So I've written another huge post.
I summarize it here:
1.) I'm in all 3 categories at once, and it should be that way
2.) I explain how to be creative, and explain that that's the thing that everyone is missing about Personal Development, and is in fact the key to personal development, and well the purpose life which is to be creative and create
3.) being creative ties together planning, action, and learning into the same time, and solves the paradox and mystery of "LEARNING BUT NOT DOING".
I.E. if you are not in the process of being creative, creating something new, then you are always LEARNING BUT NOT DOING
4.) So basically, other than having sex, eating food, and sleeping, being creative is the key to life and happiness. That's why Steve's himself is such a creative guy... look at all he's created.
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Originally Posted by Shamou  Are you in a Growth… Survival… or Floating Mode…???
Let me define, for the purpose of this thread, what each of these modes implies…
1. Growth… you are designing and creating your life… you have goals and objectives that are supported by a set of plans and strategies of action… you are determined… and you are holding the world by the tail… (If you are in this category… please share your secrets of success with us…)
2. Survival… life is a struggle… the future is uncertain… you hope that nothing will go wrong and that your finances will hold… you are tense and stressed… the best that you can do is to keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best… (If you are in this category… stay with this forum… you will learn things that will help you… and if you have any question… do not hesitate to ask…)
3. Floating… things are pretty good… you don’t have much ambition… or you are still searching for your place in life… your main preoccupation is to do as little as possible… and have as much fun as possible… (If you are in this category… get a life…  )
We want to hear from you… so please share…
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Well, I'm in all three simultaneously. And that's the way its always going to be, and how I want it to be. And it would totally suck if they were all exclusive.
From 1:
I am "designing and creating your life". I do this every day. I spend at least an hour doing this.
What will keep you from doing this is if you are a slave to someone else... i.e. are going to school or have a job, or being a slave to the commercial corporations of the world by becoming a mindless zombie swallowing TV commercials to go out and buy more of their ************.
What's the difference between planning and action? actually barely anything. we should actually define discretely what the difference between taking action and planning is.
"objectives that are supported by a set of plans and strategies of action…"
Here is my plan to make a billion dollars:
Spend 4 hours a day being creative (coming up with my own knowlege, using other people's knowlege as a base) and thinking about how to do this. And spending an hour planning the next day. And then 2 hours for doing the stuff that society/nature has mandated me to do in my current situation (i.e. school work, job, taxes, getting food) And then spend the rest of that time having fun. And then each day those numbers are going to be slightly different based on what I feel like for the day. There's my plan for the next 100 years.
I'll write a nice article on how to be creative, or even better, be creative and figure that out yourself!!!
Here's how to learn how to be creative:
(I'm being creative by typing out how to be creative... so here a good example...)
open up note pad and type "how can I be creative"... then be creative and write down whatever comes to mind, don't put in any effort into what comes out, its all going to be crap at first, but just keep going, your brain has a built in algorithm by DNA of making that stuff that comes out more clear if you go back and read why you've written and then ask more questions from those, I.E. you become "inspired" by what your self has just written down....
if you have more questions to yourself about how to be creative then ask even more questions. FOR EXAMPLE:
what is the definition of being creative?
why in the hell does it matter that I am creative?
how is it that i can explain even better to people about how to be creative?
how would i be able to express the fact that
being creative is the missing thing that anyone who does not yet get personal development yet and that creativity runs the world and that is what will drive the ultimate convergence of conciousness, and that conciousness is just a fight against the second law of thermodynamics, and that the very name of being creative means to create something that is not there yet, and that is what society values and pays the most for, and that new things are what people want, and that someone has to come up with the new thing, and that if you don't create the new thing yourself then the person who does create the new thing is the one who is going to get the money, so that you'd better learn how to be creative by being creative and figuring that out yourself or you'll be left out, and that creativity is not hard to do, you just do it by asking yourself questions and then those questions lead to more questions and ect.ect....???
And then if you get stuck with a question that you've asked yourself, like :"What is the nature of conciousness and how does the brain do it???"
Then just write:
I don't know.
How come I don't know?
Because i don't even know what conciousness is.
How come I dont know what consciousness is??
-I guess i could look up the answer in the dictionary.
-because no one else knows - how come noone else know? because no one has cared to think about it yet...
-because god does not what us to know.
Then just randomly pick out one of your answers and and say
"-because god does not what us to know."
How come god does not want us to know?
because its... balbalbalblabalbalbalbla....
And that the process of writing questions and answers is that you are doing multiple things simultaneously:
1: you are taking action... you are coming up with the answers
2: you are making rough plans, because you are asking yourself how to be able to answer your own questions
3: you are having fun... you are exploring the things that you want to explore, because you are the one who is asking the questions, not some stupid homework, or your boss, and your brain creates pleasure for figuring stuff out (like light bulb, chess, video games)
4: you are being your own boss because you are directing yourself
5: you are becoming a leader in that area that you chosen to figure out, because you now have knowlege that no one else has, unless you care to share it with other people.
6: you are removing fear of whatever you are figuring out, because fear is a just the fear of the unknown, and that by asking questions you are forcing yourself to face those fears
7: you have created motivation in yourself to answer your own questions, i.e., to follow the rough plans that you have, because now you have a created a rough plan, and you know the reasons that you are working (therefore motivation), because you are trying to answer your own questions.
And then once you have overwhelmed yourself, then go back and just read it, then start all over asking and answering those questions... the questions open up your subconcious mind to figuring out the answers. PROOF that this works?? I had no clue that I knew any of this before I wrote it, just going back and reading my own writing made me think of all these things.
From 2:
The "future is uncertain…" and nothing will ever stop that. But there is a degree of uncertainty. You could spend 12 hours planning out the next day down to the second... and so that day would be very certain, but then that first day would be wasted... and comes down to my discussion of analysis paralysis.
(Giving yourself a deadline motivates you with fear of what would happen if you did not get done with that task on time... so the fight or flight reaction kicks in so that you are either flying stressed out to get your plan done, or that you see your big plan for that day and getting paralyzed and not wanting to do it... And as I thought about before, motivation by fear is an evil thing... have to think about that one some more...., so basically its kinda a bad thing to think that you have to have something done by some arbitrary deadline, and I guess that makes Steve method or working on something until its done even more effective (as explained in Do it Now))
OR the first day is not actually wasted by spending 12 hours planning? Why??? Because with planning you first have to figure out what you are trying to plan. You have to go out and read books, or even better you have to think about things yourself and create your own knowlege. So in fact, even though siting down and planning may seem like inaction, it is in fact action.... though as I explained here , everything you do is inaction unless you can convince yourself how your planning is help.
From 3:
"things are pretty good… ". If you are being creative then you are happy, and having fun. And you must take time to be social with people (i.e. having fun) because DNA has built into us that we need to be social. And also, being creative wears down your brain circuits so you have to rest, and there's no better way to recharge then having fun.
SO if you are doing things right, then you are in all three categories... though you never need to be "tense and stressed". If you are being creative and focusing your drive on one thing, then you are not going to be stressed.