Comments on: My 4 Hour Work Week Journey: Fear Setting http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-fear-setting/ African's personal development blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:44:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mwangi http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-fear-setting/comment-page-1/#comment-3141 Mwangi Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:07:02 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=458#comment-3141 @rags: I actually see the sense somewhat in his approach though there is probably some moderation to be found between his current approach and our culture's obsession with the empty gathering and discussion of facts and news minus action. I am sure I told you this story, but once I was talking to people as they were watching the news, and I think this was about the time the mines exploded in China. So I asked, "So why have you just watched that? Are you now going to get up and go help the people of China?" "No, it's just good to be aware!" "Then what?" After a much longer intermin discussion the conclusion was: "I dunno" As I said before, I find it sad that so many of us dedicate ourself to the pursuit of knowledge and fact gathering without any purpose or framework around which to shape our information gathering. I think once we have a higher purpose and framework we all of a sudden realize that 90% of what we watch on TV we kinda don't need to know: the fact the iphone came out in China doesn't affect me. Unless I am actually going to get on the ground or support people on the ground in Zimbabwe, my obsession with learning more about Zimbabwe and discussing Zimbabwe is irrelevant to the Zims on the ground (even though I just chose to have an action free philosophy rich debate on the blog). Yeah, I read the book before and immediately I finished it knew that at some point I had to try out his ideas. @rags: I actually see the sense somewhat in his approach though there is probably some moderation to be found between his current approach and our culture’s obsession with the empty gathering and discussion of facts and news minus action.
I am sure I told you this story, but once I was talking to people as they were watching the news, and I think this was about the time the mines exploded in China. So I asked, “So why have you just watched that? Are you now going to get up and go help the people of China?”
“No, it’s just good to be aware!”
“Then what?”
After a much longer intermin discussion the conclusion was:
“I dunno”
As I said before, I find it sad that so many of us dedicate ourself to the pursuit of knowledge and fact gathering without any purpose or framework around which to shape our information gathering. I think once we have a higher purpose and framework we all of a sudden realize that 90% of what we watch on TV we kinda don’t need to know: the fact the iphone came out in China doesn’t affect me. Unless I am actually going to get on the ground or support people on the ground in Zimbabwe, my obsession with learning more about Zimbabwe and discussing Zimbabwe is irrelevant to the Zims on the ground (even though I just chose to have an action free philosophy rich debate on the blog).
Yeah, I read the book before and immediately I finished it knew that at some point I had to try out his ideas.

]]> By: rags http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-fear-setting/comment-page-1/#comment-3140 rags Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:44:34 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=458#comment-3140 I admire your willingness to be an open book and ambia the blogging community about the things you have written above. I am yet to sit down and write down my "Questions and Actions" (Q&A's). I decided to read the book, decide if it was worth it and then soma it again if i happen to like what he has to sema. So far i have found some of what he says to be enlightening (e.g Parkinsons Law and 80/20 ), but some of what he says is just flat out loco as far as im concerned. e.g He doesn't read or watch the news - he'd rather someone regurgitate it to him.... and the funniest is that he said something along the lines of emergencies don't really exist. I get what he's trying to sema but maze, that's just naive. i bet you he would consider it an emergency if he was in Italy and he heard that his old lady was at the ER. Ama that's not really an emergency? I admire your willingness to be an open book and ambia the blogging community about the things you have written above.

I am yet to sit down and write down my “Questions and Actions” (Q&A’s). I decided to read the book, decide if it was worth it and then soma it again if i happen to like what he has to sema.

So far i have found some of what he says to be enlightening (e.g Parkinsons Law and 80/20 ), but some of what he says is just flat out loco as far as im concerned. e.g He doesn’t read or watch the news – he’d rather someone regurgitate it to him…. and the funniest is that he said something along the lines of emergencies don’t really exist.

I get what he’s trying to sema but maze, that’s just naive. i bet you he would consider it an emergency if he was in Italy and he heard that his old lady was at the ER. Ama that’s not really an emergency?

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