My figure out the feelings inside my brain/body thread

[Sunnybayes]

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I read steve pavlina's timeboxing article and it makes so much sense.So i devoted yesterday 1 hr to meditation,2 hrs to reading.Although the reading part was a bit difficult i felt real good afterwards

So now everything is getting clear in my head.The reason we never start is because we have a end goal in mind which stresses us out or because we have too high expectations.I can't believe how stressfree this technique is.

Just decide whatever u want to do.How much u want to do.And decide the activity based on your liking first.Exercising may be important,but if it is not important to you do not include it right away.Just small things,not something big.Because little changes are enough.I went through the task yesterday casually because i had no goal in mind,just doodling around,sometimes day dreaming and relaxing and just passed the 2 hrs enjoying.I had nothing specific to do so i did whatever felt right at that moment.It was spontaneous.I felt good afterwards.

And this can be used for any new activity that you have been planning,perhaps learning a foreign language or biking,just make up a speciific time and enjoy.you will not feel any tension because there is now no goal.Just pure enjoyment of 1 hr.And this is right too because you automatically know how much is right for you.So whatever you decide,it must be coming from the subconscious

Just wanted to put this here so that I remember that I wanted to figure out and explain the "physics" of this technique hashed into my model... in about 3 days or so...

specifically this part "The reason we never start is because we have a end goal in mind which stresses us out or because we have too high expectations.I can't believe how stressfree this technique is." This will open a can of worms about trying to explain what procrastination really is..

[Sunnybayes]

Interesting thing that I noticed. I have the habit of that when I am feeling bad that I think in high conciousness. That is my mind tries to make everything consistent by manipulating everything at the top of my hierarchy.

Though I don't know when to stop [I was not concious of thinking about this before] so that it feels like I am grinding against nothing up there, because I have cleared out all the data, but still feel like ************ just because I am tiered. Or that I am not focusing my conciousness in the right place because all the fragments are lower down in the hierarchy.

I also noticed that when I am not feeling well and I meditate to become happy as possible, that it totally clears out the upper level mental patterns that kept me focused on the task that I wanted to do so that I end up being super happy the rest of the day, happiest guy in the world,

(even though I'm all alone just listening to music, I'll just be laughing about anything at all),

but that I am so happy, but that I don't have any subconscious patterns that keep me to working. And so that if I have not written down any reminders written down on my life outline, I'll totally just forget the mental pattern that I was running. And that since I don't fear failure normally (maybe that not why I'm not as happy as usually because I experimented with installing the fear of not getting my paper done (like I'd be shot and tortured if I didn't (and that conciously I don't actually belief this, I just laugh it off, but my subconscious does so that I have a mental pattern to default to to keep me coming back wanting to write my paper(that is until the fear makes me unhappy enough that I come back and become happy so that I feel like coming back and writing to this forum)))) then the majority of my high level behavior patterns/habits come in to play which right now, the majority are on PD, thinking about AI, and writing to this forum. And so that's why I've been writing so much to this forum because that is the path of least resistance for me, because I installed those high habit mental patterns as what I wanted to focus on about a month ago. So that the behavior of coming here to write is a subconcious pattern that attracts me.

I also wanted to share a brief thing about creativity. My inner feeling guides it. I write down whatever comes to mind. When I am trying to be creative, my mind is trying to form a brand new IR that is very "discreet" or "consistent". The way that it does this is that when you read lower order IRs over and over again, then the overarching idea, IR, begins to form on its own. That's why its important to capture whatever thought, no matter how bad it is, to a physical medium. Even if you have no clue where you are going with it. By reading all the thoughts that you've written down, then your mind automatically beings to find the overall idea to capture it. Then the light bulb goes off in your head, that's means your mind has told you that it is finished baking up the brand new IR in your mind. And so that this is when the flood of inspiration comes in that you can just write forever and ever without stopping. This is where my analogy of "formula" comes into play. Your mind has just created the new formula and so that now everything just beings to make sense, and that you can't help but to throw new "numbers" or "thoughts" onto this new IR/formula. So that the process of writing a book becomes that you have a new awesome grand IR in your mind, and then it just becomes a process of sending new unique thoughts onto it so that those thoughts pass through the new IR and then down the hierarchy to your language centers that unfold the IR into a linear sting of word, which still have a tree grammar structure to them.

