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Living Aesthetically

Posted by Joseph Riggio on Sunday, September 10, 2006

Changing perspective can alter the results you get dramatically ... widening it dramatically can change the entire range of results that are possible to get.

Good Evening Everyone,

Today was a rather quite day ... full and active ... but at the same time relatively uneventful in terms of getting caught up by any bother. I'm sure this has to do with a comparison to the last few days before today ... traveling ... dealing with the challenges of life ... more traveling ... then home sweet home. What this last trip in particular emphasized for me was how paying attention to the mundane and ordinary things of life holds the significance for me in my life.

I had an opportunity this morning to meet with a friend from Europe who has both a business background and a design orientation to what she does. It was an interesting way to spend a morning. I got a chance to speak to about how our aesthetic preferences organize us to perceive the world the way we do. I've referred to the work I do as having an aesthetic bias or it being an aesthetic model.

What I mean by an aesthetic model has to do with what we sort for from this model. Generally speaking what we sort for from within an aesthetic model has to do with form, the way we hold the whole structure in place ... and the relationships between things ... e.g.: ourselves and others, ourselves and things, ourselves and places, information and activities. As we begin to conceive of our experience in terms of relationship we begin to enter an aesthetic perspective.

An aesthetic perspective describes the world in terms of relationship ... and how we relate to the world that contains us ... the recognition of form.

So how does it help to know this? It helps by allowing us to organize ourselves in relation to the entire structure we're operating within ... thereby being better able to predict and perceive the consequences of our actions as ripples in the system. When you are able to mediate your actions in relation to consequences such that you can leverage yourself to maximize positive outcomes while minimizing negative outcomes.

One of the other advantages of an aesthetic perspective can be the ability to find personal satisfaction before reaching the outcome position. In other words having satisfaction from the knowledge that you are well organized in relation to the outcome position as you are approaching it at all times. This of course tends to immeasurably improve performance, thereby enabling producing your outcomes.

For me an aesthetic perspective orients me to the outcome from within a position of satisfaction that remains stable. This alone makes organizing aesthetically worthwhile. Another thing that occurs from within an aesthetic perspective includes the nature of how we "notice for" in the environment when we are organized this way ... essentially the field of consideration broadens considerably. Without moving so to speak ... we begin to take in substantially more information ... and the information remains organized in relation to our outcomes effortlessly.

Organizing in relation to a larger frame of consideration ... further from yourself in terms of space and time ... allows you to make higher quality decisions, maximizing positive consequences while simultaneously minimizing negative consequences ... this essentially describes "Exquisite Performance" ... a model of success.

What can easily be missed from other models of organizing ourselves would be the totality of the system operating both in relation to itself and in relation to others systems ... this of course creates another larger system ad infinitum. When we begin to operate systematically we begin to gain the ability to use the resource of the that the system contains that we ourselves do not. What this signifies at some point becomes the ability to leverage the entire system in favor a a chosen direction.

Great examples of this are elite teams of all kinds ... organizational/corporate workgroups, great sports teams ... even elite military units ... all of which demand that the system becomes the primary focus and not the individual. This shift represents a quantum movement for anyone and a significant discipline to continue to focus on the larger pattern, in spite of the insistence of the immediate details.

Anyway ... I've been remembering more to appreciate what I have and my place in it lately and I thought I'd share this with all'ya'all ...

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Princeton, NJ

The MythoSelf Advanced Program that I'm running in Princeton, NJ will be coming up soon (20 -22 September 2006) ... get full details and an application to take advantage of the early-bird discount while you still can ... get you MythoSelf Advanced Program application now ...

Also, I'm running the only Beyond Hypnosis ... workshop I've done in over two years with John LaValle again this October (12-15) in England (about an hour south of London). This will be an amazing program that simplifies the most complex and sophisticated patterns of verbal and non-verbal communication, influence and persuasion ... get the Beyond Hypnosis ... program details of be forced to wait another two years or more for this information to be available to you again ...

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Hi Joseph - FYI the ‘Beyond Hypnosis’ weekend has two sets af dates advertised - October 12-15 in your blog above; November 2006 in your central column.

Also, the default email on this ‘Add your own comment’ section comes up as your own, which I doubt is what you want…

Cheers, Jon N

Jon Nicoll on Monday, September 11, 2006

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