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truths
mostly about me
- hard challenges are exactly what we need to strive for most, this is another way of saying "it's the thrill of the chase" or it's not the goal, but how you get there, or... The thing is that it's all about finding personal satisfaction by trying to tackle bigger and harder problems. The corallary is that failure is OK, because it's necessarily a fact of life. The only way to guarantee no failures is to only try to solve easy problems. Then there's an expectation that there will never be a failure (which takes a different sort of mindset). We want the people who manage our nuclear power plants and such to have that latter sort of mindset. But I'm not that way, I want to find the *hardest* problems to solve.
- competitiveness and how we deal with it is at the heart of "solving" the social problem -- I've recently had a very abrupt off drop-off in faith about the competitive venture (ultimate frisbee) that I most love (and have used to work out a lot of issues or at least find a way to "totally exert" myself and maybe suppress/pave-over any deeper problems) recently thinking about volleyball, golf, baseball and the true range of issues that surround all sports (and how things like product sponsorship are just as much a reality and play at least as big a part as the atheletic excellence that's at the heart of any of these games).
- if you listen to anyone for long enough, or if you read enough of what any one person writes, you'll inevitably find something you disagree with, and you'll also inevitably (possibly it will take slightly longer to find?) come across something that you completely oppose
- to get people together, it's only necessary to find a common goal -- so therefore to bring everyone together, it's only necessary to find a common goal that everyone can agree on -- I say "only" but this probably still qualifies as a "hard challenge"
- structure is absolutely key to everything
- nested hierarchical structures are a good and powerful model, but that's also a limiting way to look at things (and cuts down on the degree of complexity able to be handled/modeled in many cases)