Comments on: Balancing Today and Tomorrow http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:32:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrey Ten http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-887706 Andrey Ten Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:24:34 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-887706 how is it to possible to balance today and tomorrow, if you arent satisfied your velocity today? And wont be tomorrow. Velocity is just another key figure, which you are observing and comparing. In my opinion, this article is contrary to "Zen of folding laundry". Would you help me to remove this confusion? how is it to possible to balance today and tomorrow, if you arent satisfied your velocity today? And wont be tomorrow. Velocity is just another key figure, which you are observing and comparing.
In my opinion, this article is contrary to “Zen of folding laundry”.
Would you help me to remove this confusion?

]]> By: On Perceiving Time « Sai Choo Muses http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-395544 On Perceiving Time « Sai Choo Muses Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:54:51 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-395544 [...] hope of aiding my personal growth. It all came about from reading Scott H Young’s article, “Balancing Today and Tomorrow”, where Scott tackles the age-old problem between personal growth and accepting things as they are. [...] [...] hope of aiding my personal growth. It all came about from reading Scott H Young’s article, “Balancing Today and Tomorrow”, where Scott tackles the age-old problem between personal growth and accepting things as they are. [...]

]]> By: Sai Choo Muses http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-395543 Sai Choo Muses Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:53:49 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-395543 [...] hope of aiding my personal growth. It all came about from reading Scott H Young’s article, “Balancing Today and Tomorrow”, where Scott tackles the age-old problem between personal growth and accepting things as they are. [...] [...] hope of aiding my personal growth. It all came about from reading Scott H Young’s article, “Balancing Today and Tomorrow”, where Scott tackles the age-old problem between personal growth and accepting things as they are. [...]

