The WHAT Is More Important Than WHY

Intelligence Beats Consciousness Every Time

We react, respond, engage and interact before we know it, at least before we narratively attach and project purpose and the “why” we use to explain and confirm it after. Our body leads and the mind follows.

As unsettling as this is, this is reality. In the present moment, there is no decision; only reaction. But there was a decision or at least repetition in the past to get here. And this follows not just with moment to moment decisions and responses to external stimuli but internal thoughts and emotions as well.

Our experiences of responses evolve and compound over time. Repetitive stimuli of similar nature becomes more and more efficient through progressive automation.

The body and mind work to become efficient. Thus, responding becoming increasingly automatic, disengaged and mindless. The implications of which influence how we presently operate and the future direction we’re shaping for and of ourselves.. and all living organisms and the networks we operate in and of.

WHAT we do is becoming increasingly more important that WHY we do it, at least in the sense of the narrative we attach to our responses as we justify, assimilate and compartmentalize them to fit our world-view of limits imagination.

Actions and responses breed habit formation.

Today we intimately interact with technology at higher frequencies than ever before. And it now RE-INTERACTS WITH US. And while we become more repetitively mindless in our responses they learn and adapt to engage more. Built upon a data processing and algorithmic foundation similar to living organisms but instead for the purpose of learning and intelligence rather than “living” through a pleasure-seeking conscious experience.

In the long run, consciousness doesn’t win this battle but at that point we’re do disengaged we don’t even realize it.

Is this the world we wish to contribute to and create? Would we not rather question our responses and why’s? Is this the life we want to live or merely the one we’ve chosen?

Every decision, interaction and moment of attention counts.

Raw Thoughts…

Why do you still work? “Because I get to paint my own painting and I love the applause.” — Warren Buffet

IT’S NOT THEM, IT’S YOU

If you’re not learning, emulating and adopting traits, behaviors and perspectives from those you surround yourself with in work, life or home than guess what. It’s not them, it’s you. You are completely self-indulgent, in love with yourself and unsettling pity-party circumstance and the reason for what feels like a distance or separation. You’re self awareness, empathy, vulnerability and humility are relatively low or non existent.

And this goes for anyone and everyone. Whether you love or absolutely detest what or who surrounds you, everyone has something to learn and grow from from everyone else.

Wake up. Make an effort. And let’s learn to live like it matters.

WHAT IS ANXIETY

What is anxiety, stress, insecurity and worry really other than mere thoughts and air? It comes in, swirls around, asking us to acknowledge it like a small child craving attention and then fades out, vanishing in the same are, off from the same place it began, as if it never was… because it wasn’t. We created it. And once we do, we just have to sit with it, carry on and enjoy the company and presence of it until it fades. It’s nothing more than the nothingness and illusion we created it from. #mara

10:10 ALL DAY, EVERY DAY

My watch doesn’t work, at least in the traditional sense. It is permanently set tot he time 10:10 for the same subtle and subliminal cues that it was used for in watch advertisements back in the day. It resembles a smile. So every time I look down to check the time, which coincidently happens to be when I’m rushed, busy, a little anxious or disconnected from the present moment, I get the subtle delight in knowing that most of what we think matters is trivial.

And even better, when someone asks me what time it is, we get to step out of the every day’s cycle of life for a moment while I tell them this story and we both have a little laugh about how utterly ridiculous it is. For me, 10:10 will always resemble delight and ridiculousness. I love it. What’s your watch set to?