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Common Specialness

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Common specialness is wonderful. It cost nothing to be decent. Be kind because is who you are, it’s a great policy. The idea of being kind because it’s who you are is only half of the formula of this common specialness. When you are kind because it is who you are it turns into a moment of two views.

One Act of Common Specialness

I watched the young man help an older lady who is struggling with her groceries in the parking lot at my local store. When he finished helping her load the groceries she said “You didn’t have to do that.” He replied, “If I have to do it, it wouldn’t have been special.” Yet it was still a common act because it’s who he was you see his commonness of kindness his common specialness was perceived by her as extraordinary

What he said was, and this is my version of it, “I choose to give of myself. I’m not forced to be a good person; I choose to be this person.” His Common Specialness is wonderful.

Mandatory Volunteerism

I often laugh at the Seattle school system because of their Mandatory Voluntarism requirement for graduation from High School. It’s not voluntary it’s an oxymoron it’s forced it’s not real.

So, don’t engage in an oxymoron don’t be kind because you have to be kind, choose to be kind, choose to be special, choose to be commonly special, for others, and give freely.

Soften the sharp edges of a world that is pretty hard right now and do it for others because it’s who you are.  It cost nothing to be decent.

A back catalogue podcast you may enjoy: Cultivating a Life

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Intrusive Evil of The Media

Intrusive evil of the media. It’s commonplace to have outbreaks of intrusive thoughts. Intrusive evil thoughts. Intrusive thoughts can lead to bizarre behaviors. Sometimes these thoughts can be detrimental actions to self to others to communities and society on a large scale.

The Dancing Plague

The cause of the dancing plague of the 1500s is open to interpretation. Yet up to four-hundred people danced themselves to death via exhaustion.  

We’ve found graves with severed heads and stones placed in mouths to stop the undead from rising. All you need do is ask an anorexic if they are fat. Or ask the bodybuilder is the right size or shape. You know the answers and it is distorted.

These are intrusive thoughts just aren’t productive as that they have little anchor in reality. Yet they persist and we let them persist we let them live in our heads rent-free as the term goes.  

The Media

This occurs especially after a media report of a human-caused disaster. These intrusive thoughts are brought to you by your media and it is a corporation telling you how to think. They only sell panic and confusion they use intrusive thoughts they lie, and they are evil. That is the intrusive evil of the media.

The Cure

Take two days away from the media and that means on the airwaves and on your phone. Keep track in a journal and notebook. Whatever thoughts you may have about how you feel when you start this two-day experiment.

You can replace the void with an audiobook if you’d like or pleasant music it’s up to you. At the end of the two days, the evil intrusive thoughts about the undead, the frenzied dancing, and the body dysmorphia will be gone.

Just to make sure that you heard me correctly the media, they lie and they are evil. They’re not misquoting or making mistakes; they are evil it’s what they do.  Seize your mind with intrusive thoughts is their game. They count on you to allow their intrusive thoughts into your mind.

I’d like to make a note that no side has been taken in this argument. There is no good or bad side, there is no side to be taken other than the media is evil.

They count on you to receive their intrusive thoughts so that they can be the kings and queens of evil deception. 

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KRIS WILDER

Kris Wilder is a martial artist based in Seattle Washington. He has authored many martial art books, including the classic, The Way of Kata. Making no apologies for his obsession of Football he can be found telling any who will listen about the nuances of the Canadian Football League.

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Corner Office

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The executive in the corner office is supposed to be in control of the business. They may appear at times to be disengaged or focused on other things then what you or I might consider important and that’s the problem.

We are focused on our stuff and not the big picture.

Executive Control of Your Life

I’m not telling you that you shouldn’t be attentive to your own things, your own business, but projecting that into the corner office that can go sideways. You see the executive should be in control and they should be set on an agenda. Neuro scientists will call it executive control. The ability to direct attention our mental executive function should serve in the same way as the executive in the corner office.

Focus on the Meaningful

Focusing on the meaningful and the useful and getting that function in order to direct attention and control that’s what that whole executive function is about. The world is just simply a clutch of jingling keys to the section of our infantile, mind we all have it.  It just sometimes focuses on those jingling keys or the snapping fingers with the accompanying, “Hey look over, here look over here!”

Murder Hornets

When our executive function is easily deceived then as individuals we’re lost, your lost to the jingling keys, killer-wasps, fire tornadoes, global warming, rolling blackout, identity stolen non keto monster and that’s really no place to live.

Free up your executive function let it roam and whenever possible spend as much time in that executive office and let it set the tone for your day, your life and have an experience.

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Fallen Stories, Negative Self-Talk

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We tell ourselves fallen stories, negative self-talk. Sometimes these stories are ego feeds, they’re a great story about how wonderful. That we the best and we’re pretty darn good at what we’re doing.

