Inquiry and Intentions

I need to declare my intentions here:

1) by cataloging, discussing and making sense out of a wide range of information @F-L-O-W, I hope to teach and therefore create the basis for learning in whatever way people can, or do learn.

2) my intention and possibly hope is that through this process people can have lives (evoking Phillip Crosby).

I started to read the piece in reference below and immediately wanted to make a point @F-L-O-W, which is inquiry into the frame or set of assumptions that are related to or specify advice, as a general intention.

Because of the nature of inquiry, and opinion formation through methods of inquiry, critique, or discussion, it MIGHT seem that I, or others are criticizing anything we didn't write and I accept that, but that is not the intention and if others get that idea, it not the intention of the inquiry or dialogue.

Also, almost anything ANYONE offers as advice will appeal and perhaps be efficient and effective for someone, somewhere, lest we discourage the opportunities by some to offer suggestions, information or knowledge, especially around the fopic of sustainable, even enlightened if we may--happiness and success.

So keep the cards and letters coming we will try to catalogue them and dialogue.

Example:

Quote

"Last year I listed some simple daily habits of the delightfully successful. Revisiting that article made me think. Success is based on action, but actions are the result of beliefs – so what do the delightfully successful people I know almost all believe?" - The Core Beliefs of the Delightfully Successful

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I didnt read the tips or the dialogue that follows and I'm sure there is benefit. What interested me and the reason I'm writing is the frame through which the person makes sense, or technically, the persons mental models or assumptions and beliefs.

In this case, the assumptions and beliefs happen to be about assumptions and beliefs which I find a metasystem and I'm attracted to those.

In the quote above taken from the article below:

"Success is based on action, but actions are the result of beliefs--"

If you are not paying attention, this skips right through, but for me, this is a RED FLAG @F-L-O-W.

Let me explain why this is BS, and colors the author's beliefs.

Success is not based on action.

First off, a large part of success I've seen is actually based on non-action. Although I'll grant you that there is reciprocal meaning in action and no action, but maybe you will see the point about the author's syllogism statement.

Success is largely based on a lot of things beyond rational control, although we can make the case if you do x,y, and z, you can be pronounced successful by the creators of x, y, and z.

Success, as a determination is usually in the eyes of the beholder, and I can promise you this--like right or wrong--at some level success--is not.

Finally, most of success of is just luck, mostly dumb luck because our constitutions are nothing more than a form of lottery and environment follows with a lottery of it's own.

Second?

Actions are not based on beliefs, not technically or in a broad sense.

Actions or nonsctions are irrational in most cases and are more than likely the result of tensions between conditions and constitutional elements.

And finally the author follows with the completion of his syllogistic logic:

If a is true

And b is true

Then c, must be true?

"--so what do the delightfully successful people I know almost all believe?"

And MOST readers are captivated by the logic @BS and off we go with "Alice."

I'm not saying the authors advice won't benefit, but the frame or mental models are at best incomplete and in the worst, misleading and manipulative.

Isn't all advice?

Yes.

My point?

I'm interested in the frame or assumptions that advice comes in or through before I dive into the advice.

1) action ability

Will it be actionable.

2) signal:noise

Since noise is increasing at a dramatic rate because everyone has an opinion and the means which to dessiminate has reached no-barrier to entry, our signal:noise ratio has skyrocketed.

For me, a quick check of the frame, particular in relation to the density and frequency of BS helps me allocate precious MITEAM (money, information, time, energy, attention and motivation) resources in a manner that suits me @F-L-O-W.

So while I'm very interesting in a wide stay of info and dialogue, the frame is really important in my opinion and of course are attractive to me @F-L-O-W.

TPOVs @F-L-O-W