I want to be like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld…

soup nazi no soup for youWhy am I such a Nazi when it comes to who I am willing to work with?

Remember the soup Nazi? Who ran his soup takeout shop like a prison camp? And people lined up and waited patiently to be given soup… that was so good, and so hard to come by, they were willing to earn it… I want to be like the soup Nazi.

Like everyone, my energy is finite. I can’t whip out extra energy at the drop of a hat… I am human. Continue reading

Backdrop

Backdrop is a place where everything you say about yourself, all the beliefs, your entire worldview is stored and active when you do anything with the backdrop in sight.

We could say that the backdrop works like the tail that wags the dog… you.

We could say that all the experiences that you’d call spiritual, or life altering happened when something diverted your eyes from the backdrop. When you weren’t you…

The art of the backdrop process is to learn do that without extreme measures… and be allowed to behave like you are not you.

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Successive approximation

from Alleydog.com

Successive Approximation
Let’s use the definition of “shaping” to explain successive approximations. Our definition of “shaping” is: “a behavioral term that refers to gradually molding or training an organism to perform a specific response by reinforcing any responses that come close to the desired response.

For example, a researcher can use shaping to train a rat to press a lever during an experiment (since rats are not born with the instinct to press a lever in a cage during an experiment). To start, the researcher may reward the rat when it makes any movement at all in the direction of the lever. Then, the rat has to actually take a step toward the lever to get rewarded. Then, it has to go over to the lever to get rewarded (remember, it will not receive any reward for doing the earlier behaviors now…it must make a more advanced move by going over to the lever), and so on until only pressing the lever will produce reward. The rat’s behavior was ‘shaped’ to get it to press the lever.”

In this example, each time the rat is rewarded, it is being rewarded for a “successive approximation”, or for acting in a way that gets closer and closer to the desired behavior.

The result is convergence

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The backdrop method of building a new, more effective Self

Just because your brain can do something doesn’t mean you will
What you WILL do depends on a whole lot more than what your brain can do.

How you will develop the habit to fully use what your brain can do is the question here.

If you live a life, if your habits don’t require much from your brain then your numbers in your starting point measurements expressing this will be low.

When in the movie ‘Defending your life’ they talk about how much of your brain you use… this is what they mean, not what you thought they meant.

Here is one of the universally un-exercised uses of the brain. A use that is needed for anything other than middling.
Seeing a scenario many steps deep before it unfolds.
Unless you habitually use that brain capacity, you are hosed in many activities.

Your brain can… but you won’t even look.

You don’t plan. You don’t keep doing or learning things, because the future disappears, and the inspiration with it. You don’t operate, market your business. You don’t have a relationship that works out. You don’t even plan a meal.

And although you are born with a brain that can do all that work, unless you train your eyes, train your brain, train your thinking, it will not happen.

You’ll attempt to put the cart in front of the horse.
You’ll, as I said above, lose the energy to do anything that builds anything really.
And you’ll do only menial jobs way below your brain’s ability… Because ability is the soil… growing something is what will feed you.

How do I know this?
I have had, all my life, a problem with seeing what comes first and what comes second.

I had jobs, I had projects that needed that ability, but like with everything: you don’t train medical students to perform surgery on live people. They need to do it on cadavers.

So until I buckled down and started to train myself on Freecell, I was fish out of water.

And when I say ‘training myself’ I mean consciously with that specific ability in mind.
My job, when I play Freecell, is to force myself to see many steps in advance.
It’s been slow going. I am an entrepreneur in my nature… and a ‘jumping Jack’…

I start before I even look. That needed to be managed and trained.
I have narrow cone of vision and hyper focus by nature… that needed to be managed and trained.
And I am impatient by nature… and that needed to be managed and trained.

Freecell is a solitaire with a pack of cards. You can play it on the computer or with real cards.

Checkers… ditto. Chess… ditto.

The advantage of Freecell is that you can play it without a partner.

But, this is a big but, you need to intentionally keep the context on training, and not winning, or even fun.

There is an unexpected ‘side effect’ that is as significant as all the above:
You cannot keep the context on training unless you move away from your default backdrop.
Your default backdrop that contains all the bad things about you and their ‘remedy: the pipe

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Vibrational Review: Holosync

Bill Harris personal vibration: 210 (3/15/15) has risen since I first measured it
Holosync free disc (efficacy): 7% (200 vibration). But it does a particular job really well… it wakes up the brain that it is not in touch with reality…
Holosync whole program truth value: 2%
Holosync as methodology and theory for self-growth: truth value: 7%

Holosync is a mechanical operation, a lot like breathing, that may leave you with permanent improvement of your machine, your brain.

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Why you can’t tell if somebody is smart or not… Because in the dark all cats are gray

One of the most surprising thing in the world of humans is that humans can’t tell if they are smart or not. This error leads to lives that are not fulfilled, filled with fear, trepidation, or on the other extreme: boasting and disappointment.

I just watched two episodes of a Korean series where most people were dimwitted.

Dimwitted is just another word for “not smart”… but it is a good word because you can see that something is dimmed… as in “it’s dark here… you can’t see much”.

I like this word because it is more accurate than most.

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