The Epic Idea for SXSW is coming!
How can WE use technology to make the world a better place?
Put 700-800 human beings together from various cultures, classes, lifestyles, ages, academic, non-academic, female, male, countries, and perspectives
Use a proven constructive and organized visioning process for ALL of them to share and find ways to agree on their similar values in life
Then have that group of people dialogue and vote on the ideas and actions that can inspire them and others to use technology to make the world a better place
Imagine 700-800 people working together to create an action plan for technology to make the world a better place
Gather ALL their values, ideas, and plans
Open source it. Let people use it. Let people see it
Digitize the information and use it to create online robots that compare it to what people, companies, and organizations are doing
Connect and share it with other people that have the same values as the people
Something like this has happened in Iceland
Something like this has already created history
Its coming to Austin during SXSW
Help Austin and SXSW make history
start sharing. talking. dreaming. what are the possibilities?
How can WE use technology to make the world a better place?
Friday, October 28, 2011
WE should "Think Different" Together
Seems as though throughout history many visionary messages get transformed, and or misinterpreted.
Somehow someway the Steves message the Apple message "Think Different." got mutated in an unhealthy way, by some. Unfortunately a whole lot of the Mac people that I have met only think inside the box that the culture has drawn. Whole lot of PC users think Mac people are crazy. Whole lot of Mac users think PCs users are not creative and dont care about things. Became the Mac users vs the PC users and the PC users vs the Mac users. Strange.
If only there was a way to bridge the cultures and help them to to "Think Different" Together.
"Think + Different + Positive + Solutions + Change the World + Together + For the Better"
To Think - "How can WE use our technology together to make the world a better place?"
Cheers
Jarrad Connor
Somehow someway the Steves message the Apple message "Think Different." got mutated in an unhealthy way, by some. Unfortunately a whole lot of the Mac people that I have met only think inside the box that the culture has drawn. Whole lot of PC users think Mac people are crazy. Whole lot of Mac users think PCs users are not creative and dont care about things. Became the Mac users vs the PC users and the PC users vs the Mac users. Strange.
If only there was a way to bridge the cultures and help them to to "Think Different" Together.
"Think + Different + Positive + Solutions + Change the World + Together + For the Better"
To Think - "How can WE use our technology together to make the world a better place?"
Cheers
Jarrad Connor
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Integral Theory and Mixed Martial Arts
I am in the process of developing an Integral Theory research and development program for Mixed Martial Arts Athlete/Fighters. Eventually I would like to take my findings and experience to Sports and Athletes as a whole.
If you are unfamiliar with Integral Theory. The basic idea is to study things from all perspectives. Psychological, Cultural, Physical, and Social. How the all develop and how they are all connected.
I believe that some Mixed Martial Arts Athlete/Fighters have a unique mental state and level of consciousness that goes beyond the typical fighter and athlete mentality.
This mix of mental and physical cross pollination of cultural and thoughts makes fighters evolve because of the extreme life conditions that being a professional mma fighter presents.
If you dont evolve mentally, physically, and socially you will loose. Sometime in the most extreme fashion.
What happens in the cage and the type of cross training that fighters do makes them think different. Makes them open their minds.
Its survival of the fittest but not just on a physical level. They are forced to blend both thought and extreme physical practice with other cultures and philosophies because each cultural has its own style of fighting and its own view of life. Each has its own thought process when it comes to how an opponent is perceived and the strategy that must be taken to win. Each has its own thought process when it comes to how the self is perceived and the strategy that must be taken to deal with ones one weaknesses.
What most have found out is that there is not one fighting style or martial art that beats another. What fighters and people in the industry are finding out is that that there is also not one mental strategy or one way of life that creates the best. Its a mix of all of them.
It is the combination of all the marital arts, sports, and mental training and their perspectives that creates the best fighter and athlete.
MMA fighters are becoming the modern sports role model. Whether some like it or not. The top fighters. The ones that realize it know that they must get their lives in order to win. More so than most other sports.
MMA is at its core an internal individual sport but the single fighter is not just fighting for themselves. Not just their family. Not just to make money. Not just the respect and honor for their specific style. These may be some of reasons at first. The reason transcends and includes all the other reasons.
When the best fighters starting getting to the top. When they realize that to stay there they must fight far all of these reasons and more.
The behavior that has been seen from the top fighters is that they fight to show that they have become better. They must constantly evolve in all aspects of life. Each fight becomes a culmination of their life. Not just to prove that they are better than than their opponent but that they have grown and developed as a human being.
George Saint Pierre says that to be the best in MMA requires not just discipline but a way life. To be the best, MMA like true martial arts must become a healthy way of life.
There must be a constant mental state in training and outside of training.
