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What is Work?
What is work? Stuff I avoid. I think perhaps unsuccessfully. What we feel obliged to do. A task that can be accomplished. Work = force x distance. That’s the basic equation. I’m thinking of Hannah Arendt. She defines labor as something you have to do over and over like cleaning the house. But work, you…
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Denial as Selective Focus
Let’s explore that concept of denial as selective focus. If we see selection as denial, it leads to the notion of their being a single outcome does it not? That we can rule out outcomes by rejection of elements of our experience. Anyone ever succeed at that? I think persistence can be fruitful. Does denial aid…
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Events Around You
So to return, what is the difference between your ideas and your experience of events? Events are more material? Phase. Phase, verb, phased, phas•ing. noun 1. any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind. 2. a stage in a process…
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Why Does Work Seem to Fail?
Are there any moments in which you do no work? I suppose even if I am watching TV, then my brain is working. I get story ideas. Biologically, breathing is work. Thoreau had some interesting remarks on work, which I will draw loosely from. What is the difference between your work and the passage of…
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Efforts Are Not Pointless
We like small frames of reference. We are willing to accept success in whatever form it seems possible, often to the point we never even question it, but how well will nature reward our current model of success? Why people get addicted to games I think, hollow successes. Why are the successes hollow? They don’t…
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Design Your Experience
Who has design as part of their career or former career? Where do you start when you are going to create a design? I do research. Decide what mood I want to create and then look at other work that creates that mood. I think about it and wait for an idea. Idea and then collecting…
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You Are Free
We create our own resistances, our own restrictions. They are made out of “human nature”, and your human nature is not the same as mine. We need not confine ourselves to one set of tools. The story can be multi-media instead of just text. The program can have jokes written into the code and not…
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Your Inner Being Can Be Shaped
What if you decide you don’t want something and take steps to change it, is that still a reaction? Yes, defined by rejection of the entire process, but it might be a good start as long as it doesn’t lead to a chain of such rejections. We can become very well practiced nihilists that way.…
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Power of Libido
Let’s think of a situation that makes you want to leave. Anyone want to share one? A bad relationship. We tend to linger in those, why? Hoping to fix it. Fix it. What would happen if you examined yourself in that situation? We also remember how good it used to be. How it seemed to…
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Jumping Through the Hoops
My way of dealing with difficult people? If I actually want to exercise power? When I choose to exercise power with a difficult person, I find that part of myself that resonates with their state. It’s usually bitterness and contempt. They only use the weakest spark of aggression, but I let my bitterness surface, my…
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Has Your Game Begun?
To me, it seems we flip between a desire to belong and a desire to be free. The jokes on us for these hungers. Belonging is freedom. People don’t know how to have belonging, or freedom, so wind up having neither. I belong in a sense, to speak to my own experience. If I think of…
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Potential to Create Change
Today, we are talking about toil, labour and work. What is work? Something properly sanctioned by society as productive? The expenditure of energy. Doing something necessary but not fun. A task that can be accomplished. The potential to create change over time as well. As we live and breath and think and feel and react,…
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We Embody the Rules
We start very early in our lives to acclimate to a world were work is done. Even in the family where jobs may not have formal patterns or titles, or official contractual outlines to their obligation, we quickly learn that our parents feed us (usually one more frequently than the others), that some members of…
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Avoidance Behaviour
Perhaps another question. What do you most fear? Isolation. Anyone else? I myself most fear confusion. I fear being alone. I fear a wasted effort. Pain. If you think about it, the fears you have that spring most readily to mind are social. They have even found that the body and brain react to social…
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Work with Fear of the Consequences
Have you ever produced something while you were having fun? Yes. Isn’t productivity work? Sometimes work and play can be the same. Why are they ever different? When the work lasts longer than the period of interest. In work someone else has made the rules? It feels like work when it’s forced. Play when it…
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No Work From Fear
Let’s say no one has to work from fear. You need fear nothing from society if you don’t work as directed by someone. No punishment if you don’t take orders. Instead, as you go about your day, people simply ask for your help. What would the world be like then? You’re more willing to give…
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To Be Selfless
What is it to be selfless? I have no idea. They’re all getting something from it. See something that needs to be done and do it. To do something that benefits someone else more than yourself. Most people then? Most people live their entire lives that way. Are they good people because of it? Our…
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What Can’t be Taken?
I was very averse to money when I was younger. I quickly learned that people didn’t want to help me unless I could give them something, and I didn’t have the currency of social trade. I wasn’t clever, or funny, or good looking, and wasn’t able bodied so even that bottom line was unavailable to…
Category: Work
So what is really happening when we fail to get work done? What is wrong with the people we think of as lazy or shiftless?
Once choice is made, the rest is mere consequence. You choose every behavior you have. After the creative work you must rest and accept the consequences, but if you know that the creative media is at hand at any time, because you can be present at any time, well, doesn’t that seem to offer choices? Make the choice where you actually have the choice. The world doesn’t control you. It’s just a mirror, or a camera. It just copies you. It doesn’t actually have your soul.
“I have found there are three stages to every great work of God: first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” J. Hudson Taylor (English Missionary)
“Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.” Fernando Flores