About this Personal Insight Mastery Environment

Thanks for visiting my insight mastery author environment. It is much more than a web site. It is my personal “Insight” Mastery Author Platform that explores nearly 4,000 years of human insight development history. For starters, let me repeat that this is not a traditional web site environment. It is an “Intelligence Environment”. I designed, developed, and produced this insight focused Author Environment to enrich my own thinking about the scope, depth, substance, history, evolution, and the ultimate potential of a person to master his or her own personal experience. - Ray Newkirk

Over the last few decades, an impressive number of books and articles have emerged that present a wide range of “opinions” and thoughtful considerations about the nature and practice of human life as a very personal, and sometimes professional, goal directed, endeavor of human activity. I have grounded some of this soft-skills thinking in personal experience, deep insight, and thoughtful argument. Also, I have grounded some of this thinking about soft-skills mastery in probably an opinionated best guess kind of thought. Beyond these more common paths of pseudo-reasoning about the nature and scope of human development, some current thinking about the importance of soft-skills mastery has become downright mystical bordering on a special kind of spiritual conceptualizations about the nature of human life as “transformative path to personhood".

Ouch! Simply thinking about this makes my head itch. All of this intellectual and soft-skills development personal stew may be interesting, but it does not address the essence of personal insight as it has continually emerged in human experience throughout the unfolding of our history on Planet Earth. So much of the thinking about personal development has indeed become so contradictory that it is anything but boring; but it can make your head spin a bit, even without a Martini at dinner time. It is time to get real about one’s own very personal soft-skills development. Don’t you think? Let us go wider, deeper, and wider again. Let’s go back to where we began, that is, our approach to human development from the dawn of History. Let’s begin our contemplation of our own histories by returning to that time which most likely experienced the dawn of our own self-development histories. Historical Human Development, the Ancient time when psychological science actually emerged out of a dire human necessity for survival.

I am what I refer to as a “Paleo-Relationship Formation™” Specialist, a simple thinker who recognizes UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery as the substance and goal of authentic inter-personal action. You will not find much about this field anywhere else because I created it only a few years back when examining my own personal insight about the nature of human life. Since I really wanted to make sense of soft-skills development and understand it at a deeper level than normally presented in book stores and universities, business presentations and speeches, I had little choice but to go back, way, way back, to the very beginning when some person first thought about their own personal development, and the self-development of leaders, followers, and their results in an organized, disciplined, and consistent kind of way. Following this, I then worked my way forward to the present Age of Soft-Skills Thinking. It was quite a journey. In alphabetical order, it was an amazing, encouraging, frightening, fun, historical, insightful, interesting, life changing, rational, reasonable, scary, shocking, sincere, surprising, unexpected, youthful, and zigzag kind of adventure. But fun, sometimes! The insight business can be quite fun, sometimes.

Through this adventure, I have become the father of a new discipline, “Paleo-Self-Development™”. Imagine that! It is actually a very interesting endeavor and worth the effort. My approach here is simple. I refer to it as UlThule™ Insight Mastery. It is all about performance beyond Peak Performance. Imagine, performance beyond “Peak Performance.”. My web environment here is all about Paleo-Self-Development and UlThule™ Soft-Skills Mastery. It consists of ideas emerging at the crossroads of Philosophy, Theology, Psychology, Sociology, Politics, Behavioral Science, History, Management, Military Science, Spirituality, Religion, Cosmology, and a few more. I kid you not. This site is about insights gained living a human life with depth and expanse.

Attain personal insight is really about how all of these conceptual realities come together to influence, inform, and guide a brand of human thinking and behavior that generates the emergence of what people commonly refer to as Soft-Skills Development and what I refer to as Paleo-Soft-Skills Development, and insight fueled activity. So, enjoy this web environment. It is fun to visit. You will rapidly see that this environment is much more than the simple sites all of us encounter every day. The content presented here is enough to form several books. Enjoy this environment. Become smarter, and for your teams of followers, become a UlThule™ soft-skills development specialist. - Ray Newkirk

“Every day is beautiful when we connect our minds with our hearts and contemplate the love we have experienced with those who come into our lives.”

—Ray Newkirk