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Here’s an interesting thought, trust me it all makes sense near the end…

I say the real world is a place where people, for the most part, are lacking common sense, common decency, common courtesy - they’re lacking intelligence, knowledge, insight, creativity, attention-span, wonder, sense of adventure, risk, passion, romance, and selflessness.

Those of you whom are intelligent, pride yourselves on your brain, and use it to gain knowledge, and more often than not will consciously be aware of your intellectual superiority and not understand why people think you’re a pompous fuckbag that deserves to be lead by someone less intelligent than you, and you are bitter for it, never ending your quest to simply find like minded people, and ultimately ostracize those that you find annoying because they’re a few mph slower than you.

Those of you whom are passionate-optimists think the world of people, and humanity, and always hold on to a grain of hope in your heart that things are always getting better, and people have good in them no matter who they are. Optimism is a blind road to travel, mixed with passion, and you’ll eventually just end up one of those people that are so clouded by their surroundings that you’ll think “everyone’s the way that I am, because that’s all I see”. This of course files the passionate-optimist under close-minded and completely lacking understanding and knowledge.

Those of you whom are insightful, creative, full of adventure, risk and selflessness - and are 100% honest about those qualities… well, most of you end up working for an international organization handing out food to starving children, and I think that’s great! But take out the 100% in those qualities and we have a typical artist or author, that’s simply living a dream built on empty hopes, and short term (or shallow long term) goals that will simply act as a self-fulfilling motivator to prove their decisions were the right ones.

What the hell does this have to do with … Debate? Well, first allow me to explain one thing. I can take anyone’s life and point out the bad, that’s just the matter of fact of things, and most people can do this as well… unless you’re eternally passionate-optimistic. Mostly I’ve just described my faults, as an intellect, as a passionate individual (especially when I’m feeling optimistic), and as an insightful, creative person - with a small sense of adventure, huge risk taker, but also somewhat selfless when it comes to working with those I respect around me.

Over the years, I’ve become increasingly aware of the factors that are involved in understanding where the mistakes in decisions come from within myself, and I explained that to a friend of mine the other day:

“I keep my curve as level as possible, keeping my peaks and valleys of good and bad at a minimum, allowing me to sway one way or the other quickly, without going too far into the depths or heights of one or the other… this keeps me clear minded, my expectations level headed, and my decisions solid, and carefully created”.

What does that mean? My Curve, in case you missed it - is the mind/soul/heart attitude and awareness. I keep them all at an even playing field, as much as possible, and when one gets overly excited about a great idea, the other one will kick in and either support or fail. If all three items aren’t in sync with one another about an action, decision, or idea - than it gets abandoned, or written down to revisit when another scenario arises that could help bring that idea into view again.

This does… what? Keeps my emotions from getting the best of me, keeps my random soul on pace (most of the time) and ultimately - keeps me very level headed when dealing with people-situations. The adverse effect of this, and what other’s don’t understand most of the time, is, it also allows me to see which one of your 3 curve-items are out of sync, and use those against you in an argument, decision, scenario, or debate.

Beneath the foundation of all things surface, on the core fundamental level (think critically with me people), you have the common factors of all things in your life that drive everything you say, do and act on. Some people are more emotional than others - consistently. Some people are more consistently methodical. The creepy ones are consistently on “auto-pilot” (soul driven) not using any heart or mind in their decisions… yikes.

Most people will always be in one state more than the other two, which makes them “who they are” to others, but also, most people (I say most, because sociopaths don’t really have all these options) will be in one state or the other of the three at any given time. It’s a matter of how fast you can place them in alignment with one another to ensure when a decision is being made, that has an impact, that your clarity in that decision’s outcome is actually in alignment with the greater picture, the longer term goal, and how that decision will effect the other decisions around it… thus making you, a pretty interesting person to debate with.

This “person-set” is about creating a balance within yourself, and using that to create an understanding in you that will allow you to ultimately be able to decipher others and which state they’re in. Creating an advantage in a discussion, if they’re imbalanced, and if not - you have a good debate ahead of you.

By debate I mean, of course, life decisions that involve others. Arguments, and discussions are just forms of debate, but one has too much emotion, while the other has too much brain. Compromise has too much brain, not enough intelligence, and sacrifice is just someone getting taken advantage of and losing. I choose my debates with others carefully, but more often than not will choose the 5 outcomes I’m looking for and work toward those while debate is evolving… I’ll have to get into that one later though, I have work to do.

enrique
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