You’re Not Good Enough

Then of course there are those other stories, those fallen stories, negative self-talk, where you’re not good enough. Who thought you could do that? Why would it go any other way? These kinds of stories – we are a captive audience.

We are able to create these moments, these short stories, the fallen stories, about ourselves, and we tell ourselves those stories. The most powerful stories are the ones we tell ourselves, good, bad, or indifferent. We are far more cautious, far more judicious in what we say and how we say our words and thoughts to others than we ever do in our internal conversation.

Destroy That Lie

Let’s give that act of internal storytelling a new framework in which to look at it. If you are tied to a chair in a basement with a single naked light bulb above your head and a re-education agent was demanding you speak certain words and in glowing terms over and over regarding the presiding Führer, you would recoil from this picture.

The Good Stuff Happens in Your Head

Yet it happens in our heads on a daily basis. The negative talk. The most powerful stories are the ones you silently tell yourself and you do it repeatedly. They can be as horrific as the picture I just painted, being underneath that naked lightbulb on a chair, or they can’t be useful, uplifting, creative, and of course realistic.

Because the most powerful stories, we tell ourselves take place between the ears and we’re always listening.

Call it Fallen Stories, or negative self-talk, it is as scary as being strapped to a chair and browbeat into an idea not based in reality.

Here is a past podcast that deals with: The Non-Existent Problem

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Sprinters v. Hikers

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Sprinters v. Hikers is one way to look at information. There is a quote from Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, and this is not an exact quote, but he relates all truth passes through three stages. The first stage is the idea is ridiculed, secondly, the idea is violently opposed. Thirdly the idea is accepted as being self-evident.

That’s the difference between sprinters v. hikers. Stay with me for a minute because this is a fun way to frame information. Lies travel fast, they’re sprinters. Lies often carry with them a salacious tone, the are nasty they can be evil rude, brutal, and harmful.

An overreaction to this, of course, is to see that information and be in a state of ridicule. We may choose to look at the information in a negative light. A quick decision is made and sometimes after everything has played out and with hindsight, which we know is often 20/20, we get a clearer version of what has happened.

This is not always true.

Context of course is the order of the day. When it comes to these kinds of situations you have to have the flexibility and you have to have wisdom. One of the ways to go about that is to treat the information as if it were a sprinter and to wait for the hiker. The hikers aren’t fast but they carry a backpack, a backpack full of information. Yes, it is sprinters v. hikers.

So, go ahead the next time you hear something think of it as a sprinter.

Let that sprinter run on by if you’d like. Then wait for the methodical hiker. Then you can let the hiker sit down and share the information that they gathered on their hike, their trip as they observed everything along the way. Let the hiker share the information around that campfire.

Not a Perfect Method. Sprinters v. Hikers

Measuring information in the context of sprinters v. hikers is not the perfect way to see the world, no question. Often that sprinter has done gone and run off down the hill spreading their words, their thoughts, their ideas. And doing it in a fast way when sometimes we need to step back and wait. Wait for that hiker to arrive and see what they have to say.

Here is a link to another post you may find interesting on the topic of: Cultivating a Life

A 9 minute video on: Arthur Schopenhauer

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Consistency in Life

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Consistency is greater than quantity and its greater than quality. Morning TV shows, you know, those Good Morning AM Sunshine, they are tripe. But those shows are there every morning at the same time with the same rhythm.

Their power is not in the quality or the quantity or what they provide regarding their content. These shows power lies in that every weekday morning. They’re there at the same time, every day. The evening news has these same qualities, except more laden with turmoil and mayhem.

Children Love Consistency

Mess with a child’s rhythm and see how you pay the price. A childlike mind when unobserved in an adult or unintended will behave in the same way. Our minds love consistency. Take away a tradition such as a holiday dish and see what happens and see the disappointment.

When you step back and look at that dish that is missing, see the rip in the consistency and expectations. But you know what? You don’t order that special dish at a restaurant. I would submit you’ve never ordered at a restaurant and you don’t make it your home. it may not even be that good it’s that you enjoy the rhythm of it the consistency.

Consistency is a Powerful Attribute to Have

Consistency is a powerful attribute to have in life. To be that person that is consistently present and dependable, there is no other superior quality.

Having the presence and that consistency of presence, that makes the difference. Succinctly there is no quality time, there is the consistency of time, quality is nice.

Quantity can be rewarding consistency is king and consistency is king in every phase of life.

Here is a 6 Minute Video on The Consistency Principle – The Six Principles of Influence

Also, as a thinker, you may like this post on how to use a quote in an effective manner in your life: Quote Sitting

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