]]> By: Maximilian http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-363505 Maximilian Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:29:03 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-363505 Very deep and very true. Since a person's personality can be completely shifted after taking brain damage from a car accident, I'm pretty sure who we are is a result of our bodily state. That is to say, as wetness is to water, so consciousness appears to be to the human brain. I take it we're sort of a collateral effect based around the fact that our brain has life and it's processes move and work to such an extent as to create a sense of will above and beyond intrinsic, innate, and learned qualities native to the brain. Although natural human superiority says we're special and we have souls while animals and plants don't. To my mind if a living plant doesn't have a soul, nor do we. We're all alive via our electricity and when it's lights out we decompose and decay as though we've never existed at all. Our fear of demise is a survival mechanism, emotions are strong, they're designed to override logic and they're very misleading, but my sense of evolution allows me to override my emotions to aspire towards being the consummate reasoning human, all past fiction aside, what's the truth of the matter as I've learned to see it? If no one ever told me about it would I have come to that same conclusion myself on my own? Life is about enjoying the moment, the entire concept of goal setting is completely fictitious, we're never done, we're always wanting more because wisdom states life truly is about velocity and not destination. If we want to hurry towards our destination in life we can jump from a plane without a parachute. Life is like a vacation. The point is to enjoy it, to make the most of it, not to hurry through its itinerary to the end. Even life itself is overrated. People in fearing their doom say to live life to the fullest and to make the most of it. But really living life in its every moment as mother Theresa to me is just as much a waste as frivoling it away doing things we don't like to do. The wise course is to do what we want to do, how we want to do it, when we want to do it, in a way that makes it most satisfying specifically to us but ideally to everyone effected by us also. To me the ultimate wisdom in life is knowing that nothing matters and thereby every and anything is fair game, the more we live life under the motto that nothing matters and so everything is fair play, the more we can not be controlled by our emotions and we can guide ourselves to what we truly want most underneath it all, simply because it's how life groomed us to be. We're all pawns of sorts, to our genetic inclinations, to our environment, to our upbringing, to our allegiances, to our employment, to our emotions, to our bodily demands of hunger and defecation. Life under that sort of fear and control is scary and thus pessimistic. As we don't care about anything we're free to be as benevolent as we'd like to be - unafraid of being used because we chose to give and not to oblige our reception, to be independent, to play this hand we've been given in all of its manipulation of us. It still can feel nice and that in and of itself is nice enough to know. At the end of it all, it won't really matter. Demise doesn't exist because we'll never be conscious of ourselves when we're gone. Just like the brain damaged car occupant, without a functioning brain (remember in demise the electricity is gone out of it, thus no consciousness) it's complete magical thinking to believe your lights will work when you have no generator to power them. In that same way I feel we've established without life energy and spark in our cells, we'll receive the same blackout. Lucky for us as we age we become more decrepit and senile to such an extent that we sort of lose the mental capacity to grasp demise and we sort of slip away. To me this seems a relief and a benevolent gift of nature. What makes a human life any different than the life of bacteria propogating on beach shorelines. Is there a little bacteria heaven somewhere? It seems silly, presumptuous, fictitious. I feel we can all agree it's just like apples and oranges, that when we no longer have the means to regenerate, we seem to decompose back into the cycle of life. Clearly we mustn't then be a spirit in a body, it strikes me we're alive because our body has the energy to catalyze our consciousness into existence via our perfectly formed and functioning brains. Lose the form, function, or energy behind the brain and it no longer has the means the run itself. This is natural logic 101. I feel everyone must know it underneath it all but the reality (the agreement between people) about it, people still want to believe - via their survival mechanism of fear of demise - in mythology about it to make themselves feel better. Well whatever it takes for that person to live life happily, even if it is seemingly deluding themselves to feel better about the world. What's the value behind the truth anyway? Just feeling right I suppose, another mechanism of our circumstances and survival techniques, a way to power. We're constantly manipulated by factors outside of our control. The most divinely wise thing for us to do then is just to play our part, to do what we feel. That to me, seems to be divine wisdom above all else. Very deep and very true. Since a person’s personality can be completely shifted after taking brain damage from a car accident, I’m pretty sure who we are is a result of our bodily state. That is to say, as wetness is to water, so consciousness appears to be to the human brain. I take it we’re sort of a collateral effect based around the fact that our brain has life and it’s processes move and work to such an extent as to create a sense of will above and beyond intrinsic, innate, and learned qualities native to the brain. Although natural human superiority says we’re special and we have souls while animals and plants don’t. To my mind if a living plant doesn’t have a soul, nor do we. We’re all alive via our electricity and when it’s lights out we decompose and decay as though we’ve never existed at all. Our fear of demise is a survival mechanism, emotions are strong, they’re designed to override logic and they’re very misleading, but my sense of evolution allows me to override my emotions to aspire towards being the consummate reasoning human, all past fiction aside, what’s the truth of the matter as I’ve learned to see it? If no one ever told me about it would I have come to that same conclusion myself on my own? Life is about enjoying the moment, the entire concept of goal setting is completely fictitious, we’re never done, we’re always wanting more because wisdom states life truly is about velocity and not destination. If we want to hurry towards our destination in life we can jump from a plane without a parachute. Life is like a vacation. The point is to enjoy it, to make the most of it, not to hurry through its itinerary to the end. Even life itself is overrated. People in fearing their doom say to live life to the fullest and to make the most of it. But really living life in its every moment as mother Theresa to me is just as much a waste as frivoling it away doing things we don’t like to do. The wise course is to do what we want to do, how we want to do it, when we want to do it, in a way that makes it most satisfying specifically to us but ideally to everyone effected by us also. To me the ultimate wisdom in life is knowing that nothing matters and thereby every and anything is fair game, the more we live life under the motto that nothing matters and so everything is fair play, the more we can not be controlled by our emotions and we can guide ourselves to what we truly want most underneath it all, simply because it’s how life groomed us to be. We’re all pawns of sorts, to our genetic inclinations, to our environment, to our upbringing, to our allegiances, to our employment, to our emotions, to our bodily demands of hunger and defecation. Life under that sort of fear and control is scary and thus pessimistic. As we don’t care about anything we’re free to be as benevolent as we’d like to be – unafraid of being used because we chose to give and not to oblige our reception, to be independent, to play this hand we’ve been given in all of its manipulation of us. It still can feel nice and that in and of itself is nice enough to know. At the end of it all, it won’t really matter. Demise doesn’t exist because we’ll never be conscious of ourselves when we’re gone. Just like the brain damaged car occupant, without a functioning brain (remember in demise the electricity is gone out of it, thus no consciousness) it’s complete magical thinking to believe your lights will work when you have no generator to power them. In that same way I feel we’ve established without life energy and spark in our cells, we’ll receive the same blackout. Lucky for us as we age we become more decrepit and senile to such an extent that we sort of lose the mental capacity to grasp demise and we sort of slip away. To me this seems a relief and a benevolent gift of nature. What makes a human life any different than the life of bacteria propogating on beach shorelines. Is there a little bacteria heaven somewhere? It seems silly, presumptuous, fictitious. I feel we can all agree it’s just like apples and oranges, that when we no longer have the means to regenerate, we seem to decompose back into the cycle of life. Clearly we mustn’t then be a spirit in a body, it strikes me we’re alive because our body has the energy to catalyze our consciousness into existence via our perfectly formed and functioning brains. Lose the form, function, or energy behind the brain and it no longer has the means the run itself. This is natural logic 101. I feel everyone must know it underneath it all but the reality (the agreement between people) about it, people still want to believe – via their survival mechanism of fear of demise – in mythology about it to make themselves feel better. Well whatever it takes for that person to live life happily, even if it is seemingly deluding themselves to feel better about the world. What’s the value behind the truth anyway? Just feeling right I suppose, another mechanism of our circumstances and survival techniques, a way to power. We’re constantly manipulated by factors outside of our control. The most divinely wise thing for us to do then is just to play our part, to do what we feel. That to me, seems to be divine wisdom above all else.

