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Exploratory Writing

Alison Jones

Agency = capacity for making things happen, for impacting the world. Intention = deliberately choosing what, out of the million different things you COULD make happen today, or in your lifetime, you are going to attempt. Attention = focusing your mind and energy on your chosen priority in a consistent and persistent... See more

At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task. Approach ... See more

Representational thought is analogical; its concern is to establish a correspondence between these symmetrically structured domains. The faculty of judgment is the policeman of analogy, assuring that each of the three terms is honestly itself, and that the proper correspondences obtain. In thought its end is truth, in action justice. The weapons it... See more