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The left page of this spread features a large photograph occupying the lower half, showing the rear view of a small red Fiat 500 driving away down a narrow, leaf-strewn forest path lined with tall green trees; a wicker picnic basket is strapped to the roof, and a large black circular postmark stamp overlays the right side of the image, reading “LEAVING SCOTOMAVILLE” with a vintage “PAR AVION” design. Above the photo sits the book’s title “SCOTOMAVILLE” in large bold black lettering, preceded by the subtitle “AN INTERACTIVE - AI GUIDED - SELF-MASTERY EXPEDITION FOR LEAVING” in smaller uppercase text. A boxed quote in the upper left reads: “The Greatest Expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-understanding, for the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” attributed to “DANIEL J COMP” in a dark gray box.
The right page is a standard copyright page with the word “COPYRIGHT” in large bold type at the top, followed by dense legal text, a list of filming locations across the U.S., web and YouTube links, ISBN details, and the footer “LEAVING SCOTOMAVILLE.” The central car photograph feels metaphorical rather than purely documentary, using the tiny red Fiat and the postmark stamp as visual shorthand for departure from one’s blind spots (“scotoma”), with the autumn leaves and winding path evoking a journey motif.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE Copyright © 2020-2024 by Daniel J Comp and Angelina Musik-Comp All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review, or in the use for Veteran, First Responder or Law Enforcement recovery and wellness. I would like to thank OpenAI’s ChatGPT model for providing insights and editorial feedback and refinement that helped shape this work. The thoughts, insights, and final articulations are my own. Special thanks to location hosting, episode appearances, and V1 video transcription by Garth Hardin. Filmed on location (tour map): Pacific Northwest: Bellingham, WA; Semiahmoo, Blaine, WA; Stanwood, WA; Maryhill Memorial, WA; White Pass WA; Chelan WA; Plymouth WA; Mount Hood Meadows, OR; White River Snow Park, Mt. Hood, OR; Hood River, OR; Bend, OR; Three Mile Canyon, OR; California, Nevada: BLM, Susanville, CA; Oroville, CA; Washoe Lake, NV; Rye Patch, NV; Pine Flat Lake, CA; Lake Cahuilla La Quinta, CA; Barstow, CA; French Camp, Tom’s Place, CA; Idaho, Montana, Wyoming: Coeur d’Alene, ID; Twin Falls ID; Murtough Lake, ID; 3 Island Crossing, ID; Scotch Pines GC, ID; Rigby, ID; Missoula MT; Billings, MT; Clark Canyon Res, MT; Rocky Point, Belle Fourche, MT; Casper WY; Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona: Piute Reservoir, UT; Jordanelle Reservoir, UT; Bald Mountain, UT; Bonneville Salt Flats, UT; Little Salt Lake UT; Sand Hollow, Hurricane, UT; Purgatory Resort, CO; Longmont, CO; Chatfield State Park, Littleton, CO; Grand Junction, CO; Albuquerque, NM; Bottomless Lakes, Roswell, NM; Caballo Lake, NM; Elephant Butte, NM; VLA Radio Observatory, NM; Lake Pleasant, AZ; Homolovi Ruins, AZ; Scottsdale, AZ; BLM, Tusayan AZ; BLM, Quartzsite, AZ; Potato Patch CG, Jerome, AZ; Porter Spring, Roosevelt, AZ; Apache Gold, San Carlos, AZ; Roper Lake State Park, AZ; Fool Hollow, Show Low, AZ; Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota:; Wichita KS; Lake Kanopolis, KS; Wilson Lake, KS; Lewis & Clark Rec Area, Yankton, SD; Platte Creek Rec Area, SD; Badlands National Park, SD; Lake Mcconaughy NE; Oklahoma, Texas: Oklahoma City, OK; Bear Creek Cove, OK; Lake Texoma, OK/TX; Tulsa, OK; Lawton, OK; Wichita Falls, TX; Lake Lavon, TX; Littlefield, TX; Van Horn, TX; Palmetto S.P., TX; League City, TX; Yegua Creek, Somerville, TX; Waco, TX; Lake Whitney, TX; Canyon Lake, TX; Clear Lake, Princeton, TX; Cedar Hill State Park, TX; Web Syndication by Intelligent Netware: https://scotomaville.com/digital-locations YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/scotomaville Twitter https://twitter.com/scotomaville Discussion and peer support: https://scotomaville.com/discuss Printed in the United States of America First Printing of Volume 1, 2020, Second Printing V1-2, 2022, Third Printing V1-3, 2023, Fourth Printing V1-3, 2024 ISBN: 978-1-09832-546-6 Daniel Comp PO Box 171, Mosier, OR 97040 https://scotomaville.com COPYRIGHT
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE The desire to understand ourselves, to unravel the mystery of WIDWID—Why I Do What I Do—connects us all. It’s a question I have pursued by cycling across America on three inspiring Journeys with a Purpose.