]]> By: Morgan http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-355165 Morgan Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:15:08 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-355165 Great article and good food for thought. Having the journey as the goal instead of the arrival makes every day a lot more rewarding. The "problem" that I see with velocity based goal setting is that it's just a multiplication with time away from being the same old position based goal setting that most of us are used to. Instead of setting a goal of reading book A, I will set a goal of reading 10 pages every day. But the integration is not hard to do and one thought later you're at "ok, book A is 200 hundred pages so in 20 days I'll be done with this and be able to start reading book B", and you're back at the position based thinking again. It's only velocity based as long as you can stay away from looking ahead. So my conclusion would be that it's not so much the velocity per se as the capability to enjoy every little step, as meaningless as it might seem, knowing that it is a step towards something bigger. BR Morgan Great article and good food for thought. Having the journey as the goal instead of the arrival makes every day a lot more rewarding. The “problem” that I see with velocity based goal setting is that it’s just a multiplication with time away from being the same old position based goal setting that most of us are used to. Instead of setting a goal of reading book A, I will set a goal of reading 10 pages every day. But the integration is not hard to do and one thought later you’re at “ok, book A is 200 hundred pages so in 20 days I’ll be done with this and be able to start reading book B”, and you’re back at the position based thinking again. It’s only velocity based as long as you can stay away from looking ahead. So my conclusion would be that it’s not so much the velocity per se as the capability to enjoy every little step, as meaningless as it might seem, knowing that it is a step towards something bigger.

BR

Morgan

]]> By: How to Become More Successful (Blog) - Page 2 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-337047 How to Become More Successful (Blog) - Page 2 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:15:59 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-337047 [...] H. Young which talks about having a velocity-based outlook instead of a position-based outlook. Scott H Young » Balancing Today and Tomorrow In summary, it says you should care more about how fast you’re improving than where you currently [...]