Primarily for me right now, the lower order IRs that make up the higher order IR that I am sharing is the ideas from the book "On Intelligence", plus the IR that represents my knowlege about my internal state, plus external knowlege of Personal Development, plus the creative brainstorm that I've done myself on trying to figure out conciousness and intelligence, plus all the other lower Order IRs that I've written down in this thread already.

See all of this that I've created in this writing. None of it was a struggle, the higher order IRs that it represents were all there... it just became a process of choosing which parts of it to propagating down my hierarchy onto paper. And that's why I say that if you try to come up with your own answers through your own creative process then you will learn so much more... but I guess you need to have some lower order IRs to build off of... but that once you've read information and you don't feel like it is conciously in your mind, it does not matter because it is all in your subconcious mind, and that where all the creativity takes place... so that why photoreading can actually be useful.

And that is the reason that I love FreeMind because it captures your ideas in their natural form, tree structure.

And I'd have more high order IRs on what to say about how useful it is to review your own journal every week or so... so you can define your own high order IRs about your behavior..., so that you can remind yourself what knowlege that you have in your mind...

About how since everything is a tree then that's how you can create such wonderfully complex ideas, and that's why your mind can handle it all because its all just subconcious so that when your knowlege becomes burned into long term memory then your concious mind can effortlessly throw around the roots of those huge trees of knowlege...

A couple more points to dump off my mind:
That's why a cheat sheet is so effective, and that I'm glad Steve made the cheat sheet on 33 items on productivity, because each little tidbit item it like the root to a huge tree, and so that by having that cheat sheet then by reading it over and over again, you can implement Steve's own IR of behavior and make it subconscious, and that you don't have to keep reading his forum over and over again to learn his behavior.


well enough for now. time to finish my paper.

[Sunnybayes]

And another huge idea. In the computer implementation of Numenta's hierarchal temporal memory (HTM = hierarchy), it says that there is a process called Bayesian Belief propagation... to make all the beliefs in the HTM consistent with each other. I think that this is the reason that affirmations work. You are saying something to yourself that you might not believe at first, but that your mind goes through the process of "Bayesian belief propagation" so that your subconsciousness automatically figures out to arrange itself to be consistent with the belief that you've instilled in it so that then it comes up with the structures IRs, automatically to make that belief true. And so that is why the Law of Attraction works.

Well, basically this is just concentrating on a problem. This is the same as visualizing as well.

[Sunnybayes]

Had another great idea. Sometimes you need motivation to give yourself motivation. Like if you know some trick to motivation will work, but that you are not even motivated to apply that trick.

Like my little thing about overcoming procrastination by pinching yourself till you do it. Yea it works, but you still need motivation to pinch yourself in the first place. You can't just pinch yourself to motivate yourself to pinch yourself. This is why all trick methods of personal development as listed on Steve's 33 productivity tips will fail on their own if you don't tie them down by motivation to your goal hierarchy... because you wont have any reason to apply them in the first place. So that all those productivity tips will fail if you don't have a life purpose to apply/link those tips to.

However the idea of mine to do isometric to stop procrastination worked got me because I could not make myself escape from the painful mental patterns that I was having... so I was motivated to apply that motivational trick to stop the pain of procrastination that I really wanted to start on my paper but my thought patterns where so ingrained that it was painful to transition to change them as quickly as I needed to My crazy way of instantly overcoming procrastination / getting motivation to write another paper that I had to do. And also to get out of bed to go to Chinese class from an awesome night of partying. My mental patterns were so focused on being social, so that all my motivation and actions in that night were linked to/motivated by the goal of being a social [winner/butterfly/popular person??], so that going to Chinese had nothing to do with those subconcious motivators so that it was very difficult to get myself to come out of bed. I had not thought of this process of mentally tracing up my goal hierarchy to find motivation so I had to bear all the energy and pain of transitioning ( check out Pain of transitions)all those mental habits and the isometric let me do that. I just knew somehow(not defined or linked to my real goals) that I should probably go to Chinese class. Yea, its easy to look back and say, well duh... you go to Chinese class so that you can get good grades!!! Duhh!!! but still, when you are in a social situation, getting good grades is the last thing on your mind, it is not motivation for being social, so the mental patterns/subconcious habits/loaded up skills from the previous night keep you from wanting to go to class.

