What would have happen if I made a different decision?
Regrets for example are things we remember due to us wanted to make another decision instead of the one we made.
It’s that simple.
We can always ask that we make a different priority, and that is our humanity, we make do what we got, as we seldom been educated and trained to ask, what is important here and for whom?
If we are in business, what is the wisest direction to go?
For amd, a company for cpu and gpu their decisions was to make a videocard that was small, efficient, low power and they bought up ati to make a fusion between cpu/gpu.
Nvidia choose a different route, they wanted to make fast, powerhungry and big die gpu, which in combination with the manufacturing process was a failure for them.
In the tech industry, they shrink the node to make a transistor, from current 40nm to 28nm, a nanometer is small, much smaller than a hair straw.
In each shrink, they enter issues with the productions, power leaks happens as the transistors become so small, they leak current between the walls.
So, the engineers come up with solutions and we are soon moving from silicon (sand) to metal.
Now, a company choose a direction, due to their life cycle is maybe 2 years, or even more as the next generation cpu and gpu is planned ahead with more than 3 years. Amd decided to use 32nm for their new gpu the 6000 series this upcoming October, however, 32nm was canceled and 28nm was the new target, but that process won’t be ready for another year, so amd scaled back the design to 40nm.
Other business have shorter cycles, a newspaper have its own cycle, one paper a day, meaning everything is organized differently there than a tech company.
It’s important when we think about regret what could have been that we also keep in mind we make decisions, and we sometimes make the wrong one even if it seems like the right one at the time.
Back in 1985 I choose to stay home and enter a 2 day class with education of become a trainer in karate, and at the time, I also had tickets to Bruce Springsteen who was making his, born in the USA tour.
Now, when I made the decision I thought I made the right one, but when I did enter the class I knew it was the wrong one as the class sucked ass.
My ticket was however given to someone that enjoy the concert, someone who wouldn’t have got there otherwise, as she was crying in a wagon of public transport, my friends saw that and offered her my tickets.
I go back and think about my life and think is there something else I regret?
Yes there is, but that one with the concert is the big one, as the result and effect of that decision was and become as it did, wasn’t in the line what I desired.
I make mistakes. Often a lot of them, and I move on and go on in spite of those, as I was taught NLP and used it, I also made effective work using NLP but I also saw the bad negative effects of using NLP as I was taught, one, it didn’t work for business, as I did that, I noted it sucked ass and I guess that is why bandlers business was a mess for years and still is.
So, I had to look elsewhere, I met people doing business, people they hire to fix their business, and I had to coach those guys as they couldn’t handle getting paid and become stressed out from that pressure of getting paid too much and then having to deliver the results.
I am not a business person I can do it as is it down with people running million dollar business and I hear them talk about what they do and I ask them, why do you do this this way and they can’t answer me and they are NLP trained by Bandler and they can’t do this in a way that actually works.
Its like, hey we got a customer here, that treats us badly, they are English based, which means they got the English culture with them, and then the flat ass Swedes trying to negotiate with them from fear of losing their customer….so I thought, gee, this is the guy that runs a million dollar business with bandler training behind him and he is running his business from fear of losing a customer?
Then I get shit from people that thinks they know what they are doing when they don’t and more they believe they know they do.
Back in the days of Russia, Stalin was a worse tyrant than the royals they killed and replaced, he made mass murder a hobby and then one scientist with an idea of how to make farming better got his ear, so he made the rest of the scientist who protested killed or moved to Gulag, which meant death by slow work. His ideas didn’t work, but he got the ear of Stalin who made the calls.
Critic, is a bad thing for many, I enjoy it, as it is no better way to find the truth and scrutiny its own life and business and such. NLP for example for me is a dubious technology due to how it is taught and used, and since I don’t agree on how it is taught and used, I make my voice heard out there and I am planning a post that will shake peoples convictions about NLP a lot.
I don’t expect people to be perfect, I know I am not, and I see how people aren’t that also, but then, what we do as human beings, is to go to this place where we enter something that is hard to explain, it’s like love, true love means, we do anything for someone else which often scruple free people use to steal and cheat and make bad things.
