From: Natasha Vita More (fka Nancie Clark) (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sun Jul 05 1998 - 16:04:47 MDT
At 01:35 AM 7/5/98 +0200, Anders wrote:
>I want the ability to explain clearly and
>rationally...
I've come up with my own memetic toolkit while fine-tuning my own skills in
discussing transhuman ideas, whether it is a one-on-one or public. My own
toolkit is a first-hand, from scratch, and a blueprint that continues to
help me in spreading and engineering transhuman memes.
Natasha's Memetic Toolkit:
1. Listen
2. Discern Cost Benefit Analysis
3. Educate, Debate or Alienate
4. Employ Critical Thinking
5. Locate Common Ground of Interest
6. Present Historical Parallels
7. Practice Patience
8. Ignite Curiosity
9. Show Sense of Humor
10. Engineer a Meme
FAQ:
1. Listen: Understand the context of the people I am communicating with
and their level of progress and rate of personal growth. People will let me
know, one way or the other, within the first few minutes who they are.
2. Cost Benefit: Discern if the time and energy is a productive and
successful exchange. Is it worth my time and effort to communicate with
this person(s)? (9 out of 10 it is.)
3. Educate, Debate or Alienate: What strategy do I employ? Am I in this
to teach, argue or to rave about my own views? How do I best want to
communicate.
4. Critical Thinking and logically while monitoring information, getting
feedback, using error correction and accurate replay, and collision avoidance.
5. Common Ground: If people recognize something in common with me (skiing,
videomaking, gardening, psychology), then I do not appear to be so alien in
my transhuman views.
6. Historical Parallels: people seem to be more receptive to new or
challenging ideas if they are given concrete examples of events in history
have some bearing on what we are discussing.
7. Patience: people develop at different rates, and this has value. It is
a readiness and openness in someone's psychology that welcomes change.
Whether an early-bird or eleventh-hour, this process sometimes depends on
their psychological barometer.
8. Ignite Curiosity: "Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
Desmond Morris; "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a
fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be
curiosity." Eleanor Roosevelt.
9. Humor!: keeps tensions down, helps people relax, and there nothing so
welcoming as a smile.
10. Meme engineering: My favorite moment is when I actively ignite or
impart a positive or vivid impression of my extropian ideas and transhuman
culture
Natasha Vita More [fka Nancie Clark]: www.natasha.cc
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