After decades of mishaps and 50,000 miles dragging an Airstream I no longer view Know Thyself as a luxury or a full-out competition with AI. With a team of like-mind ed thinkers (a self-defined minyan) empowered by a super-reasoning engine, I am becoming a thought leader and a sage celebrating the later execution phases of my Personal Everest with the help of a digital Sherpa.
Remember your first journey? I was hopeful yet unprepared, like a Fiat 500 strapped with a useless burden on my back. At first, this image represented my idealistic youthful exploration, a journey both under powered and naive. Recently, I discovered a double meaning in the word ‘Fiat’ itself. Beyond the name of a car, it refers to a decree, an authoritative commandment. In my journey, these were the self-imposed life commandments from false conclusions I formed of misspoken judgments that had shaped my worldview. It was as if the very mascot of my exploration challenged me to escape the self-tyranny of my thinking. W.H. Murray noted we experience ‘all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.’ The discovery of the Fiat’s symbolic richness was one such unforeseen incident that deepened my journey.
Let Scotomaville guide you on your ‘Personal Everest,’ empowering you to share your wisdom and warning and to muster the courage to champion the rapidly accelerating changes we face. Join me by turning the life you inherited into the outcomes you design. April 27, 2024
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE AUTHORS + ABSTRACT AUTHORS CURATORS Daniel believes; “The Greatest Expedition you will ever undertake is the journey to self-un derstanding, for the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in see ing with new eyes.” He is a respected husband, father, entrepreneur, and Navy Veteran. He’s demonstrated decades of sacrificial commitment to human achievement using core principles, perseverance, and resourcefulness.
Angelina is the wife of a highly functioning Asperger (me) and co-founder with me of Intelligent Netware. She is twice awarded by the U.S. S.B.A. In 2004, she sustained a TBI five days before filming for the Apprentice III. Angelina is the Founder of Wellness by Choice and a mom with a mission bent on educating and empowering the masses on how to live smarter and healthier. SCOTOMAVILLE ABSTRACT ■ BACKGROUND - WWDWWD Most people respond to chaos and stress with coping mechanisms, amygdala hijackings, and reactive behavior. For some of us, curiosity dominates. We want to know “Why We Do What We Do.” and are committed to exploring the unknown... to ‘Know Thyself’. The Author cycled across America three times asking this. The pandemic has challenged us with hardships, losses, setbacks, missed opportunities, and personal drama. (1) Americans are weary of rapidly accelerating change. We are flooded with messaging that games our biological and psychological bents (2). Emotions easily overwhelm our reasoning to control our actions. We’re further conflicted by being 100% wrong 50% of the time. (3) (4) We’re hoodwinked and bamboozled by tech, media, and popular narratives using trickery, flattery, and omission. (5) The adage to ‘Know Thyself’ is no longer a luxury. It’s become a full-out competition with supercomputers pointed at our brains. (6)
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE ■ METHODS - IMPARTATION The Scotomaville program deploys the unique IMPARTATION METHODOLOGY, designed to guide participants in self-reflection and personal growth through video modeling. This methodology unfolds in a structured manner: I Do - You Watch: Drawing from our extensive experience as pioneers in the media, marketing, and web technology sectors since 1997, we video-journal our personal ‘journey with purpose’. Through these recordings, we share and demonstrate 15 invaluable mental tools, tests, and insights that enable resilience in facing challenges. Participants, armed with just a smartphone, can emulate our perseverance as we navigate adversities such as Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD, and more. We Do - We Watch: The program is more than just watching; it’s engaging. Fifty-three episodes are complemented by a comprehensive 400+ page guide, enriched with opportunities for online discussions. Subscribers benefit from peer support, mentor ing, and personalized guidance. Furthermore, the extensive digital reach, spanning over 4500 affiliated websites, allows for participant and sponsor recognition. You Do - I Watch: The Scotomaville journey doesn’t end with passive learning. Upcoming offerings include transformative base camp summits, private retreats, and expeditions for leaders. With the program’s licensed platform, certified leaders can guide individuals and groups, encouraging them to tread the transformative path we demonstrate.
