manifestor [human design type]
The reason you might be having trouble with your practice in the long run—if you were capable of building a practice in the short run—is nearly always because you are afraid. The fear, the resistance, is very insidious. It doesn’t leave a lot of fingerprints, but the person who manages to make a movie short that blows everyone away but can’t raise
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The Gatekeeper is important because they provide the friction. The Gatekeeper is not truly exclusionary, rather they introduce labor to access the culture, they introduce a rite of passage, of initiation. The gatekeeper creates the fence which the enthusiast happily hops and stops the dilettante.
Ruby Justice Thelot • In Praise of Gatekeeping
Viewed one-dimensionally, the other concept that requires clarification is gate-keeping. Only seen to be a fence, its hinge is forgotten. A gate is the passage between interior and exterior, from one space to another, private to public, mine to another's. It is both about keeping out and allowing in. The current conception of “gate-keeping” is excl... See more
Ruby Justice Thelot • In Praise of Gatekeeping
Think of the little woodpecker and his bright, proud red throat. Open your heart and serve life, serve others. Remember, the only real influence in the universe is your presence as yourself, inside yourself, in every waking golden moment.
Richard Rudd • The 64 Ways: Personal Contemplations on the Gene Keys
"Experiential blindness” is the inability to perceive what you don’t already have a concept for.
Tiago Forte • How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
similarly, “experiential hypersensitivity” or “experiential keenness” is the ability pick up on things you’ve experienced, and perhaps for my own personal use/context, things that have held great significance to you that perhaps not many other people have experienced. this is what it is to be on the edges of reality, the edges of culture, to be a manifestor ~ you’re bringing into the known what was previously (to the masses) unknown.
The conversation around taste tends to focus on what it takes to develop it, but not what it takes to use it and unlock its potential, which is confidence .
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which ... See more
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which ... See more
Taste as a Function of Confidence
Sommeliers emerged as luxury goods in a world where the product (wine) was getting commoditized, and curation was the new differentiator. That’s exactly where jobs are headed.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
"The most credible form of advertising comes straight from the people we know and trust. Eighty-three percent of online respondents in 60 countries say they trust the recommendations of friends and family". - Nielsen 2015