Formulas

Most of what we post ends up being a formula of some kind we concluded a long time ago and live by or have come up with recently and promote because it appears to make sense. So we pass it on as wisdom, as truth, as a formula for success - BUT it's mostly life in the improv world.

When the formula gets formalized and codified into a series of cliches or axiums, into a book or DVD or web site or in-your-face action presenting it as a system or belief or absolute, people looking outside themselves for a success formula meeting this force take it into consideration and are often moved to act upon it. People believe it. People follow it. People look for ways to jump on the band wagon and capitalize on it for their own ends - or mutual ends.

I, too, present my conclusions codified into formulas that represent a truth as I know it.

All of that can go in all kinds of directions and off shoots, all kinds of complementary and diverse configurations. We all work and live along these lines more or less because of our human nature and the representations of reality we come to believe, see the world through, and act upon.

While the decision making process is highly, deeply and superficially subjective (depending on how you want to look at it) and largely unknown to us, what we think is causing all the noise and activity and outcome usually has nothing to do with why and how it came about and happened. But we formulat it as if it does and we know because we mostly think that is the truth. Or we pretend to anyway.

BUT it's what's mostly unknown to us and our formulas that makes the world go round - putting names on all we think is subjective and recognizing the cause/effect relationships is all we have to go on - at least without analysis of a unique and singular nature free from it's own limitations and blindnesses.

AND that is the truth - at least one aspect of the truth and it has serious and sometimes grave, sometimes only fleeting implications. BUT it's like flipping a pancake up in the air and having it land on the other side - you begin to see something revealed and uncovered you could only imagine.

OR discovering a new species, a formula never identified in the past, that changes history. THAT can make all the difference in our sales lives, too!

MitchM

The map is not the territory... but you have to have a track to run on if you hope to get anywhere in my opinion.