by Frederick Mann, 2004
This project started modestly with my recognition that huge rewards could be reaped by those who solve the "duplication problem" in MLM-type programs: How do you motivate your downline to duplicate successful marketing actions? The scope of the project expanded when I realized that competence was also a central issue: How do you motivate your downline to take the necessary steps to increase their competence so they can duplicate successful marketing actions?
The project became much bigger when I realized that the "low competence level" of so many people represents a big opportunity, described in more detail in The "Big Vision" (Do You Want To Live In A Better World?) and The "Opportunity Gap".
In my experience, over 90% (it could be as high as 98% or even 99%) of people trying to earn money on the Internet fail. This is due to "low-level performance," described in more detail in Programmed for Mediocrity and Underachievement and Self-Sabotage.
A new dimension was added to the project when I realized that in order to create a better world, we need "Better-World Builders" to do the job, and we need "Better-World Academies" to train them.
"Yes, I am interested in being one of the myriad developers of HAB. I think this is one of the very brightest things you have ever come up with, with the potential to grow in all sorts of productive and creative directions." -- Dr. Richard Sauder
It may be possible to create a "vehicle" individuals can use to considerably (or even greatly) increase their abilities in various areas of their lives. In my opinion, this may be particularly important for those who have "contributions to improve humankind and/or the world." This is the purpose of HAB.
Some people have benefited from the writings on BuildFreedom and BigBooster. Over the years, many people have so indicated. The Build Freedom Testimonials page has some examples.
Maybe the time has come to create a more effective "vehicle" that a higher percentage of people can use to increase their abilities in various areas of their lives. There are undoubtedly thousands of people in the world who can contribute to this objective.
HAB is not only aimed at people who want to increase their own abilities, but also at those who are concerned about "the state of the world" (poverty, hunger, health, disease, deforestation, pollution, hostilities, violence, human rights, destructive political and economic systems, overreaching politicians, bureaucrats, police, and military, etc.). HAB is intended to be a self-improvement as well as a world-improvement project.
HAB is also a networking vehicle, structured so all participants can earn good money from their involvement. Furthermore, groups can use it as a means to fund their own projects.
The HAB Module could have content along the following lines:
The HAB Module could have a Development Team consisting of the following:
The HAB Module is likely to provide great values to members. Many of the writings on BuildFreedom, BigBooster, and GRSS can be included as products.
As members advance their membership level to Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Master, progressively more advanced "Money-Power Concepts" (MPCs) are revealed to them. As you master and integrate the MPCs, your relationship with money changes drastically. You gain a series of understandings about yourself and money that give you more and more control. Gradually, you gain mastery and wealth. Eventually, you enjoy the kinds of advantages billionaires like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and George Soros take for granted. Here's a small "taste" of some of the MPCs that will be revealed to members:
(For context, see Maslow's Self-Actualization Psychology -- "I have a very strong sense of being in the middle of a historical wave.")
The idea of "Libertools" may be a breakthrough. A "libertool" is any tool that can be used to liberate yourself from an "unwanted condition" in your life; any tool you can use to free yourself from whatever holds you back; any tool that advances your competence, effectiveness, freedom, health, wealth, happiness, etc.
"Tools are things of thought and matter used to increase the power, precision, and scope of deliberate action, including things as various as mathematical concepts, poetic imagery, philosophical and economic concepts, machines, habitats, business structures, negotiation strategies, communications technologies, industrial parks, shopping malls, and free zones... Freeorder generators, or forges, are ventures in the provision of tools to serve the emergence of freeorder. Forges are convivial places which engage tool makers in vortices of conversation. They attract vortex spinners." -- Leif Smith (Philosophical Overview of Pattern Research, Freeorder, Open Network, and Open Society)
Money skills enable you to free yourself from poverty.
Health skills enable you to overcome illness and disease.
Technology has produced many libertools: telephone, refrigerator, automobile, air conditioning, washing machine, etc.
Idenics and similar techniques are powerful libertools you can use to free yourself from psychological shackles.
e-gold and similar alternative currencies and payment systems may become powerful libertools for individual economic empowerment.
The Internet can be used as a powerful libertool.
