Comments for Collective Self http://www.collectiveself.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Healing together and trusting yourself: the power of community by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/benefits-of-community/healing-together-and-trusting-yourself-the-power-of-community/#comment-3586 ali anani Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:05 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2338#comment-3586 Hi Lori, I put this statement on slideshare today. I think it might be very relevant to community and self-organizing agenda. Here is what I put Ali Anani : The Bitter Better Factor (BBF). I coined this to reflect improvements that look sweet on the outside, but bitter in the inside. Many business suffer from this factor. Many promotions fall in this trap. Many improvements are not improvements; in fact they are movements to the rear Do communities suffer from this factor? Do self-organizing group reduce the impact of such factor? I think this idea might open windows of thought Let me dream again Hi Lori,
I put this statement on slideshare today. I think it might be very relevant to community and self-organizing agenda. Here is what I put

Ali Anani : The Bitter Better Factor (BBF). I coined this to reflect improvements that look sweet on the outside, but bitter in the inside. Many business suffer from this factor. Many promotions fall in this trap. Many improvements are not improvements; in fact they are movements to the rear

Do communities suffer from this factor? Do self-organizing group reduce the impact of such factor?

I think this idea might open windows of thought

Let me dream again

]]> Comment on Healing together and trusting yourself: the power of community by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/benefits-of-community/healing-together-and-trusting-yourself-the-power-of-community/#comment-3585 ali anani Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:21:06 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2338#comment-3585 Dear Lori, You threw a deep question at me on slideshare, which I responded to before reading your response above. Amazingly, I dwelt on failure on a positive tone. I hope readers believe me when I say this synchronization is purely accidental. At least, you know this is true Dear Lori,
You threw a deep question at me on slideshare, which I responded to before reading your response above. Amazingly, I dwelt on failure on a positive tone. I hope readers believe me when I say this synchronization is purely accidental. At least, you know this is true

]]> Comment on Healing together and trusting yourself: the power of community by Lori http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/benefits-of-community/healing-together-and-trusting-yourself-the-power-of-community/#comment-3584 Lori Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:30 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2338#comment-3584 Thanks, Ali. I feel I already received great support for my post by your very presence here. Had a flood of feedback on facebook today for this post already. Guess I should talk about my failures more often. Luckily, I have plenty to choose from! I commented on your procrastination slide deck in slideshare. :-) Thanks, Ali. I feel I already received great support for my post by your very presence here. Had a flood of feedback on facebook today for this post already. Guess I should talk about my failures more often. Luckily, I have plenty to choose from!

I commented on your procrastination slide deck in slideshare. :-)

]]> Comment on Healing together and trusting yourself: the power of community by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/benefits-of-community/healing-together-and-trusting-yourself-the-power-of-community/#comment-3582 ali anani Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:38:13 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2338#comment-3582 Dear Lori, A very touching post. You left many ideas playing darts in my head. I feel some of them are hitting the target. Amazingly, and I would really love you do it, is to read my recent presentation on "Procrastination on Opportunities" published yesterday on slideshare along with the comment of Charles Prabakar and my response. Why? Because you shall find great support to your post. http://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/procrastination-on-opportunities Dear Lori,
A very touching post. You left many ideas playing darts in my head. I feel some of them are hitting the target.
Amazingly, and I would really love you do it, is to read my recent presentation on “Procrastination on Opportunities” published yesterday on slideshare along with the comment of Charles Prabakar and my response. Why? Because you shall find great support to your post.

http://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/procrastination-on-opportunities

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by Lori http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3581 Lori Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:17:26 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3581 Hey Ali, I've been out of town and just saw your comment "community is increasing the probability of thinking positively and having a positive mindset" That certainly rings true in my experience. The blog post I just wrote demonstrates your point! You appear to be influencing what I write about even before I've read what you said. :-) Hey Ali, I’ve been out of town and just saw your comment “community is increasing the probability of thinking positively and having a positive mindset” That certainly rings true in my experience. The blog post I just wrote demonstrates your point! You appear to be influencing what I write about even before I’ve read what you said. :-)

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3571 ali anani Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:17:18 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3571 Lori, Today, I added two slides to a presentation that I published on slideshare titled Luck Butterfly Effect. The two slides inspired me with a new definition for community. Just by checking Slide 28, the community reduces negative emotions and thereby increase the likelihood of moving into the area (wing) of positive thinking. In a nutshell community is increasing the probability of thinking positively and having a positive mindset. Now, I wake up from my dream http://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/luck-and-its-butterfly-effect Lori,

