🎙️ The Alexander Technique with Michael Ashcroft

David speaks with Michael Ashcroft, a writer and Alexander Technique teacher who previously spent 10 years consulting on clean energy innovation. A lot of Michael's work centres around helping people expand their awareness. He's written several essays and posts I've loved, particularly about the concept of grinding, and how paying attention to our awareness can help us maximise our creativity, productivity, posture and physical engagement. They talked about: 💡 Decision-making in challenging situations 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 How to make big life decisions 🤔 The Alexander Technique explained 🌟 Knowing and accepting life's possibilities 🧠 Attention, expanded awareness, and non-fixation 🌌 Expanded awareness vs. traditional meditation 👤 Connect with Michael Ashcroft: Twitter: @m_ashcroft |   / m_ashcroft   Course: Alexander Technique | https://expandingawareness.org/courses/ Website: Expanding Awareness | https://expandingawareness.org/ 📜 Full transcript: https://www.theknowledge.io/michaelas... 📄 Show notes: 0:00 | Intro 03:06 | Decision-making in challenging situations 06:11 | How to make big life decisions 11:19 | The Alexander Technique explained 19:54 | Knowing and accepting life's possibilities 25:11 | Attention, expanded awareness, and non-fixation 34:39 | Expanded awareness vs. traditional meditation 🗣 Mentioned in the show: Jonny Miller | https://www.theknowledge.io/jonnymiller/ Frederick Matthias Alexander | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Matt... Richard Wiseman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard... The Luck Factor | https://amzn.to/3PpX1Qe Six degrees of separation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_deg... Dzogchen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen Hooked | https://amzn.to/3PtSU5w Nir Eyal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Eyal Sam Harris | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris 👨🏾‍💻 About David Elikwu: David Elikwu FRSA is a serial entrepreneur, strategist, and writer. David is the founder of The Knowledge, a platform helping people think deeper and work smarter. 🐣 Twitter: @Delikwu / @itstheknowledge 🌐 Website: https://www.davidelikwu.com 📽️ Youtube:    / davidelikwu   📸 Instagram:   / delikwu   🕺 TikTok:   / delikwu   🎙️ Podcast: http://plnk.to/theknowledge 📖 EBook: https://delikwu.gumroad.com/l/manual My Online Course 🖥️ Career Hyperdrive: https://maven.com/theknowledge/career... Career Hyperdrive is a live, cohort-based course that helps people find their competitive advantage, gain clarity around their goals and build a future-proof set of mental frameworks so they can live an extraordinary life doing work they love. The Knowledge 📩 Newsletter: https://theknowledge.io The Knowledge is a weekly newsletter for people who want to get more out of life. It's full of insights from psychology, philosophy, productivity, and business, all designed to help you think deeper and work smarter. My Favorite Tools 🎞️ Descript: https://bit.ly/descript-de 📨 Convertkit: https://bit.ly/convertkit-de 🔰 NordVPN: https://bit.ly/nordvpn-de 💹 Nutmeg: http://bit.ly/nutmegde 🎧 Audible: https://bit.ly/audiblede