MY MOTIVATION

What is the website?

For myself, I want to use this website to express and organize my thoughts and become better at communicating and expressing myself.

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I want the content of this website to reflect and sharpen the principals of a perspective I hold called This Side of the Moat. For myself and others, those principals include some of the following ideas:

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The nature of our lives is not binary or adversarial.
Addressing the injurious doesn't automatically augment the beneficial. What took us from negative one to to zero will not take us from zero to one, as setting a bone does not prep one to run a marathon. I'd like TSoTM content to fill in what the adversarial stance overlooks, what I biographically know: that a rescued person flounders when presented w/ opportunity w/o guidance. We remove injury to allow The Work to begin.

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We progress through growth and maturity, which in turn require honest investment and wisdom, free of agenda and narrative.

Success isn't easy or automatic b/c it comes through invention of the self. I want TSoTM to allow for them have these problems w/o looking for cover from social narratives. We are ours first THEN we deploy.

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The Moat may be a place of honestly on a larger stage. There aren't enough spaces that are constructive, honest, or encouraging. If the responsible, the measured, and the successful are silent - or drowned out - then who's influence colors the public sphere but celebrities, commercials, and their attendant audiences?

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Growth compounds; progress stacks.

There are no human upgrades. The more one grows the more one needs walls if generating among other people w/ lower center of gravity.

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The universe is complex and dynamic.

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Subjective to you is objective to me.

abcd. Three-body free body diagram.

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Character is destiny.

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Smart has to compensate for stupid; stupid can't compensate for smart.

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Notes.

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There aren't enough spaces that are constructive, honest, or encouraging. If the responsible, the measured, and the successful are silent - or drowned out - then who's influence colors the public sphere but celebrities, commercials, and their attendant audiences?

I learned from a mentor that judgment doesn't require approval, that it is a responsible consideration and vital acknowledgment of one's agency. Its expression pays the dividend of wise action independent of an audience's endorsement while validating it in others, encouraging their expression of the same.

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As this was demonstrated to me, I hope to create a space where I, too, can try to exemplify it. To who doesn't (much) matter, be it a friend, sibling, or an inquisitive visitor. I hope honestly sharing my life's experiences, perspectives, decisions, and opportunities will help anyone find some useful truth, idea, or heuristic relevant to his/ her own local situation.

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This was one of the most influential opportunities having a mentor created for me. Judgment deployed pays, but the dividends of judgment demonstrated, communicated, and encouraged in a receptive other are compounded many-fold. 

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