To get the motivation in the first place, then that is when you have to go through the long chain of motivation of linking your current action in your mind to your top most goals.... to maintain your hierarchy and keep it whole instead of fragmented. But that is a long and detailed process... so that is then when you use the motivation that you've found by tracing your goals to install your motivational trick. Gain motivation to install a quicker motivational trick. Then instead of having to go through the really long concious process of tracing goals you just use the much faster motivational shortcut.

Which brings me to why I wrote this post in the first place. I was thinking of this when I was reading the post about the fear of failure. I wanted something that would subconsciously and automatically motivate me to write my paper. I thought that fear was a pretty automatic thing, so that I was motivated to install a fear of what would happen if I did not finish my paper. I am by default fearless so that I can be happy whenever I want. [edit: well, fear is always present you come across something new, I just have a subconcious automatic habit of systematically making the fear go away]

But then I thought about just picturing a girlfriend and said that I would be able to be with her if I finished my paper. I installed a shortcut of motivation. And it helps... thought I was so happy about it that I decided to procrastinate even more by writing this post about it. Ohwell. I'll have to figure out that one next.

[Sunnybayes]

I had a fear of talking to girls on the phone. I was never good at it. Why because I never did it. Here is what I wrote in my journal to get over that fear:
why am i afraid to call her up?
she's gonnaa be like "what the hell do you want?!!! you stupid f...r!!! you stupid SOB I hate your guts!!! why in the hell are you bothering!!! leave me alone!!! god!!!"

then i realized that was not going to happen. That's the worst thing that could happen. Just by reading that I filled in some missing IRs. Therefore I've defined the sub IRs of calling her up. And then I fear that I would not know what to say. I had fear because the intention IR of calling up did not have any sub IRs. So I made an outline of the things that I wanted to say. So then I felt better and was able to call her up. Now I still had a bit of fear in me... so I did some visualizations... and then that's when you have to rely on courage to get over the last bit of fear. But then one or two phone calls and magically your fear of calling up a girl goes away.

Like any other fear... its all the same. fear of the unknown = missing IRs.

magic. And you can always get over your fear the same way.

Noticed how Steve help people to get over their fear of death by making them visualize it in a gruesome way:

While some people rely on their faith to make peace with death, I put more trust in first-hand experience.

Have you ever thought about how you’d like to die? Assuming you had a choice, how would you like to cross over? Personally I think getting riddled with bullets would be a good way to go. Really go out with a bang. I’d prefer that as opposed to dying in my sleep (which could be confusing) or succumbing to a protracted illness (too slow). I think I’d like a little adrenaline surge on the way out. When you look down and see your clothes soaked in blood and notice the intense pain everywhere, you know your time is up. It’s hard to mistake it for anything else. In that case you have the opportunity to consciously witness and embrace your moment of crossing over. If there’s a lot of pain, death becomes a welcome relief, something you actually look forward to. I imagine it would be rather exhilarating if you don’t resist it.

Makes you visualize a pretty grewsome way. And explains why its not so bad.

Always the same.

More explanation on fear:
Fear and analysis paralysis

[Sunnybayes]

This is about how to get Intellectual motivation for huge goals.

InJoy, thanks.
Actually i want nothing. It makes me feel strange and lost.
Well... I do want to find "intellectual motivation".

Also the cool thing is it that we are forced by nature to want certain things in life.

So even though you don't know what you want, nature has programmed you to want these things:

Health, wealth, relationships, intellectual curiosity.
Because these things help our DNA to spread the earth.

That was the short version.

Here's what I actually mean:
Do we all have the same goal?

So your top level goal is to help create organized conciousness.

But everyone can't do that in the same way or society would fail. Everyone has a different role in life.

