Weak-willed people need excuses such as birthdays, events, and holidays to do things like be thoughtful, have fun, give gifts, and begin blogs. As such, I’m going to start this blog on 09.09.09 because this is something that I have been wanting to do for a while. I know that if I don’t, the idea of settling with mediocrity would otherwise consume me as it does with so many others.

Realizing that I just need to type my thoughts every day, regardless of how underdeveloped they are, I hope you understand that this wouldn’t be here otherwise. In addition to this ongoing writing, I will be updating a google calendar that should denote particularly interesting aspects of my life, and is not currently publicly available. I won’t even be sharing this blog for the first couple weeks except for an exclusive few.

Beyond that, and in this blog, I will hope to include a daily Wiki, Blog or article, and media of the day.

Wiki

“Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning

This is of course the first word of my blog, and you can probably guess what the next two days will be on. The reason why I chose this word as the title and url of my blog is because I feel that it is critically important that we have more of this going on in the world. There is an incredible amount of potential that we have to learn SO much, and yet most of us forgo it on a daily basis. We don’t ask enough questions and we don’t make near enough use of our surroundings. Take for example the iPhone or smart phone. So many people have them and yet so few of them actually use them when they’re out and about waiting in line to look up new articles, how lines work, or to write their thoughts during the day. I feel that we have shamefully had the natural curiosity taught out of us from a very early age due to the conventional schooling systems streamlined view on how to educate the most kids most efficiently.

Also, I wanted to touch on a concept introduced to me by my friend Carly W. a few years ago. She said that someone she knew had been theorizing for a while and had mentioned a story to her about how we as humans learn exponentially slower as time goes on. I feel that this is incredibly true because everything that we have experienced and do experience in life is compared to what we have previously experienced prior to that point in time, and so we should absolutely go out and experience as many things as we can in a state of mind that can actually appreciate them so that we can have broader, more experienced perspectives to ensure our future decisions are more informed and level headed. In this way, I also apply it to life in general, everything you do now will mean exponentially more than it ever will in the future. I suggest that you go out and start experiencing all the normal things you normally do, but on a deeper level. Notice the sensation of the clothes on your skin, feel the air entering and exiting your lungs, breathing slower and from your stomach, realize how intricate the world is around you, the textures of your keyboard and the seat you’re on, not just here but experience everything that’s going on all the time and be amazed at how incredible the experience and beauty of being human really is. This is perhaps one of the greatest things I currently believe that I have ever done in my life for myself. (and through hypnosis, for others.)

'Imagine having the greatest powers and sensations in the world - and then never using them'. That is what it's like to live a normal, particularly uninteresting life without a constant strive to learn and experience the world. This I feel, is our greatest downfall.

And with such a disappointing note, I should leave my first blog entry that should have thoroughly alienated myself from most of my audience.

Remember - “Everyone is good at something, and if you don’t think so, than thinking is probably not one of them” -Alton Sun, for The Syndicate club of networks

Enjoy,

~Alton