Why do I want to be a paid, published author for my ideas?
In addition to some of the other reasons I mentioned previously, I think this is because I value books. I value the time spent by authors to go deep on a subject. I value the years they’ve invested in becoming an SME.
Maybe it comes back to mastery. That I value what I currently lack. Since I feel like I lack mastery, I see writing and publishing a book as a way to prove to myself and others that I do actually have mastery in something.
I say it’s not my primary reason but it would be an additional source of revenue if it had some type of success. I have so many ideas I want to share across so many different areas that having a book’s topic as guiderails to stay within is probably a beneficial thing.
Essentially every esteemed, well-known person has written a book. So it’s almost a pre-requisite to get to the level I want to operate at.
The social circles I may have access to is another reason. The credibility it gives me when someone (or I) says author in their bio is a nice touch and distinction. A way to separate myself from my peers. Someone like Isaac Asimov who has books in every category of the Dewey Decimal system except the 100s (Psychology & Philosophy) is the type of stuff I strive for.
Hmm, a lot of my drive comes from wanting to be the first to do or the ‘best’ to do or the most. Ok, let’s do it. I’m going to adjust my goal or experience I want to being an author who publishes a book in every major Dewey Decimal category. Now that would be truly on brand with Long Term Multitasker.
Society values authors. Ever since the beginning of written communication, that’s something that we’ve placed a high importance on. If you wanted master in something, reading a book on it was one of the primary ways to get that. It’s basically a course on something, just in written format.
We’ve evolved from the value of verbal communicators (orators, storytellers) to written communication (books, newspapers) to more visual communication (pictures, presentations). I don’t think that’s accurate at all actually.
I need to find out what the history of communication is and how it has evolved.
Now what would be interesting to see within it is how each type of communication has evolved. Written has maybe evolved from tablets (stone) to papyrus to press to digital. Verbal may have evolved from fireside stories to comedic to eventually podcasts. Perhaps visual was hieroglyphs to painting to pictures to powerpoints.
So then what’s the next thing in each of those? If I can find the next form or method of communication, then that would be a fundamental change and shift. What we’re getting closer to with technology is being able to read minds.
Communication at its heart (pun intended) is a feeling. And it really starts with thoughts and beliefs and intentions. So how do you create a method of communication that communicates your beliefs and intentions?
Communication is just feeling. Words, pictures, are just analogs of that. They don’t fully express the full feeling. The quickest way to do that is through our intuition. No verbal, written, or visual communication required. Our bodies and faces are ways to communicate with people we see physically. It can say it all.
How to share that with a large # of people is through sharing / practicing it myself. Truly understanding that communication is not purely informational and transactional but intentional in the purest sense and energetic.
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