This is where the 10 hours comes in, to figure out what particular way you are going to help out.

And like Steve says, you have to make it a huge, hairy and audacious goal. Because it is you top level goal. Something that you could chase for your entire life. Your reason for you doing anything.

Also, if you've read through the framework, nature has programmed us to believe in god, has programmed into us faith.

Faith is the ultimate most top level goal. Its the background goodness in you. Its the background pleasure of living. It is your driving force.

You top most level goal has to be as close to that faith as possible. Faith sits on the peak of the hierarchy. It is your brains drive that makes you always want something better. Faith is want. Consciousness sits at the top of the hierarchy, I explain why faith is god is your conciousness.

I recommend working through these kinds of blocks in your journal. Type a question like, “Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?” Then type whatever answer comes to mind. You’ll often find that the source of your block is that you’re thinking too small. You’re letting fears, excuses, and limiting beliefs hold you back. Your subconscious mind knows you’re settling, so it won’t provide any motivational fuel until you step up, face your fears, and acknowledge your heart’s desire. Once you finally decide to face your fears and drop the excuses, then you’ll find your motivation turning on full blast.

When I use this process myself, I uncover new goals that seem unreasonably big. I admit that I want them, but I feel incapable of achieving them. However, when I finally step up and set goals that lie outside my comfort zone, somehow I end up feeling very motivated, and I summon all sorts of unexpected resources to help me.

Was it unreasonable to set a web traffic goal of reaching a million monthly visitors without spending any money on marketing? I originally thought so, but I privately set that goal before I ever launched this site because it inspired me. More reasonable traffic goals had no motivational effect on me. Now that I’ve achieved that goal, my next traffic goal is to reach 10 million visitors a month. Is that unreasonable? Probably. But somehow it’s very motivating to me.

It seems counter-intuitive that motivation may be highest when setting goals that lie outside your comfort zone, but I’ve seen this pattern too many times to discount it. Perhaps we have to set big, hairy, audacious goals in order to feel truly motivated. Maybe little goals just aren’t enough to trigger the release of motivational energy. If we think a goal is too easy, we won’t commit all our internal resources. It’s only when we set unreasonable goals that all our internal resources come online, including motivation and drive.

When Steve says "If we think a goal is too easy" that means we think subconsciously that we've already created all the necessary invariant representations, so that we would not need to create more IRs. And as I say here: creating IRs that link to your main hierarchy create pleasure. So if you already have the skills, the IRs already, the you wont get pleasure. Because you only get pleasure when you create IRs that link to your hierarchy.

Also if a goal is too small, then that means you are trying to create invariant representations that are not high enough in the hierarchy. And that you have not yet linked it to your main hierarchy. And therefore is not close enough to the faith.

And now here is another crazy thing. If you have not thought about it before, then your top level goals will create fear in you. Just like Steve says here:

When you set goals that are too small and too timid, you suffer a perpetual lack of motivation. Try all the emotional conditioning techniques you want, but you’re wasting your time. Deep down you already know the truth. You just need to summon the courage to acknowledge your true desires. Then you’ll have to deal with the self-doubt and fear that’s been making you think too small. There’s no getting around that if you want to experience lasting motivation. Ironically, the real key to motivation is to set goals that scare you.

I recommend working through these kinds of blocks in your journal. Type a question like, “Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?” Then type whatever answer comes to mind. You’ll often find that the source of your block is that you’re thinking too small. You’re letting fears, excuses, and limiting beliefs hold you back. Your subconscious mind knows you’re settling, so it won’t provide any motivational fuel until you step up, face your fears, and acknowledge your heart’s desire. Once you finally decide to face your fears and drop the excuses, then you’ll find your motivation turning on full blast.

Now to translate this into my language of Invariant Representations:
fear = your concisenesses has focused on an IR that does not have its sub IRs defined yet = fear of unknown.

IF you think of a goal/IR that is high enough in your hierarchy, then it will not have had its sub IRs defined yet. Therefore you will fear it.

This is why I think they said "fear god". If god is as high up in the hierarchy that you can get, then you've probably have not defined the sub IRS yet so you fear it.

