S2 E8 — How Does the Entangled Fish Hook Theory of Creativity Work?

We introverts account for only 30 or 40% of people, according to research of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator temperaments and make the mistake of trying to fit our behavior and other choices into the dominant extrovert, outie way according to author, Marti Olsen Laney.

“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”

Hi and welcome to Sunday’s Episode 8 of the Second Season’s My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment, on March 8th in the spring of 2020 here in California.

Previously in the Second Season

S2 E7 — Smart Moves and Shifting Opportunities; S2 E6 — No We Don’t Share Your Precious Little Frickin’ Data

Related from Season One

S1 E8 — Day 8 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E7 — Day 7 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E6 — Day 6 of My 1-Year Experiment

“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Part of you is having a personal experience, while simultaneously another part of you is dealing with the person experience you are having. Your awareness of your own multifaceted nature will calm you.” Leo

Evidence

It’s when we change our clocks in this part of the world to make our internal sleep systems suffer. And to sadistically demonstrate how quickly we forgot all the steps for changing each clock in electronic devises that don’t even require a timer.

Pro Trick? I use my iPhone as the standard for each devise that doesn’t automatically change.

1. Punch in the 2, 3, or 4 steps required to advance the time to the correct one except for the very last,
2. Figure it will take 10 to 15 seconds,
3. So the time to be set is one minute faster or earlier depending on the spring forward or fall back nonsense.
4. Watch the second hand sweep across the iPhone clock and as it clicks down to the 12 position push the last step in the sequence.

I feel I can take my cue for a variety of Volume Three Manuscript settings from “The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World” — like synthesizing the science of temperament and what we know about the brain now.

It’s why I feel a closure coming full circle prompted by Shaggy when he recommended some of Sam Harris’ books and his podcast.

Like other introverts, I feel adrift until I can remember something by association.

Associative thinking as one of my former client’s, Marsh Fisher, explained is a lot like trying to reach into a clear plastic container in your fishing tackle box for replacing the hook and night crawler that snapped off when that huge bass got away.

It’s his entangled fish hook theory of creativity.

If you take advantage of it you surface not only what you’re looking for, but all those linkages connected to it as well. It was at the heart of what he baked into his IdeaFisher software as a resource for advertisers and copywriters and innovation teams.

We introverts, according to research of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator temperaments, account for only 30 or 40% of people, and according to author, Marti Olsen Laney, make the mistake of trying to fit our behavior and other choices into the dominant extrovert, outie way.

So you’re saying there’s hope for us?

“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “Who should get your time: the one who needs it most? The highest bidder? The one who’s the most fun? To vacillate only wastes the moment. You’ll decide and go all-in.” Scorpio

Random ones that make me want change my sign.

Now this is what I’m talking about when it comes to receiving a strong TauBit of Wisdom from our Patron Saint!

“5” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “The assumption that others are happy leads to wondering why you’re not. Lose the whole idea that there’s a baseline for happiness you’re not meeting. Seek meaning no matter how you are feeling.” Aries

Oh man, or I should say men, this just feels like it opens the door for pushing the goal posts further (or is it farther) a way. Like saying the finish line tape at end of the marathon race is 27 miles a way.

“5” Steve Winwood, 71; Stevie Wonder, 69: “Realizing that there’s more work to be done can feel like a letdown, though it’s actually a sign of progress that leaves room for fine-tuning, improving or going back to the drawing board to ask different questions.” Taurus

Emma the Baroness and I traveled to Venice and the rest of Italy for our anniversary, to Norway her ancestral home, and to Jeffersonville, Indiana for a 50th birthday celebration and to Dexter, Michigan to stay with my little sis. We can’t wait to make our way to Sedona and Prescott, Arizona. We’ll try to make good on your Holiday Tau, Steve.

“5” Steve Howey, 42: “People who travel often are usually either getting paid to do it or they’ve made travel a priority in their lives. You want to see new places, and you’ll make it happen.” Cancer

At first, I felt scanning and then copying all the Holiday Tau just may be overkill all on one day, right? But considering the three amigos involved, I can see why I grabbed this one in the heist. Not only does this dualism occur, but it is what I do when we travel so I can record my impressions for future use.

In the expanded way I journaled my dualism, and why I find myself drawn back to recent research on the brain functioning, chemistry and evidence of temperaments, your Holiday Tau, Steve, is a great description.

“5” Steve Nash, 45: “There will be freedom in a pen. Write down all of the things that have been bugging you, exciting you or draining you, and you will become immediately lighter.” Aquarius

So G&G how do you interpret your Holiday Tau? Does it go back to my new found perspective of innies versus outies — how extroverts typically rule the world and introverts don’t? If so, I’ll give you a higher rating. Quid Pro Quo.

“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61: “There are meaningful victories to be had, and there are also battles unworthy of you. As for the metaphorical war raging on today, it will continue pretty much the same with or without you, your choice.” Virgo

Hey Coach Kerr, I get how you might interpret your Holiday Tau as a deficit in my problem-solving techniques. But, maybe in light of the “Introvert’s Advantage” I’m wired this way and the only way to solve problems and behave effectively is to not try and be somebody else.

“5” Steve Kerr, 54: “Your worries have been essentially the same for years, an indicator that the usual problem-solving techniques haven’t worked and, in fact, might be part of the problem. So, are you ready to get unconventional?” Libra

And, yet what intrigues me is exactly how your TauBit of Wisdom implies we can and should take advantage of our unconscious process which filters how we see the world once we sense it and flip it to change lenses.

“5” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “However wrong or right you may be about who you think you are, that’s the lens through which you see the world. And when you change lenses, you’ll see a different world.” Pisces

Premium opportunities are good things. And timing, even springing forward only makes us late by following the clock. And Emma the Baroness takes her time resetting her clock and loves to ask, “What is the real time?”

“5” Steve Harvey, 62: “The timing of things would be silly to argue with. The world isn’t running late or early. Go with what’s happening. Premium opportunities are there for you as you’re present to the moment.” Capricorn

What’s Going On …

Shifting Opportunities

Smart Moves

Long-Form

- “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 5-Hundred Year History” by Kurt Andersen
- “The Introvert Advantage: How Quiet People Can Thrive in an Extrovert World” by Marti Olsen Laney

Working on the Business

- 1,345 Flipboard users follow one or more of my 35 digital magazines.

Inspired by: Holiday Mathis – Creators Syndicate

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S2 E7 — Smart Moves and Shifting Opportunities; S2 E6 — No We Don’t Share Your Precious Little Frickin’ Data ; S2 E5 — Second Season Sneak Preview: My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment; S2 E4 — Sneak Preview: Day 4 of My Pandemic Year’s Natural Experiment; S2 E3 — Day 3 of My Pandemic Year Experiment; S2 E2 — New Season Preview: Rippling Effects, Implications and Consequences We Didn’t See Coming; S2 E1 — Sneak Preview Asking “How Toxic is Your Work Life?”

Related

S1 E8 — Day 8 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E7 — Day 7 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E6 — Day 6 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E5 — Day 5 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E4 — Day 4 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E3 — Day 3 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E2 — Day 2 of My 1-Year Experiment; S1 E1 – Day One of My 1-Year Experiment

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