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Scotomaville volume two episode 13 on stories "The greatest expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding"
https://youtu.be/evitzktwvqu
I'm taking a MasterClass from the filmmaker James Cameron.
James Cameron: "When I started out I was working as a truck driver. I didn't have much spare cash and certainly couldn't afford film school. But all you have to do is pick up a camera and start shooting something with the intention of making a film and you're a filmmaker.
I think it's the duty of filmmakers that have been down the road aways to turn around and say; all right there's a land mine over here. There's a landmine over there. Don't step on it. So why not share that.
I'm James Cameron and this is my MasterClass."
Wow. Iit's pretty amazing when you get to shadow and learn from someone who's been where you want to go.
IMAGE OF AVATAR
I hope you see the parallels.
Welcome to another episode of Scotomaville. In this episode we're going to talk about stories. I don't mean story telling. I mean the stories you have built your life around. The stories that we've been told, and the stories we tell ourselves.
You'll remember that I introduced in volume one the sleeves illusion. I fully believe that storytelling is a superpower. It actually has command over early AI (Artificial Intelligence).
Think about this: you immediately know the difference between a 'runny nose' and 'smelly feet'. Think about it. Runny Nose. Smelly Feet. (not running feet and smelly nose) AI has to be taught inference, humor, tone, sentiment, analogy, metaphor and sarcasm (story-telling)
You can use words, as the media and much of the creators online do to persuade, mislead, obscure, bloviate. There's a bunch of words within highly emotional stories that move us away from rational thinking, and get us to synchronize with the storyteller.
Research has demonstrated that the brain between the storyteller and the listener synchronize. Using fmri scans between the teller and the listener demonstrate a communication bridge. You can see the two brains synchronize their activity to tell and to follow.
Our brains have evolved in order for us to survive by being forwarned. Don't step on this. Don't go there. Beware.
That's both very useful and very much abused.
We choose which stories we want to listen to - the emotions and key points we accept in our head. Those form the basis of our beliefs. As our awareness confirms our beliefs (confirmation bias) we revisit those ideas with other thoughts that confirm or deflate. The memory of our experiences are replayed again and again and again. The electrical firing across dendrite pathways become stronger and more frequented to become our attitudes. We act habitually with our beliefs directing our behaviors. James Cameron uses storyboards to direct a film. We do the same in our head - and in the head of our audience.
In order to stop a poorly formed belief, and the recycling of emotional triggers, we've got to have awareness of what the stories are that have influenced us so much, and over years.
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I commuted to my workplace, and read, on that bus, 50 volumes of the Harvard Classics. They filled my mind with all kinds of ideas that represent some of the best of human thinking - equal to a degree from Harvard.
Some of the stories I appreciate most are from volume 17 on folklore and fable. Aesop, Grim, Anderson. I favored particularly tales with morals and consequences.
The stories we tell ourselves come from the stories that we were told. One of the most influential story that came to mind when I asked myself was 'The Cracked Pot'. I read this story in Chicken Soup For The Unsinkable Soul sometime around 1999. It made a very big impression on me.
Chicken Soup For The Unsinkable Soul https://www.chickensoup.com/book/35051/chicken-soup-for-the-unsinkable-soul http://www.chickensoup.com/book-story/50004/the-cracked-pot
The Cracked Pot
A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.
For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water in his master’s house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfections, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.
After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. “I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you.” “why?” asked the bearer. “What are you ashamed of?” I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master’s house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work and you don’t get full value for your efforts,” the pot said.
The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot and in his compassion he said, “as we return to the master’s house I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path.”
Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again it apologized to the bearer for its failure.
The bearer said to the pot, “did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path but not on the other pot’s side? That’s because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you’ve watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master’s table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house.”
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I recognize the scotoma that 'the cracked pot' had in my own thinking. I had felt, most of my life, shamed by my origins, by my illegitimacy. The emotional seeds were planted by those that were in authority that had spoken harsh words or criticized, condemned and planted them in my belief system. I misunderstood their own wounds, and gave their words far too much credibility. I matched their words with my mothers believing that I was not eligible, not worthy, not one of them, not... Credible.
Starting on a faulty premise, when I ran into challenges, I tended to shy or pull back, instead of finding the good in it (obstacle is the way)
Camera falls from wall to the floor!
