7.20.2007
Psychology=Clarity, Music=Expression of that Clarity
Psychology concentrates and focuses and un-dilutes yoru voice; then music is how your express it. you need both. Psychology to get clear and then music to then use that clarity!
Eras of Music
- 750-1820 – Classical – balance and structure
- 1820-1900 – Romantic – emotional, large, programmatic
- Beyond 1900 – 20th Century – limitless
- 750-1820 – Classical – balance and structure
- 1820-1900 – Romantic – emotional, large, programmatic
- Beyond 1900 – 20th Century – limitless
I'm currently bouncing between classical and romantic music. 20th century -- limitless is where I'm headed bay-baby!
7.07.2007
Pleasure and Business Writing Style
I don't know you personally but, you have provided me with a very social and psychological distinctive insight. You wrote:
For example, the above writing was "business email" formal, structure, proper, and logical sound writing.
This is fun writing:
What's up kitty-lover yo? You flow with the elipsEEs because you like the kittIES....Yeah, yeah, hella, hella hella fun talking the personal kitty-kat pat-tat feline jive.....Man, I'm flowin' like a bee hive!
So it's quite clear the pertinent necessity of discovering and utilizing both forms of writing and speaking! One is highly liberating because it is fun and freely associative (personal writing); the other is highly liberating because it is structured, logical, and ideologically expressive of your belief (business writing)!
The positive sides of business writing is its formality and structured message; the downsides is that it is slow, cumbersome and bland. But it changes the structure of your thinking for the better
The positives of personal/pleasure writing is its fun, free association; the downsides is that too much of it can look cheesy and unintelligent. But it instantly changes your feelings.
In short, business writing changes thought; personal/pleasure writing changes emotions.
Sincerely,
John Kooz
I meant that I am only using these dots when I write private e-mail not business e-mails.I meant that I am only using these dots when I write private e-mail not business e-mails.It's very important to have a seperate "business email" way of communicating, so that your fun, personal method of communicating can go-all out and truly be enjoyable.
For example, the above writing was "business email" formal, structure, proper, and logical sound writing.
This is fun writing:
What's up kitty-lover yo? You flow with the elipsEEs because you like the kittIES....Yeah, yeah, hella, hella hella fun talking the personal kitty-kat pat-tat feline jive.....Man, I'm flowin' like a bee hive!
So it's quite clear the pertinent necessity of discovering and utilizing both forms of writing and speaking! One is highly liberating because it is fun and freely associative (personal writing); the other is highly liberating because it is structured, logical, and ideologically expressive of your belief (business writing)!
The positive sides of business writing is its formality and structured message; the downsides is that it is slow, cumbersome and bland. But it changes the structure of your thinking for the better
The positives of personal/pleasure writing is its fun, free association; the downsides is that too much of it can look cheesy and unintelligent. But it instantly changes your feelings.
In short, business writing changes thought; personal/pleasure writing changes emotions.
Sincerely,
John Kooz
7.06.2007
Why Life is Infinitely Better Reading Books
...and not watching movies. (This is in reference to non-fiction books, btw -- and quality reads, not crap).
1. Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
2. Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling awareness from experience.
3. Books enable to you to explain and teach about illusions and reality, placing you at "cause" instead of at "effect" where you are a victim of illusion.
4.. Books clarify and provide understandings. Movies merely create suspence and foreshadowing.
5. You think more clearly with a book because your brain gets neurological activity firing that is congruent with the logic of the book. Kind of like a "mental-cerebral" version of "if you smile, you'll feel happy". If you read a smart book, you'll think more intelligently. Movies trick and obfuscate intelligence.
6. Books, you have total control over the pace, and "order you read", movies (unless you fumble with FF and RW buttons, you do not have the same control.
7. Books, your vision is the movie and you are the director; movies lack that customization.
8. Books teach and entertain and create more cohesive thinking; movies, merely entertain with an inkling of "teaching".
9. Both movies and books inspire, but books provide an inspiration that is more enduring beacuse it is "your own version" of the inspiration.
