Here another big post.
Summarized:
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,being healthy, eating food, and sleeping, and other basic body regulatory stuff, being creative is the key to life and happiness. That's why Steve himself is such a happy guy... look at all he's created.
Quote:
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…  ) |
Well, I'm in all three simultaneously. That's the way its always going to be, and how I want it to be.
From 1:
I am "designing and creating your life". I do this at least an hour a day.
If you are a slave to someone else then you can't (school, job, or 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 ****)
"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). 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), until I escape those. Spend the rest of that time having fun. Each day those numbers are going to be slightly different on what I feel like for the day. There's my plan for the next 100 years.
Be creative and figure that out how to be creative.
Here's how to learn how to be creative: (perhaps only .5~5% of people know how)
(I'm being creative by typing out how to be creative, here is a good example)
open up note pad and type "how can I be creative" 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 what you've written and then ask more questions from those, I.E. you become "inspired" by what yourself 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?
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. Why?
Because i don't know what conciousness is.
Why don't I know what consciousness is?
-I guess i could look up the answer in the dictionary.
-because no one else knows - how come noone else knows? 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... bla....
When you've overwhelmed yourself, go back, read it, or call it a day and let your mind rest.
The next day, you'll make new insights based on those low order IRs.
The questions open your attention for your subconcious mind to start chugging away. You give buds to the ends of your hierarchy.
Doing Q&A's does multiple things:
1: taking action... you are coming up with the answers
2: making rough plans, because you are asking yourself how to be able to answer your own questions
3: having fun... you are exploring want you want, 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 your own boss directing yourself
5: you become a leader in that area that you've chosen to figure out, because you understand that knowlege that you created better than anyone else
6: you remove fear of whatever you are figuring out, because fear is a just the fear of the unknown, and that by asking questions you force yourself to remove those fears
7: Creates motivation to answer your own questions. you have a created a rough plan. you know the reasons that you are working to answer your questions.
8: Avoids procrastination. It's easy to ask yourself questions. It is caused by analysis of paralysis due to fear. And being creative means no fear.
PROOF this works? I had no clue what I was going to write all this before I wrote it, only a general feeling.
[For example, this example did not exists, until I wrote down the sentences before this one, and the sentence after this one, then I read those, and applied the IR of the last sentence to the IR of the next sentence and had inspiration. That inspiration came in about 2 seconds, I did not use any concious effort besides reading those sentences, good thing I don't have to worry about how to do inspiration because DNA has programmed by brain to automatically do "inspiration" for me. In other words create new higher order IRs when it comes across lower order IRs. So basically you just read what you wrote and let your subconcious mind do its thing. If creativity (i.e. creating new IRs) were not automatic then how would a baby know how to learn language? ] My GOAL, IRs that I wanted to build, was to show how being creative basically solves everything. I was creative by answering other questions, and I kept on look at what I just previously wrote for my brain to do its inspiration thing for me.
From 2:
The "future is uncertain…" and nothing will ever stop that. There are degrees of certainty. You could spend 12 hours planning out the next day down to the second to make it very certain... and then it comes down to analysis/paralysis.
(Giving yourself a deadline motivates you with fear of the consequences of not finishing a task on time... so the fight or flight reaction kicks in so 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 (will explain later), 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's method on 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 (having fun) because DNA mandates that or we get sad and lonely. Being creative wears down your brain circuits so you have to rest, and there's no better way to recharge than having fun.
If you do things right, you are in all three categories. Though you never need to be "tense and stressed". If you are being creative and focused on one high level goal, then you don't have to go through the transitions that cause stress.