There’s something tugging on my brain with regards to my last post and I’m trying to figure out what it is.
I know it has something to do with work but I’m not sure in what way.
For example, Dave Gray mentioned that for his School of the Possible, he wanted people who understood their purpose and were able to express it. And in expressing their purpose, he wanted them to be able to create a course for it, so they could teach it within his school, thus allowing that person’s purpose to actually become their work and livelihood.
There’s something about this though that feels off.
Not in terms of wanting to achieve this goal, as I think it is a noble achievement.
No, it has to do with how difficult the reality of this is.
For example, what I’ve noticed is that within my life, the first half was focused on technology and the second half is focused on sociology. And even though technology can be difficult for people to grasp, it’s much more approachable and understandable to people than sociology.
In effect, it’s easy to talk to people about technologies that are invisible to them (i.e. Wifi) but it seems monumentally more difficult to talk to people about psychology that is an invisible foundation to their lives.
What I’m trying to get at here is when a person make a shift in their work that also underpins a shift in their perception of life (i.e. worldview), that is a monumental leap to make.
Like people can grasp when I talk about computers and the Web. However, when I talk about stages of development, levels of consciousness, and worldviews though, most people don’t know about these things, even though they are foundational to their lives.
Now what’s strange about this though is that shift probably feels just as a much foreign to someone who works for an employer and then they suddenly start thinking about perhaps going freelance and start working for themselves.
In other words, just becoming a freelancer is a monumental shift in someone’s life and worldview.
It’s a step that requires a massive amount of courage but the payoff, both in terms of self-reliance and also in terms of living and embodying values of freedom and autonomy, are enormous.
Anyways, that’s all I wanted to say.
In effect, I think the enormous leaps we need to make in the future don’t require someone to understand their purpose in life at such a high level of consciousness initially. I think it really just requires someone wanting to make the next step and become more independent and self-reliant in their work lives, thus no longer feeling like the need to work for an employer and feel trapped within a relationship that isn’t conducive to their own growth and development.
So it’s really about creating a community that at a basic level is helping people to make that first big step in becoming an independent freelancer.
Yet at the same time, the community at a deeper level can be about helping people to understand their purpose over time and thus evolve themselves and their work at the same time.
BTW some examples of this would be Tiago Forte’s “productivity” focused work which is really just a Trojan horse for growth and development. The same could be said of Chris Do’s work which appears to be about design work but again is just a Trojan horse for growth and development as well.
I guess even though Sri and myself want to create similar communities that have a Trojan horse of some kind as an entry point that eventually leads to growth and development, the key difference with us is that we both seem to enjoy using gaming metaphors to describe our communities and the approaches used within them.