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Phil Tanny
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Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:19 pm
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Please note, this post has nothing to do with politics or current events.
A commentator on TV was reflecting on the culture of the US Army.
They observed that once given a mission, the culture of the army is to always assume the mission is doable and winnable, and to keep on assuming that, and keep on pressing forward towards success, until someone tells them to stop.
Before the mission they will give their advice. After the mission they will analyze the results.
But during the mission, their only focus is successfully accomplishing the mission they've been given.
The commentator had a great way to describe this, and said "the army does not have a reverse gear."
If we're engaged in a battle to win our self employed freedom on the Net, not having a reverse gear might be the greatest asset any of us could have.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:37 pm
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I agree with that Phil. Once you get truly committed to building an internet business their is no going backwards at that point.
Unfortunately once most people realize making money online involves alot of hard work they not only have a reverse gear they abort their mission altogether.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:27 pm
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Hi Phil,
| Quote: | | If we're engaged in a battle to win our self employed freedom on the Net, not having a reverse gear might be the greatest asset any of us could have. |
Great philosophy, keep going forwards to your goal.
But would you really want to take ?no reverse gear? too literally? Which would mean that you?d be unable to back off a bit if the situation called for it. If I found myself up a blind alley, I?d definitely want a reverse gear 
You start a journey in your car, your intention is to reach your destination come hell or high water. But would you make that trip in a car with no reverse?
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:49 pm
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Hey Larry,
Well, sure, tactical retreats could surely be part of always moving forward.
To continue with the army analogy, there's a meaningful difference between a tactical retreat, and a surrender.
And there are a lot of ways forward. Sometimes the fastest way forward might be mastering the art of doing nothing at all.
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Larry Chamberlain
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:06 pm
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Hi Phil,
| Quote: | | To continue with the army analogy, there's a meaningful difference between a tactical retreat, and a surrender. |
Absolutely
| Quote: | | And there are a lot of ways forward. Sometimes the fastest way forward might be mastering the art of doing nothing at all. |
Ah, I mastered the art of doing nothing at all long ago, it?s an art I?m trying to condition myself out of! 
But seriously, you are right ? wait and see is sometimes the way forward.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:51 pm
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| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | Ah, I mastered the art of doing nothing at all long ago, it?s an art I?m trying to condition myself out of! |
I do hear and enjoy your humor, you pathetic lazy bum.
More seriously, I sense that the art of doing nothing at all is one of the great unexplored frontiers in Net business.
Further, perhaps I'll proclaim that we are all being pushed by market forces towards the necessity of learning this art, whether we like it or not.
And I assure you we usually won't like it, because truly doing nothing is actually a lot harder than doing something.
To test this theory, try to stop thinking for one minute.
Or, spend tomorrow sitting on the ground in your backyard. No books, ipods or cellphones please.
Just you, doing nothing.
How long do you last?
How am I going to create a site that starts a spontaneous viral wave of incoming links from readers and reviewers? This is the kind of breakthrough that we publishers all more or less desperately want.
No clever memorized strategy or latest greatest gizmo tool is likely to give me an original site. Everybody else already has the strategies and tools.
Where will the idea for such a site come from?
Probably not from all the reading I've done, and all the group consensus I have internalized.
A site idea that arises from these places will most likely not be original enough to start a viral linking wave, because the source of the ideas generated are... everybody else.
Thinking, thinking, thinking, always diligently thinking may not be the answer either.
What is the source material for all my thoughts? Yep, everybody else, a gigantic pile of external influences centuries old.
Where do truly creative ideas come from?
Nowhere. And nobody.
That endless space of silence that is usually covered up by the endless chatter of our minds.
The scientists say the entire universe was created from a single point of nothing in the "big bang".
Monster black holes swallow entire galaxies and reduce them to, nothing.
As Net technology creates an endless ocean of repetitive crap, a relative handful of sites will float to the top.
My sense is that the development of these rare sites will somehow involve someone's journey in to nothing, and then BANG!, a new idea is born.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:14 am
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Blimey Phil, that is deeply deep! 
| Quote: | | How am I going to create a site that starts a spontaneous viral wave of incoming links from readers and reviewers? This is the kind of breakthrough that we publishers all more or less desperately want. |
Ah, linkbait wherefore art thou?
| Quote: | Probably not from all the reading I've done, and all the group consensus I have internalized.
A site idea that arises from these places will most likely not be original enough to start a viral linking wave, because the source of the ideas generated are... everybody else. |
Yes, one way or another we all internalize the same information.
But if an ?idea? suddenly ?popped? into your consciousness as if from nowhere could you be sure that it wasn?t due to the distilled essence of much that you have absorbed?
