Mitch Olson
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Jan 9, 2022
A sense of potential is a stand that one makes that something could and maybe even should happen. Life has 3 primary potentials.
Dec 8, 2021
An introduction to Meaningful participation
A habit is an action that occurs in a particular situation as an automatic coupling of stimulus and response, without the invention of conscious awareness.
Dec 1, 2021
Why postmodernism was a misstep in responding to Cartesian objectivity
Nov 24, 2021
Welcome to the Meaningful Participation website. Read this to find out more about what this site is about.
Nov 22, 2021
Are you primarily an Effect or just a Cause in your own life?
Nov 21, 2021
The Law of Earned says that every action has an outcome that is proportional in strength and that this strength is earned.
My participation matter is an affirmation of the preciousness and finiteness of life, and the importance of our active participation in reconciling those.
Nov 20, 2021
This principle says that life is an expression of a set of fractal principles
Nov 9, 2021
Oct 17, 2021
Opposite thinking is a kind of thinking in which habits of thought are triggered without the intervention of conscious thought.
Oct 16, 2021
We have a conditioned habit of tending to only see opposites but not the larger context of which they are both a part
Oct 14, 2021
Why language is like a map
Oct 10, 2021
A Dependable practice is generally catalysed when a person decides they’ve had enough and they want to make a change in their life. They want something different and have decided they’re going to take responsibility for making it happen.
Sep 27, 2021
Projected authority is a state where we have given away our authority to define ouselves, what is important and how to realise that.
Sep 5, 2021
Circularity is a feature of living systems that means we can become invisibly trapped inside of arbitrary limits. Definitely something important to be aware of.
Suffering is a universal and uncomfortable experience in life, but is it all bad?
Aug 1, 2021
Systematics is the name given by John G. Bennett (1897–1974) to a branch of systems science that he developed in the mid-twentieth century.
Jul 29, 2021
Distinctions are the building blocks of intelligence
Jul 28, 2021
George Gurdjieff was a 18th and 19th century philosopher and teacher who introduced a number of profound ideas around humankind’s role in the universe.
Jul 26, 2021
Reciprocal maintenance is the most essential core of Gurdjieff’s teachings. I think of it as the exchange of effort in the service of meaning.
Jul 25, 2021
Self authorship is an affirmation that my participation matters in the quality of my life.
Every choice we make has 2 sides; a cost and a reward, and 2 impacts; an immediate one and a non-immediate one.
These 6 capabilities are the most fundamental skills of life & living systems
Capability is the essential quality of life that enables potentiality to be converted Into actuality.
Jul 23, 2021
The triholon is the core architectural fractal structure of life and living systems
Jul 8, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
“What is important now?” is “The Always Question”. It introduces value into every moment it is asked
Jun 29, 2021
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Jun 27, 2021
Meaningful Potential is the universe’s answer to the question “What is important now?”
Werner Erhard is an American author and lecturer best known for his original work in the area of self-improvement.
These are the key influencers whose ideas have catalysed, affirmed and resonated with my own thinking
Reawakening is the first of the 6 capabilities of Self Authorship
I read this to myself each morning
Jun 26, 2021
Philosophology is to philosophy as musicology is to music, or as art history and art appreciation are to art, or as literary criticism is to creative writing.
The Law of three is the most significant abstract principle of life and living systems.