10. Finally, books don't need electrical outlets, high-tech dvd players, surround sound and the like. Books are portable; you can bring them anywhere. Laptops are fixing that with movies, but with a book, you use your "built-in" surround sound, imax, widescreen mental imagery vision, which is infinitely more crisp, alive, and exciting than a movie screen.
I'm a former movie junkie (thousands and reruns) and have rediscovered the joy of reading!
By the way, why do I keep doing this blog? Because I believe sharing these ideas to be incredibly important and vital. You can try to convince me otherwise, but won't have much luck.
I think the ultimate underlying mutual understanding here is this: "You read the right books, on a topic, skill-set, or value you want to acquire, and you will program your mind to genuinely live that life". Movies are a quick way to glimpse at, and live vicariously through the characters and plots of other (fictional, screenplay) stories, and, unmistakenly, Incredible sources of cool inspiration.
Why do so many Millenials (almost every member of the IWR club) LOVE Office Space? Because we're constantly mobile, we loathe actual stagnant office spaces, but don't mind the internet and that dynamic exchange at all. However, watching the movie "Office Space" will merely create a vicarious, temporary, short-lived feeling of "freedom" from something in your real life that you wish to escape. If you actually want to CHANGE your life, books will do that for you. I guess an analogy is a movie is the ignition (it can start the desire or create awareness of a desired change) but then the book is the actual car (it supplies the programming you need in order to get you where you want to go).
Another example. Watch "I know what women want" and you start to laugh and feel great because that would be an awesome feeling. Wow! But then when it comes to actually "knowing what women want" there are books that help you actually create that "knowledge", not by mind-reading or fantastical whooey-looey, but by using NLP and anchoring and quality relationship rapport strategies so you and her get heard more and ultimately mutually share each other's interests and thus, collectively "know what each other wants" and in a kind of emotional, physical-kinesthetic mutualistic symbyosis, provide that.
1. Movies leave you under a spell; an illusory haze so you cannot see. Books give control of the haze others are under.
2. Movies manufacture illusion without you knowing it, while books allow you to choose experience illusion, without decoupling awareness from experience.
3. Books enable to you to explain and teach about illusions and reality, placing you at "cause" instead of at "effect" where you are a victim of illusion.
4.. Books clarify and provide understandings. Movies merely create suspence and foreshadowing.
5. You think more clearly with a book because your brain gets neurological activity firing that is congruent with the logic of the book. Kind of like a "mental-cerebral" version of "if you smile, you'll feel happy". If you read a smart book, you'll think more intelligently. Movies trick and obfuscate intelligence.
6. Books, you have total control over the pace, and "order you read", movies (unless you fumble with FF and RW buttons, you do not have the same control.
7. Books, your vision is the movie and you are the director; movies lack that customization.
8. Books teach and entertain and create more cohesive thinking; movies, merely entertain with an inkling of "teaching".
9. Both movies and books inspire, but books provide an inspiration that is more enduring beacuse it is "your own version" of the inspiration.
10. Finally, books don't need electrical outlets, high-tech dvd players, surround sound and the like. Books are portable; you can bring them anywhere. Laptops are fixing that with movies, but with a book, you use your "built-in" surround sound, imax, widescreen mental imagery vision, which is infinitely more crisp, alive, and exciting than a movie screen.
I'm a former movie junkie (thousands and reruns) and have rediscovered the joy of reading!
By the way, why do I keep doing this blog? Because I believe sharing these ideas to be incredibly important and vital. You can try to convince me otherwise, but won't have much luck.
I think the ultimate underlying mutual understanding here is this: "You read the right books, on a topic, skill-set, or value you want to acquire, and you will program your mind to genuinely live that life". Movies are a quick way to glimpse at, and live vicariously through the characters and plots of other (fictional, screenplay) stories, and, unmistakenly, Incredible sources of cool inspiration.
Why do so many Millenials (almost every member of the IWR club) LOVE Office Space? Because we're constantly mobile, we loathe actual stagnant office spaces, but don't mind the internet and that dynamic exchange at all. However, watching the movie "Office Space" will merely create a vicarious, temporary, short-lived feeling of "freedom" from something in your real life that you wish to escape. If you actually want to CHANGE your life, books will do that for you. I guess an analogy is a movie is the ignition (it can start the desire or create awareness of a desired change) but then the book is the actual car (it supplies the programming you need in order to get you where you want to go).