The idea may not be born out of ?marketing information? but from information that you?ve internalize about another of your interests.
Perhaps completely sub-consciousnesly mixing information about = fill in the blank = with what you know about marketing may produce a eureka moment that seems to have come out of ?nothing??
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:49 am
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| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | Blimey Phil, that is deeply deep! |
Blimey, Larry me lad, we've both kissed the Blarney!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone
| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | Perhaps completely sub-consciousnesly mixing information about = fill in the blank = with what you know about marketing may produce a eureka moment that seems to have come out of ?nothing?? |
Sure, there are a lot of ways to describe and understand creativity.
We might say it's the "me" that has to be quiet, so that the subconciousness mixing can be heard. Thus, the answer seems to spring from nothing and nobody.
We could observe that every byte of data traversing the net is made up of only zeros and ones, and it just wouldn't work without the zeros.
We might note that when we work out with weights to increase our physical strength, the muscle tissue is built not while we're exerting, but while we're resting.
I'm not wedded to any of these analogies.
However we might approach our own understanding of creativity, the topic seems worthwhile.
Once everybody and their dog can create a full quality production in any media just by clicking a few buttons, the birth of a fresh idea would seem to be the only way any of us can be heard above the crowd.
Imagine a future where the machines do all the grunt work, and the role of human beings is increasingly narrowed to being the source of the fresh ideas.
In that scenario, the study of creativity comes center stage?
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:42 pm
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Hi Phil,
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Blimey, Larry me lad, we've both kissed the Blarney! |
No, the nearest I?ve been to the emerald isle is Kentish Town! (a district of London that probably has more Paddies than Dublin)
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We might say it's the "me" that has to be quiet, so that the subconciousness mixing can be heard. Thus, the answer seems to spring from nothing and nobody. |
That?s a better way of putting it than I did!
| Quote: | However we might approach our own understanding of creativity, the topic seems worthwhile.
Once everybody and their dog can create a full quality production in any media just by clicking a few buttons, the birth of a fresh idea would seem to be the only way any of us can be heard above the crowd. |
Certainly is worthwhile. In fact perhaps we are already at, or very close to, the point where creativity rules.
In our online endeavors ? some of us may not be able to obtain the software that we need, and some of us may struggle with the learning curve, but beyond that . . . it is the creativity that is going to separate us surely?
I keep prodding myself to come up with some linkbait ideas, perhaps I should stop the prodding and ?let it flow?
This all reminds me of something that I read about Keith Richards. He said he has never once been able to sit down to write a tune or lyrics. But often riffs, tunes and lyrics come at him from ? He says that as long as he has a guitar to hand and his ?antenna? up, something will come from somewhere.
Ah, if we could just learn that trick . . .
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:33 pm
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| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | No, the nearest I?ve been to the emerald isle is Kentish Town! (a district of London that probably has more Paddies than Dublin) |
Ah, well, darn, ok then, you win I guess, you're more blarney than me.
| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | This all reminds me of something that I read about Keith Richards. |
We can't get no, hey hey hey, creativity!
We're a typin in our posts,
And a man comes on the forum,
He's telling us more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to fire our imagination
We can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what we say
We can't get no, creativity!
| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | In fact perhaps we are already at, or very close to, the point where creativity rules.
Ah, if we could just learn that trick . . . |
To the degree that creativity is learnable, I'd guess we don't learn it, because we don't study it.
The logical outcome of a "creativity rules" theory will be seen when we begin turning away from things outside ourselves, and refocus on our own brains, the source of the creativity.
We can't get no, blimey blarney!
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:05 pm
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| Larry Chamberlain wrote: | | be nice to hear the views of some others |
Agreed!
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:49 am
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It seems like some of the most 'successful' (whatever that concept happens to embody for you) people in our human society have made what are apparently significant creative contributions in some field of interest or discipline.
And yet, our scientific study of the human mind seems to be finding (surpise?) that everyone is more or less capable of significant creative acts - an ability seemingly independent from whatever we measured and called 'intelligence' in the past.
In addition, that we can 'amplify' this ability, through specific actions taken in accordance with the knowledge we are discovering.
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19920301-000031.html
It also seems more and more the Internet (especially the web) is a proving grounds for this. As the technology of our interconnected network of computers improves, it expands individual options for communication of new ideas, things, between other people.
On numerous occasions, previously unknown individuals (even groups) have used the newest technologies to showcase creative acts which were deemed significant by a large number of other people.
I believe the ease and speed of which complex information can be communicated, and the unparalleled accessibility of this medium by individual entities, will ultimately result in some of the greatest creative contributions to the betterment of our society to have ever been made.
Indeed, it likely already has.
It just has so much ability to act as a catalyst to creativity, and then realize the potential.
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