(Triggered sarcastic tone) oh come on...#@!
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It's probably going to take you several iterations and several different adjustments just to be able to get the camera at an angle that's pleasing, and for it be firmly attached.
Note: when the student is ready, the teacher will appear! I suppose the camera had to fall to demonstrate my emotional state (triggered fail) of being fully immersed in early false beliefs connected to my reading the cracked pot again (onion peeling). Give yourself a contingency (grace and production time) for being emotionally engaged with your personal everest.
It takes a lot of practice and self-edification to become competent at having the cameras rolling with the composition you want, while capturing a pleasing exposure and color, and being calm enough to record numerous takes of the point you are grasping to articulate.
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The Tale Of Two Shoes Salesmen
Once upon a time, a shoe company sent two salesmen to Africa to determine the market potential for their products. One salesman was sent to the east coast of Africa, while the other salesman was sent to the west coast of Africa.
Both the salesmen completed a basic survey of the target market and called back to the office. The salesman sent to the east coast of Africa reported: “no one here wears any shoes, there is no market for us here!”. The other salesman sent a message “no one here wears any shoes, there is a huge market for us, send inventory fast!”.
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About three decades ago was the first time that I had heard a story with the moral of the glass half full or glass half empty - depending on your point of view.
To show that life and all stories are far more complicated, you'll find another version of the story in google entitled: the two shoe salesmen (the rest of an entrepreneurial myth) from blogspot and the occasional ceo. The same story as told from the perspective of a corporate chief executive officer.
The author tells the storyagain and then he claims he has the 'rest of the story'.
Note: the 'rest of the story' is also fiction. The blogger claims he read of a manuscript leaked by an unnammed source, at an unnamed museum, written by a daughter, for privacy sake... Yeah right. Onus probandi!
"I had a chance to read a copy of the manuscript sent me by a friend who works at the museum. Here is the rest of this classic story captured by the daughter of one salesman. For privacy's sake... Blah blah"
The basic idea that the pessimist went back to the factory and made a fortune as an intrapreneur by selling supplies and multiple lines of product to the optimistic entrepreneur who failed to sell shoes, and suntan lotion, and glasses, and sandals, and hats, and kept iterating and iterating and iterating. The entrepreneur made a living, but the ceo succeeded wildly by branching out with several lines of product supplied to several different continents. The intrapreneur became a very very rich person.
The narrative that blogger wants to enforce is that intrapreneurs are more likely to succeed than entrepreneurs becasue taking a risk closely held risk is not necessary for success. Use other peoples money and dont suffer personally or make your family go through tough challenges.
You can see the story is used to make two completely different points of view. This is what I'm saying triangulation is good for. If a third partyto the stories points out the lack of evidence, and the biases of the tellers... Now you have a fuller and likely fair understanding of the points and the tale.
If you have married an optimist - like Angelina - and she's the ceo. Hang on because you are going for a ride.
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Kevin Baerg'S Goldfish
Kevin Berg is the author of 'Created For Excellence' and 'Created To Win'. He was an early client of Angelina and I in Tacoma. He would come over evenings to work on his website with us. He shared one of his experiences as a young man that made a big impact on me.
He had won a goldfish at the fair during summer break in school. And after taking it home and becoming 'kid friends' he had to go to summer camp. He didn't want to leave his goldfish orphaned, so he grabbed the bowl and off he went to summer camp.
There were lots of things for the kids to do. He couldn't take that goldfish to all of the different activities and events. But the camp happened to have a lake and a dock.
He got the idea that he could let that goldfish go in a big pond. What a great idea. He would liberate that goldfish and let it out of the bowl that it was outgrowing.
He carried that goldfish proudly down to the dock and sat down with his bare feet in the water. He leaned over and carefully poured the goldfish into the pond. Within moments and to his horror the goldfish was swimming around in circles, not going out into the lake.
He tried with his shadow and shoo it into a different course, but before the goldfish understood, a large mouth bass saw it as easy dinner. Splash! No more goldfish.
Everything Kevin had dreamed of doing -of being the liberator - was turned upside down by the reality of having put that inexperienced and naive goldfish at risk. It was habitually going around and around and doing the same old thing, not recognizing opportunity nor danger.