Another example. Watch "I know what women want" and you start to laugh and feel great because that would be an awesome feeling. Wow! But then when it comes to actually "knowing what women want" there are books that help you actually create that "knowledge", not by mind-reading or fantastical whooey-looey, but by using NLP and anchoring and quality relationship rapport strategies so you and her get heard more and ultimately mutually share each other's interests and thus, collectively "know what each other wants" and in a kind of emotional, physical-kinesthetic mutualistic symbyosis, provide that.
6.24.2007
Lovecraft's "Kind Of" Got It
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H.P. Lovecraft
While I don't take the sombre and morose view of Lovecraft that madness or unilluminated retreat are the only possible results of macro-scale enlightenment, I do think it's plausible for such awakenings to catalyze a shift away from domesticity. Someday incredible "vistas of reality" will be opened through the piecing together of knowledge. Such an "assembly" will most likely occur away from civilization, on the techno-farm. And the means of that assembly praxis will occur with the methodology of compasion and most certainly via the internet.
6.23.2007
The Temporal Life Investor
Everything, I have realized, in life is an investment and I, a mere stocktrader. Experiences, this "visit" to chicago, are all simply investments. You can look at this as mechanical or robotic, or "emotionless", but it is the undeniable truth. Furthermore, because everything is merely an investment, the best trader knows when to buy (of course), but also when to sell. The Sea Semester program was an incredible investment and most people looked at it as a "long-term" investment. You shouldn't morph buying and selling into long-term or short-term. I knew that if I didn't "sell it" when I did -- by getting off the boat -- I would lose earnings on the investment. Because of my obstinance in these experiences, I am an incredibly savvy life investor!
What do you all think of your relationship to temporal-life investments? Do you check out to quickly, sell too early, or are you the type of person that stays on board for the long haul? How can we become more timely investors?
What do you all think of your relationship to temporal-life investments? Do you check out to quickly, sell too early, or are you the type of person that stays on board for the long haul? How can we become more timely investors?
6.17.2007
Jogging and Bone Density
They say milk does a body good? Well, running does a body better!
Joggers have stronger bones. Think of the astronauts in space that must vigorously exercise just to prevent ligament, cartilage, and muscle atrophy. The same is true for our bones and humans who jog on a regular basis. They have stronger bone density, and those who jog over 9 times per month, have the strongest bone density out of a study of thousands of participants. So if you can count the number of times you jog per month on both hands, you can say you have stronger bones than the average Joe who doesn't.
Joggers have stronger bones. Think of the astronauts in space that must vigorously exercise just to prevent ligament, cartilage, and muscle atrophy. The same is true for our bones and humans who jog on a regular basis. They have stronger bone density, and those who jog over 9 times per month, have the strongest bone density out of a study of thousands of participants. So if you can count the number of times you jog per month on both hands, you can say you have stronger bones than the average Joe who doesn't.
6.05.2007
Time is Money
Catalyzing Healthy and Dissolving Unhealthy Relationships to Money
When he said
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving,”
Henry Ford was in concordance with Lao tzu, who said,
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for life.”
Healthy Money
Time is money. This finally must be understood: we should put as much value on time as we do money.
You can do anything you want.
This variety of examples is listed because it’s absolutely essential to understand good scenarios for money usage. Although some of these listed are quite strange and outlandish, they are ALL good relationships with money.
• If you want to purchase a diamond ring, you can learn how to go to Africa and search for blood diamonds, learn the craft of diamond cutting, and learning how to do the jewelry molding and metallurgy, and make a diamond ring. Or you can pay the price of the diamond ring.
• If you want to buy a computer, you can either buy a computer or go through the enormous amount of time put into learning about computers, learning about wire soldering, motherboard programming, and all the things necessary to know to construct a computer, and it will take you years and years to do that, or you can pay the price of the computer.
