CityVP Manjit

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Journey of One

3e0d2e7e.pngThis is a rare picture from the inner sanctum of my home and this is a rare occurrence where members of family are willing to to watch the kind of things I watch.  They prefer Netflix for entertainment, I prefer video for educational and self-development purposes.  I do have one kindred spirit who supports educational purpose but everyone else in family runs a mile when I suggest engaging media for higher purpose.  I enlisted two of which one fell asleep after 1 hour, but at least they managed to remain alert for 60 minutes and this series that ran continuously does include four 1 hour episodes.  The series is Century of the Self.

I had seen this series some years ago and it was great back then, and it is surprising the amount of detail in it that I have forgotten about including the origin of the "banana republic".  It was just as fascinating watching this the second time around because it remains very topical and it is interesting to relate to this in the context of the modern body politic.  Not that I am fixated on the politics of the moment, rather the moment fits into my learning journey.

This is the best thing about these early decades of the 21st Century, there is so much information at hand, each human being can today curate their own unique range of media.  This is what "Journey of One" means - each of us can design and follow our own individual learning journey.  The point of this documentary is that it shows the problems with an extreme group focus and also an extreme individual focus.  The Century of the Self does mention EST in the documentary as a push back at the Freudian directed approach.  EST was founded by entrepreneur Werner Erhard.  Erhard is considered the forefather of presenters like Tony Robbins et al.  I have not yet been through his talks on you-tube but I love the way he presents.



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CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #5

Dear Helena I welcome you most humbly to beBee. If you are still living in Wicken Village then you reside in a most beautiful village - others can see it here http://www.wickennorthants.co.uk/ We get so caught up in the cerebral chess game being played out now at the national and global level, that I personally want to keep one foot in the life of the village and the other in my urban dwelling. I want to smell the roses and then study uncertainty at levels I can reach. For sure that does not stop those who are attaining greater degree's of complexity understanding from understanding the grand forces at play on the global stage, but for sure there is absolutely no harm in understanding the nature of uncertainty at that level, as it is simplicity at the local level. The reality is that there are people with advanced minds thinking and creating things that make my jaw drop and then there is the manufacture of uncertainty, which means those boys in power won't stop being boys. They will create unintended consequences, the world will adjust to their meddling ways but after all that, if we have lost our own sanity, that does not do much good for the future - and it takes away from the blessings we still have and can enjoy. As the Chinese proverb says so well and with much subtle warning, we are indeed living in interesting times. Interesting also that one of our boys knocked on my bedroom door, apparently he thinks there might be a legendary comeback for the team he supports called the New England Patriots. I will now depart and see :-)

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #4

#9
Dear Helena I welcome you most humbly to beBee. If you are still living in Wicken Village then you reside in a most beautiful village - others can see it here http://www.wickennorthants.co.uk/ We get so caught up in the cerebral chess game being played out now at the national and global level, that I personally want to keep one foot in the life of the village and the other in my urban dwelling. I want to smell the roses and then study uncertainty at levels I can reach. For sure that does not stop those who are attaining greater degree's of complexity understanding from understanding the grand forces at play on the global stage, but for sure there is absolutely no harm in understanding the nature of uncertainty at that level, as it is simplicity at the local level. The reality is that there are people with advanced minds thinking and creating things that make my jaw drop and then there is the manufacture of uncertainty, which means those boys in power won't stop being boys. They will create unintended consequences, the world will adjust to their meddling ways but after all that, if we have lost our own sanity, that does not do much good for the future - and it takes away from the blessings we still have and can enjoy. As the Chinese proverb says so well and with much subtle warning, we are indeed living in interesting times.

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #3

#7
Tony Robbins is self-development for the masses who has forged for himself one of the most profitable personal brands in history. He is one stop shop motivational and personal change coach. He will take a complex discipline like neuro-linguistic programming and cut into bite size pieces for the masses. Malcolm Gladwell does the same thing when it comes to curating information from the academic field and presenting it to the masses Seth Godin does the same thing when it comes to media and marketing. Clay Shirky was smart enough to point out that we don't suffer from information overload, we suffer from filter failure. I don't come to the online space as place of information, but a place of abundance and to tackle abundance that is why I need a journey of one. So either we have life served up to us as it as always has, or we learn to navigate this complexity ourselves. It is what Helena Jansen van Vuuren has pointed out in her link - which is that the 21st Century is a time when there is an opportunity to deal with uncertainty. I don't care if Trump creates uncertainty and profits from mass marketing ignorance. My journey of one is about navigating, understanding and personalizing abundance, and understanding what that means for a growth mindset (a.k.a. Carol Dweck). That is why I focus on different colours, I am using my brains visual abilities to sort information flows - but not get lost in the abundance. If I keep following people I will be absolutely lost - instead I observe - and then we get to the same point you are at, which is hit the ground and explore - but the ground here is virtual bits, whereas your ground is physical, therefore ground travel is an excellent form of exploration. Certainty is abnormal, it is the mass population that has not evolved to handle uncertainty - how can it, when mass-marketing is about certainty. Now OODA loop and cup of tea anyone :-) http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/09/15/ooda-loop/

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #2

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We were lucky! The person who sold that to us thought he was selling us a blind, and it was the perfect length between both walls plus when it folds away it looks like it is a natural part of the ceiling. We would have paid triple for it if the seller realized he was selling a projection screen :-)

CityVP Manjit

7 years ago #1

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Thanks Sara. Equanimity is a fine flow. The BBC documentary "Century of the Self" is an eye-opener into how we are influenced and continue to be influenced in the 21st Century. It also makes it clear just how much Edward Bernays and Sigmund Freud's daughter Anna were to the legendary status Freud has and his impact on the American psyche. That he was implored to come to America while personally not liking America, shows us the vagaries of history in who we remember and who we do not.

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