• Linking Park: 2007-W06, The V-Day and Adventure Planning Edition

    edited by Alexander Becker on February 12, 2007 | Link

    Intelligence, metaexperiences and life according to its lists, Ho'oponopono, Valentines and chocolate.

    Cognition is knowing something, like the answer in a test, while metacognition is knowing whether you know the answer or not. To cognate or metacognate -- Which is smarter? Learn to understand your own intelligence --

    Unless you're taking a test or playing Jeopardy, metacognition is more important to success than cognition. In real life, when you're faced with a question the first decision is whether you know the answer or not. With strong metacognitive ability this is easy. If you know the answer, but can't come up with it, you can always do a bit of research. If you know for sure that you don't know, then you can start educating yourself. Because you're aware of your ignorance, you don't act with foolish confidence. The person who thinks they know something that they really don't makes the worst decisions.

    In the battle of experience vs. metaexperience, experience definitely wins. Take a look at this truly inspirational life list (... and no, I wouldn't publish my son's life list) --

    To what degree do you think a young person increases his chances of a fulfilling life by seizing the freedom to dream big, imagining what he wants to achieve, and writing it down?

    John Goddard started this life list thing and he lives by and off of it ever since --

    One rainy afternoon an inspired 15-year old boy named John Goddard sat down at his kitchen table in Los Angeles and wrote three words at the top of a yellow pad, "My Life List." Under that heading he wrote down 127 goals.

    These were not simple or easy goals. They included climbing the world's major mountains, exploring from source to mouth the longest rivers of the world, piloting the world's fastest aircraft, running a mile in five minutes and reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica.

    Now, a generation later, he has accomplished 109 of these quests, and has logged an impressive list of records in achieving them.

    Whichever way you choose, however your list looks like, never forget to just do something, do anything and never stop --

    Once you participate in life, it really works.

    On the other hand, you may simply need a way to solve all of your problems --

    In Ho'oponopono, problems are viewed as replayed subconscious thoughts and memories from the past that are presenting themselves now to be released by us. These thoughts and memories within us cause all physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, relationship, and financial problems in our lives. After we take 100% responsibility for these thoughts and memories (and their resulting effects and problems), we can then release them using Ho'oponopono and be free to act on the inspiration that follows.

    In related news, here is how to achieve blog nirvana --

    Once you write enough blog posts, and read far too many blog posts, you acquire an instinctive sense for the principle ingredients of an audience-pleasing offering. However, rather than itemize those ingredients, it's far easier to discuss this magical formula in terms of the instinctive emotional responses you hope to conjure in readers. The broadest of those responses are indignation, titillation, stimulation, and affirmation. Hitting any of the buttons is good. Ideally, you pack as many of those responses as possible into your content, even (and sometimes especially) if they're contradictory. Hitting the sweet spot in the center of all four virtually guarantees bloggy nirvana.

    Since V-day is near, what could come in more handy than a bittersweet guide to the best chocolate --

    White, milk, dark, fudge, with cherry, cherry bombs, truffles, more fudge, cherry fudge, chocolate from Java, coffee-infused beans -— even chocolate massage oil and chocolate lip gloss, with a dark, bitter flavor.

    Happy Valentines.

    Every thing eventually will pass, ... another good reason to NOT have a Blogroll --

    Make it easy on yourself. Don't have a Blogroll. If you like a blog, link to their posts when they write something interesting. Saves us all a world of pain and hand-wringing.

    To your excellent life.

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