• You can purchase a coffee maker which expedites the tedious process of filtering water through a filter, or you can put the time into heating water, and manually pouring it through a strainer. Again, money isn’t essential; it just expedites processes.
• You can go to Kinko’s and to get documents printed for you quickly, or you can put time into learning how to do the layout, document formatting, paper collation, and page alignment, and do it yourself. Time only speeds up the printing; the outcome is the same.
• If you want to surf in Hawaii you can buy (use money) a surfboard there, or you can put time into arranging for your surfboard to be shipped. If you want to buy a surfboard, you can fork over the $400 dollars for one, or you can put the hours and hours and years of time necessary to learning how to make and shape a fiberglass surfboard from Styrofoam.
So you don’t have to pay for anything! You do not have to use money. I repeat. You do not have to use money. You just have to put time into edifying yourself how to craft things that you would otherwise buy; or perform services you would otherwise purchase. You are never financially imprisoned. This is incredibly illuminating because you don’t really need money. If you want to do things more quickly than doing it yourself, that’s only when you need money. Money doesn’t get you anything you couldn’t get on your own; it just speeds things up. This is a healthy relationship with money.
A negative, unhealthy relationship with money is a fear relationship with money. Where you accumulate it because you think it will get you closer to God or closer to happiness, and, really, neither of those are the case with money. Money is not related to any emotion; it is only related to time. Money is related to the concept of time, and time is a perception. It’s important to not have that perception be distorted.
Money is a utility. It is merely a utility. That’s the only thing it is! People equate joy and freedom and all these positive sensations with money and that’s not the case at all. Joy and freedom are equated with your relationship to Ultimate Reality, your relationship with Nature. That is joy and freedom; that is certainty; that is creativity.
Unhealthy Money
Negative relationship with money is hoarding it, thinking that will provide security. If you’re insecure without money, you’ll be secure with it, too.
Negative relationships with money revolve around thinking that money will alter your mood, emotions, or level of happiness in anyway. If you think money will alter any of those three stays, look out! You have an unhealthy relationship with money!
I used to always have a compulsion to spend! I felt that that was “giving and loving”; if I spent and purchased something. However, you can go into a grocery story and not buy things. You can go peruse bookstores and not purchase anything. You can go peruse malls and not spend a penny. In fact try that. Do that! That’s exercise #1 for starting a healthy relationship with money.
Exercises to Catalyze Healthy and Dissolve Unhealthy Relationships to Money
Disclaimer: These are not pranks. I am not proposing economic mayhem nor financial anarchy at all. When its capacity is not mutilated, money offers a delightful time-saving mechanism. These exercises merely catalyze an eye-opening financial profundity, illustrating money’s sentient utility and its absence from emotional reactions.
Exercise #1:
Pennyless Shopping.
Feel the joy and satisfaction of entering a store(s) and knowing – absolutely knowing – that you will leave that store with exactly you had on your person upon entering – nothing more, nothing less. No items acquired, no money spent. There’s a certain freedom -- a celebrated joy operating from a vehement source of conclusive happiness – from not spending a penny in a shopping situation.
Purpose: Experience the celebrated joy operating from a vehement source of conclusive happiness from choosing not to buy something, doubt free.
Exercise #2:
Financial Transaction Retraction
Only try this a few times – once is probably best – and never in the same store twice. But bring an inexpensive, low-cost item up to the counter. It could be a pack of gum, or one golf ball, or a single can of soda, or one pencil. Wait until the transaction is completed and the receipt has already begun to print. Then, immediately, with as much sincerity, sympathy, and simplicity as possible say, “You know what, I’m terribly sorry for potentially causing any inconvenience, but I’ve decided not to purchase item name”.
See what happens. Was it possible to cancel the transaction? Was there a big brew-hawhaw? Did it simply occur without problems? Was there any eye-rolling?
