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How to Get Into the News Media and Pull Big Bloggers Like Guy Kawasaki With Strategic Public RelationsFor a Good Time, Follow Me: http://twitter.com/journik
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As they leave, men tell their beloved wives, "I'm just not happy anymore."
Then, half a lifetime later or half a bottle of whiskey later, they realize how happy they were.
Why you realize how happy you were only after you've thrown it away:
Daniel Gilbert, PhD, of Harvard points to Alex Rodriguez as the posterboy of how hard it is to get something you really want. He and everyone else seems to agree that if there wasn't so much pressure on the number 600, Rodriguez would have already hit far past that number. His explanation is solid: When you really want something badly, you tend to focus in on it.
For complex mechanical tasks like math and car repair, focus and concentration is necessary. But for more intuitive and spontaneous events like sparking a romantic conversation or hitting a 100mph ball, myopic concentration is crippling.
In Tai Chi and Kung Fu, the ultimate goal is to move with intention, not desire; to act with fluidity, not tension. To do so, whether you are behind a plate, a boardroom table, deadly combat for the "Green Destiny," or locked eye contact with the most beautiful human being you've ever laid eyes on, let your training take over and just be the objective observer.
Luke: "I'll Try Yoda!" Yoda: "Do or Do Not. There Is No Try."
If that doesn't work, train, train, train again until it does.
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Lessons I learned from a Zen Master
You know what I'm talking about. Your best friend keeps dating the same kind of loser. You brother keeps getting fired. A neighbor keeps getting DUIs. And some dude named Steve keeps making a quarter billion dollars every time he release some new product without any buttons.
What the heck keeps us in these cycles of success or failure? Steve Jobs went to India for a few years before starting Apple with Wozniak. I turned to Korean Daoism. This is what I learned about what keeps you in vortex cycles:
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"If you are faced with a choice between this or that, how many choices do you have?" the Master asked.
I knew it was a trick question. Every question he asks is a trick question. Mahayana and Zen Buddhists would call them Zen Koans or Riddles.
"Three!" I guessed out of my ass.
"Four." the Master said without appearing to have heard my answer at all.
"Four." the Master said without appearing to have heard my answer at all.
"If you are faced with the choice of a sports car or an economy car, thinking you only have those two options, you choose the sports car. Every time you drive the sports car, you will feel guilty."
The Master Continued, "If you had chosen the economy car, every time you drive it, you feel frustrated."
I was dumbfounded.
I was dumbfounded.
"Buy both, this is your third choice," the Master said.
I was as puzzled as I was enlightened. I immediately realized that so many of my life decisions were destined to bring me guilt or frustration from the moment I made a choice. But before I could take the first step down memory lane, the Master hit me with another revelation.
"If you are faced with the choice of a Susan or Sara, thinking those are your only options, you choose Susan. Every moment you stay with Susan, you miss Sara. Every discomfort Susan brings you, you resent Susan. You have already lost Susan and Sara from the moment you made your choice.
In this case, use your fourth option. Choose neither. When true love comes, you will have no choice."
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I hated meetings. I could list off a litany of reasons starting with the immediate power struggles that happen as soon as department heads sit down, the political back stories, and the sneezing guy who always seems to sit next to me.
But the worst part of a company meeting is when I'm the one in front of the white board. This is for several reasons. First off, I'm the only guy not enjoying those French bakery danishes. Secondly, the hecklers.
There's always got to be some guy who wants to push his agenda and uses me as a stepping stone while I'm on stage. I used to hate, no, loathe meetings because of him. Since learning the "Art of War," from a real Daoist Kung Fu Grand Master, everything has changed. This is what he taught me.
"In a theater of war, there are always three. The protagonist, the antagonist, and the audience. Forgetting the third is a deadly failure."
"The protagonist and the antagonist are not determined by their intentions nor their actions. They are cast into their roles by the perception of the audience. So half of your audience may see as protagonist whom the other half see as the antagonist."
"If you destroy whom you feel is the one antagonist, half of the entire audience will rise and become a much more numerous antagonist."
"So to destroy any whom you find antagonistic to your mission, you must first unify both halves of the audience. When this is the case, you simply step out of the way and your audience will destroy the antagonist."
"Now, you have cut two into one." - Iaido Kendo Bushido
I thought about these words for quite some time.
One day a few years ago, I was in that dreaded theater with a white-board backdrop. Sure enough, "Jim," wanted my position and was bound to undermine my presentation to get it. Oddly, instead of frustration and anger, a smile overcame me. As soon as he posed his "dirtybomb" question, I simply thanked him and said, "Brilliant question. It's so good, I'll have to get to it at the end of our presentation."
Notice I used the word "our" to start allying the audience together.
Before 5 minutes went by, the name, "Jim" was on the white-board five times. As the Yin-Yang would have it, He interrupted right before the most exciting points in my preso.
The wise uncle figure of the company finally had enough. He looked over at Jim, leaned forward, and said, "Jim, that's enough."
This is the meaning of the 3-Way Yin-Yang called, "Heaven-Man-Earth."
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There are two ways to change how people experience a subjective, well, experience. You can change what they are looking at or you can change how they see it... THIS is what I mean:
We love short cuts. They get us where we want to go with much less of that stuff in between. This is because we look at all that "stuff in between" as stuff that stands in the way of where we want to go. Whereas, in reality, all that stuff in between is the stuff that lets itself be trampled underfoot to help you get to where you want to go.
So if you just paid attention to the path by minding the following ancient koan, you just might get there immediately...
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