 What I'm thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:
Freeing People from Neediness: I've
recently realized that, in my zeal to solve problems, to be useful to
people, to be sociable, to be popular, to expand my communities and
relationships, to say 'yes, and...', I have inadvertently encouraged
some people's neediness, which is not doing them or me a favour. I am
spreading myself too thin as a result. I'm going to explore, out loud,
what I might do about this.
Vignettes: Coming up soon, vignettes #4 and #5.
Blog-Hosted Conversations:
Plan is for 30-minute conversations,
once a week, on the subject of identifying and acquiring the essential
skills and relationships we need to be models of a better way to live,
and what those models might look like. I've recorded some practice
podcasts, readings of my own works just to try out the new
medium, but I'm not happy with them. I'm also unhappy with the quality
of recent Skype calls -- too many dropped calls, lost sentences and
strange audio artifacts to make a pleasant listening experience. Need
to find a better way.
Open Thread Question:
I've been thinking about ideas that have profoundly changed my way of thinking. For the most part, they met three criteria:
- They could be captured reasonably succinctly (so they were memorable and infectious, fun to talk about),
- They
were waiting for me to discover, to be ready for them (until I was
ready, they would just have bounced off, not registered with me at
all), and
- They were not obvious -- except perhaps in retrospect
(though they may have been cleverly worded and intuitively appealing, I
only realized their real importance after thinking about them,
sometimes for a long time.
Some of these ideas were 100% someone else's e.g. "There's no such thing as a dragon",
and just resonated with me, my worldview and where I was in my
thinking. Some of them were 'mine' in the sense that they were
syntheses of others' ideas restated in some novel way by me, e.g. "We
do what we must, then we do what's easy, and then we do what's fun".
It's strange that, to really change how we think, an idea has to be
consistent with how we think, but just not thought of, or thought of in
that way, before we heard or coined it, and suddenly: Aha!
What idea(s) have changed your ways of thinking, and why?
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