Teens can function as a hivemind. They have the stable groups. The %80 percent of the groups that obey the rules. But each group has a leader. a 20%percenter. This person leads the groups on the outlier categories. They take the risk for the eighty percent. These outliers do things out of the social norm in an effort to help the teenhive create the most dynamic future hiveleaders. A mix of the two keeps the whole species alive. See Stanley Kubrick - the duality of man.
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This specific area is concerned on how processes affect human social interaction. There is some study done in office space and how actual physcial placement of the offices. the office structure affects total output. Apple did a study in the design of their office. most tech - start up firms rely on some sort of communal structure for the mind of the startup. MOre powEr together1 a super brain that reflects the colonies collective thinking. Soldier ants guard the pathways as the carrier ants carry the load. Those first at the scene call for a back up by releasing a pheromone. humans have social pheromones, if not real ones.
I have a view of humans as a super-organism. We create parts of our own society to test out what works while also keeping survival as a species. We do this quite well. Governments and Non-profits are set up pretty rigidly to keep mortality rates down. Death is minimized through safety programs and infant-focus programs. We promote conservatives at our core, to preserved mindless life hood. A guaranteed boring existence of security, abundance and monotony. Then there are the outliers. Those who push the boundaries of the social qualities. These outsiders push the norm. They test new alternatives. Sure about 80% are bonkers, but the 20% leads the crowd in a new direction which spurs innovation and adaption.
This isn't that interesting so stop reading now.Jean-Paul Rodrigue made this "Phases of a bubble" chart. See below. It describes the trend of a bubble. You know like the affectionately named "bubble" that keeps bursting repeatedly and destroying the economy? Mostly the housing bubble. Bit coin almost faced the same fate had it not been for the bear whale. See below. A trend began to appear to the left of the bear's ear as pictured above. The same trend that spells demise for a bubble. So this anonymous user disrupted the whole thing in an effort to escape the tragedy of the "phases of the bubble." Good for him/her. My interest as an investor was to simply find the first derivative of the phases of the bubble chart. Half to know how to judge the market and half just for fun. I couldn't find it online anywhere so I just decided to do it the old school way. Like how maybe Newton invented Calculus in the way. Just by hand - and excel. So first I did a rudimentary bar chart to find the values of the picture. (remember this is how calculus was discovered back in the day. Don't give me crap. I later discovered a way to convert the x,y values of the mouse into csv so I could have traced the goddamned thing. But again this was just for fun.) So I made this. See below. I overlay-ed the image onto a bar chart with the values determined from an excel column. Then I undertook the ridiculous task of determining each value one-by-one by changing the value in the cell until it fit the picture. (I dig grab and drag, but still I felt like a true Newtonian at heart). Then I made a column that calculated the difference between each new value against the previous one. It had serious errors, so I sort of tried to mitigate that by editing it. Then I came up with the final graph of the first derivative. Which looks like total shit so sorry for reading all of this. My methods weren't accurate enough to produce really anything significant. Maybe if someone ever reads this they can improve on my method. I really just kind of want to see what the first derivative of the bubble chart would look like. I could use some help on my methods so anything is appreciated. Thanks for reading. Enjoy this shitty final result below. and combined and kinda fitted. Thanks for reading. Any feedback is appreciated! I did this just for fun. As math should be :)
I watched this video tonight. It features an ooey gooey presentation of a real human brain. But more interesting, Jill talks about how having a stroke opened up her reality to one that is based outside of her human body. Everything she said resonated with experiences of mind alteration that I have had. I have been on a spiritual awakening of sorts, often referencing DMT: The spirit molecule along with other naturally occurring tryptamines in turkey and cheese. I fully believe that humans can have mind altering experiences without drugs. One can have mind altering experiences by starvation (fasting) as well as over-exhaustion. Also extreme fevers can cook the brain and produce mind altering experiences. I had several fevers as a child which I think ultimately changed my view of reality permanently. The madness I felt during these fevers often resurfaces in other parts of my thought processes. These thought processes are actually valued in today's workforce.
So were humans meant to live a life perfect from any sort of mild alteration? Joseph Smith would say no. He himself advocated fasting as a way to achieve spiritual experiences. Steve Jobs applied a similar approach often going a week with eating only one sort of fruit or vegetable. He deprived himself of nutrients in an effort to connect with something deeper. Mind altering experiences are important for us to step out of our daily routine and reevaluate the direction of our life. We can break the bonds of monotony and see our place in humanity with fresh eyes. Conclusion: Mind altering experiences give humans a new perspective. I didn't even get into why I believe that humans evolved this ability to feel the spirit when when faced with a crisis of the physical body. (Spoiler Alert: It has to do with the will to survive). But regardless if one finds mind altering experiences (the spirit) through fasting, strokes, fevers, exhaustion or drugs - these experiences provide powerful insights into our everyday lives. They help us to step back and see our situation without all the mumbo jumbo stress of work. They allow us to be eternal. And for this reason I advocate mind altering experiences. I argue that the goal of humanity is for each one of us to give the very best that we've got. When we're working on something that we are truly passionate about, nothing else matters. This can be a project, a book we're reading, or a video game. It can be a loved one, a friend, or a comrade. When we truly care about something, all other needs fade. The desire to eat disappears. Sleep becomes burdensome. Taking a break becomes disheartening because we are so enamored on our cause. This can be a beautiful thing. It is also obviously destructive to the human body. Depending on what we are killing ourselves over, society views that differently. If you are a young actor trying to make it big, your enthusiasm toward self-destruction is valued. Every night you spend up late memorizing lines or making contacts in the industry is viewed as a step upward. This is because people want to hire passionate people. Passionate people create a positive externality in their environment. They are giving more of themselves than what they are paid to give. Employers like this. This means $$$. But it is for good reason. Passionate people go on to be the best managers. The ones who take hard shifts but because they love the job and the people they work with. Passionate people go on to have huge influence among all their sphere, so then they become a connection point for higher-ups. Soon, passionate people are so well loved and so well liked and so influential, that they go on to bigger and better things. But they always remember everyone who helped them along the way, and so they give back again and again and again. Their pie has gotten bigger, and so each time they give out a small percentage of their passion and success it returns back to them.
Then people just think working your guts out means you are this type of person. When in fact you are more looking at the "symptoms" of a successful person, and not just the actual being that is a successful person, which is passion. |
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