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Just started reading here. You're making a difference. Sounds like some good stuff came from good points and words. But I hear something bigger in your vision. Something revolutionary and outside the mainstream. We need those voices. I look forward to hearing more. Cheers!
Oh... except this blog post, of course. ;-)
I may be in the minority here (or maybe not), but I think the death of The Growing Life is tragic. Project Mojave seems to be a great thing, but there are millions of times more internet marketing systems than there are good point makers. The world needs revolutionaries more than yellow highlighters.
Isn't there a happy medium? Isn't there a hint in this post?
That said, I'd like to respond to what you said. Perhaps it is true that "there are millions of times more internet marketing systems than there are good point makers." But is it also true that there are millions more point makers than there are *GENUINE* resources for liberating yourself that actually work. And that are created in the interest of VALUE GIVING and not some money getting scheme.
You'd know what I mean if you saw project Mojave. You'd know what I mean if you saw the team of faculty members that's coming together to work on this. You'd know what I mean if you spoke to the 6+ people now who've been able to quit their day jobs. You'd know what I mean if you saw my mission statement for Project Mojave. And not only that . . .
You'll KNOW what I mean when 6 months from now, Project Mojave has given away more free PREMIUM content than any other similar company. You'll know what I mean when you see the unsolicited video testimonials that people are sending in. You'll know what I mean when we release case studies about people liberating themselves based on the free material were giving out (just the free material alone . . . this is not a future aspiration, this is happening NOW).
And you'd know what I mean if you saw the meetups that are happening. The accountability groups that are forming. The lives that are being changed.
You'd know what I mean if you saw me working 16+ hours a day working on Project Mojave. You'd know what I mean if you saw that I was taking literally every cent from Project Mojave and re-investing back in the Project.
There *are* millions of times more internet marketing systems than there are good point makers, but Project Mojave is not JUST an internet marketing system. Just asking anyone involved.
And that's not internet marketing bullshit hype.
--Clay
I spent a lot of years trying to make good points. I wanted to be insightful, clever, and right (I have no idea what that last one even means anymore). In gatherings, I would listen to what others were saying, process the major issues, and them chime in near the end with my brilliant point that "really just tied it all together." I felt like I was really showing people the solutions to all their problems.
Everyone thought I was so smart, and it got me nowhere.
Trying to reverse that trend personally is a big part of why I joined Project Mojave, and though I still consider myself "between dayjobs," I'm kind of working under the pretense that I can keep doing my part-time gig (which is serious fun) while I build a real business. Honestly, if I end up never going back to full-time work, I'll be way better off than I was just being everyone's smart friend.
Of course, I'm not there yet. I don't have a site up, a list, or much more than an outline on my first product, but after talking to you a few days ago, I've got way more direction and a bit of fire under my ass to get it going.
(Side note regarding irony: You should read David Foster Wallace's work, especially his essay on TV and irony - it made me rethink my whole relationship with the world.)
I think opening peoples eyes to different ways of seeing things is the pretense for the shit you're doing here. You have to have the awareness and mindset for liberation, before it's manifested for you (that sounds so ridiculous, but it's really not).
So I think these two things can work together, as long as people aren't just sitting around at a fucking congratulations party of "here, here, good point."
That eternal mindsuck must be assimilated.
"That eternal mindsuck must be assimilated." . . . couldn't agree more.
Some days I miss TGL too, but I think PM will have a greater long term effect.
I see us all working in the same areas, really. Before people will manifest themselves, they have to see that they've swallowed one pill or the other.
Do I miss TGL? You bet. But you're doing the work that makes you come alive here and that's what matters to me.
Also: real revolutionaries stand in the streets. There's no real dichotomy between getting people to think and getting them to act.
I totally agree with your idea that we should all follow our dreams, but I'm not quite sure how this would work: " a world where every person can be their own boss and secure – at the very minimum – an $80K+ income while working from home".... Unless we make some awesome awesome robots that take care of all of the dirty work, then where will the food and commercial products come from? People can't be making them if they work at home.
What we truly need is for everybody to realize that life does not have to be as hectic as we make it, and then we can all work 3-4 hour days but enough will still happen because demand will be lower.
My two cents.
I've also--for the time being--stopped writing and podcasting and Twittering so much, because I've been doing the thing instead of talking about the thing. The thing isn't necessarily entrepreneurship for me right now, but it is following my own path wherever it leads.
Keep on following your bliss, Clay,
~Duff
I just can't imagine the joy of the children when , with your help, their parents start finally doing something they love! It most be like Christmas everyday for them! What your doin is great Clay just keep goin!
I'd be willing to bet that more than a few people were inspired to action by your writings - and without spending that time getting your ideas out there you may never have met some of the people that are inspiring you to action today.
But you are right, passionate discussion is all very well. But sooner or later you need to roll up your sleeves and get to work creating change.
Doesn't mean you can't make the odd salient point here and there though ;)
You're totally right about this. It was the beginning of everything. Now I'm getting all nostalgic.
Argument doesn't lead to change but experience can.
This isn't so much a happy medium as a higher integration.
I don't think it is easy to do or frequent, but I do think it is possible.
Keep it up.
All of the expressions of all previous steps made a positive difference in people's lives. One is not better or more needed than the other: they're all an expression of who you are at any given moment in your own (r)evolution...
Still changing the world into a better place and doing it from your heart.
What else could you possibly do!?
In other words, keep talking and writing. Remind people that the most valuable non-replenishable resource in life is time, and freedom is really about increasing the value of that.
Oh yeah Clay, maybe ya not making good points very often recently, but the posts are still totally valuable. :)
The world cares little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts!
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
I think its perfect for your decision, isnt it?
Thanks for the intro to Laura Roeder, by the way, love that girl! That might actually push me to join the next round of project mojave - speaking of which - why all the secrecy around that? I want to know more! Cheers
Hegel would say that the highest form of reality is not "being" but it is "becoming." Becoming is the process of moving from being (something) toward non-being (nothing).
I may have shared this quote with you before, but it expresses the idea of and meaning of becoming (the synthesis or process of moving from being to non-being):
"You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed -- and the natural state of the mind is pure love." Ram Dass
How freaking awesome is this!
I am looking forward to see what you and Patrick Rhone are coming up with, I keep seeing those enigmatic Tweets...
-- Jade (totally blessed for knowing you, and totally grateful to be writing this inspired and healthy and on a kick-ass team in Bali, which is a helluva different place than where I was when I first read TGL)