Comments on: About Staircases http://inoveryourhead.net/about-staircases/ social capital, trust agents, all that jazz Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Joe Sorge http://inoveryourhead.net/about-staircases/#comment-201834 Joe Sorge Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:56:42 +0000 http://inoveryourhead.net/?p=1088#comment-201834 Totally in tune with this thinking, it's along the same lines of how schools teach children to obey, to fit in, to be a cog. As I was reading your description of the path that most people take on the stairs, I envisioned the person daring enough to step out of the "rut" and proceed up or down the stairs in their own path. Ya know what's going to happen to them immediately, or at least what I saw in my minds eye? They're going to smack right in to someone who's walking the other direction, possibly even someone walking in their own "path". So breaking out of the rut also requires some hard work, or at least focus and determination? Who knew? Thanks Julien Totally in tune with this thinking, it’s along the same lines of how schools teach children to obey, to fit in, to be a cog.

As I was reading your description of the path that most people take on the stairs, I envisioned the person daring enough to step out of the “rut” and proceed up or down the stairs in their own path. Ya know what’s going to happen to them immediately, or at least what I saw in my minds eye? They’re going to smack right in to someone who’s walking the other direction, possibly even someone walking in their own “path”. So breaking out of the rut also requires some hard work, or at least focus and determination? Who knew?

Thanks Julien

]]> By: CT Moore http://inoveryourhead.net/about-staircases/#comment-173788 CT Moore Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:10:17 +0000 http://inoveryourhead.net/?p=1088#comment-173788 Children have plastic brains, which is a huge advantage for learning and recovering from injury. Adults have much less plastic brains, which is good for retain lots of knowledge, which is good if you want to eat the sabertooth tiger rather than it eating you. Routine can also be a good thing. When you accept that you can set it yourself, you can use it to accomplish all kinds of things. That's what discipline is all about, I guess: a groove, a routine, a groovie routine... Gawd, I'm full of it... :P But like most things, "a rut" seems to have two sides to it. In fact, it has a lot: a groove, routine, habit, regimen, etc... So maybe it's what you make it. Maybe as long as you don't let it make <i>you</i>, everything's irie.... Children have plastic brains, which is a huge advantage for learning and recovering from injury. Adults have much less plastic brains, which is good for retain lots of knowledge, which is good if you want to eat the sabertooth tiger rather than it eating you.

Routine can also be a good thing. When you accept that you can set it yourself, you can use it to accomplish all kinds of things.

That’s what discipline is all about, I guess: a groove, a routine, a groovie routine…

Gawd, I’m full of it… :P

But like most things, “a rut” seems to have two sides to it. In fact, it has a lot: a groove, routine, habit, regimen, etc…

So maybe it’s what you make it. Maybe as long as you don’t let it make you, everything’s irie….

]]> By: Deborah Hinton http://inoveryourhead.net/about-staircases/#comment-173749 Deborah Hinton Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:50 +0000 http://inoveryourhead.net/?p=1088#comment-173749 "Path of Least Resistance" by Robert Fritz talks about this phenomenon - how structures drive behaviours and how changing them isn't as easy as willing it to be so [ask anyone who's tried to lose weight]. Also, if you're not you who are you? “Path of Least Resistance” by Robert Fritz talks about this phenomenon – how structures drive behaviours and how changing them isn’t as easy as willing it to be so [ask anyone who's tried to lose weight].

Also, if you’re not you who are you?

]]> By: Lauren http://inoveryourhead.net/about-staircases/#comment-173733 Lauren Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:57:35 +0000 http://inoveryourhead.net/?p=1088#comment-173733 The next wilderness is ourselves. We have to learn to look beyond the exterior, disregard what other people tell us about ourselves, and what we can see with our own eyes, but don't always believe. If you know yourself, talk to yourself (in your head, not on the subway. ok, on the subway if you want), stay in touch with yourself, do what you know is right despite anything, you will stay wild. The next wilderness is ourselves.

We have to learn to look beyond the exterior, disregard what other people tell us about ourselves, and what we can see with our own eyes, but don’t always believe.

If you know yourself, talk to yourself (in your head, not on the subway. ok, on the subway if you want), stay in touch with yourself, do what you know is right despite anything, you will stay wild.

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