Daily pages - August 30, 2021

I’m doing a lot of thinking about things, and last week, I spent some time trying to summarize those things. This week, I need to be actively integrating those ideas into the book. That might mean creating some new patterns, renaming some patterns, and adjusting the writing on a number of patterns to align them better with each other. Ideally, that would include the main patterns that I want to include in the proposal, so I can get that completed and in the hands of agents.

The patterns I think will be important are currently Global Civilization, Greater Livingness, [[ World Creator ]], Personal Universe, Creative Practice, [[ Things That Need Doing ]], Yours To Do, Artifacts, Open Artifacts.

Obviously, I would like a sampling of writing that shows the ways things are interconnected in the book. If I use Creative Practice as my center, it mentions World Creators, Artist-Poet-Scientists, and Comprehensive Sensemakers in the context statement. So I wonder if World Creators might be something better to include than Global Civilization. Originally, Global Civilization was supposed to embody a kind of vision of the future, and it can still do that. Maybe it’s still important as well as World Creator. There’s a certain followable sequence there: create a better future by developing the emerging Global Civilization toward Greater Livingness; develop the global civilization by growing as a World Creator; become a more effective World Creator by paying attention to your Personal Universe; create actual change by establishing a Creative Practice, where you look for Things That Need Doing and choose what’s Yours To Do in a way that tries to maximize your growth as well as your contribution; in your creative practice, design Artifacts and Open Artifacts projects; and the list can keep going until all of the patterns are accounted for.

I there a way to integrate the preface and the introduction such that the personal stories are reflected in the goals behind the book? I’m not sure it makes sense to have them be separate essays.

One of the ideas that I’ve been playing around with is to look at the Tarot cards I have and see if there are meaningful ways I can integrate them into the Life Principles that are a section of the first part of the book. I find myself seeing overlap between these ideas, which include things like the principle of responsibility, and the change vectors (my name) that are listed in the 12-step Alcoholics Anonymous. And I wonder if there’s a need for a pattern that states that we can change (essentially, the growth mindset) in preferred ways by trying to move along these growth vectors, many of which are outlined in the Principles of Life section. Further, it seems like these same principles need to be applied to our world and Earth. They’re not limited to personal growth, but to helping all things human to move toward greater livingness.

The pattern may be Change Vectors, but it may also just include the idea of change vectors within it, much like I perceive Personal Universe might not be a pattern name, but a key idea in what is a pattern for the creative process.

In the current intro, I start with the “What am I supposed to do about it?” question which I’m guessing is a feeling that a lot of people have around world problems. I’m thinking that I start with the question “What can I do to help make the world better?” and then go straight to the answer as “establish a creative practice where you improve your skills and abilities by taking on increasingly complex problems.” That establishes the Creative Practice pattern at the center, then, the rest can be summarized around that, and explained as flowing from that central goal. There are many issues that come up including what’s my goal? Is anyone else doing this sort of thing? How do I know if something really needs doing? How do I choose? How can I grow as a person? How do I know where I stand today and track progress? And the list goes on.