I’ve given this a tremendous amount of thought. No, more. I’ve written chapters in books to this topic. No…More. I’ve devoted many years of my life to interacting with people and trying to treat all people as equal of equal intelligence. My mantra, rubric, guideline, personal manifesto, what have you, was something along the lines of this (outlined in the 8th chapter of the complete rubbish book I wrote, Validate Your Life): “Everyone is of equal intelligence; we all simply channel our intelligence cultivate intelligence rather into different areas. Meaning [...]
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Parkour!
— September 12, 2009 — 3:49 AM DISCOVERED PARKOUR. LOOKS Sooooooooooooo RAd. Agility, Gymnatisc, alacrity, intelligence, obstacle overcoming, Running RAD RAD RAD!!!!!! French terminology. bRiLLIANt. It’s agility. ALL my favorite video games. prince of persia all the games are like free running and parkour. The French terminolgy is brilliant. this is an intelligent discipline. It requires TREMENDOUS finesse. It’s fun, it requires massive planning and problem solving. This would be GREAT something to train for. Training “for women” is REALLY gay, retarded, and falalcious (because you’ll end up a pissed [...]
I am not you, and you are not me — Transcending the Limitation of "Universal One"
I am not you, and you are not me. That is the way things are. I like that. As you ponder that, let me explain to you why I find tremendous value in that distinction. Distinctions create boundaries. Without distinctions, everything would be porous and absorbing this information or that information would generate confusion. But that confusion is instantly absolved when we utilize distinctions. There’s a tendency for people with whom I communicate to think that we have some connection, as-if they “know me”. The way they communicate and the [...]
Wanna Be a Great Entrepreneur? Buy a Hat Rack!
The whole “work hours” thing is a foreign concept to me. Maybe because I just don’t make a distinction between work and play, or (most likely) I just always work. Sometimes I wake up and start work at 2am. Sometimes I just don’t ever go to sleep and take a nap in the middle of the day. It’s easier for me, I realize, to just say my sleep patterns (the times where I’m not working) than the times I am working; I sometimes sleep around the 12ish to 3ish zone. I [...]
I Don’t Use Beds
One interesting fact about is me that I don’t sleep on beds. Since 2003, I haven’t slept on a bed. I started this practice while studying spider monkeys in the yucatan jungle of Mexico. Obviously, we slept in tents in the yucatan and there were no mattress beds in the tents — just the refreshingly simple jungle floor. I continued this. Sleeping on the floor is better for: My back. Mattresses encourage odd vertebral curvature, the floor does not and my spine has been noticeably more aligned and even spinal [...]
Comprehensive Success — The Three Categories of People Medicine!
Hear This In FULL as a free podcast! If you like what you hear. Be sure to check out the “Audio” page of http://www.validateyourlife.com for more inspiration and clarity! People Categories Categorize People in I’ve noticed those three distinctions VERY clearly in friends but instead of just categorizing appropriately the “friend” as a Drag (Enemy; Direct Impediment to Your Goals) — Bad Medicine — Very Much Not Interested Neutral (Neutral Person; Potential Client) — Neutral Medicine — Not Interested Galvanizer (Good Friend) — Good Medicine — Very Interested I reacted [...]
Want to Mate, Men and Women? Be Confident for a Change!
I stumbled across a flirting, date “tip”. This was phrased as a tip and it was about self-touch. It detailed that if a woman is interested in a man, she will touch her chest, leg. I know (because I’ve dated women and we’ve discussed how they don’t subscribe to that) that some women do not touch themselves ad a part of their body and then expect a man to obsequiously sidle up to her because of HER romantic interest. And as a male, I personally don’t subscribe to that either. [...]
I like to swim upstream and my Future is my Past
I like to swim upstream. What this means? Life is a circular mote flowing downstream. Life’s a gigantic circular mote. Most people float and surrender to the currents’ of life’s river. And the unaware people don’t pick up on the fact that it’s merely one gigantic circle they keep revolving in. I’ve surrendered. I’ve let life’s river take me, twirl me around, slosh me into addictions and fixations incredibly dangerous places, and spit me out on the bank of nowhere with Nothing. I’ve touched my shadow. I’ve done all the [...]