Purpose: Whatever the item is, it must be only a few dollars and small in size. Why small and inexpensive? Because it makes the idea of retracting the purchase so much more ridiculous! If the item is small and inexpensive, the actual reason, the logic behind the canceling the purchase won’t be misconstrued. The choice for the financial transaction retraction must not be misconstrued for budgeting or physical accommodation reasons. With a something small and inexpensive, it would be implausible for the consumer to retract the purchase because of the item…
1. Not fitting a tight and/or limited budget;
2. Being incongruent with physical accommodations ( i.e. they don’t have the space for it).
This is a very bizarre, new, and exciting concept. It eliminates your attachment to money, and enunciates it only as a transactional device. If buying and selling is a factory, money would be the rollers and conveyor belts of the assembly line, nothing more. It is certainly not something to believe is equated to happiness. However, finding what is, is more important than anything.
Conclusion: When I envision the ideal, utopian world, it is without currency, green-slips of paper money, but with compassionate currency. The more you give, the more you receive is the mantra. Everyone does some component of life because that’s what they love doing. This would produce the best corn and tomatoes and vegetables and produce because farmers would be farming because they love agriculture. The entertainment venue would be the best because performers would be doing it because they love acting. Same thing for building construction – only the Frank Lloyd Wrights, people who love architecture – would be architects. All software will be incredibly efficient because the programmers love programming and would be doing so with their time, anyway. No one will ever feel “trapped” in a job, because their profession aligns them, makes them happier, is the best thing they can do for their and others level of happiness, love, awareness, etc. . Call this highly idealistic, spiritualized anti-capitalism with “wealth” only referring to state of mind, implausible. The best thing you can think of to do with your time is your profession! In time, we’ll all see how possible this supposed sea change is, and make the right move.
John Kooz -- “If you define necessity perfectly and possess nothing less, no depravity; explore nothing more, no burdens.”
Relevant alternate links: www.adbusters.org.
When he said
“Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving,”
Henry Ford was in concordance with Lao tzu, who said,
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for life.”
Healthy Money
Time is money. This finally must be understood: we should put as much value on time as we do money.
You can do anything you want.
This variety of examples is listed because it’s absolutely essential to understand good scenarios for money usage. Although some of these listed are quite strange and outlandish, they are ALL good relationships with money.
• If you want to purchase a diamond ring, you can learn how to go to Africa and search for blood diamonds, learn the craft of diamond cutting, and learning how to do the jewelry molding and metallurgy, and make a diamond ring. Or you can pay the price of the diamond ring.
• If you want to buy a computer, you can either buy a computer or go through the enormous amount of time put into learning about computers, learning about wire soldering, motherboard programming, and all the things necessary to know to construct a computer, and it will take you years and years to do that, or you can pay the price of the computer.
• You can purchase a coffee maker which expedites the tedious process of filtering water through a filter, or you can put the time into heating water, and manually pouring it through a strainer. Again, money isn’t essential; it just expedites processes.
• You can go to Kinko’s and to get documents printed for you quickly, or you can put time into learning how to do the layout, document formatting, paper collation, and page alignment, and do it yourself. Time only speeds up the printing; the outcome is the same.
• If you want to surf in Hawaii you can buy (use money) a surfboard there, or you can put time into arranging for your surfboard to be shipped. If you want to buy a surfboard, you can fork over the $400 dollars for one, or you can put the hours and hours and years of time necessary to learning how to make and shape a fiberglass surfboard from Styrofoam.
So you don’t have to pay for anything! You do not have to use money. I repeat. You do not have to use money. You just have to put time into edifying yourself how to craft things that you would otherwise buy; or perform services you would otherwise purchase. You are never financially imprisoned. This is incredibly illuminating because you don’t really need money. If you want to do things more quickly than doing it yourself, that’s only when you need money. Money doesn’t get you anything you couldn’t get on your own; it just speeds things up. This is a healthy relationship with money.
A negative, unhealthy relationship with money is a fear relationship with money. Where you accumulate it because you think it will get you closer to God or closer to happiness, and, really, neither of those are the case with money. Money is not related to any emotion; it is only related to time. Money is related to the concept of time, and time is a perception. It’s important to not have that perception be distorted.
Money is a utility. It is merely a utility. That’s the only thing it is! People equate joy and freedom and all these positive sensations with money and that’s not the case at all. Joy and freedom are equated with your relationship to Ultimate Reality, your relationship with Nature. That is joy and freedom; that is certainty; that is creativity.
