“The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.”
~ Charles T. Munger
Let’s reverse engineer this quote.
You could look at it straight… and see nothing.
You look at it in reverse, and a whole world opens up.
This is true to all of Charlie Munger’s quotes… they show their true colors, their true teachings in reverse.
So. let’s see… Look at wha
I am continuing the inquiry into curiosity… the intrinsic motivation of humans… how you lost it, how to rekindle it… and what might be in the way.
I am going to use myself, because curiosity is so rare, and so relatively unconscious, unobserved, and unacknowledged, that I don’t even know who I could ask about their own experience… Let’s hope that this state of affairs will change soon.
The hectic, information driven culture in which we live, where everyone considers themselves eligible to post
Curiosity
Remember when I told you, in an earlier article, that the opposite of fear is curiosity?
Curiosity is that, and more. ((The important thing is not to stop questioning… Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein))
I have found that curiosity is the main component in aliveness… so it is also the opposite of dead, deadened, alienated, dull, and foggy.
It is also the main sparker of intelligence.
We are all born curious. Most of us kill our curiosity. Curiosity, what I call curiosity, is open ended.
Finding THE answer to a question is not the curiosity I am talking about.
Thinking that you need answers is the number one killer o
Like so many things, guidance is a blessing… and a curse.
So is coaching, by the way.
You can’t catch what you can’t see, and you can’t correct what you can’t catch…
So, this past week has been, thank you for asking, pure hell… lol.
Why, what went wrong? It would be shorter to list what didn’t… lol
Now, apart from a 10-minute period, while I was on the phone with an overly tired and uncaring support staff this morning… I have been having fun.
Yes. Challenges? Yes. Hard issues? Yes. Expensive… Yeah.
Something I can’t handle? No.
I won’t bore you with the details, I will share just one because it is not personal at all…
While all this was going on
80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts.
This translates to a lot of mischief.
I just read an article, OK, I read 20% of it… lol… about China, and about chabuduo… that is Chinese for Good Enough.
The problem is standards.
Your 100%, the Chinese 100%, and my 100% are not the same.
My 100% may be your 1000%.
This is the first book, that I know, that defines self the way, or similarly the way I do… To become a person, to have autonomy, self-determination, self-expression, integrity, self-motivation, the most important job is to find the self, by distinguishing what is the driver of all your actions, whether it is inner or outer. And if it is inner… is it the self, or is it the “not-self”? Greed, narcissism, hate… area inner motivators, but they are all the not-self. So are all the “negative” emotions, like frustration, haste, the desir Just do this and this and this… and you’ll be happy, wealthy, healthy, and in love. Every profession has their “this is the way, this is the truth” postage stamp size area where they dance… The medical establishment, pharmaceuticals, psychologists, religion, education, and even the “spiritual” or “alternative” people. I am a people watcher. I watch their behavior. I watch what they welcome, love, what they tolerate, what they avoid. I remember I was about 30, and I said: this is exactly 57 times more complicated than that. Because it is a weird number. Asking questions is a sign. What kind of questions… that is yet another sign. And then asking intelligent questions… well, that is quite another matter. I am going to my memory now, and say what I retained about questions from the book Curious… that the better questions, the more intellectual questions one asks the higher level of evolution the person is. But no matter what question you ask, the answer, if it sticks strictly to the question, will be on the same level where you asked it from. That is a problem… Unless the answ From my mailbox: How do I deal with being scared?To expand the field where you live, take on curiosityMeditation: What is it and why is it useful?When an area of life isn’t working or isn’t working as well as you’d like it to, there is something that you don’t know There is a fundamental built-in error in tests that involve answering questions about ourselves. I have found that personality tests that rely on your knowing yourself and to predict what you would do in certain situations, are profoundly flawed. I … Continue reading Don’t be hungry! Don’t be eager! Don’t be hellbent on success! Don’t be infatuated!What is the difference between a blind man and you?Soul correction: another area where we plan to let go of the tree of knowledgeActivators produce permanent change once they are established… What’s in the way? What’s the difficulty?
Want to find your self? Express it? Be true to it? Be motivated by it?
I started to read the book by Edward Deci, “Why we do what we do. Understanding self-motivation”. It is exactly 57 times more complicated than that…
The current state of science, knowledge is “one size fits all”. Where do your questions come from?
I am asked questions, all the time. The Unexamined Life Begins With The Unwillingness To Ask Tough Questions… Do You Know How To Ask Tough Questions?
Here are 15 questions. They are not easy questions. It will take a little looking, a little pondering to answer them. Maybe even asking others… when the question asks for that. I have some 50 more where these came from… … Continue reading What is your self-image? Are self-image questions, personality profiles, Kolbe test give you a correct answer?