Today, I added two slides to a presentation that I published on slideshare titled Luck Butterfly Effect. The two slides inspired me with a new definition for community. Just by checking Slide 28, the community reduces negative emotions and thereby increase the likelihood of moving into the area (wing) of positive thinking. In a nutshell community is increasing the probability of thinking positively and having a positive mindset.
Now, I wake up from my dream

http://www.slideshare.net/hudali15/luck-and-its-butterfly-effect

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by Lori http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3565 Lori Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:58:50 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3565 Ali, both answers look good to me. I love what you say about branches not obscuring light or air from each other. This is why I love to learn together. Think we're two branches from the same tree, with a deep root system that spreads all the way from Jordan to the US. Ali, both answers look good to me. I love what you say about branches not obscuring light or air from each other. This is why I love to learn together. Think we’re two branches from the same tree, with a deep root system that spreads all the way from Jordan to the US.

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3564 ali anani Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:03:55 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3564 Lori, Please discard the previous comment. I wrote it while still sleepy. You can tell from the many typos and ill-sentences Great question, Lori; yet a challenging one For me, community is an extension of myself. I grow within a family first, and I feel my belonging to it. I am only a reduced copy of the structure of the family. This way I am not alienated. I then grow into a group and then into a community. There is a common goal that binds ALL community members. A noble goal is a stronger binder. So, in a way we are like a community of tree branches that emulate a community of people. Branches work together, depend on each other. do not obscure light or air from each other and meanwhile a branch is almost a copy of other branches. They self organize voluntarily. Human community should be the same. A fractal growth is the solution I gt zero for my answer still I want to learn from you Lori,
Please discard the previous comment. I wrote it while still sleepy. You can tell from the many typos and ill-sentences

Great question, Lori; yet a challenging one

For me, community is an extension of myself. I grow within a family first, and I feel my belonging to it. I am only a reduced copy of the structure of the family. This way I am not alienated. I then grow into a group and then into a community. There is a common goal that binds ALL community members. A noble goal is a stronger binder. So, in a way we are like a community of tree branches that emulate a community of people. Branches work together, depend on each other. do not obscure light or air from each other and meanwhile a branch is almost a copy of other branches. They self organize voluntarily. Human community should be the same. A fractal growth is the solution

I gt zero for my answer still I want to learn from you

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by ali anani http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3563 ali anani Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:41:46 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3563 Great question, Lori; yet a challenging one For me, community is an extension of myself. I grow within a family first, and I feel belonging of it and only a reduced structure of the family. This way I am not alienated. I grow into a group and then into a community. There is a common goal that binds ALL members. A noble goal is a stronger binder. So, in a way community of tree branches may emulate community of people. Branches work together, depend on each other. do not obscure light or air from each other and meanwhile do branch is exactly a copy of the other. They self organize voluntarily. Human community should be the same. A fractal growth is the solution I gt zero for my answer still I want to learn from you Great question, Lori; yet a challenging one

For me, community is an extension of myself. I grow within a family first, and I feel belonging of it and only a reduced structure of the family. This way I am not alienated. I grow into a group and then into a community. There is a common goal that binds ALL members. A noble goal is a stronger binder. So, in a way community of tree branches may emulate community of people. Branches work together, depend on each other. do not obscure light or air from each other and meanwhile do branch is exactly a copy of the other. They self organize voluntarily. Human community should be the same. A fractal growth is the solution

I gt zero for my answer still I want to learn from you

]]> Comment on Community: the key to living your own story by Lori http://www.collectiveself.com/community-2/recognizing-community/community-the-key-to-living-your-own-story/#comment-3562 Lori Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:50 +0000 http://www.collectiveself.com/?p=2320#comment-3562 Thanks for all the comments, Ali! What does the word community itself mean to you? Here, it is an old word, that feels as if it was forgotten for a while, but that now we're beginning to value and treasure. How do you recognize community? Thanks for all the comments, Ali! What does the word community itself mean to you? Here, it is an old word, that feels as if it was forgotten for a while, but that now we’re beginning to value and treasure. How do you recognize community?

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