So when Steve says "set goals that scare you" then you know you are setting goals that are high enough.

And to no longer fear it, what does Steve suggest? He suggest this:

I recommend working through these kinds of blocks in your journal. Type a question like, “Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?” Then type whatever answer comes to mind. You’ll often find that the source of your block is that you’re thinking too small. You’re letting fears, excuses, and limiting beliefs hold you back.

He says use your journal. What he is asking you to do is to do some brainstorming to come up with some steps that you can achieve your biggest goals. This means you have a high up IR, define its sub IRs. Visualize what the sub IRs are.

Fear = fear of unknown = missing sub IRs. Overcome your fear = face your fear = make the unknown known = define sub IRs for that scary top level IR by visualizing and brainstorming.

Why does this question work?
“Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?”

In the language of IRs, you have motivation for a goal if that goal/IR is linked to your main hierarchy. So basically this question means:
"Why am I feeling that this IR is not linked to my main hierarchy?"

And basically this is the same as asking "Why am I feeling scared to achieve this goal?" And then you write down your fears. And then you expand your fear out in a tree like fashion. If you trace your fear far enough, then you get down to the very lowest level root IRs.

I used this method to get over my fear of calling a girl up on the phone:
Get over calling fear and the fear of bungee jumping (me visualizing my brains going splat on the concrete :-), but I've conquered my fear of death so that does not bother me)

Then once you've done that then he says:

When I use this process myself, I uncover new goals that seem unreasonably big. I admit that I want them, but I feel incapable of achieving them.

Imagine that your hierarchy is a pyramid. Once you've done the process of uncovering your fears to the deepest level, then you've built the based of the pyramid. Then you feel like you can now stand and reach for higher ambitious goals.

Then finally:

It’s only when we set unreasonable goals that all our internal resources come online, including motivation and drive.

When I set a goal that’s big enough and challenging enough, I never need to pump myself up with emotional rah-rah. I feel motivated to pursue the goal because my intellect is fully behind it.

"set unreasonable goals" defined:
goals = IR
unreasonable = way high
set = linked it to hierarchy = connected to purpose in life = serve DNA/god = connected to faith = peak of the hierarchy = consciousness = want

"set unreasonable goals"

"I feel motivated to pursue the goal" = "I want to do this goal" = goal is connected/linked to your want/drive/faith/conciousness/I/god

= IR is connected to your main hierarchy = not some fragmented piece

[Sunnybayes]

And also I've defined HAPPINESS when your hierarchy is not fragmented/ it is whole.

How to be happy:
Defined a crazy life goal.
Always know how your actions lead to that goal.
Don't set extraneous goals that you don't know how they are linked to the top.
Not have fears.
Have faith.
Get absorbed by work you are passionate for (i.e. everything for your work is so automatic because all the subconcious IRs have been defined for your work)
Find a balance between boredom and stress = interesting enough by not chaotic
Maintain health, wealth, relationships, intellectual curiosity
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[Sunnybayes]

Installing fear as motivation is evil... check. Stick with the love.

[may77]

yep, totally agree. need to link to a higher goal in order to make the little ones meaningful and integrated.

[Sunnybayes]

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.

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.

[lawshull]

I did enjoy your thread sunnybayes. I believe it was Tony Robbins said, "the quality of our lives are equal to the quality of the questions we ask ourselves."

I truly beleive we need to spend more time being creative or in the creative state ie. the thread I just read. ( ryhme not entended.) We can read all the PD books we want to attend all the seminars listen to all the audio books ,blah,blah blah. Nothing will happen in our lives of true value until we take action and start being creative, or asking ourselves quality questions. Thank you for thread sunnybayes. Lawshull

[Sunnybayes]

thanks lawshull. That made my month

[Sunnybayes]

Note: I had this in the Learning but not Doing thread, just wanted to put it here also

The people who figure out how to take action become the leaders.

Most people are not the leaders. Most people are followers. Most people learn too much.

Leaders are creative. They know how to seek answers for themselves. They come up with the solution themselves.