]]> By: Oneil http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-284746 Oneil Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:38:34 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-284746 Mr. Scott H. Young, thank you so much for posting a great article like this. Keep up the good work and God bless you as well as your family. Mr. Scott H. Young, thank you so much for posting a great article like this. Keep up the good work and God bless you as well as your family.

]]> By: majihzo http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-275140 majihzo Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:08:13 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-275140 wow thats a splendid article i ve ever came across..landed on this site looking for some tips to be a great communicator...undergraduate studyin pr...i would love to read more aticles from you because i gain knwolegde and gets to understand and see life in a different perspective..you are gifted...and hope you will keep on posting more for those with lil brains to feed themselves from your worlds... wow thats a splendid article i ve ever came across..landed on this site looking for some tips to be a great communicator…undergraduate studyin pr…i would love to read more aticles from you because i gain knwolegde and gets to understand and see life in a different perspective..you are gifted…and hope you will keep on posting more for those with lil brains to feed themselves from your worlds…

]]> By: Revus http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-270477 Revus Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:00:01 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-270477 Very interesting reading. Some grey areas exist. It would be nice if you gave specific contrasting examples of a position based versus a velocity based goal. How would a V-based one be objective, specific, measurable, achievable, inspiring, challenging, etc? (Important benefits of a P-based goal). How would you avoid kidding yourself that you ARE doing your best, etc? I for one, certainly need more help before I can put this into practice. Very interesting reading. Some grey areas exist. It would be nice if you gave specific contrasting examples of a position based versus a velocity based goal. How would a V-based one be objective, specific, measurable, achievable, inspiring, challenging, etc? (Important benefits of a P-based goal). How would you avoid kidding yourself that you ARE doing your best, etc?
I for one, certainly need more help before I can put this into practice.

]]> By: Fetishself http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/comment-page-1/#comment-229895 Fetishself Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:15:02 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/05/05/balancing-today-and-tomorrow/#comment-229895 You are bright young men. and very ambitious... The truth is... human being is always looking for something better... velocity or anything else for that matter, and you know it better than many. :-) Focusing on the process is a goal by itself… contradiction… However you put it… it is a goal…at the end This you can't change. It is an internal mechanism. Pleasure and Pain are two motivators for people.. Even this article is something that gives a hope to people, hope to get a better life, and get out of wherever they are… obviously not a happy place… The only path is to realize it... to realize the constant attempt to get more, and better, and to get out of where we are, which is... ironically here and now Awakening is seeing the futility of our attempts to control, to run from pain, and to achieve pleasure…When one is ready, fed up with the wishful state of being…. one can see it clearly…. it puts one in a being state of consciousness, which is here and now. Only then one can get into co-creative state of consciousness.... something what you are describing in here as a velocity theory. You described it neatly, it is exactly what is happening at that stage, but only after the state of being becomes a permanent state… it is a long process, nevertheless, I find your article helpful, cause, not everyone transforms, many achieve this state through the translation (self help tools), which takes few generations to practice. You are bright young men. and very ambitious…
The truth is… human being is always looking for something better… velocity or anything else for that matter, and you know it better than many. :-)
Focusing on the process is a goal by itself… contradiction… However you put it… it is a goal…at the end

This you can’t change. It is an internal mechanism. Pleasure and Pain are two motivators for people.. Even this article is something that gives a hope to people, hope to get a better life, and get out of wherever they are… obviously not a happy place…

The only path is to realize it… to realize the constant attempt to get more, and better, and to get out of where we are, which is… ironically here and now

Awakening is seeing the futility of our attempts to control, to run from pain, and to achieve pleasure…When one is ready, fed up with the wishful state of being…. one can see it clearly…. it puts one in a being state of consciousness, which is here and now. Only then one can get into co-creative state of consciousness…. something what you are describing in here as a velocity theory.

You described it neatly, it is exactly what is happening at that stage, but only after the state of being becomes a permanent state… it is a long process, nevertheless, I find your article helpful, cause, not everyone transforms, many achieve this state through the translation (self help tools), which takes few generations to practice.

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