The Greatest Expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding, for the real voyage of discovery consists not in discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

The Greatest Expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding, for the real voyage consists not in discovering new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Daniel Comp and William H. Murray for SCOTOMAVILLE Men

 

The Pandemic has tested everyone in some way. Many, like us, have lost loved ones, business stability, and personal opportunities. Veterans, first responders, police, entrepreneurs, parents, and patriots are fighting to retain freedom, liberty, and personal responsibility.

Our biology hasn't evolved to cope with the rapidly accelerating changes confronting us. We fail to understand the chaos around us because we haven't learned much about the flaws in our thinking or the subtleties of living well with the physical body or life circumstances we were gifted.

Most people still believe that 'Know Thyself' is a luxury. Wrong. It's become a full-out competition. Storytelling is either a superpower or Kryptonite - depending on its aim. It turns out that storytelling with modern tools makes a huge difference in summiting our Personal Everest - of making sense of chaos and overcoming challenges.

SCOTOMAVILLE starts with practical examples of blind-spots and cognitive biases, and ends 30 video episodes with a convincing challenge that we can chose to change our life experiences by gaming our own handicaps. We can strengthen our independence, rather than yielding to dependency. We can each challenge our shortcomings and change our false beliefs by taking on a Personal Everest - a journey with a purpose - literally an Expedition of personal development.

"The Greatest Expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding, for the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes." I challenge you to take up the adventure of getting out of Scotomaville."

Scotomaville Expedition of Volume 2

The Scotomaville program is especially suited for self-motivated personal development candidates, including:

  • Curious Explorers
  • Ambitious Entrepreneurs
  • Functional Aspergians
  • Military Veterans
  • Veteran Service Providers
  • Wounded Warriors
  • Christian Storytellers
  • Noble Fathers
  • Fatherless Champions

Well Said by William H. Murray

"... but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."

 

Challenge Your Personal Everest

The Greatest Expedition you'll ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding. I invite you on that journey!

 

Success is a journey, not a destination.
Ben Sweetland

 




 

more EXPEDITION

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in SCOTOMAVILLE ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...

Initium PRIME 409 SCOTOMAVILLE Disruptive Insight
Transform sudden challenges and unexpected shocks into profound growth opportunities through deliberate reframing and collaborative reflection. Disruptive Insight serves as a powerful wildcard practice in SCOTOMAVILLE AI self mastery. This appro...

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving SCOTOMAVILLE. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in SCOTOMAVILLE, and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...

Initium PRIME 379 SCOTOMAVILLE Tree of Thought ToT
Tree of Thoughts is a reasoning approach that creates multiple paths of thinking at once. People use it to solve hard problems by exploring different options, checking which ones work best, and dropping the ones that do not help. Imagine you face a b...

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across SCOTOMAVILLE for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...

Initium PRIME 499 SCOTOMAVILLE Literacy Liberation
Literacy Liberation teaches that real freedom starts with learning the right words and ideas to understand your own mind and life challenges. It is about moving beyond feeling stuck or confused by gaining intellectual and emotional tools that help yo...

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...

Initium PRIME 047 SCOTOMAVILLE Iterative Refinement
Iterative Refinement is a collaborative dance between you and your AI Sherpa, partners in the slow, deliberate ascent up an icy boilerplate glacier face—that sheer, hardened, glass-slick vertical wall at a glacier’s lowest edge, a stark emblem for th...

SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 SCOTOMAVILLE Setbacks
Following 6 months of waiting, Daniel and Angelina acquire and move into their 5 year goal - a 30' Airstream Globetrotter. This episode is the first of six episodes catching you up with all that has transpired over the half-year of their personal Eve...

Initium PRIME 457 SCOTOMAVILLE Latent Space Analysis
Have you ever rushed to an answer or decision, only to later realize you missed something important? Latent Space Analysis (LSA) is a simple yet profound tool that invites you to pause deliberately, creating space for hidden connections and deeper un...

Initium PRIME 479 SCOTOMAVILLE Impartation Methodology
Have you ever wondered how the hardest lessons you have learned could truly help someone else - without getting watered down or forced on them? That is what impartation methodology is all about. It is not just teaching facts or giving advice. It is g...

Initium PRIME 251 SCOTOMAVILLE Self Mastery Rotations
Rotation is a single-thread_tool that treats every recurring loop in life—conversations that circle, triggers that fire again, apparent setbacks that look exactly like the last one—as deliberate, providential acclimatization rotations on the ascent. ...

Initium PRIME 157 SCOTOMAVILLE WIDWID
WIDWID, or "Why I Do What I Do," serves as a foundational reflective strategy in the Initium framework, positioned at the First Threshold of the monomyth journey. Explorers learn that actions often stem from emotional triggers or habits rather than i...

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...

SCOTOMAVILLE Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...

01.07 Changing False Beliefs in SCOTOMAVILLE
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...

SCOTOMAVILLE 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...

Initium PRIME 181 SCOTOMAVILLE Personal Everest
The Scotomaville taxonomy structures personal development through the Personal Everest strategy, which conceptualizes ambitious goals as mountaineering challenges during the First Threshold of the monomyth. This framework originates from Joseph Campb...

Initium PRIME 307 SCOTOMAVILLE Fixed Rope
Imagine you are on a big mountain climb, and the path gets really steep and scary. That's when a fixed rope comes in handy. It's like a strong line tied to the rock that helps you stay safe as you go up or down. In our topic today, the fixed rope is ...

SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for SCOTOMAVILLE
Living full-time in a 30' Airstream Globetrotter has great leverage sometimes called PURCHASE. The advantage is that you are faced with challenges that trigger emotions, amygdala hijackings, squalls, eruptions, and the sort of melt-downs that one sho...