry were very intelligent, responsible, and hard working people,but they tended to be "passive-nonaggressive personality types." It soon occurred to me that the greatest challenge would not be imparting technical knowledge,but changing lambs into tigers. One individual drew the analogy of taking a declawed lap cats amd putting them out in the alley with the strong, aggressive, cats that had been surviving and evolving. Many of these people would be throwing fresh meat to the more aggressive personality types and unfortunately and inevitably many of them would up that way. Destiny is an interesting thing because at that time when I needed them; I was first exposed to "The Survivor Personality Seminar" and DVR/VRT training. I credit the combination of the two events with allowing me to succeed in an enviroment that was devastating to many people. As people tried to adapt to a totally different and more aggressive environment there was a lot of human tragedy-alcoholism ,nervous breakdowns, divorces, legal suits, fraud, and even suicides. Most people are not trained to live in such an environement as Dr. Siebert points out in one chapter of his book titled " The Good Child Handicap."
Some made it,but a lot didn't and many of those who survived withdrew into passive disfunctional lives.
Many people all over the world are going to face similar situations. When I first came across the teachings of Alois P. Swoboda in his Conscious Evolution Course I identified with it immediately and later realized that Swoboda had been teaching the same principles that were included in "The Survivor Personality" only he was 100 years earlier.
If you combine the princiiples taught in "The Survivor Personaity" with DVR/VRT, Isometrics, and Isometric Power Flexing you really have the ultimate combination to help you survive and thrive in the coming environment and you like me may find you are entering a more exciting and fulfilling life style. Go get 'em tiger!
As we were going through the changes the challenge became evident. The Mortage Banking environment that I had come from was a very aggressive, in your face, competitive, and sometimes ruthless environment. By contrast Savings and Loans up to that point were a very structured, regulated, and protected industry. Different environments attract different personality types. Many of the people in the industry were very intelligent, responsible, and hard working people,but they tended to be "passive-nonaggressive personality types." It soon occurred to me that the greatest challenge would not be imparting technical knowledge,but changing lambs into tigers. One individual drew the analogy of taking a declawed lap cats amd putting them out in the alley with the strong, aggressive, cats that had been surviving and evolving. Many of these people would be throwing fresh meat to the more aggressive personality types and unfortunately and inevitably many of them would up that way. Destiny is an interesting thing because at that time when I needed them; I was first exposed to "The Survivor Personality Seminar" and DVR/VRT training. I credit the combination of the two events with allowing me to succeed in an enviroment that was devastating to many people. As people tried to adapt to a totally different and more aggressive environment there was a lot of human tragedy-alcoholism ,nervous breakdowns, divorces, legal suits, fraud, and even suicides. Most people are not trained to live in such an environement as Dr. Siebert points out in one chapter of his book titled " The Good Child Handicap."
Some made it,but a lot didn't and many of those who survived withdrew into passive disfunctional lives.
Many people all over the world are going to face similar situations. When I first came across the teachings of Alois P. Swoboda in his Conscious Evolution Course I identified with it immediately and later realized that Swoboda had been teaching the same principles that were included in "The Survivor Personality" only he was 100 years earlier.
If you combine the princiiples taught in "The Survivor Personaity" with DVR/VRT, Isometrics, and Isometric Power Flexing you really have the ultimate combination to help you survive and thrive in the coming environment and you like me may find you are entering a more exciting and fulfilling life style. Go get 'em tiger!