Mastering the 6 Elements in your daily job
Basically, we do not master the four basic elements, we do not teach our children about the four everlasting elements in a reflective way. This is funny, as all the knowledge in the world, all our decision making can be traced back to these elements.If we understand the patterns (5th) and choices (6th) related with them, we might be able to create a more balanced world.
So let’s start step by step, it’s NOT about money, it’s about focus in whatever profession you are, see how your profession relates to these elements. When you find your relation with the elements, answers, you will also see which way is interesting to go next in your profession, in your career, for your company or organization. Why? If many of us relate to the elements in personal or corporate way, all things get simply more related; interesting opportunities will easier cross your path, energy flows become more efficient and you will have more time left to pursue the things you thought you would never have time for again.
So in Trustville, from my perspective, it’ll be about finding time to start in your own profession relating to the elements, first in common sense, later more specialized detailed related to your work processes.
What about your day to day job, there are only 4 everlasting elements interacting with eachother, can you trace them in your products or services you work in?
Paul( first contributed on Creating TrustVille )
Dear Spaceship Earth
Dear Spaceship Earth,
Our Context. Our Roots. Sometimes it is all connected. We try to understand something, we meet with like minded, and we design as a means to reach our goal. In these times, for the individual it is far more interesting to think deep and find his or her added value in the bigger picture. Once you understand the whole a bit, you see some empty spaces, you have the vision to look for your own place.
In small tribes, this idea is simple; if you did not master a complementary tribal survival or luxury skill, you are a burden to the community. In the animal cultures this principle still prevails. In human culture, yes, we have evolved to create carbon driven tools and have cheap labor abroad, so we can afford ourselves not to abandon our sick and less fortunate. Though today also the healthy and fortunate behave like the tribe should take care of him or her. Make sure there is a job, make sure there is food, make sure there is a roof above our heads.
And so today we start to commonly panic. We freeze. We distrust as the Trustville community is motivated upon into existence. Our job is at stake, so is our home and without a nearby supermarket we do not know how to survive. Aiming to hold on tight on what we still can hold on to, our primal instinct has awaken; I will take care of myself and my loved ones, no matter what it takes. You see it currently starting in many companies, many governments, fallback hoods, and we all see no way out… yet.
As long as humans have been able to understand the patterns in our history, primal instinct (much stronger than community values) always prevailed. Me, my family, my loved ones above the rest. Us and them in primary needs crisis; our most simple primary school history lesson.
We know this, and we have all the means to communicate and collaborate on local and global scale, why do we still freeze and only dream about a great future ahead of us? Some governments and so communities in the world understand again, it is time, time to listen to the right brained who have the complementary skill to see the whole, first in abstracts, later in detail together with the left brained. These regions are slowly finding a new balance. Regions who do not understand and not use or abuse the complementarity of minds, are meeting on swamps, design till their last breath tools which are unable to keep up with the needs of place and time.
Spaceship Earth, today it is October 28th, 2010. Let this be our little manifest;
We all know all is within one atmosphere, one nature. we living things have a point of view, a horizon, coming together in plant, animal and human cultures to survive and possibly live in luxury. We will try again to understand you, than we will meet in little groups, than to design meaningful solutions with the best complementary skills. We believe it is possible as many of us are beyond the ‘well-having ego’ cycle of this century. We trained ourselves to think with a free and clear mind and go beyond the easy fulfillment of discussing discussions. We know we need to be radical, we will play the game of redesign design itself exactly one of your solar cycles from today. In one year from now you are on the same spot from the sun; we played the game, collected the data, made choices, finished our story, reached the highest level. If we fail, a simple ‘game over’ message will do. To quote a famous wolf clan leader; you have all the time in the world, and we don’t. Just reboot without us.That the 6 elements may be with us.
Have a safe sun trip this year!
Big hug,
A small tribe in one of your jungles.
Dear Garret Lisi
Dear Garrett Lisi,
I came across this 2200 years old line: “There is no growth, there is no death, there is only mixture, there is only change, of four everlasting elements”. Then I reminded your passions @TED, then I realized I want to be able to send my toddler of 18 months one day to one of your inspired ScienceHostels… So I had two options about one minute ago;
a. I hope for the best, the Lisi hype will mature into great places on great locations.
b. I just start as guinea pig C, helping the NEXT generation to realize some. Here is a mental image for 2016,
Anything like this already starting up by you or others I should meet?
Take care,
regards,
Paul
( as contributed on Creating Trustville )
I have ‘seen’ the world you know
Hello 2020, I will be 11 years old. I was born with an iPod Touch in my hands. At my first birthday I navigated easily through the music and video’s with a sweep my dad could not do. My dad first saw the world through the Larousse encyclopedia at my grandma’s home. I got an iPad on my second birthday. I have ’seen’ the world you know.
I am bored.
In 5 years I have to go to a University. Why? Why pay all my allowance for an expensive 3×3 room in a crowded grey city, so I can be at 9AM in college? Why can’t I be 1 year with my soulmates in the mountains, I can learn the same as in a city using my iPad and internetcard! I think even more. I would invite the smartest best teachers some time to come over. To relax and to tell us a bit about a subject which matters. Would be cheaper than citylife anyways…
… to be continued( as posted on creatingtrustville.org )
Family vs World Tribe
Taking care of your family and taking care of ‘the world’ are two enormous extremes, but are 100% related. Every choice we make is the result of a chain reaction and the start of a new chain reaction. We are the turningpoint, though choosing different is not as easy as it might sound.
What is the community/tribe needed to ‘survive sustainably’? How do we and can we take care of eachother when we need to do ‘the same with less’? How many people need to be connected together to take care of eachother effectively? A tree has an ecosystem surrounding it, a human also. What is our tree structure? Can we be a ‘real farmville’ taking care of eachothers prosperity? What is needed for that?
Paul van Zoggel 