You can imagine that no matter how much you want to help someone, if they're not ready and willing to go outside of their comfort, like that goldfish, then you are actually endangering them. They're easy prey for someone.
So my career of creating leverage for ideas to greatly expand on the internet, and the belief that allowing everyone to have access to everyone else is not necessarily a good thing in the real world. I had to learn that lesson the hard way on several projects that we took on over the following decades.
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The point of this episode on storytelling is for me to communicate to you that awareness and understanding of the stories that you've heard, that have resonated with you, that have become part of your identity or your belief system, those stories are really influential as a superpower or as kryptonite.
Stories become part of our attitudes. Our attitudes dictate what we pay attention to. Confirmation bias, and 187 other biases can work with us or against us - as a superpower or as kryptonite. Stories can lead us to recognize opportunities (the cup half full) or they can immobilize us and prevent us from seeing (as in the game of hoppers) opportunities that present themselves.
Becoming aware of stories and understanding what meaning they have for us is really important because then you can discipline yourself on what stories you let in and the stories you tell. Recognizing your mental library (motioning to my head) is really important because while you're creating your own corpus by telling your journey in your video journal, you'll be able to look back and see progress made in a reasonable amount of time.
Your stories tend to set milestones through your expectations and your ambition (or the lack of) you'll be able to choose the progress you make based on the expectations you have for yourself, based on the stories you believe, the attitudes you develop, and then the behaviors you reinforce when you run up against challenges.
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Remember? The obstacle is the way...
What the heck's going with my phone? Ahhh man... Android update? Oh give me a break. This is wacko. I get it. Windows is going to steal all my resources to add some new features. I'm having an amygdala hijacking. I'm like... I... I had in my mind what I wanted to share.
Maybe I need a break. Daniel, look for the half full
FAI - female artificial intelligence: "apple, android, siri, alexa,
Daniel: "what?"
FAI: thanks I'm in"
Daniel: "Angelina did you hear that? Ah. No no no. This is so frustrating.
FAI: "Daniel take a break I got this."
Daniel: oh my gosh. This is craziness. Angelina, I think FAI is back.
Angelina can i... I need some defuse time.
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Daniel and Angelina mtb riding into a dark tunnel:
FAI: "gps signal loss. Daniel I strongly recommend you turn around immediately.
"Daniel.
"Daniel.
"Angelina.
"Okay I got this."
Daniel: "good grief it's getting pretty dark in here."
Angelina: "it's good grief Daniel"
Daniel: "half full - okay. The videos and the books are ready.
Angelina: "and now so are you"
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Daniel presenting scotomas and ideas to veteran service providers, specialists and american patriots.
That's called a scotoma. That's a blind spot.
This is an illusion. It's a simple illusion. But when I tell an emotional story our brains connect up, and I can mislead you. I can guide you down a pathway that's not true.
The way it works is that our brains are tuned to protect our body. Our brain remembers danger: "that sounds important - don't the hell step on this. It will blow up on you
Angelina recording: y'all can move a little. I've got a video going. Tell me, three three guys and a flag...
Daniel reflecting: this must be what a homecoming was to some veterans. I mean, when you exchange deeply felt values with another person that served their country, so that others could have freedom, we innately understand: 1) the bond that we have. 2) the sacrifice 3) the value to everyone else. And yet, inside of our wounds, inside of that deep scar is this incredible joy and reward - if the story is told.
As I said before: storytelling is our superpower and our kryptonite
END OF EPISODE 02.13
AUTHORS NOTE:
12:51 pm, November 16, 2021 Angelina is visiting her mom, and I'm finishing the last chapter of the second book, at Crane'S Mill Campground, near San Antonio, Texas. I have just returned from a short walk looking for an alternative launch site to the boat ramp I windsurfed from a few years ago. I shot the first videos for the Scotomaville YouTube channel from this location.
I think it would be special to find a highlight to the warm weather and light breeze of mid-november to celebrate my conclusion to a good read such as Scotomaville and as a fitting ending point for the print layout.
With that in mind, I dropped the trash in the dumpster and set off toward the shoreline. From both sides of the path, 35 butterflies crossed my route. Tiny yellow ones, solid black ones, vibrant patterned orange-yellow ones. Nice. I even struck up a conversation with a few that chose to 'box' my wake as we do in soaring behind the tow plane.
