Serial Podcast: http://serialpodcast.org/
Notes
- So first thursday since serial postcast came out, and there's no more serial. But hey, it's christmas!
- this one isn't about serial, but it's about Narritave.
- NO, NOT YOU COUNT CHOCULA.
- As Humans, Narritave affects all of us
- It's easy to encode, understand, and empathise with information in narritive structure
- Narrative might be part of what makes us human
- Reverse GTD as encoding - Partially a playful way of saying "Dear diary…"
- Using that form for 3 years
- First HK journal, started as a way to quit smoking, cute character every day xMas gift
- end of the week, Move cute characters from the "weekly" section to the "monthly
- realized that it could be used not just for cute characters, but cool thoughts I had or significant events
- Second one didn't have enough space on the right, not used as much, but still used
- Less use meant monthly lookback worked better.
- Third freeform notebook as I start to become expert in the form
- Not enough color in it thoguh, - Amassed a colection of stickers and stickies to make it more colorful
- Color affected me more than I realized
- Broke convention of page-spread per week
- Looking forward to #4
- Each day is a chance to construct the narritave of me.
- Each week (and month) was a chance to deconstruct and reconstruct me
- Even each year is a chance to reconstruct, and this year I can finally play with that form
- So…
- One day my wife shell and I were talking about a difficult period of time for the both of us.
- Lots of hurt in there for both of us (especially her), and we were takling about how it started
- I had this ULTRA CLEAR MEMORY of HOW IT WAS … (so did she) and the stories dind't match up
- So I looked back.
- I was lying to myself.
- Which made me realize the past is the lie the tell ourselves
- Unconcious process as to what gets chosen, and the story we tell ourselves.
- This journaling is a real chance to shape the lie we tell ourselves.
- Obviously it's grounded in the "truth"
- but if anything it's a subjective truth.
- As a subjet, you cannot get away from your subjective nature
- I suspect that is what the Buddha was on about,
- 8fold path is just a way to take a break from the subjective nature of … nature.
- Bloody moon pointers.
- In a lot of ways my Journal is full of Shell,
- she really is the other protagonist in my story.
- You and me vs. the world Baby.
- Synchronicities and how they relate to yoru story
- Meaningful co-incidences. Nothing more, nothing less.
- they give rise to depth to your narrative
- don't want to go into anything beyond the fact that humans are meaning-imbueiong-into-co-incidence-machines
- We can't help but attach meaning,
- So there is benifit to make it work with your personal narritave
- and make your personal narrative work with it.