The 16-Week Course · 4 Credit Hours · Spring 2026

Your personaloperating system.

Eight interconnected disciplines explored over four units — each building progressively on the last to construct a unified, lifelong framework for purposeful living.

16
Weeks
8
Disciplines
64
Hours / unit
4
hrs / week
ILG
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Course Introduction

Professor Hanna introduces The Intelligent Life Guide in his own voice.

Unit 01 · Weeks 1–4 · 64 hours

Foundations of the Mind

The base layer: governing your own mind and learning to serve before you lead.

01

Stoicism

The dichotomy of control, reaction versus response, and building an inner citadel circumstances can't breach.

02

Servant Leadership

The Greenleaf model — leading through service, building trust, and orienting everything around exceeding the expectation.

Unit 02 · Weeks 5–8 · 64 hours

Inner Mastery

Training attention and regulating the nervous system so steadiness becomes your default.

03

Mindfulness

Present-moment awareness, neuroplasticity, and MBSR as a daily practice — not an occasional escape.

04

Leadership

Adaptive influence, emotional courage, vision-casting, and the presence that changes rooms.

05

Polyvagal Theory

Reading your own nervous system — recognizing sympathetic overdrive and finding the way back to safety.

Unit 03 · Weeks 9–12 · 64 hours

Emotional & Entrepreneurial Intelligence

Turning inner steadiness outward — into ventures, relationships, and influence.

06

Entrepreneurship

Purpose-driven ventures, intelligent risk, Stoic resilience in business, and the first 365 days.

07

Emotional Intelligence

Self-awareness, empathy, regulation, and social mastery — the four pillars of EI in practice.

Unit 04 · Weeks 13–16 · 64 hours

Behavioral Transformation

Rewiring habits for good — and integrating all four units into one durable practice.

08

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Evidence-based tools for identifying, challenging, and reshaping the thoughts that drive behavior.

09

Intentional Living & the Alcohol-Free Advantage

Designing a values-aligned life — including the science-backed 90% alcohol-free lifestyle.

Capstone

Integrate every discipline into a single, coherent, personal operating system you keep for life.

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