Seriously. If everyone here took a week and thought about nothing but how to be productive, just finding the answers within, then they could probably come up with enough insight to derive a huge chunk of the knowlege that was written by Steve. They have the intuition there to make decisions, though it might take like a year or two to try to type it out what they've discovered in a week.

Its like there there is one high level formula (= higher order IR), and then the Personal Development writers who know the simple formula themselves throw tons of different situations to the formula, and then they take those answers and sell them in huge books. When the formula itself is very simple, and is very general, and can handle any experience that can ever happen to a human.

Then its up to the reader to take in all the answers of the book (low order IRs), find the pattern (by reading them over), and then hopefully be able to derive that formula (the same high level IR). But then people get stuck when they've found the simple formula... and its just too simple. They don't lead themselves to apply new numbers/situations to that formula (they are not brave enough to apply that life formula to new life situations) or they are just stuck with getting good at coming up with different formula's. Or that they are not patient enough to plug in numbers and do a few simple calculations to come up with their own answers. Or they are distracted and forget that they know the formula. Or they don't know what numbers to plug into their formula because they don't have any real goals (i.e highest level goal/purpose that is discreet (defined well).

Or that they are looking for someone else to tell them what to apply the formula to. You've gotta learn how to be your own leader, or you are always going to be stumbling through life not knowing really what to do and feeling quite pointless.

Here's a formula, instead of a table of answers, to get you off of inaction:
Do a 30 day trial of spending an hour a day of thinking about your own formula that runs your life (i.e high level mental IRs), from internal knowlege (the low order IRs already in your brain), not external knowlege (the low order IRs written by text by someone else). This is where a journal comes in handy. External knowlege is the table of answers. You are deriving the equitation (the high order IR) that comes up with those answers. You are coming up with your own formula. Like Steve has his own formula and that's why he's able to create this huge blog, he just keeps throwing on new situations onto the formula. on You are learning internally how to be your own leader (i.e. learning how to plan). Then spend a second hour thinking about your life goals/purpose. Your life goals will be the numbers that you will plug into your formula that you've derived.

Here's a formula that DNA provides for your life purpose:
To be happy, you have to constantly have good relationships, health, and wealth, and curiosity (built in because nature wants us to know about our environment so that we can manipulate it and survive in it better)

But all of this advice was derive from my own formula... though this is when action is required action that you come up with your own formula.

Steve described his formula that he uses for running/managing his life here:
Meaning of Life From Purpose to Action

more specifically more on planning

And what his input is for his "life equation" here:
About Steve Pavlina

What has resulted from him applying his equation to his purpose that he described there? This whole website of his that makes him $100,000

His whole idea about light/dark workers is so that you don't feel guilty for having your own world changing, ambitious goals.

And that when you have high enough goals, then learning will no longer be just something to do, it will be action, because you know how it will get you to those high level goals.

And if you actually read these articles, then it actually counts as action because you are taking action to derive your own equation that runs your life, and then if you read his articles about finding life purpose then that is also action because you are taking action to find your life purpose/goals.

Then to take action for the rest of your life onward, you'll take the formula that you've derived from reading all that information and apply it to your own life purpose that you've created.

And never again will you not be doing action as long as whatever you are doing is fulfilling your life purpose. Learning is action as long as you know how it is specifically fulfilling your life goals and purpose (executing IRs that are linked to your hierarchy and not fragmented). Learning is inaction if you don't know (reading lower order IRs by reading external knowlege is inaction if they wont be able to link to your main hierarchy) .

So if you have not defined your life purpose yet (made a high level well defined IR that you can link everything else to (created by being creative (see my creativity post)), then everything that you do is inaction. (i.e. tv, school, your job, your family.... unless you know how those specifically help you to fulfill your life goals... like if TV helps you to recharge (because you just finished having a creative burst that ran down your brain circuits) so you can be your best later , then its cool... but if you are just addicted to it (i.e have high level mental IRs that run subconsciously but are not linked to your main hierarchy) and it keeps you away from figuring out how to be a billionaire (which i assume is connected to your main hierarchy) then it is inaction...)

For me, writing to these forums is action because it helps the convergence of conciousness and it is helping me to figure out how to program AI.