■ FINDINGS - SELF-GAMING By climbing a ‘Personal Everest’ and testing for oneself, the claims of W.H. Murray, and the Authors that Expeditions are filled with “unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no one could have dreamt would have come their way” (9) you can develop clarity, stability, healing, and successes by gaming your biases. Self-mastery begins with awareness of one’s physical and mental self. When combined with understanding, support, and discipline, incremental character change transforms one’s beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. SCOTOMAVILLE reveals the intricate interdependence between our gut and brain, demonstrating how sleep patterns and stress levels influence our choices. By emphasizing the perils of tackling challenges solo and showcasing action able insights and examples, the program empowers individuals to recognize and navigate their inherent cognitive biases. ■ CONCLUSION - PERSONAL EVEREST A ‘Personal Everest’ is a journey with a purpose. “But at least learn your inability... and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you... These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began...“ Blaise Pascal - Pascals Wager (10) A Personal Everest is a journey with a purpose. It is a self-defined expedition of personal development, with support and guidance from peers and the Author, and analysis by AI. SCOTOMAVILLE is an unconventional and effective self-help model and platform with a convincing challenge: We can change our life experiences by gaming our own handicaps, strengthening alliances, challenging our shortcomings and changing our false beliefs by taking on our Personal Everest.
(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33711676/(2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8402266/(3) https://www.ted.com/talks/kathryn_schulz_on_being_wrong/transcript (4) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yossi-Yassour/e/B08XJNFCNK/(5) https://www.humanetech.com/who-we-are#team (6) https://www.wired.com/video/watch/yuval-harari-tristan-harris-humans-get-hacked (7) https://intelligentnetware.com (8) https://scotomaville.com/digital-locations (9) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Murray (10) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE v1 CONTENT 01 PAGE 24 PAGE 30 02 PAGE 44 04 ABUNDANT SCARCITY The global pandemic exposed most people’s core beliefs including price gouging and hording. PAGE 38 03 MISPERCEPTION The sleeves illusion demonstrates chapters 1 and 2 at the same time. Combined with storytelling it is a convincing display of our vulnerability. PAGE 52 05 ABUNDANT AWARENESS Awareness comes with a penalty. The more you know, the more you know what you don’t know. SCOTOMA PATTERN RECOGNITION From birth our biology betrays our awareness. Seeing the world as it really is requires a shift in our beliefs. This exersize will do it.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl Our 20 watt brain is wired to cut corners and jump to conclusions.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE HIEROGLYPHICS Storytelling is a superpower. It’s been used to induce fear and compliance for millennia. Its easy to create an amygdala hijacking. PAGE 62 06 PAGE 70 07 ONION PEELING wdidwid? Why do i do what i do? Master this skill and you’ll get out of scotomaville. PAGE 78 08 FIXATION With power comes responsibility. Learn to throttle your attention and focus.