Anything that brings about positive individual empowerment is a libertool.
Focusing on the positive can be a very powerful strategy to improve conditions of individual lives, as well as in the world generally: Identify and develop libertools and persuade people to use them!
The opposite of libertool is "slavetool". Oppressive government is an example of a slavetool. Many people follow strategies of "fighting slavetools", or trying to reform them -- accentuating the negative. If instead they were to focus on the positive: identify and develop libertools and persuade people to use them (a fundamental shift in methods and strategy)! -- they would become much more efficient, effective, and successful!
The goal is to create a Freeorder of Unprecedented Individual and Economic Freedom.
To create a better world requires thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions of individuals who both improve their own lives and also help "spread the improvements." In a sense, "better individuals" need to "conquer the world." As of this writing (August, 2004), the "forces of darkness" have the upper hand practically everywhere on Earth, and by a huge margin. We need to engineer a huge power shift from the "forces of darkness" to "better individuals."
Fortunately, there are many steps individuals can take to improve their lives, as detailed in the numerous resources at BuildFreedom, BigBooster, Get-Real Success System, etc.
By taking personal development steps, you can get on "the path of the Better-World Builder!" But there's a lot more related to competence that some of us need to address in order to become effective Better-World Builders. Some of what follows is written in the context of internet marketing and making money on the internet. The theme can also be adapted to other areas of life.
In Internet Marketing For Beginners & Professionals you can find the "IMB: Internet Marketing Baby to IMG: Internet Marketing Guru" scale. That scale is expanded in the article Apply "Factor IG" to Become a Winner!, which also contains further important details relevant to Better-World Builders.
A "Hopeless-to-Guru Scale" for Better-World Builders could be designed. Suppose we define "Better-World Builder Level 0" to "Better-World Builder Level 10." For each level we could identify the knowledge, skills, and expertise a Better-World Builder needs to master to operate successfully at that level. A checklist or checksheet could be compiled for each level with an appropriate sequence in which to acquire the knowledge, skills, and expertise of that level. Better-World Academies could provide the training necessary for each level. They would provide the necessary guidance to ensure that students "complete their checksheets" for each level.
(Although it may seem silly to compile "checksheets of knowledge, skills, and expertise" to operate at low levels (such as "Level -4 - HOC - Hopeless Case (Dead Rat) - Apathy - WLS=0"), if "low-level people" can learn to deliberately, intentionally, and consciously operate at these levels, they will find it much easier to learn to advance to higher levels. Typically, people "stuck at low levels," operate at these levels without control. By learning to deliberately operate at these levels, they gain control, which enables them to move up.)
I suspect that over 90% of the human population, at least in some areas of their lives, operate their win-lose switches at "0" to "3".
If my suspicion is correct, there's a huge potential demand for Better-World Academies to "bridge the gap." There are undoubtedly thousands of individuals, groups, organizations, and companies that perform some "Better-World Academy functions." Here are a few:
Maybe some of the above (and some of all the other thousands not mentioned) can be motivated to extend their services to provide more of the training necessary to produce effective Better-World Builders. The potential demand may be much larger than most realize! It's unrealistic to expect that there will ever be a single "Better-World Academy" that provides all the services and training a Better-World Builder could benefit from. So you're advised to "shop around!"
Strategy is most important for Better-World Builders. In the book Purple Curve Effect: SKI's Throughput on Command there's a suggestion that you find the weakest link in your chain and fix that. Asking the right questions is also most important. It's highly advisable for Better-World Builders to think in terms of the strategy that will increase their personal effectiveness as quickly as possible and by as high a degree as possible.
When it comes to tackling the rest of the world, strategy may be even more important. For example, you could invest a great deal into "reforming an education system." Then the next coercive politician or bureaucrat who takes over control of that education system undoes all your reforms in one fell swoop... and all your effort has been wasted. As an early step in tackling a project like "improving education" you may want to research the nature of the education system. Good places to start might be John Taylor Gatto and The Odysseus Group and "Are Our Schools Concentration Campuses for Mind Destruction?" It's important to realize that just because something is called an "education system" does not necessarily mean that those in control of the system regard "education" as their top priority. Brainwashing and mind destruction may be higher on their agenda.
