Multipotentialite
I choose Door #3!
I have called myself many things over the years to express my mode of operation: polymath, Renaissance soul, multi-tasker, lover of variety, generalist...etc. ad infinitum. When I saw the term multipotentialite I thought it was just too difficult to say over and over and even more difficult to explain, but actually it really sums us up nicely.
The t-shirt would improve my life by sparing me from having to say multipotentialite. :-) People could read it and then ask and I could explain what it means if they don't get it.
The book may make a difference in my life by finally showing me how I can make a living combining all the wonderous things I like to do. Making a living doing something I love would be the ultimate! I have worked for nearly 30 years doing a lot of stuff that was only interesting a small part of the time. On the other hand I have a plethora of hobbies (26 at last count) that I find fulfilling and satisfying. Turning those into a livelihood would change my life forever!
Finally, but certainly the one with the most potential, the hour-long coaching session with the Grand Mistress of Putty herself, Emily! I have struggled with the belief that I can do this on my own for a very long time. I am a fierce individualist and often suffer from the delusion that I can do everything myself. I am admitting here that maybe I can't. I've been trying to do it on my own for a couple of decades now...doing the same thing and expecting different results. Duh! Time to do something different. Someone else's perspective, someone who is also like me with so many different likes and skills, may be the very thing that puts me on the path of different results. Something's got to change.
I am proud to be a multipotentialite...with several multipotentialite friends, who also struggle. In fact, I think I associate more with multipotentialites than "non", yet we seem to be the exception not the rule.
I have also resisted joining the Putty Tribe because of my individualism, but that's about to change too. Time to do something different to get different results.
Thanks for forming the tribe and giving us a place to go for community!
http://puttylike.com/puttyfest/
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
Ordered Chaos vs. Chaotic Order?
I've been thinking about Chaos and Order lately. I found this picture on the web that perfectly illustrated the fact that we need chaos in the world. Scientifically, chaos is not a "bad or evil" thing. Chaos creates galaxies and stars and star systems and planets and, in the case of Earth, life.
Without chaos there would be no language or salads; the night sky would be pretty uninteresting. Without chaos kids would not play and plants would not provide us with oxygen and food. Chaos is necessary, extremely necessary!
Order is necessary too. They are coupled together like yin and yang; inseparable, balanced, and vital. We talk about them as if they are separate entities and usually only on the far sides of the continuum. Systems are far more complex than pure order or pure chaos and exist somewhere in between in a state of ordered chaos or chaotic order.
Talking about chaos and order one has to be specific of the context. Many people believe that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (Law of Entropy) says that "every thing will progress from a state of order to disorder". While in some cases that is somewhat correct, that doesn't really adequately describe the scientific meaning.
Entropy = Energy spontaneously disperses from being localized to becoming spread out if it is not hindered from doing so. Entropy measures the spontaneous dispersal of energy: how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes — at a specific temperature.
*Thank you Frank Lambert. (http://entropysite.oxy.edu/students_approach.html)
It's tempting for us to extrapolate scientific principles to social, cultural, and artistic applications. Chaos and entropy become a metaphor for disarray, disorder, and disorganization. I think that is okay, as long as the metaphor stays true to the original premise. For instance, maintaining a neat house; at a high temperature my house becomes more cluttered, at a lower temperature it maintains some organization. ;-) At a specific temperature, my energy for activity disperses from being localize to becoming spread out! Referring back to the pictures, think about the energy that was required to carefully arrange each picture to illustrate order? The natural state of each of those frames is one of ordered chaos (or chaotic order, take your pick). We recognize the salad, the conifer branch, the stars in the night sky, the language, all of them as something familiar, a complex pattern yes, but one we know, suspended somewhere on the continuum between order and chaos, not absolute order or absolute chaos. The other temptation is for humans to assign a VALUE to order and chaos as good and/or bad/evil. Here is where the human intellect must kick in and prevail with reason and rationality. It is neither good or bad, it simply is. Sometimes beneficial things come from order and sometimes from chaos; sometimes detrimental things come from order and sometimes from chaos.
Bottom line, they are inseparable like heads and tails on a coin, but unlike the coin it's not just one or the other. It's both, in varying degrees; just doing what it does, not for an ulterior motive of good or evil. It simply is.
I think I'll good have a bit of soup and salad, under a pine tree.
Order is necessary too. They are coupled together like yin and yang; inseparable, balanced, and vital. We talk about them as if they are separate entities and usually only on the far sides of the continuum. Systems are far more complex than pure order or pure chaos and exist somewhere in between in a state of ordered chaos or chaotic order.
Talking about chaos and order one has to be specific of the context. Many people believe that the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (Law of Entropy) says that "every thing will progress from a state of order to disorder". While in some cases that is somewhat correct, that doesn't really adequately describe the scientific meaning.
Entropy = Energy spontaneously disperses from being localized to becoming spread out if it is not hindered from doing so. Entropy measures the spontaneous dispersal of energy: how much energy is spread out in a process, or how widely spread out it becomes — at a specific temperature.
*Thank you Frank Lambert. (http://entropysite.oxy.edu/students_approach.html)
It's tempting for us to extrapolate scientific principles to social, cultural, and artistic applications. Chaos and entropy become a metaphor for disarray, disorder, and disorganization. I think that is okay, as long as the metaphor stays true to the original premise. For instance, maintaining a neat house; at a high temperature my house becomes more cluttered, at a lower temperature it maintains some organization. ;-) At a specific temperature, my energy for activity disperses from being localize to becoming spread out! Referring back to the pictures, think about the energy that was required to carefully arrange each picture to illustrate order? The natural state of each of those frames is one of ordered chaos (or chaotic order, take your pick). We recognize the salad, the conifer branch, the stars in the night sky, the language, all of them as something familiar, a complex pattern yes, but one we know, suspended somewhere on the continuum between order and chaos, not absolute order or absolute chaos. The other temptation is for humans to assign a VALUE to order and chaos as good and/or bad/evil. Here is where the human intellect must kick in and prevail with reason and rationality. It is neither good or bad, it simply is. Sometimes beneficial things come from order and sometimes from chaos; sometimes detrimental things come from order and sometimes from chaos.
Bottom line, they are inseparable like heads and tails on a coin, but unlike the coin it's not just one or the other. It's both, in varying degrees; just doing what it does, not for an ulterior motive of good or evil. It simply is.
I think I'll good have a bit of soup and salad, under a pine tree.
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