Honor Your Own System
I think one thing going on in life is that I’m discovering what systems and methods work for me. And career is part of this. This is a reference to Organization systems — the literally dozen and dozens (over 50 easily) organizational system methods for emails, todos, phonecalls and life, and none of the systems work, but I’ve created one that works for me Diets — Again, found what works best for me after an exhausting and disturbing trial of fallacious food products and things that don’t work. Again, for [...]
No More Religious Board Games! Anti-Christianity and Human Herbivore!
Finally, the best article on (anti) Christianity that I needed to read to reaffirm my new intentions, emerging beliefs, and values (Basically I’ve realized that all religions are just clever cult-worshipping myths. They’re just elaborate myths, fables. Jesus isn’t any different from the Hare in the tortoise and the hair or Buddha isn’t any different from Prometheus (the god of fire from ancient greece). Religions are myths. They are not true. Jesus, Buddha, Allah…they never existed. That however is not condemning hope and faith. Hope and faith are very strong [...]
Changing Your Life Program
Basically what you’re going through is changing your life program. Everyone has a life prgram — a series of steps and procedures, strategies, and environmental cues that make what they do simpler, easier, and feel more productive. I remember doing some work for a comedy club in North Hollywood. I planned to make some calls to invite more people to the club. To do that I had access to the back office which cut through the kitchen, where I could see the chef at work. Now the chef had all [...]
Getting And Staying Organized with UMSD
Basically this specific part is messy and infected with a lot of David Allen’s GTD muck. Frankly GTD is too bloated of an organizational system; you take on a lot of crap you don’t need if you use it. It has some great concepts but as a whole the system sucks. So I’m on the process of writing up details of my own system. For computers, it basically uses all online documents, almost all documents on hard drives are backups. It consolidates consolidates consolidates!! All like files. It gets all [...]
The Human Race as Rogue
The human race is vagrant. It’s designed to be vagrant. We originated in Kenya. We’ve traveled, we’ve roamed. We’re itinerant. Vagrancy shouldn’t have a negative connotation. And neither should rogue – someone without a master, without consistent income, without land, without legitimate trade, but is healthy. A rogue can sound like freedom. The human race by nature is evolving rogue. We’re moving more and more into transitioning towards alternative habitation other than earth! ARTICLE . People on Maldives are planning to relocate due to rising sea levels from global warming [...]
The Difference between Miramax, Universal, Touchstone Pictures, New Line and all that!
Are they production? Are they for film or productions? Who produces tv or film? How do they handle copyrights or distribution? Why would anyone want to know this? Or who the hell cares? I DO!! If you’re watching film and have half a brain to think about the process of “How the hell do I have this DVD or how am I able to watch this footage of actors in this theatre?” or better yet, if you’re life me and interested in the production, editing, acting, film creation process and [...]
Remember Some Old Art Projects
Here’s a desk I painted my Junior year of Highschool. And this was the year-long art project of (I think) 4th grade and 6th grade, respectively. I’d done pinch pots, but The canvas one was an amazingly cool effect (painting over your masterpiece black and then scratching off to reveal color) So worthwhile and good to have these memorabilia archived!
Wise Words on Fame from Some Masters
Clooney had some wisdom on fame. Basically you can still make it at an older age, and should, to carry the success, apparently. Reassuring for young burgeoning actors. And Crowe had some wise wisdom (that’s totally true, I agree) about Hollywood. People get paid out of there but it’s not necessarily The Hub for all film. It’s certainly undeniably a major one (and has been The Hub) but the world’s much smaller and film productions can certainly traverse many regions. Filming takes place anywhere in the world (or out of [...]