Better-World Builders who (unwittingly) use poor strategies will most likely render themselves ineffective. Another important consideration is whether a system you're trying to improve is part of a larger system. For example if the "education system" you're trying to improve is part of a larger "government system" and the "government system" is "corrupt to the core"... then you may need to "fix the government system" before you can "fix the education system." You may want to start by researching #TL07B: THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT. (What might be the "weakest link" of humanity in general?)
You could do worse than studying "It's the Strategy, Stupid!". The recommendations in that article include Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World by Dudley Lynch & Paul L. Kordis. Also highly recommended: The Mother of All Minds: Leaping Free of an Outdated Human Nature by Dudley Lynch.
The article "Libertools: Wave of The Future!" may be very important in selecting your Better-World Strategies.
The 2%er/98%er Profile and How to Become More Successful may also assist people "stuck at low levels" in some areas of their lives.
As a general practice, or when a particularly useful "new piece of brain software" becomes available for you to install and implement, it may be useful to ask:
Questions like #1 - #3, above, can be asked iteratively until a series of "necessary preliminary software steps" have been identified, that need to be taken before a particular "new piece of brain software" can be installed and implemented.
Consider someone trying to market on the Internet. He has "pieces of brain software" like: "I give up easily"; "If I don't get immediate results, I try something else"; "I don't like difficult things"; etc. Before he can install and implement in his brain "Internet marketing software," he may have to change or dump some of his existing brain software.
In order to market on the Internet, certain computer and Internet skills are required: managing folders and files, copy-and-paste, handling email, using signature files, subscribing and posting to safelists, using a "group mailer," using Google to find tutorials, etc. These skills involve installing and implementing "pieces of brain software." You may need to install and implement them before you can install and implement in your brain certain "Internet marketing software."
BY REPEATEDLY POSING QUESTIONS #1 - #6, above, TO YOURSELF, YOU CAN BECOME A FASTER LEARNER -- AND HIGHLY COMPETENT!
In certain situations you may get stuck in "fixed identities" that seem to "force" you to behave in unworkable ways. Such "identities" may cause "unwanted conditions" in your life. Such "fixed identities" may also prevent you from learning skills like Internet marketing. Such problems can be resolved through Idenics and/or Mental Imagery Procedures (MIP).
(Maybe the "fixed-identity model" can provide some insight into the unworkability of coercive political systems. "Presidents," "Prime Ministers," "Senators," "Representatives," etc. -- all the way down to the lowliest bureaucrat -- may all operate, at least some of the time, as "fixed identities." Fixed-identity coercive political systems may effectively "compel" politicians, bureaucrats, government teachers, etc., at all levels, to often behave in unworkable ways toward their citizen victims. "Democide" (murder by government) may be the worst consequence -- see The Second Big Inversion and Selective Blindness.)
André Bacard wrote the books Hunger for Power: Who Rules the World and How and The Affirmist Manifesto. His formulations will be modified and expanded, primarily by Frederick Mann and Mark Lindsay, as "Affirmism" -- possibly part of the HAB Module.
A most important part of Affirmism is that individuals completely eradicate their "social identity" and "instinctual identity" as described in Actualism. See particularly Introducing Actual Freedom. See also "Brain Software Sequencing" (above), particularly #2 and #5. Idenics can be used to speed up the eradication of "social identity" and "instinctual identity."
"Political identity" can be regarded as part of "social identity." Part of "Advanced Affirmism" is to eradicate your "political identity" -- see Clear-Your-Mind Reports.
Ghost-Not can be regarded as part of "social identity" and needs to be reversed or eradicated.
What mysterious "power" makes it possible for ants (with their miniscule brains) to collaborate and perform all the functions related to the building and maintenance of a giant ant nest? It's called "stigmergy." What if humans could use the principles of stigmergy to collaborate in much more powerful ways compared to traditional businesses and networks?
On his "Stigmergic Systems" website, Peter Small wrote:
"To be able to understand how biological systems can create order out of disorder, it is necessary to first shake off all the preconceived ideas that have been programmed into our minds by conventional education."
Maybe stigmergy can be applied to make HAB much more effective.
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