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Now you may be wondering about why I call this the JEDO Way. What JEDO stands for (in case you missed it) is Joy through Exploration, Discovery and Optimization. When we first started learning, this is how we learned everything... and we had a lot to learn! Given what we had to work with, we learned amazingly well. You have seen pictures of babies swimming underwater, and perhaps you or someone you know learned two different languages fluently and without an accent (I learned German and English) by the time you where three or four. I have even heard about "Your Baby can Read" programs that teach toddlers to read at an extraordinarily young age. Walking on two feet is something only the most advanced robotics have been able to do in the last few years, but you were doing it like a champ at two. The most advanced artificial intelligence computers are now able to carry on a limited conversation... but can they make up a joke? You were cracking them up at three years old! We were creative, intuitive, energetic, joyful, inquisitive, spontaneous, imaginative, and playful... something no machine will ever be.... and we can be again! We've done it before, we can do it again, only now with added qualities (such as maturity, responsibility, integrity, understanding and wisdom, spiritual insight, and so forth).
So where do we start? A good place to start is to learn to play again. That's right, play... and I don't mean video games, Trivial Pursuit, or football. While those are all fun and have their place, they are not playing like a child plays. A child plays with all kinds of different elements; colors outside of the lines on purpose, uses a stick as a rifle, a tricycle for a car, etc., etc., etc. That which 'is' can be something else if we want it to be. We can put together this and that and imagine that is is something completely different. Play is a matter of exploring the world around you with open eyes and an open mind, latching on to things that intrigue you, and then looking at them in different ways, mixing them up with other things, and discovering a whole new perspective on what it is and what it can do. Suddenly there is something new in your world... and maybe it is pretty good, but not great, so you play around with it some more. You try a bunch of different things until, Bingo! Perfect! It makes you laugh and you play with it and show it off.
You know what? That is exactly how invention works. I work in new products... I invent for a living, and that is what I do when I need to come up with a new invention. Think about cooking... this is also how new food creations come into being. Art. Floral arrangements. Scrapbooks. New toys. Crazy web videos. New magazines. The best stuff comes out of being free to play with lots of different elements, discovering something that works, and making it the best that it can be.... JEDO. It can work for marriages, starting new businesses, developing new hobbies, learning new skills, you name it. JEDO is a way of approaching any aspect of your life, and making it the best that it can be.
I challenge you to spend the rest of the day living 'the JEDO Way'. Take time to play, and have fun! Try to find a way of looking at something that is brand new! Put things together in new and different ways. Mix it up. Laugh! Find the humor in things! Enjoy! Your new life is beginning to unfold!!! Who knows what you'll discover!
Now you may be wondering about why I call this the JEDO Way. What JEDO stands for (in case you missed it) is Joy through Exploration, Discovery and Optimization. When we first started learning, this is how we learned everything... and we had a lot to learn! Given what we had to work with, we learned amazingly well. You have seen pictures of babies swimming underwater, and perhaps you or someone you know learned two different languages fluently and without an accent (I learned German and English) by the time you where three or four. I have even heard about "Your Baby can Read" programs that teach toddlers to read at an extraordinarily young age. Walking on two feet is something only the most advanced robotics have been able to do in the last few years, but you were doing it like a champ at two. The most advanced artificial intelligence computers are now able to carry on a limited conversation... but can they make up a joke? You were cracking them up at three years old! We were creative, intuitive, energetic, joyful, inquisitive, spontaneous, imaginative, and playful... something no machine will ever be.... and we can be again! We've done it before, we can do it again, only now with added qualities (such as maturity, responsibility, integrity, understanding and wisdom, spiritual insight, and so forth).
So where do we start? A good place to start is to learn to play again. That's right, play... and I don't mean video games, Trivial Pursuit, or football. While those are all fun and have their place, they are not playing like a child plays. A child plays with all kinds of different elements; colors outside of the lines on purpose, uses a stick as a rifle, a tricycle for a car, etc., etc., etc. That which 'is' can be something else if we want it to be. We can put together this and that and imagine that is is something completely different. Play is a matter of exploring the world around you with open eyes and an open mind, latching on to things that intrigue you, and then looking at them in different ways, mixing them up with other things, and discovering a whole new perspective on what it is and what it can do. Suddenly there is something new in your world... and maybe it is pretty good, but not great, so you play around with it some more. You try a bunch of different things until, Bingo! Perfect! It makes you laugh and you play with it and show it off.
You know what? That is exactly how invention works. I work in new products... I invent for a living, and that is what I do when I need to come up with a new invention. Think about cooking... this is also how new food creations come into being. Art. Floral arrangements. Scrapbooks. New toys. Crazy web videos. New magazines. The best stuff comes out of being free to play with lots of different elements, discovering something that works, and making it the best that it can be.... JEDO. It can work for marriages, starting new businesses, developing new hobbies, learning new skills, you name it. JEDO is a way of approaching any aspect of your life, and making it the best that it can be.
I challenge you to spend the rest of the day living 'the JEDO Way'. Take time to play, and have fun! Try to find a way of looking at something that is brand new! Put things together in new and different ways. Mix it up. Laugh! Find the humor in things! Enjoy! Your new life is beginning to unfold!!! Who knows what you'll discover!
