Visioning and Improving
I’ve got two major visions so far for this new writing project of mine:
Create a backlog of things I actually want to write about. These are the reasons for wanting to writing at all.
Learn deeply about how to write. Build out a foundation and toolkit so I can more clearly express the ideas.
I think the order listed above invites lots of practice runs, with the expectation that early iterations will be of relatively poor quality, despite full efforts. Only when I know where I actually commit errors will I know where to spend improvement efforts.
#2 will be largely tackled along the way, as I learn to build my own formulas for writing. Internet resources and workshops will help, but it has to come from me. Copying and pasting someone else’s formula wholesale is not unique.
But enough meta-writing, let’s move on to the main course, the scariest part: Expressing ideas I believe humanity should stand to benefit from.
Vision Criteria:
Visions should be a ‘perfect’ user guide, providing immense benefit to the user, representing the standard of how that faculty, dynamic, or situation and should be approached. Notes will definitely be made where reality forces the user to deviate.
Visions should be extremely available to everyone:
No resource requirements to using them, other than reading and applying what I wrote
Applicable to people of all backgrounds
Visions will be presented as neutrally as possible (amorally)
Focus will be on describing the situation as completely as possible, including:
Roles
Mechanics/dynamics
and actions that progress or regress the user’s position/status/results
All of this section is subject to change
Vision Backlog:
Self-Awareness/Metacognition (awareness of your own emotions and thoughts)
Self-Change (enacting the changes you want, without going against your own nature)
Attention Control
Identity Control
Long Term Thinking/Planning
Your Lifetime Happiness, Forecasted
Meaning only shows up sometimes. You can’t count on it.
[more to come!]