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v1 CONTENT 09 PAGE 86 PAGE 94 10 PAGE 108 12 IT NEEDS WORK We miss the best opportunities for growth because opportunity goes around looking like hard work. PAGE 100 11 FEED YOUR GUT You and I are 90% microbe and only 10% human. There’s a coup underway. Expose it with a simple question - when you look down - do you see your shoes or your gut? PAGE 114 13 STRENGTHS OFFENDER We wound others with our strengths - which are our perfected coping mechanisms for early wounds. EMOTIONAL VOCABULARY CREATING SILENCE Crossing a gaping crevasse is easier than mastering an emotional vocabulary. Trust me on this one. When you can hear your inner voice then you can escape walled gardens. Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE TRIANGULATION Never go-it-alone. You need no less than three facets to have confidence and grit to summit your personal everest. PAGE 122 14 PAGE 132 15 CURVES Life has curves. they are everywhere. Learn to recognize and leverage them for awareness. PAGE 144 16 SEGUE a smooth transition to the next volume with a shocking example of onus probandi.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE v2 CONTENT 2.00 PAGE 160 PAGE 170 2.01 PAGE 202 2.04 PATIENCE Waiting for outcomes is tough. What if the delay is ‘Bread and Circuses’? PAGE 192 2.03 EXPECTATIONS Unmet expectations are windows to our beliefs. You can get a grip on your emotional roller coasters. PAGE 214 2.05 PREPARATION Acting ‘as-if’, pivoting with multiple strategies, over coming challenges by mental preparation. PRELUDE PERSISTENCE We can learn by observation in order to mimic. Daniel jumps to a conclusion... so you don’t so much. ‘Know Thyself’ is no longer a luxury
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competition. PAGE 180 2.02 PROCESS Learning HOW to learn will accelerate skill and life mastery.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE SETBACKS Developing your ‘WHY’ for maintaining independence by taking personal responsibility will serve you well. PAGE 226 2.06 PAGE 236 2.07 STRATEGY I Incrementally building a strong strategy will help, as will paying attention to little things. PAGE 248 2.08 STRATEGY II Develop a solid strategy to cope, shift, and pivot with your mistakes, errors and faults.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE v2 CONTENT 2.09 PAGE 258 PAGE 284 2.11 SATISFACTION Understanding our innate biases and shortcuts can lead us to find satisfaction in the midst of challenges. PAGE 270 2.10 SQUALLS How do you handle decision-making during a deluge, downpour or a squall? WDYDWYD? SUBTLETIES Learning to not just HEAR - but to really LISTEN is a greatly undervalued skill.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE SELF-CARE Living ‘the dream’ comes with surprises. Unwrap your psychology and physiology by mimicking wellness and longevity. PAGE 298 2.12 PAGE 318 2.13 STORIES We begin life with the story we are handed. Fortunately, that’s not the end of our tale.
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v3 CONTENT 3.00 PAGE 336 PAGE 342 3.01 PAGE 364 3.04 MEASURING PROGRESS What’s the measure of transformation and self-mastery? PAGE 356 3.03 PACE & SEQUENCE How much, how often? The pace of your production should follow your actual learning becasue it takes time to grow dendrites and believe the new you. PAGE 372 3.05 INFLECTION character change happens on a curve. At some point there’s an obvious pivot, as when the old is no longer. QUICK START FINDING WY Expecting others to follow isn’t freedom or wise. Pivoting away from an error is. The reward is in giving your freedom to others. Knowing how and what are impotent compared to knowing why. Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE PAGE 348 3.02 ROPED-UP Going it alone is certain calamity, as is being roped-in. Differentiate.
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The page is a two-column table of contents layout for the section "Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE." The dominant visual is a large, high-altitude photograph of a snow-covered mountain summit with three climbers in full technical gear. The central figure, a smiling older man in a blue jacket and helmet, holds the camera for a selfie while giving a thumbs-up; two other climbers in black and green suits stand behind him against a backdrop of jagged peaks and clouds.
A small inset square in the upper left repeats a cropped version of the same mountain scene, labeled "3.06" over a dark gray bar marked "PAGE 390." The left column features a dark gray panel with the heading "MINYAN" and its definition, followed by "HEROES" (3.07, page 400) and "FINALE" (3.08, page 412) with short descriptive lines. The right column shows a white panel with the heading "RESURRECTION" (3.09, page 428) and its description about modeling the human condition.
A small "DALL-E 2" logo appears in the upper right of the mountain image. The page title "LEAVING SCOTOMAVILLE" is printed in bold at the bottom right. The overall design uses bold typography, numbered boxes, and a dramatic outdoor backdrop that matches the book's expedition theme.
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Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE 15 Leaving SCOTOMAVILLE MINYAN A mental advisory board for Ai to reflect, assess, and advise. Imagine the peers you want to mirror and gift them pursuasive power. PAGE 390 3.06 PAGE 400 3.07 HEROES Every hero has a challenge. The best of us ex press genes as a result PAGE 412 3.08 FINALE There’s a curve ahead. I’m certain of this. Finally. PAGE 428 3.09 RESURRECTION Modeling for AI the human condition between entropy and providence