21st Century Mythology: The Best Hero is Flawed, 2-Sided
Recently read this great article and it sparked some interesting ideas. Superheros are only identifiably heroic when they can connect to other humans! Otherwise, they’re just alien. The most secure way of making that connection, honestly, is flaws. Batman’s troubles over his dead parents, Ironman’s drinking problems, Maxwell Smart’s stupidity and bumbling, all those flaws make their great deeds identifiably humanly heroic. Cool stuff. Otherwise they’re just mythological! Yeah, that’s awesome. Superheroes who are perfect without flawed are just myth. The stories of Neptune and Jupiter from Ancient Rome helped [...]
Adulthood? Smells more like Youth-hood
Mencius – “The great man is he whom does not lose his child’s heart.” What is the criteria for Adulthood? At a closer glance, it ends up looking more like Criteria for Perpetual Youth! So let’s lay the groundwork. WHAT DOES make you an adult??!!! We may consider ourselves as much of an adult as we consider ourselves a teen or even a toddler. I think the same is true for the rest of the world and all the people in it — we’re as much adults as we are [...]
Orwell is living large here (atleast in China) and Now
Chinese government apparently is banning — yes, like Newspeak, Doublespeak, Though Police style — words like “foxy lady” claiming they’re “too seductive” and inappropriate. I’ve wandered if anyone whose grown up with strong language controls has difficulty “thinking out of the box’ or becoming aware of their cognitive boxes. This exposes yet another reason why diversifying your extravagant vocabulary and utilizing an incessantly expanding diction is not a form of “showing off” or “impression” but an avenue to cognitive freedom for you. How you communicate defines how you think. The [...]
Celebrity Conglomerate Syndrome
Erik Erikkson talked about (after the search for identity commences) four stages of identity development, diffused(haven’t started), foreclosed (prematurely defined), moratorium (still defining), and achieved (identity achievement). One of the biggest things preventing people from reaching identity achievement is “celebrity conglomerate syndrome” (CCS). Where you pick and choose bits and pieces of a celebrity’s personality or clothing or style or appearance to mimick and pile them onto yourself. The problem with this? You end up losing and burying yourself. Your strongest aspect — your identity — gets buried and that’s [...]
Take Actions with the Active Voice
When the sordid, uncertain, or fear-based moment arises we frequently turn inwardly. Phobic fear causes us to focus in on ourselves. Most importantly it turns us into passive beings. We are not intrinsically, authentically, naturally passive beings. When we go “passive” we begin seeking outwardly for guidance, advice, forms of faith or knowledge. This is the basis of the enormous self-help genre in bookstores. Now granted, those books are incredibly worthwhile and poignant and offer insightful messages. But you have the capacity to write the same material you read, but [...]
Seeing the Whole Pond
Everything is always, simultaneously a grand conclusion and beautiful beginning, if it is done properly – with tact, fullness, certainty, authentic conviction, and comprehensive personal integrity. Eric Eriksson talks about the stages of identity development which fall into four categories: • Diffusion • Foreclosure • Moratorium • Achievement For a long time I felt like I’ve been in the moratorium phase of identity formation, where you are kind of wandering, fully committed to investigating your authentic interests and whatnot, but without finding closure. However, while stretching after a run, I [...]
Do I listen to other people?
A lot of people have asked if I receive directions well? If I listen well and can easily apply things that others suggests. Let me explain this. I listen VERY well if the message is profound. If the messenger has deep conviction. If the requester or the messenger has fully considered what the situation is like from my shoes. If the person is delivering the message from a completely selfless stance, then I listen and react and act almost instantaneously. Unfortunately, when people speak from a conceited, inflated ego and [...]
Living as a Conduit
I realized I am a conduit. When I interact with people I don’t absorb their emotions, but sense them and then dish them back out (or get confused and overwhelmed by them). In every aspect I am a conduit and things must have immediate application. Anything that can stagnant on me doesn’t work and is deadly and must be removed. I’m talking about everything. Take reading a book. I need to read and then type out the book word-for-word or at the very least read it out loud to have [...]
