I did another live on-line book signing last night. It was hard understanding and balancing the technology used to support the event, and I made one serious mistake which cut a channel of audio from the Internet stream, making for an awkward and very one-sided conversation with my three guests from Discord. But I’ve figured out the problem and will not likely make this same error again. But it’s always like that with whatever is new—like when Yumiko and I first moved to Huntington Beach and I didn’t know my way around the city and made lots of mistakes driving to the market, gas station and restaurants. Now, we’re three months in and I can get around town mostly without a map, making it increasingly easier to live within this new life venue. Likewise, I expect I’ll continue to stumble for a while while I practice, learn and tune the technology used to support my on-going live book signing events. But I’ll get that down too, and this new on-line routine—like the driving I do to get around my new city—will soon look and feel like an activity I’ve done all my life, and I’ll then become a “local” to this new place, and to this new work. I just need to maintain the patience and resolve to accept the many mistakes and false starts encountered along the way, which are simply the price which must be paid for each and every Great Life Adventure into the new, the different, and the unknown.
The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle
12. Principle of Family 13. Public Speaking 14. Temperance 15. Life Will Not Go Well 16. The Horror Show 17. That Which Must Be Borne 18. The Feast of Offal 19. Distraction 20. Agency and The Great Indifference 21. The Best Seat in the House 22. The Restless Man 23. The Path of Wildness 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 26. Sin and Damnation 27. Complete Oblivion 28. The Season of Philosophy
29. Scriptwriting 30. Bullseye Aim 31. The Uphill Climb 32. Arena and Utility 33. Nothing IS enough 34. The Principle of Fun
My name is Kurt Bell.
You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.
Be safe... But not too safe.
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