- A nice elaboration on what it means to be a [[Synthesizer]]  ### Presentation - Can learn from his workshop experience and apply it to my streams - Send messages all at once, read some out - Can get a volunteer to go through practice with me (this is for when I have more stuff though) - Hard to choose what to write about: - I guess my first script for my demo video? How would I split between both - After every exercise, a quick check-in to see how people are FEELING - If something doesn't feel right, continue to lean forward ## Stages - When looking from the lens of [[ARC Framework]]: - Add - Notice - Sparks - Inspiration - Explore - Asking questions - Following curiosity - Relate - Planning - Collecting related ideas - Making outlines - Crafting - Clustering and colliding ideas - Developing throughlines - Prompting - Remarks and comments - Making connections - Drafting - Writing - Developing connections - Create - Shape - Revise and package with medium in mind - Share - Sharing it ## Quiz Results  ### Creators Codex Quiz I like how the final question is always some form of devil's advocate #### Thinking style **“Convergent thinker”** (Healthy tendency): You enjoy seeing the big picture. When possible, you prefer knowing more about a subject or situation before you act. You like categorizing, and you use the big picture to further your sensemaking and decision-making. You are a good organizer and benefit from having a few lists and maps to guide your actions. The question is, can your convergent thinking be loose enough to allow for emergent thinking? **“Fragile thinker”** (Unhealthy tendency): When taken too far, your tendency to architect can lead to stifling, rigid thinking. When that need sets in, you can become paralyzed when you don't have enough structure. This can manifest in coming across as needy and overburdening others. Sometimes it can even turn brainstorming sessions into prosecutions. My architect thinking style was unexpected but does make sense, even if I would consider myself a PKM gardener. Most of my published works are made with a virality-oriented and value-oriented approach to content creation, which requires me to solve existing problems and explore existing topics, rather than just letting my curiosities grow and sharing the in-progress solutions with my fans. Knowing before acting is very true, shows in my writing. This makes sense since I'm trying to take a viral-oriented approach to content creation, which requires me to solve existing problems and explore existing topics, rather than just letting my curiosities grow Don't relate as much in fragile thinker. Really good point on how this is different from the thinking style we have when adding ideas, this is for the mindset and reasoning as to why we do create. #### Focus First sticking point **Consuming** vs connecting [[Spark to remark]] **Healthy tendency**: You are a natural lifelong learner and capable of easily ingesting a lot of information. This makes you well-versed in many ideas, which come in handy in unexpected ways that often cross domains. The question is, can you cross over from consuming ideas to connecting them? **Unhealthy tendency**: When taken too far, your tendency for consuming can cut into the time you want to spend engaging with ideas and creating some of your own work. One tendency of unhealthy consuming is pretending it's a form of "research", which may have initially been true, but easily goes too far. Remember this: engaging with ideas will actually make what you consume more targeted and enjoyable. My focus on consuming also compliments this architect style, since I frequently explore different perspectives and ideas for a thorough and decent solution or approach. But that comes at the cost of potential emergence from what already exists. Focus is true, interesting how the dichotomy of consume is connect instead, since that's the internal, instead of the production of creating. #### Approach to problems Second sticking point Working through vs **going around** Determines how capable we are of switching between the different modes, agile in thinking **Healthy tendency**: You enjoy getting different perspectives, and don't have a need to overly control situations. If you are facing a brick wall, you don't waste time and energy hammering through it; you walk around it. You can easily be a team player who asks others for opinions. The question is, does your tendency to indirectly tackle problems result in foisting too much responsibility on others? **Unhealthy tendency**: When taken too far, your tendency to go around a problem can manifest as simply avoiding the problem. You might start a new project or effort. You might find several new hobbies. Be aware of these forms of "productive procrastination", as too much is a sign that there is something else you're avoiding. When it comes to approaching problems by going around, I resonate a lot with the unhealthy tendency of simply avoiding problems by exploring new ones. I think a good measure is how often I upload 😅 Kind of true with the amount of videos I am uploading, I still call myself a Youtuber but look at how often I upload 💀 #### Default outcomes Third sticking point **Crafting (Sensemaking)** vs communicating (sharing) **Healthy tendency**: You care. You care about the details and the craft that goes into your work. It's not something you just slapped together. You don't want to just add noise to the world and would probably score high in "Conscientiousness" in the Big 5 Personality Test. The question is, can your care of craft lead to a care to share? **Unhealthy tendency**: When taken too far, too much crafting (and likely, conscientiousness) means you are a likely candidate for self-censoring. The results of too much crafting are hard to see; they must be felt. They are the twin forces of perfectionism and the fear of what others think. Remember this: Sharing a "work in progess" is natural and actually helps you craft an even better work! The descriptions on crafting were very insightful, and once again goes back to the architect mindset of not wanting to create more shallow or uninspired content that AI already is plaguing algorithms with. A LOT of self-censoring happens as I try to optimize for retention or relevance to what the viewer clicked on the video for, which prevents me from fully sharing my own ideas and meaning in the topic. Yes the conscientiousness is high especially due to not wanting to be a [[Capitalist Creator]]. I enjoy the connection to [[Conscientiousness]]. #### Meta Just chooses to hone in on pain points that are relevant to solving the problem (the three sticking points) You motivate people enough to make a small action, then [[Snowball effect]] happens: - Send email to yourself Send to each other It's just empowering. That's what makes this so special. Beyond temporary motivation, there's a sense of inner realization and awareness after each session. Leaning forward proves to be valuable as I learn from the nuances and perspectives of other people. How can I encourage this in my own channel? To have more emotion and connection in ran wanders? and maybe even my main? ## Application - Prompting phase is my brainstorm questions - Planning is finding resources and references - Drafting is elaborating anything new from that - Crafting is making all the segments connect