Selling?

Once again, hanging out with Alton and Co. pays dividends. 

All recollections and meaning-makings are mine.
I imagine everyone remembers and meaning-makes it, at least, a little bit different.

There was this moment when there was a flavor, “Wait. You’re here because you have something that you want to have happen. You have something that you think would benefit people. Your job is a coach. You’re here to sell something.”

Uh, actually, no. 

I am most def not here to sell something. 

Yes, I do believe that I have a philosophy that could make life a lot more interesting for people. 

Would it benefit them?

From a Dojo perspective, that’s like asking someone who doesn’t, “Have you stopped beating your partner?”

Or, “The barber shaves everyone who doesn’t shave themselves. Who shaves the barber?”

Within the confines of the language and the logic, it doesn’t make sense.

Dojo is, on one level, about having the life that you want to have.

The character that you currently identify as “me”, obviously doesn’t have what it takes to get you the life that you want to have.

So, you are going to have to learn some things, some vocabulary, some skill sets, that might not set well with the character that you currently self-identify with, your Primal Character. 

Your Primal Character is not going to take this lightly. It is going to see your interest in and your practice in developing new skills and vocab to be “dangerous”. It will fight you.

There is no guarantee that you will be successful.

Your Primal Character will probably win out, if you are trying to change in any significant way.

What do you think the drop out rate for white belts is?

If you persevere, you will get to wherever it is that you want to get to.

Given that you make it, how you answer, “Did it benefit you?”

Well, it certainly didn’t benefit the Primal Character. 

And you do have what you said you wanted. 

And now that you have it, it might not be quite the thing that you thought it would be.
Could be.

Rarely is.

Well, "rarely is" once you get past the bloom of getting it.

I’ve found that I am usually very unsatisfied with the results of “selling it”.

Doing whatever it takes to get lots of people through the doors…just not worth it.

I’d rather just hang out, doing my thing, dancing as a human with other humans. 

Which is what I do when I hang out with Alton and Co.

Sometimes people are going to label my dance with whatever sings to them as a “value-negative” label. 

Sometimes people are going to label my dance with whatever sings to them as a “value-positive” label.

Some people are going to be like, “Wait a minute. What the fuck is he doing? I mean, I can see what he’s actually doing. But what is it that informs him so that he can do that?"

It’s the difference between being entertained by the magic and intrigued by the “how did he do that”.

There is no such thing as magic.

There is only not-understood technology and/or not-understood techniques. 

It's that second group of people that I look forward to seeing walk up the driveway as I sit here in my office.