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The Ladder of Career
If you’re following the modern career path, this 14-step process will help you:
- identify where you truly stand,
- uncover the real cause of burnout or depression, and
- take a crucial step toward overcoming the hidden architect and director of your unresolved—and likely misunderstood—dilemmas created by this path.
1. Into the world of adults!
In a shadow-driven society, every person who transitions into adulthood faces a fundamental question:
- How do I navigate the world of adults?
- What strategy should I choose?
At first, survival is the goal. Then, the focus shifts to success, and eventually, to flourishing.
People who are part of the world of material career live in an ancient bondage they don’t see, understand, nor can do anything about.
2. Living Heroes
What makes a career so alluring?
A young person naturally seeks a role model—someone real, someone alive, a living hero. Successful professionals act as beacons of hope, inspiring admiration and desire.
Do you have one?
My professional relationships thrive, but my personal ones are a constant battlefield. Why? Learn more here.
3. The Gods of Success
Every great religion offers something valuable to believe in. The career path is no different—it promises a better life. The core belief that fuels career ambition is simple:
👉 A good career leads to a good life.
And who doesn’t want a good life?
The religion of career preaches:
- Work hard, be smart, and one day, you will rise among the successful.
The proof?
Look at their lifestyles—the cars, jets, yachts. Who needs a distant, unseen god when heaven can be reached right here on Earth?
Society labels those who reject this path as failures. The temptation is nearly irresistible.
4. The Career Climb
College is fun, but what really matters is what comes after. The early stages of a career vary, but one thing is universal: everyone wants to climb higher.
Some dive headfirst into the competitive world, fueled by ambition.
Others take a slower route. But sooner or later, everyone enters the game.
Hard work opens doors to new experiences and achievements.
5. The Career Law
All careers, whether in acting, law enforcement, politics, or science, follow a universal rule:
👉 When our career grows, we grow.
New skills, promotions, prestige, expanding social circles—every success reinforces our sense of personal progress.
Our salaries increase. Titles change. Respect from colleagues, friends, and family grows. The system works. We feel powerful. Life makes sense.
Or does it?
6. The Illusion of Fulfillment
A career provides structure, goals, and security. It allows us to plan for the future and, supposedly, grants freedom.
The logic seems airtight: A good career equals a good life.
We hear countless cautionary tales of aimless drifters and unemployed struggles.
In contrast, a solid career appears to be the ultimate safeguard against uncertainty.
But is it?
7. The First Cracks Appear
No path is without obstacles. Careers bring stress, difficult colleagues, burnout, and fatigue. But this is life, right?
Everyone faces hardships. Bills need to be paid. Kids need schooling.
A mature person accepts the struggles and moves forward.
Yet, for some reason, something begins to feel off.
At this stage, your shadow will provide all sorts of strategies, rationalizations, to ensure that you continue on your path to success and also your measure of burnout and/or depression.
8. When the Law of Career Fails
At some point, the invisible link between external success and personal fulfillment breaks. The fundamental promise of a career—that success leads to happiness—stops working.
Beyond a certain threshold, higher earnings, more promotions, and greater recognition no longer bring deeper satisfaction. In fact, it often gets worse.
- Do you feel that something is missing?
- Have you reached this stage?
IIf you have, you might start thinking about changing something in your life.
- Are you considering changing your job or career?
Pay attention—these thoughts come from your shadow! Positive change can be beneficial, but it will never address the root cause of all your problems—the shadow itself. In this sense, the urge for change is the shadow’s clever trick, designed to divert attention from the hidden architect of human suffering.
9. The Descent Begins
This process is slow, almost invisible at first.
- You feel more tired.
- The drive that once fueled your ambition starts fading.
- Negative thoughts creep in.
- Conflicts at work increase.
- Cynicism sets in.
- Your life energy begins to drain.
Can you see the Begins
10. Trapped by the Shadow
Why do so many start their careers with excitement and hope, only to hit their forties feeling empty?
Why do professionals who once thrived now seek escape in alcohol, sex, or workaholism?
Why do so many end up bored, burned out, or even depressed?
The tragic irony?
👉 The very career that promised fulfillment becomes a prison.
How is it that a career that offers so much becomes a deadly trap?
Are you at this stage already?
Watch out, because your shadow will now try to ‘help’ you.
11. The Shadow’s Solutions to the Shadow’s Manufactured Problems
Once the suffering begins to be unbearable, shadow-driven society rushes in with solutions—but all of them are traps.
- Burnout? Take a vacation.
- Depression? Try therapy.
- Feeling lost? Change jobs, careers or even cities.
What’s wrong with these solutions?
These human rational, shadow-driven solutions offer temporary relief, but never solve the real problem. The shadow, the true architect of human suffering, is left untouched. Therefore, these solutions are nothing more than illusions.
Some seek personal development courses, coaching, or even spirituality, but most of these approaches focus on fixing the symptoms, not eliminating the root cause.
The truth is, you cannot heal the symptoms while leaving the shadow intact. Until the shadow is confronted, it will find new ways to reassert its control over your life.
12. Confronting the shadow
Confronting the evil shadow on human terms is the ultimate illusion of the shadow!
You don’t need to grasp this fully now.
13. Our human inheritance
The Second Part of Life
This is the sacred window to reclaim what was stolen from us.
Miss it? You exit empty-handed—another nameless beast in history’s slaughterhouse.
“20 Those who have wealth but lack understanding
are like the beasts that perish.”
—PSALM 49l
A CAREER IS JUST THE FIRST STEP
Your job? Mere training grounds.
The true mission begins when you claim what was stolen—
your divine inheritance.
This isn’t about promotions.
This is about sovereignty.
Everything—your true power, your joy, your destiny—
hangs on this single, earth-shaking leap.
There’s no real choice: either your shadow wins—the default for most—or you do.
14. Action
To move beyond the shadow-manufactured reality, solutions, and limitations is neither obvious nor easy! In fact, it is a great privilege—governed by rules, principles, and laws. However, these are not intellectual but intuitive—and they always work.
Try our Identity Game and get a feel for what we mean.
About Mental Detox
Nothing beats a real-life meeting—because this work requires genuine human interaction. If you’re destined to claim your lost destiny, the seeds of that calling are already embedded in your childhood experiences, dreams, and ideals. They must be studied and properly understood. Mental Detox can help.
Remember: you are your greatest enemy—your shadow—so you must act from the level of your heart, not your mind. Can you do that?
How to join Mental Detox?
You need to follow the pattern of the Identity Game. Once you pass the Faith Test, include your desire to join Mental Detox in your communication—and we’ll start from there.
