What else can Steve do to help us?

[pdnewbie]

Cooking brown rice is an interesting article. Perhaps he needs some inspiration.

Can you think of any other ideas he can work on to help others?

Here are a few suggestions:

Set up a global self help club, similar to Toastmasters, but with helping each other the purpose. Personally this would be most helpful for hard issues such as planning and achieving goals.

Translate the articles in other languages.

Become a research psychologist/psychiatrist to validate his most important theories. Or work collaboratively with one.

Come on, help him out!

Aside: Many of the self-help ideas create a huge distance between cause and effect, in my opinion. Some statements end up as circular arguments, or arguments with 'dead ends' that require a degree of faith in the belief. Try it and you'll see that it works. By testing these hypotheses objectively, we can close up these holes in the argument. That's why I added the last one in.

[Niki]

I think Steve got content and inspiration to write articles for about 70 years non-stop. I think it's great he still writes what he likes to write.

[Adrienne]

I think Steve should come to me house and make me some brown rice

Actually as i sit here, eating brown rice and veggies for lunch, i am just grateful for everything he has given me.

I think Steve already has a game plan on where he wants to take this. He has mentioned in other threads and on his blog that he would like meet ups all over the country like toast master where people get together and talk about PD and other things.

Only the future will tell.

Adrienne

[ethereal]

Maybe the question we should be asking is, "what can we do to help Steve?"

[eternomi]

Originally Posted by pdnewbie

Aside: Many of the self-help ideas create a huge distance between cause and effect, in my opinion. Some statements end up as circular arguments, or arguments with 'dead ends' that require a degree of faith in the belief. Try it and you'll see that it works. By testing these hypotheses objectively, we can close up these holes in the argument. That's why I added the last one in.

Subjectivity is a subjective thing. You cannot make someone see something they don't already see. You can only raise their awareness of it by telling them, or making the material available to them (which is what Steve and many others are trying to do). However, you can not make someone experience something. Only they can do that for themselves... from inside out... when they are ready...

[revolution32]

i think that subjective reality is an amazing way of looking at the world and steve's really nailed it in his articles and podcasts. that said, in my experience, there's also some guilt for things going wrong around you that is difficult to resolve. i think the how to cook brown rice articles are cool, but in my humble opinion, this subjective reality-guilt issue is tremendously important and i am really hoping to hear steve's unique take on it.

[pdnewbie]

Thanks for your replies everyone.

I apologise for my wording, it may sound a little blunt to ask what can Steve do for us. I worded it that way because he states in his mission, more or less, that he wants to help people grow. It's looking at it from his perspective; how could he better achieve his mission? Besides, I'm sure we're helping him more than enough by visiting his website.

As for Niki, sure he might have more articles to write, but at what cost? Rehashing what others have said, but with different wording? Nitpicking on every little nook and cranny of PD, however trivial it may be? Writing articles so abstract that you get headaches trying to decipher the message? I think the website is at saturation level. The law of diminishing returns is starting to occur. In my opinion, less is more. It's more practical. It's easier to apply.

[pdnewbie]

Eternomi, subjectivity is a fascinating way to look at the world. It's a unique perspective. You are the judge of what works and what doesn't. But what if your judgment is clouded? What if the 'positive' results you get from your experience are actually an illusion? What if you are being led astray by your own delusions?

Bringing objectivity to self-help through consensus building, based on hard evidence, will reduce personal bias. Why? Hopefully, we'll be able to produce reliable and repeatable results on aspects of PD, and a realistic assessment of peoples' potential to succeed, based on what others have done before. Sure, it will take time, but future generations will thank us for our genuine concern towards their development. We'll leave a legacy.

Sorry, my reply was a little too big. It needed two posts.