This is an essay to myself [my younger self, perhaps]
Author: 4rchbishop
Bear Skin #167
Men are logical, women are emotional.
Men are more logical, women are more emotional.
Have you heard this expression? Does it ring true? or false?
Men and women might refer to their broad experiences of hormones and behaviour eg. testosterone leads to goal-oriented decision making, while oestrogen enhances the coding of emotion and recognition accuracy for facial expressions.
However both men and women are often confronted by the illogic of ego, emotion, communication and decision making across the sexes. Ultimately our hormones and our humanity make us emotionally motivated thinkers and doers.
Communications and the exchange of value pivots around human desires to be happier, wealthier, healthier, more connected, more loved and admired, more powerful and to achieve deep purpose.
If your communication and message does not connect with the deep desires, dream, fears and worries of the people you serve, then you are missing out on the deep relationship and connection based on a shared feeling of being understood.
Good communication = good relationships and good relationships start with an understanding and connecting with people’s feelings and desires.
What is Thinking?
Bear Skin #166
Thing are not what they used to be!
Things just are not what they used to be!
Do you ever find yourself feeling that the world was better, simpler, purer and somehow less messed up in the past than it is now?
That could be your childhood or your grandparents time or even further in the past. Does it ever occur to you that every generation throughout history has felt this way?
Any earnest reading of history will see that pretty much any era of the near or distant past was as chaotic, messy, imperfect, unjust and wicked – just often in slightly different ways.
Since every generation feels the future is both exciting [utopia] or daunting [dystopia], that the present is messy and wicked and that the past was somehow balanced, integrated and had a harmony or wisdom that made it better – perhaps it is because memory and emotion form a doppler effect?
This doppler effect causes the future, the present and the past to each take a different impression, a hue, a note. Just as a racing car will sound shrill upon approach and more resonant as it passes, so our emotions about the future and present and past will bend experience and memory as time passes.
The truth is there is ALWAYS a chaotic present, an uncertain but exciting future and the past becomes a story. The ONLY real time is the present! Make it great
Wings
Bear Skin #165
The Value of Beauty
This short animated clip taken from the lectures of Jordan Peterson, sums up the long term value of art to a society, the necessity of investing in the work of artists we admire, and the power of art to connect us as finite and limited creatures to the transcendent, providing us with the strength to prevail.
His cry to us all – BUY A PIECE OF ART !!
You can find more videos like this at Jordan Peterson Animation.
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