We're a pattern recognizing species. We spot unique and memorable things. We find things that confirm our prior conclusions. We look for meaning and we share stories to help others make sense of their world. I didn't intend for this highlight. I will certainly remember it.
Thank you Glen. The butterflies indeed know that I'm changing and helping people. I did not quit.
To you, the reader. I salute your brave efforts to climb your personal everest. Keep it a journey with a purpose. May your expeditions finish strong with a fresh breeze and personal marvel.
Daniel comp
ChatGPT:
The transcript you provided is from an episode of Scotomaville, titled "Volume Two Episode 13 on Stories." The episode explores the power and influence of storytelling in our lives. The host emphasizes the importance of being aware of the stories we tell ourselves and the stories that shape our beliefs.
The episode starts with an introduction to James Cameron, a filmmaker who shares his experiences and knowledge through a MasterClass. The host mentions the parallels between learning from someone who has achieved what you aspire to achieve.
The episode then delves into the concept of storytelling as a superpower that affects early AI and our human interactions. It highlights how storytelling can persuade, mislead, or manipulate emotions to synchronize the storyteller and listener's brains.
The host discusses the impact of stories on our beliefs and attitudes, emphasizing confirmation bias and the reinforcement of beliefs through repeated experiences. The importance of becoming aware of the stories that have influenced us over the years is emphasized.
The episode includes references to various stories, such as "The Cracked Pot" from "Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul" and "The Tale of Two Shoe Salesmen." These stories are used to illustrate the influence of stories on our thinking and perspectives.
The host also shares personal experiences, including feeling shamed by his origins and the impact of negative words from authority figures on his belief system. The importance of recognizing one's own stories and overcoming faulty premises is highlighted.
The episode concludes by emphasizing the need for awareness and understanding of the stories that shape our identity and belief system. It suggests that by recognizing and choosing the stories we let in and tell ourselves, we can set milestones, develop positive attitudes, and reinforce desired behaviors in the face of challenges.
Throughout the episode, there are scene changes, personal reflections, and occasional interruptions and frustrations experienced by the host, which add a personal touch and illustrate the challenges of storytelling and communication.
Overall, the episode explores the power of storytelling, the influence of stories on our beliefs and attitudes, and the importance of self-awareness in shaping our personal narratives.
You:
Please suggest where I might locate other men willing to follow my lead from this episode
ChatGPT:
If you're looking for like-minded individuals who are open to following your lead or sharing similar interests, here are a few suggestions on where you might find them:
- Online communities and forums: Look for online communities, forums, or social media groups that focus on topics related to leadership, personal development, self-improvement, or specific interests you have. Engage in discussions, share your experiences, and connect with individuals who resonate with your ideas and goals.
- Networking events: Attend networking events, conferences, seminars, or workshops that cater to your areas of interest. These events provide opportunities to meet people who are motivated and driven, and they may be open to following your lead if they find your ideas inspiring.
- Mastermind groups: Consider joining or forming a mastermind group, where a small group of individuals come together regularly to discuss and support each other's goals. These groups often consist of individuals with similar ambitions and can provide a supportive environment for leadership development.
- Meetup groups: Explore Meetup.com or similar platforms to find local groups that align with your interests. You can join or even start a Meetup group centered around leadership, personal growth, or any specific topic you're passionate about.
- Professional organizations and associations: Get involved in professional organizations or associations relevant to your field or interests. Attend their events, join committees, and network with professionals who share similar aspirations.
Remember, building a community of followers takes time and effort. Be authentic, engage with others genuinely, and focus on creating value for the people you interact with. By demonstrating your leadership qualities and sharing your passion, you're more likely to attract individuals who resonate with your message and are willing to follow your lead.
You:
Please summarize this thread and posit a question that would have more directly asked for the answer
ChatGPT:
Summary of the thread:
The thread consists of a transcript from an episode of Scotomaville, focusing on the power of storytelling, the influence of stories on our beliefs and attitudes, and the importance of self-awareness. The host shares personal experiences, references various stories, and emphasizes the need to be conscious of the stories we tell ourselves.
Positing a more direct question:
How can I effectively leverage the power of storytelling to inspire and lead others who share similar interests and goals?