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Category: 🌎 World
Ideas & writings to make the world better
Social Philosopher • Author • Ideologist
Practical Essayist • Thinker • Theorist
Learn That Everything Is Learning
Learning is everything and everything is learning.
Need Less Instead Of More
We may want more, but we need less.
Provide The Necessary For Everybody
There is enough for everybody.
Say "I Don't Know" Appropriately
I wonder if one of the problems in the world today is that people seem to have a built-in resistance to saying "I don't know".
Be Kind And Considerate
It takes more effort to be kind and considerate instead of reacting negatively, but it is worth the effort.
Think If You Should Say Anything
If you wouldn’t say something to someone face to face, while they chop vegetables with a sharp knife, then maybe you shouldn’t say anything at all.
Stop Making Movies About War
I wonder if one of the best ways to find peace on earth would be for us to stop making movies about war.
Keep People Who Inspire You
Keep the people in your life and follow those who inspire you and trigger your best and most positive thoughts.
Live Stronger And Longer
That which does not kill us makes us live longer.
Never Save Means Forever A Slave
Never save means forever a slave.
Look Back And Pat Your Back
Take a look back at things you've done, and pat your back for a job well-done.
Talk Glowingly About People
Imagine how great people would feel if we talked glowingly about people that are living in the same way that we talk glowingly about people that are gone.
Learn To Think Independently
Being able to think independently may be the most important thing I've learned in my life.
Double Down On Love
When you sense hatred and negativity in people and the world, that's exactly when you need to double down on love and positivity.
Be Kind Please Be Kind
Be kind, please be kind.
Teach A Person To Dream
Teach a person to dream and they feed the world for a generation.
How To Get Things Done
When it comes to completing tasks, finishing projects, reaching goals, achieving dreams, or doing anything else in this world, I think you need to know what steps to take.
I believe we need to focus on exactly what to do, and less on how or why to do something. These are what I have found to be the 8 most important actual steps you need to take when trying to complete any project, accomplish any goal, reach any dream, or make any change in your life. We're talking the nuts and bolts of exactly what to do to get things done. Whether it is a dream as huge as climbing a mountain, a goal as big as writing a book, a weekend project like painting the deck, or a task as small as getting milk at the grocery store.
Introduction
Make separate lists of tasks and goals you want to get done.
Dream big dreams. Believe all things are possible. - Unknown
I have tried many different methods, advice, tips, and tricks to reach your dreams and achieve your goals. I have used trial and error from many amazing writers to find out what really works. The result is that I have found these steps to be the most essential actions to take when trying to reach a goal, complete a task, or make any change in your life and in the lives of others. These are the 8 key steps which have allowed me to set and achieve goals and dreams. I believe and hope they will work for you as well.
Thinkist Definition
A person who uses their thinking and thoughts to transform their life and the world around them for the better.
thinkist
noun
- A person who uses their thinking and thoughts to transform their life and the world around them for the better. Their thoughts propel them to ultimately take action towards making their vision come true.
- A person who thinks that you can turn thoughts and ideas into reality.
- A person who understands that action, work, habits, and routines are also needed to make changes, complete tasks and projects, and achieve goals and dreams.
- A person who thinks that action and results begin with ideas, thinking, and believing.
- A person who values ideas, thoughts, belief, positive thinking, writing things down, and subconsciously influencing their mind as an important part of the process to complete tasks and projects, achieve goals and dreams, improve their attitude and character, get things done, and make changes in their life, the lives of others, and the world.
- A person who values and encourages optimism, positive thinking, praising one another, and positive reinforcement. They may also devalue or discourage pessimism, negative thinking, putting people down, and negative punishment.
- A person who may or may not appreciate the ideas of using positive thinking, affirmations, autosuggestion, imagination, writing down and reading goals, talking about their goals with others, journaling, gratitude, prayer, and focused meditation to help one improve their character, their attitude, their life, and the character, attitude, and lives of others.
- A person who may or may not appreciate the sayings "Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that." and "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve."
Updated Date - August 23, 2023
Original Date - May 15, 2014
Social Norms Theory (Affection)
This is a reply to an insightful and heartfelt video essay by xkcdHatGuy titled "Acting as the collective's psychologist for 25 minutes"
Thanks for another thoughtful video essay xkcdHatGuy. As far as your thoughts and feelings, I'm with you in many ways, and I would like to let your keen thoughts stand on their own. I feel for you and other people who feel the same way at times. So I won't go on about the parts I agree with and how astute and relatable your perceptions are here. I just really appreciate you taking the time to put together your ideas in general, and this was a fun one.
Regarding some of your thoughts, which I felt was partly about social norms, you might want to separately ponder on and ask yourself the following couple of questions. I was thinking about them and came up with them myself while listening to you. I'd be interested to hear any thoughts or answers you or others have to these questions or my thoughts on them, which I admit are likely complete nonsense and incorrect answers to the questions I bring up below.
1. Why? Why does the average person confine themselves to social norms?
Theory - Sex and the desire for physical affection is the most basic reason for following social norms and the basis for the grip that capitalism, materialism, and the economy holds upon individuals today.
I agree with you that a large majority of people seem to mainly just be trying to learn what is accepted by society and follow those rules, as opposed to living naturally or deciding for themselves how to live. As you said in regards to walking around at night, I do also get a sense that this feeling and tendency may even be amplified since the pandemic started. I wonder if this may also be partly due to some of the social issues that have continually been more prevalent in western society recently, including the treatment of minorities and women. We may be in a period where some people, and young people in particular, are staying secluded and learning inside and online a bit more than the previous few generations, instead of going out and partying to find their own boundaries and what they and others feel is acceptable within their group and society.