There are days when your accumulated foibles, your crafted predilections, and adherence to productive systems syncs up into a harmonious payoff. There are days where any request made of you feels effortless as you respond easily, flowing through the day.
And you realize you are pretty damn good at this life thing.
Category: Growth
- Theme: Growth
The long-awaited payoff
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Growth
Consequences of achievement
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1–2 minutesTo achieve we must be productive, garnering accolades which reaffirm your role and status within society. Achievement grants respect, and perhaps a kind of love.
The darker side is that the more you do the greater the odds of failure or attacking polarization, which can lead to a cycle of more achievement to stabilize and counteract your compromised role (respect).Unfortunately, doing “even more” also increases the odds of second order consequences and unintended harm. Yet, to refuse the challenging cycle of achievement (to do nothing) robs any potential for positive consequences.
- Theme: Growth
The benefit of irrationality
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1–2 minutesTo be unique we appear irrational against the norms of society. But norms shift to abnormal in another place or among another group.
To encourage unique individuals we must enable the ability to pursue irrational ideas. After all, unique ways of thinking from irrational pursuits may be our salvation.
Yet, knowledge and strange ideas, without wisdom can promote destructive tendencies and harmful outcomes. How do we balance against this? - Theme: Growth
Change as Cruelty
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1–2 minutesFor children change and play are simply life. As we age we become fixed and brittle, and change begins to appear as cruelty.
- Theme: Growth
Participating or reporting?
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1–2 minutesIf you are reporting on the party, then you are not really part of the party.
You are just an amateur journalist with a smartphone.source: Douglas Rushkoff from The Knowledge Project
- Theme: Growth
Failure is inevitable for growth
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1–2 minutesThe pain of failure is also a sign that you are on the right path, because at least you are challenging yourself rather than languishing in soft security.
From this perspective failure is never really failure, because it is merely the cost of taking a risk to grow. - Theme: Growth
Trained to be creative
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1–2 minutesWe are trained since childhood to be users, and by this I mean owners… not necessarily makers or thinkers.
We are prepared by "choice architectures" designed to train us how to be, how to fit pieces together, and how to enact roles. Even "creativity" is an act designed for us, a role we play.To be creative we must see the role, and move beyond it.
- Theme: Growth
Specialization as stagnation
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1–2 minutesTo specialize is to dig a deep well, which can become a stagnant pond.
The deeper you go, when you look back up you can still see the stars, but the more narrow your field of view becomes. - Theme: Growth
No Virtue in Consistency
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1–2 minutesSelf Creation: the path of fixation leads to death, the path of fluidity leads to life.
There is no virtue in consistency if it prevents growth or change.
To prevent the death of "one’s self" is exactly what kills us: the inability to grow and transform.
- Theme: Growth
Imperative vs Declarative
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1–2 minutesImperative pointing says “I want that” or “gimme that.”
Declarative pointing says “Let us consider this.”
Interestingly, Chimpanzees can point imperatively, but only humans point declaratively and share their attention of the world. We work together to shape how we see the world.