The Personal Development Experiment
About Alex Wu
If I had to write my own obituary, it would read as follows:
Alex Wu spent most of his life in total confusion as to who he was and what he was here for. He picked up new skills and activities quickly, but often lost interest even faster. He found it difficult to relate to most people - in school, he was often made fun of by the other kids, who found his strange mix of nerdiness, awkwardness, sensitivity and excitable temper to be an ideal target.
Alex loved to fly. He loved to take things in big, broad sweeps, at a breakneck pace, with dead-on accuracy. Flying was Alex's style of doing things. But he found it hard to find places to fly. He just couldn't find many things that were meaningful enough to him to prop out his wings and take off. When Alex didn't fly, he just wasn't living up to his potential. He felt like he had something great bottled up of him, some great force with the capability to do great things for the world, but it just couldn't get out. He lost self-esteem, thinking that the world was just stacked against him. At one point, he even tried to commit suicide
But one day, soon after Alex turned 20 years old in the fall of 2005, he stumbled across a few articles on Steve Pavlina's Personal Development website (see Resources section below). And as he kept reading Steve Pavlina's site, he found it struck a sonorous chord within him. The more he read, the more he realized how much potential was inside of him, but more importantly, that if he started working on himself, on his own personal development, then one day, he will do something great for the world - he will fly. In July 2006, he started his own website - www.wuconomist.com, to share his experiences of personal development and raising his consciousness with as many people as the internet can reach. In Alex's mind, the world is one giant network of interconnected individuals, and if each and every one of those individuals worked consciously to improve themselves as people, to rise to higher levels of consciousness and awareness, the world would improve as a whole by an amount equal to the average individual improvement... raised to the 6.5 billionth power.