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When all else fails:
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the most important but neglected conversation of all!
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- welcoming intentionally more gratifying and
effective modes of social interaction
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How to start a movement :
The
first follower
shall be the true leader
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among co-founders teaching by example, showing others how to follow, demonstrating how to
relate
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“If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
— African proverb
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“A
good
friend
knows
all your stories. A best
friend
helped you create them."
—
Unknown
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“Creativity
is not a talent: it's a way of
operating.” — John Cleese
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- those for whom life
direction
"off
the rack"
simply never seems befitting,
- striving in
definition and understanding towards implementation in
fulfillment
of
individual unmet needs.
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Passive
denial sinks
even the most modest, banal and straightforward
proposition into sheer empty
pipedream,
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whereas
honest
due diligence
ekes barest feasibility study at all even out from the
most fantastic escapism.
- Discontent is
key to progress
- Neither
equally
inauthentic opposite polar
extremes of: workaholic superficial materialism on the one hand, nor of:
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conditioned
willfully optimistic
retreat inward from external
reality
on
the other hand, ever actually bring happiness!
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- The TRUE
MEANING
of
LIFE is that HAPPINESS is
subjective well-being,
- an INDIVIDUALLY
REACTIVE STATE VARIABLE to howsoever favorable
objectively
real circumstances.
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“When work is a
pleasure, life is joy!
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When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
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— Maxim Gorky
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- DANGEROUS IDEAS
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values-driven
enterprise
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Happy people thrive, are more
creative and productive, schedule more flexibly, earn more
money, attract more
friends, enjoy better relationships, and
even stay healthier and outlive less happy peers. Happy
people are sociable, extroverited and
known
to reach out,
Talk
More
Seriously
and make less
small talk,
exert effort in
order to actively make things happen, attentively pursue new
understandings,
choose creative activities,
seek new achievements, and thereby uplift their own thoughts
and emotions, even improving their
situation and circumstances by
centering their lives around whatever pleases them most.
Activity and objectives
must be varied and novel yet well-suited to personality,
practiced diligently and
successfully
in a continued stream of fresh positive experience so as to
outweigh
negativity bias. And
that's a tall order!
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and then renewal of appetite
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- What
are these things to
you?
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Ponder/talk to/investigate
all whomever/whatever anyone so urgently
wants you
not to even consider.
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Engagement, visceral or intellectual, elicits the
desire of perseverance and concentration.
Underserved stimulus needs of nurture for intelligence via optimal
reciprocal
engagement, include steady emotional
support,
exploration and
fun, active participation, sensory
stimulation, with opportunity for
social interaction,
freedom from undue pressure and
distress
though suffused with a degree of
pleasurable intensity or:
eustress,
with varied selection and alternatives of successive novel
challenges neither too easy and
boring
nor too difficult and frustrating, promoting lifelong
growth
in a broad range of skills and interests, intellectual,
physical, aesthetic, social and emotional.
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“Unhappiness
is not
knowing
what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
—
Don Herold
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“It's
a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” —
Lucille Ball
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"Think
like a man of action,
act like a man of thought"
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- How do you see
yourself? How might you seek to custom design your own
peak experience?
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After
all, what are the
situational
forces
of routine status quo, except the immediacy of readily available
or even unavoidable human interaction?
All
those hucksters and self help gurus want is your money:
If no hyped up guide, course or book achieves whatever
earnestly desired life transformation, and blaming yourself
certainly won't help, then perhaps what is wonting is the
quality of intentional human interaction.
First, change
the discussion!
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Can
active immersive intentional shared creativity
dispel
alienated suffering ennui of
loneliness
and
boredom?
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What are
loneliness
and
boredom,
really? Exactly what are you
missing doing with others? Sell
me on it!
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According to
Freud, the
reality principle in the mind,
playing out likely
scenarios, weighs the costs and
benefits of any effort before deciding either to act upon and
gratify or else to restrain and abandon an impulse arising in
accordance with the
pleasure principle. And this interplay of
the pleasure principle
checked by
the
reality principle
is obviously
fundamental to all
motivation and values, being crucial
because
Eudemonia,
authentic well being,
arises from human interchange suitable to fulfill
intrinsic
stimulus needs in harmony with personal
values.
-not merely
character,
even howsoever sterling, in the abstract, but
real opportunity for life lead in integrity. Thus,
happiness comes in meeting ones needs for capable
interaction with responsible others,
partaking together in that very
interplay of the
pleasure and
reality principles that imbues
living with
meaningful
relevant
value
and autonomy.
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Divide and conquer: If
you're not suppose to talk to me, then what great
taboo
am I not supposed to impart to you?
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It
all begins simply by
you holding up your end of this
uplifting conversation...
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Free
of charge
You're
all
invited!
your outreach begins here:
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- Announcing working group
formation
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Modes of
Collaboration
for
you to join in
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