Personal Universe outline

Outline for Personal Universe.

1. Context
   • the big movements—Collective Actualization, Design Revolution, and Global Regeneration—will only move us toward the Great Turning if we’re able to transform the world in ways that actually make it better. Such transformations start in our minds, and this pattern talks about how we can prepare our minds for the task.
2. Problem
   • We’re all born with an innate potential as world creators, but we’re not naturally good at it. We need to grow as individuals, but we could easily spend several lifetimes reaching for perfection and never do anything else.
3. Discussion
   • Forces
     • The universe and the little planet we live on are complex places.
     • Our minds automatically learn from our experiences so we can function in this complex environment.
     • We learn both implicitly and explicitly.
     • We have also invented tools, like language and literacy, that help us extend those built-in abilities.
     • These kinds of tools that help us improve our thinking are called psychotechnologies, and in a very real sense, they’re like upgrades for our brain.
     • The concept of personal development encompasses a lot of things, from learning new skills
   • What does it means to make your mind better at solving big problems, and how can you go about it?
   • All of the self-development we need to do seems overwhelming, but it comes down to a fairly simple set of habits.
   • We each have a personal universe, and kind of model or simulation of the Universe that we run internally. It consists of everything we think we know about Universe from our experiences and the experiences of others that we’ve absorbed through learning.
   • While our models can be congruent with reality, they don’t have to be. And even the best internal models fall short of fully representing reality.
   • Our effectiveness in navigating Universe is directly related to how accurate, comprehensive, and integrated our personal universe is.
   • We can develop simple habits that will make our personal universe more accurate, comprehensive and integrated.
   • That is the heart of what we call personal development.
   • Beyond just helping us be more effective in the world, strengthening our personal universe is also a responsibility. Each of us is custodian of our little piece of what humanity knows about Universe. If you imagine somehow collecting the experiences of every living human into a kind of experience database, you would partially construct what I call Humanity’s Universe, our collective understanding of everything. But there would still be a part missing: all the experiences of people who have died, but communicated their experience through writing, film, art, or whatever media you can imagine. Add that to the experience database, and Humanity’s Universe is complete.
   • There are perhaps billions of important bits of knowledge that exist in Humanity’s Universe but are unavailable us. There are seven billion people all making sense of their experiences, but the vast majority of knowledge is locked away in the minds of individuals, not shared with anyone else. Maybe we regard it as insignificant or obvious, or our best insights are lost in a swirl of confusion and misinformation. Regardless, a lifetime of experience is lost whenever a person dies without communicating what they discovered to others.
   • “Know thyself.”
   • As keepers of our part of Humanity’s Universe, it’s important that we work to make our personal universe as accurate, interconnected, comprehensive and flexible as possible, and perhaps most importantly, we need to communicate our insights to others.
   • Therefore:
4. Solution
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5. Posttext
   • Throughout history, philosophers have identified three aspects of being human, expressed in different ways: feeling, thinking and doing. (thoughts, feelings, behaviors) (head, heart, hands)