Not all fighters realize this. Not all athletes realize this.
I want create something that focuses and researches what it takes to be the best fighter. In all aspects mental, cultural, physical, and social.
Jarrad Connor
www.third-power.com
Monday, October 17, 2011
Listing the fluidity of reality. Is tricky.
Listing the fluidity of reality. Is tricky.
Original Post Date - 5/12/11
I should point out that any list that I create of things or people are dynamic and non linear. Everything is fluid and moving, changing, and reshaping itself. Differentiating and reintegrating. Its a constant multidimensional boogie with everything in my life.
There is a unique gorgeous dance and sometimes beautiful war with the things and people that I love. Understanding and love can be frustrating. Sometimes my fault and sometimes not. Always trying to do more and understand more. Not the kind of understanding that comes out of dogmatic belief in things. The kind that is deeper than unconditional.
Sometimes love can kill. How these things and people are listed changes constantly. What my priorities are and the influences of my own mind and those things that are outside it change daily. Some stay the same some change. I attempt to balance it all out. Blend with everything. Moving forward towards my ultimate goal and purpose.
even this note will change. testing change.
Friday, October 14, 2011
The People that Inspire
My challenge and goal in life is to find more people, get closer to more people, and work with (or for) more people that inspire me. Within the past 3-4 months I have connected with so many amazing individuals it is breathtaking. People from around the world. In my opening up to the world the world as opened up to me.
I want to know people that act and think the way that I want to and do, most of the time. None of us are perfect. I want to connected with people that are doing the things that I want to do. With purpose and meaning. For the GOOD of all of us.
I want to know and work with human beings that are trying to make Earth, Humans, others, The Universe better. Oh and non terrestrial aliens if they are cool and don't want to use us for something insidious. LOL.
My mission and purpose in life is to work for, with, and support those that are making a difference on a universal scale anyway that I can and eventually be one of those people.
I eventually want to create one of the greatest companies on the planet that does not hold back from truly working towards humanities highest potential. Solving our worst problems.
Philanthropy + Arete = The love of humanity and its highest potential while working towards it.
Nearly everyday I attempt to get closer to and find more people, companies, and organizations that are doing good things on this planet. Working towards building the positive network that I want to work for and in the end work with.
Nearly everyday I try to find a connection that brings the people I don't know and the people that I do know and myself closer to fixing the obvious problems that humanity has. Rather than bitching about what's wrong with things in the world or in my life I want to do something. I'm aware of the negative things going on but I focus on finding positive things and creating positive things.
I put my energy into building things and helping people that are not spending their energy on criticizing or complaining about the fact that the universe is not doing something for them or that things are really messed up in the world. Yes things are messed up, but what is complaining about it going to do?
This is what keeps me going when I have to deal with people that don't act the way that I want to act. People that get stuck, don't grow, close their minds, stop learning, focus on the negative. People that judge before objectively researching and judge without truly trying to understand someone or something.
I don't hate these people ( ok sometimes I get really frustrated ). I don't look down on these people because I know that sometimes I am one of them ( I get really frustrated with myself sometimes). Some of these people just were never given that one spark in life. That spark, event, or teacher that wakes them up. Makes them look outside of the box. Sure there are some that to a degree remain consciously ignorant ( I admit that there are a few things that I remain consciously ignorant about ). I still don't hate them or myself. Just choose to try and understand them and my own stuff on a deeper level.
To me trying to understand someone is not trying to find an excuse for them. No. It can mean being objectively aware. Objectively conscious.
Wanting to know why they do what they do and why they see things they way they do. If we can figure out what shuts people down wither it is physical, psychological, or simply the cards they have be given. What I try to do is find a way to inspire them and myself to look within and connect their dreams, passions, and what they really want to do in life; to something positive. Something that allows them to do what they want while making a living and making a difference.
Which is exactly what I want for myself. To make a difference by helping those that are making a difference.
People that have integrity, honesty, open minds, a mostly positive perspectives on life. People that are trying to make life better someway somehow. Theirs or others. They are trying to make the world a better place for ALL.
These are the people that inspire me. These are the people that keep me going. These are the people that are truly successful in Life.
I have realized that you do not know who you are and what you really want in life. This will make you see things negatively. If you know what want but don't know how to get it or the steps that you need to take to get it. This will frustrate you to the point of insanity and see things negatively. I speak from my own experience. Mine may not be yours but I'm guessing that we are all more alike then we all think.
If you are deeply confident and know that everyday you are doing something that will get you closer to what you want to do in life this will change your view of everything. If you are doing what you want to do and if you know it is making life better for you, your family, your friends, your country, the world, the universe, this will change everything.
What do you do?
For the World to continue to have the wrongs that we can ALL agree are wrong.