Let strive to become better, let make ourselves a little bit better each day, let our wisdom develop and let us find ways to share that so we can, make our environment a little bit friendlier than it can be.
How to do that without a hard look in the mirror is a denying the fact.
I live with my flaws, which means someone else doesn’t have to.
The notion people have about making others in their own image never seize to surprise me, why would we need more of you in this world?
Isn’t it enough with one of you?
Letting people be who they are, is what I am trying to convey and most have a hard time with that concept as it directly violate the human nature we want people to be like us, as if they aren’t, they then are different and that means, often bad.
I had 12 people, all being different than me, and they all wanted me to be like them and if I wasn’t, they become upset.
So, why is that why are people always trying to make other people to be like them instead of just accepting, they are different?
We make decisions, seldom do we think trough that that decision will lead to, as I make a decision nowadays for example if I buy a toy, I get something I will enjoy and have benefits from which doesn’t mean it will always be to my liking, as I buy things I expect them to met a specific criteria, and that don’t always happens, that the thing I get does what I intended it to do.
I bought a mouse pad yesterday, as I did I wanted to improve my pad and thought this might do it, I found however that the pad was too good, the mouse glided too much.
So, it didn’t meet my expectations, it still is a great mouse pad that someone else might enjoy or that I use it for another computer as I got two of them.
Sometimes we make a buy and we find out what we already have is perfect, so as I played yesterday I find out that my current pad, is perfect for me, so now I can enjoy the mouse movements even more when I realize that its perfect for me.
Now, some might go, hey isn’t that unconscious then that you didn’t know?
Let us enter the comparison mode, the age 4 development period.
As we do things and identify with context, we can do that and we can also, compare that with a similar experience which let us find out what it’s like being aware of identification.
What has happen with the concept of the unconscious was the unawareness of FREUD that Bandler and Grinder further used to persuade people to NOT question what they did and do.
They even teach like that, Grinder use the discovery pattern, do this drill and find out what he already knows which confused Robert Dilts who believed he found the model of the eye model, when in fact both grinder and bandler knew about it, they just wanted to see if Dilts would find it also. Now, think about it, bandler use hypnosis, unconscious when in fact it’s a myth.
When we don’t know, we use an analogy, to compare this with that, it’s that way we choose to explain things to people, make a comparison and why do we do that?
Let me use a story (analogy) as we organize information, we do so by context.
Now, there is two context, one is the outside one, the coffee you drink, but the taste of coffee, the pleasure of sitting there drinking it, has nothing to do with that environment or context, that is addition we do to the context of drinking coffee.
Wine taste like vinegar for me.
My tongue rolls upon itself.
Some say it’s the best thing since the invention of sex.
We can indulge into different contexts, as we do, we also seldom choose what to identify with, it becomes a random selection of trial and error. So, what we do here is to decide, this is my experience with this context, this I want to experience with my kids, with my spouse with my friends etc
So, I regret something as I recall the event, I today understand why I made that choice, and why I decided to do things as I did, as I expected things without checking the facts and the experience that would be there.
In many ways this regret also made me aware of what is important and why it’s important for me.
With this new technology, it’s become much easier to convey the message and concepts, even if it isn’t that simple to talk about spiritual or such matters without becoming a giant nerd of new age, there is also this practical thing we can learn to do, so it makes the environment of the outside become, the one we have on the inside in a way that we decided it to be like that.
To get there, we must do a triple bypass.
First we acknowledge that we identify the environment of context, the outside, and then understand we reflect this outside context on the inside in our own personal subjective way.
Then to understand and most importantly REALIZE that is how it works, allow you to understand, that you’re able to modify it at will and generate your own experience inside yourself that then, becomes the source to the outside, instead of the other way around.
You’re a product as far of what the outside world has imprinted upon you.
Happy with that?
If not, there is a choice and option to start generating the structural form, that allows you to become the master of your own destiny.
I guess that is appropriate for an alternate reality.
/Robert Johansson