SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 - Prologue
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 - Prologue
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Why bother? Why make all the effort? Who should care? Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville', Daniel Comp shares the background and purpose of the book and video series. "Know Thyself is no longer a luxury - it's a full-out competition." If you are willing to leave the garbage in your backpack behind and set foot toward your personal Everest, this series and peer group will guide and facilitate the adventure of your lifetime, "the greatest expedition you'll ever undertake, the journey to self-understanding". If you are a sage with a life-lesson or overcoming story, we'd value your storytelling with great reward. Contact us for a conversation. https://scotomaville.com/contact Yuval Harari: https://www.ynharari.com/ Tristan Harris: https://humanetech.com/
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Daniel: Yourself up by your bootstraps without even having boots—about getting out of blindness and into personal strength. I've trudged up this mountain for decades following advice from Jim Rohn: don't get through the day—get from the day.
You may agree with me that there seems to be about two general directions that people go. A lot of people are duped, hoodwinked, bamboozled, long-conned, led astray by strong emotion or crafty storytelling, and they seem to be lost, gullible, naive, easily steered, hoping things will get better and change but not really having the power to do so or the commitment.
And then there are those that base their lives on evidence. They have a strong core value system. They have ethics and morals. They put in the effort necessary to get up into tough places with great vistas. They have an unshakable sense of endurance and they have a depth of character that attracts other people to them. That might be you. It could be you.
If you'll forgive me for a mixed metaphor, leaving Scotomaville—it's sort of like learning to trim your sail to set a better course to get out of a good squall in order to get to a decent harbor that you have chosen. But it's also like getting some of the garbage out of your backpack—lightening your load, dropping some of that junk that you don't need to haul all the way up that mountain.
I've spent most of my life going it alone, trying to figure this out—pedal across America three times, listening to some of the best mentors and coaches and sages on personal development. On the same day Lance Armstrong rode into Paris for the final time, a cyclist from Seattle rode into the Twin Cities for the first time. Daniel Comp is traveling cross-country on his bike to raise awareness for women in business. The longtime cyclist got the idea after his wife was injured in a bad car crash. She was an entrepreneur and he's riding in honor of her. Through peer support and mentoring they all sort of networked together and share their business ideas and help each other in business and just incredible things come out of it. So we're trying to bring it out of the Texas South area and up across the northern US. So Comp started his journey in Seattle just after Father's Day. He figures if he travels 80 to 100 miles a day he'll reach the East Coast by the end of August.
Boy, I have made the time and I think we're out of it—the emergence of early AI trained on precision, not accuracy, on profit, brand, and popularity rather than principles. We've got some interesting challenges ahead.
This is so boring—can we turn on the television? Hey, let's check your social media. I created Scotomaville because I wanted you to be a part of a group, not go it alone, and be able to accelerate your personal Everest—that summit of your awareness and understanding and discipline—so that you can lead others through some of the toughest challenges we've ever had.
Yeah, that's why I've put this together.
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Date: 2020-05-28 File: SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 - Prologue.md Monomyth Stage: 01 - Ordinary World Gameboard: Camp -4: The Ordinary World MA5 Domain: Initium Summary: Daniel launches Volume Two of Scotomaville by contrasting the gullible/emotion-driven path with the evidence-based, disciplined path of character, sharing his decades of solo growth and three trans-America bike rides while warning of early AI trained on profit over principles. Key Insight: Leaving Scotomaville means lightening your mental backpack and trimming your sail with community support to accelerate the real summit: awareness, understanding, and discipline. Narrative Significance: This prologue establishes the Ordinary World of the Initium/Scotomaville arc—shifting from solo struggle to a peer-supported expedition capable of navigating future challenges (including misaligned AI) and turning inherited limits into self-authored horizons.
INITIUM.