Unhealthy Money
Negative relationship with money is hoarding it, thinking that will provide security. If you’re insecure without money, you’ll be secure with it, too.
Negative relationships with money revolve around thinking that money will alter your mood, emotions, or level of happiness in anyway. If you think money will alter any of those three stays, look out! You have an unhealthy relationship with money!
I used to always have a compulsion to spend! I felt that that was “giving and loving”; if I spent and purchased something. However, you can go into a grocery story and not buy things. You can go peruse bookstores and not purchase anything. You can go peruse malls and not spend a penny. In fact try that. Do that! That’s exercise #1 for starting a healthy relationship with money.
Exercises to Catalyze Healthy and Dissolve Unhealthy Relationships to Money
Disclaimer: These are not pranks. I am not proposing economic mayhem nor financial anarchy at all. When its capacity is not mutilated, money offers a delightful time-saving mechanism. These exercises merely catalyze an eye-opening financial profundity, illustrating money’s sentient utility and its absence from emotional reactions.
Exercise #1:
Pennyless Shopping.
Feel the joy and satisfaction of entering a store(s) and knowing – absolutely knowing – that you will leave that store with exactly you had on your person upon entering – nothing more, nothing less. No items acquired, no money spent. There’s a certain freedom -- a celebrated joy operating from a vehement source of conclusive happiness – from not spending a penny in a shopping situation.
Purpose: Experience the celebrated joy operating from a vehement source of conclusive happiness from choosing not to buy something, doubt free.
Exercise #2:
Financial Transaction Retraction
Only try this a few times – once is probably best – and never in the same store twice. But bring an inexpensive, low-cost item up to the counter. It could be a pack of gum, or one golf ball, or a single can of soda, or one pencil. Wait until the transaction is completed and the receipt has already begun to print. Then, immediately, with as much sincerity, sympathy, and simplicity as possible say, “You know what, I’m terribly sorry for potentially causing any inconvenience, but I’ve decided not to purchase item name”.
See what happens. Was it possible to cancel the transaction? Was there a big brew-hawhaw? Did it simply occur without problems? Was there any eye-rolling?
Purpose: Whatever the item is, it must be only a few dollars and small in size. Why small and inexpensive? Because it makes the idea of retracting the purchase so much more ridiculous! If the item is small and inexpensive, the actual reason, the logic behind the canceling the purchase won’t be misconstrued. The choice for the financial transaction retraction must not be misconstrued for budgeting or physical accommodation reasons. With a something small and inexpensive, it would be implausible for the consumer to retract the purchase because of the item…
1. Not fitting a tight and/or limited budget;
2. Being incongruent with physical accommodations ( i.e. they don’t have the space for it).
This is a very bizarre, new, and exciting concept. It eliminates your attachment to money, and enunciates it only as a transactional device. If buying and selling is a factory, money would be the rollers and conveyor belts of the assembly line, nothing more. It is certainly not something to believe is equated to happiness. However, finding what is, is more important than anything.
Conclusion: When I envision the ideal, utopian world, it is without currency, green-slips of paper money, but with compassionate currency. The more you give, the more you receive is the mantra. Everyone does some component of life because that’s what they love doing. This would produce the best corn and tomatoes and vegetables and produce because farmers would be farming because they love agriculture. The entertainment venue would be the best because performers would be doing it because they love acting. Same thing for building construction – only the Frank Lloyd Wrights, people who love architecture – would be architects. All software will be incredibly efficient because the programmers love programming and would be doing so with their time, anyway. No one will ever feel “trapped” in a job, because their profession aligns them, makes them happier, is the best thing they can do for their and others level of happiness, love, awareness, etc. . Call this highly idealistic, spiritualized anti-capitalism with “wealth” only referring to state of mind, implausible. The best thing you can think of to do with your time is your profession! In time, we’ll all see how possible this supposed sea change is, and make the right move.
John Kooz -- “If you define necessity perfectly and possess nothing less, no depravity; explore nothing more, no burdens.”
Relevant alternate links: www.adbusters.org.
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