TECH SUPPORT for OEM or rebuilt?
Saturday, February 11, 2023
What we have room for, whether on our plate, in our head, or in our spaces, is much more than furniture arranging, Kondo-esque reorganizing or Feng-Shui-izing our life.
Or is it?
The spaces we occupy vis-à-vis things that occupy our spaces: time, attention, focus and focus – where we store, organize, and view the inside of our heads matter; they matter far more than whether pillows are arranged ‘just right,’ or if towels are folded and piled as they should be …
Tending to our emotional life is like farming/gardening; part the initial/original planning, organization and planting – and then, maintenance, keeping out invading species/harmful pests and influence, nurturing/watering and fertilizing, harvesting, planting, harvesting, planting. Some gardeners talk to their plants in much the same as we self-talk to organize our thoughts.
Inside our head, however, it seems more restrictive because everything is parked, stored, ingrained or imprinted where it has been for a long time, and many parts since before we were born. I’ve heard explanations of this that liken our brain to the CPU in a computer, programs that run 24/7, which is vital for the functions that make our heart pump, our lungs breath for us, and all body functions to keep going whether we are awake or not.
If that’s true, it must follow that all experiences of good, bad, rote, right, and wrong – that we’ve done from the womb till now are stored, processed and working without change. But what if we change some things, some re-programming?
While there is plenty of debate, there are ways to over-write our programmed operating system, move things around in terms of priorities and how we see things. At the root of this thinking, which has become fundamental to many training, re-training and coaching programs, is NLP…
NLP is the installation, repetition, and affirmation process essential to making those changes. It’s not, as I understand it, like de-fragging the hard drive on our computer with the illusion it creates more storage space but reorganizes and tightens up the used space on the drive, but more akin to over-writing a program with a newer 2.0 version of the program that keeps the key components, upgrades the de-bugging fixes along the way – no need to look all that up and research opinions; you can do that anytime.
For now, stay with me on this thought train.
Most people would agree, friends and family especially, that I need more than 2.0. Possibly version Freedom 55.0 or 65.0 might be required to get my brain and body to sync with the latest version of newborn heads. They’ll have the primary factory-installed operating system and then have patches, additional programs installed by teachers, parents, grandparents, and the virtual influences of a virtual world. Most new models won’t be loaded with A.I., but they’ll be hook-up ready; they’ll operate in a brave new (and very scary for us all to comprehend) exciting world.
Children born today enter a world vastly different, to a future not fathomable when I was born. We haven’t seen pre-installed knowledge or a wearable device (or chip under your skin) to upgrade those tiny brains with everything ever known. Clever nerds in short pants are working on that notion in labs somewhere. When those breakthroughs come, certainly in the life span of children born now, they will revolutionize life as we’ve ever known it and ‘the best of everything today’ will look like silly archaic themes of days long gone …
So how does that relate to us, to me, to you?
Science barely understands our brain, and little has changed in how people within families function together, and the extended family befuddles us. There is no way to know the variation of what might be going on with others that we can’t comprehend, and which is none of our business – yet we interact with each other, or fail to when we should, that bits and pieces of barely give clues to be deciphered – we aren’t programmed for that. Not yet, anyway …
For now, we collectively struggle to understand news stories of the latest medical and technology breakthroughs; in other words, we can only manage how far we are behind and how out of touch we’ve become. There is no reversing anything. We can rethink, relearn, reinstall, over-write and too often over-think.
Touching, talking, hugging, and listening are the best remedies until techie help arrives.
There are questions every day, usually arriving without answers. We must be patient, and in time we’ll learn more of the big picture, but essential holes in the data make it hard to put the pieces together.
I read Seth’s blog post yesterday – it made me smile, a simple truth to explain a great metaphor; but in my experience, the worst form of cheating are the little falsehoods we plant, repeat, and install in our minds of things that aren’t true as if they were, and the things we install as valid which never were.
After writing that, I MUST, before I end, install this quote from Mark Twain:
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”
Until a new world of understanding arrives, until others fill in the missing pieces for us, we need to be kind, tolerant and understanding of ourselves – cut ourselves slack before attempting to figure out other people and their motives.
Reader feedback:
Mark, a great piece today: one I can truly own. Thank you, JJ, Calgary, AB
One of your better reads this morning, in my uncertain opinion, RH, Calgary, AB