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| Maybe I'll post a pic when I get it fully set up. The room is 11'x12' (I think) and has three doors: one goes to the hallway, one to a private bathroom, and one to an outdoor courtyard with some trees and plants. There's a short palm tree right outside the door but no trees in the office, although there are a few plants in the room. The office has a large sliding-door closet with built-in shelving and some drawers. I use a glass, metal, and wood L-shaped desk (from The Sharper Image Stockton collection), and there's a matching bookcase as well. Other than that, I have a 4-drawer Hon filing cabinet but not much else. I'm setting up this office differently than I did my last one. Since the closet here has such great built-in storage, I'm putting virtually all of my books and supplies in there. I want to keep the room itself more spartan and open. I'm thinking about getting a big wall-mounted LCD TV to use as my primary PC monitor. I tested the idea for a few hours with a 42" LCD TV and really liked it -- I wrote my last blog entry that way. Right now I'm still using a 19" LCD monitor. Incidentally, the built-in ceiling fan with light can only accept the smaller bulb sizes (3 bulbs x 40W max each), so I'm still working on the lighting issue.
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| Steve... hi five! standing off of each other's shoulders. |
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| A possible solution that you didn't mention is mirrors - they brighten a place up some and make it look larger.
__________________ When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created. When the way is forgotten, 'morality' and 'piety' need to be taught. -Dao De Jing, Chapter 2 |
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| Just a question. What if our minds work nothing like this? What if we're just building a box around our understanding, and by believing in this box we create it using the rules of Subjective Reality. For example, what if I proposed that our minds work differently. Let's take Steve's lighting issue as an example. Supposedly the "problem" is created, which is that he's moved into a house with bad lighting and he has to use his mind to "solve the problem". However, if we throw SR into the picture, why is there bad lighting in this place in the first place? Why didn't Steve just create a house that already came with good lighting? According to SR, he creates everything so he obviously created bad lighting too. So, why would he do such a thing? Well, because maybe he needed to write an article for his blog and needed an example for a problem to illustrate, so he "created" bad lighting in his house. But the bad lighting was there when he moved in, which was before he started writing the article. Not necessarily. According to SR, the house could have had good lighting, then Steve needed a "problem" to solve, so now the house has bad lighting and his memories of the past (which doesn't really exist) change to match his new reality so now he think that the house always had bad lighting. Therefore, the solution to the problem is not about finding a way to get bigger lightbulbs into a 40Watts maximum power rating socket. The solution to the problem is to figure out WHY your mind created the problem in the first place and eliminate the need for you to want to create that problem. Once you do that, and you no longer need the problem to exist, it will "disappear" out of your life. Anyway, just some crazy thoughts I thought about while reading the article.
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| I'm pretty sure I created this problem to learn how many Steves it would take to change a light bulb. Subjectively speaking I wanted to do something a bit more creative with my office this time, so the lighting problem is an opportunity in disguise -- it nudges me to do something more interesting with the lights because the most obvious solution is a dead end.
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I basically created an opportunity to force myself to work out
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If you believe you have a mind somewhere inside your body, then the article has value, but from SR POV it's unecessary to consider how the mind works, because it's a created thing, it's output, it doesn't do any work. If you were discussing how consiousness may work, that's different, but the mind is largely redundant. Where and what is you mind? Is it in your brain, is it the thing you use to think? No it's just a label for cognitive thought (another creation) Still Steve is very good at improving the state of consciousness, so it's all good Max |
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And if not, what do you observe?
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You have SO MANY SPECIAL BIG WORDS I WISH I KNEW WHAT THEY MEANT Does using big words make you feel special??? I love it when we fight Quote:
Dumb are we, but smart enough to be God Max |
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Let me first voice my irritation: you dont want to know what Marks special big words mean. You have an aversion for them. You don't believe that it is worth the trouble to find out what they mean (and you might be right, at least from your point of view). Lets see if I can answer your identity question from my point of view: Mark represents logic and explanation. That is the crutch of my conscious mind. It keeps my beliefs inside well-known boundaries. You represent bravado. Just make an unsubstantiated claim. Don't try to hide the disability to back it up. Ignore sensible arguments against the claim. And look, you get away with it. It might have been unsubstantiated, but not powerless. Hence your alias I've been listening to Steve's podcasts and I can see a spiral growing here. And it hasn't even comleted its first round. Is this leading anywhere (that is, is it an upward spiral)? Or is this a private game (on a public forum) that you two have played out many times before. That would probably have the effect that the points of view of either of you are now neatly carved in stone... Please enlighten me. Also, feel free to flame me for interference Jeroen |
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| Hahaha no I use big words because they say, in a concise form, what I mean. Perhaps I'm the part of you simultaneously trying to teach the rest of you to expand your vocabulary, and to realise and accept your limitations, and grow to overcome them, without resorting to insults. Incidentally they're almost the same words that Steve used. Quote:
Last edited by Mark Lapierre : 06-25-2007 at 10:12 PM. Reason: Added the word of the day... |
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| Oh, too much information my head is spinning! A couple of things I’m having some trouble understanding though. I can understand how my perceptions become internal representations, get matched to other like representations and stored with similar representations. Where I get confused as I read this is with the definition of invariant representations. If invariant means unchanging (and perhaps I am just being too literal in my reading of this) I don’t understand later in the article when Steve writes “You’ll experience some of your biggest a-ha breakthroughs when your mind finally classifies an old memory into a new invariant representation”. If one of the core concepts is that a particular representation is unchanging this doesn’t make sense to me, although it does make sense if I am just reading this wrong and what is really being said is that a new, and perhaps stronger, invariant representation has been created which directly impacts the existing one and the end result is a new matching of representations leading to new understandings. Or is this exactly what Mark was getting at by noting that beliefs are opinions about reality not necessarily the representations themselves?? Quote:
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I am on the Mark and there is Max Power. The task at hand is to find a way to persuade Power to stop rejecting everything and put his force behind a really big change Tell me, what is it about my post that you don't like? Jeroen |
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put his force behind a really big change Huh? If it means I don't agree with everything and everybody on this forum, that's hardly surprising is it, how boring would it be if we all agreed? Do we all believe in SR? Jesus Christ? LoA? No, let's make a deal, let's agree to disagree, you believe whatever you want and I'll do the same, okay. Max |
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I once saw how a balloon artist works. He squeezes a ballon in the shape of an hourglass and then gives it a twist. This creates two compartments. Often one of those compartments is much smaller than the other. In my view, every point of view is a compartment of a single conscious omniverse that observes itself. This makes it hard for me sometimes to decide which labels belong to which compartments. Just like with maps it is hard to grasp the stuff that is being described or represented. As Korzybski stated: the map is not the country. I would like to add: study the map, but don't forget to travel through the country. |