The very wrong things that we would not want for ourselves, our family, friends, and fellow human beings to experience.
All that you have to do is continue to sit back an watch life go by.
Make your money, buy your toys, and bitch about what is wrong with the world.
Do what you want to, only for yourself and those close to you.
Pay no heed to the many stories about how one woman or one man can make things better.
Do nothing for anything or anyone except for yourself and the World and your reality will continue to be what it is.
However if you see something that ALL of us can agree is wrong.
Do the research, check your judgment with lots of others from all sides of the issue, gather the information, dig deep within and without, and find the people that are trying to change things for the better. Help them anyway you can.
Why should you care? Why should you not?
Jarrad Connor
I want to know people that act and think the way that I want to and do, most of the time. None of us are perfect. I want to connected with people that are doing the things that I want to do. With purpose and meaning. For the GOOD of all of us.
I want to know and work with human beings that are trying to make Earth, Humans, others, The Universe better. Oh and non terrestrial aliens if they are cool and don't want to use us for something insidious. LOL.
My mission and purpose in life is to work for, with, and support those that are making a difference on a universal scale anyway that I can and eventually be one of those people.
I eventually want to create one of the greatest companies on the planet that does not hold back from truly working towards humanities highest potential. Solving our worst problems.
Philanthropy + Arete = The love of humanity and its highest potential while working towards it.
Nearly everyday I attempt to get closer to and find more people, companies, and organizations that are doing good things on this planet. Working towards building the positive network that I want to work for and in the end work with.
Nearly everyday I try to find a connection that brings the people I don't know and the people that I do know and myself closer to fixing the obvious problems that humanity has. Rather than bitching about what's wrong with things in the world or in my life I want to do something. I'm aware of the negative things going on but I focus on finding positive things and creating positive things.
I put my energy into building things and helping people that are not spending their energy on criticizing or complaining about the fact that the universe is not doing something for them or that things are really messed up in the world. Yes things are messed up, but what is complaining about it going to do?
This is what keeps me going when I have to deal with people that don't act the way that I want to act. People that get stuck, don't grow, close their minds, stop learning, focus on the negative. People that judge before objectively researching and judge without truly trying to understand someone or something.
I don't hate these people ( ok sometimes I get really frustrated ). I don't look down on these people because I know that sometimes I am one of them ( I get really frustrated with myself sometimes). Some of these people just were never given that one spark in life. That spark, event, or teacher that wakes them up. Makes them look outside of the box. Sure there are some that to a degree remain consciously ignorant ( I admit that there are a few things that I remain consciously ignorant about ). I still don't hate them or myself. Just choose to try and understand them and my own stuff on a deeper level.
To me trying to understand someone is not trying to find an excuse for them. No. It can mean being objectively aware. Objectively conscious.
Wanting to know why they do what they do and why they see things they way they do. If we can figure out what shuts people down wither it is physical, psychological, or simply the cards they have be given. What I try to do is find a way to inspire them and myself to look within and connect their dreams, passions, and what they really want to do in life; to something positive. Something that allows them to do what they want while making a living and making a difference.
Which is exactly what I want for myself. To make a difference by helping those that are making a difference.
People that have integrity, honesty, open minds, a mostly positive perspectives on life. People that are trying to make life better someway somehow. Theirs or others. They are trying to make the world a better place for ALL.
These are the people that inspire me. These are the people that keep me going. These are the people that are truly successful in Life.
I have realized that you do not know who you are and what you really want in life. This will make you see things negatively. If you know what want but don't know how to get it or the steps that you need to take to get it. This will frustrate you to the point of insanity and see things negatively. I speak from my own experience. Mine may not be yours but I'm guessing that we are all more alike then we all think.
If you are deeply confident and know that everyday you are doing something that will get you closer to what you want to do in life this will change your view of everything. If you are doing what you want to do and if you know it is making life better for you, your family, your friends, your country, the world, the universe, this will change everything.
What do you do?
For the World to continue to have the wrongs that we can ALL agree are wrong.
The very wrong things that we would not want for ourselves, our family, friends, and fellow human beings to experience.
All that you have to do is continue to sit back an watch life go by.
Make your money, buy your toys, and bitch about what is wrong with the world.
Do what you want to, only for yourself and those close to you.
Pay no heed to the many stories about how one woman or one man can make things better.
Do nothing for anything or anyone except for yourself and the World and your reality will continue to be what it is.
However if you see something that ALL of us can agree is wrong.
Do the research, check your judgment with lots of others from all sides of the issue, gather the information, dig deep within and without, and find the people that are trying to change things for the better. Help them anyway you can.
Why should you care? Why should you not?
Jarrad Connor
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