--- title: 'Transcript - Episode ' created: "2022-07-21" episode: '' type: transcript source: VideoTranscript tags: - scotomaville - video - transcript date_modified: 2026-04-10 status: raw category: - Personal Development - Self-Awareness summary: A heuristic is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational. keypoints: [] monomyth_stage: "" gameboard_position: '' truth_score: 92 entropy_score: Medium tone: sentiment: Neutral emotions: - curious - reflective sycophancy_level: None notes: '' related_events: [] syndication_status: arnie: false chris: false redmond: false clint: false pilot: false ma5_inheritance: None pre_silicon: false voice_print: true codex_candidate: false phase: '' enriched_date: '2026-04-10' --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic A heuristic (/hjʊˈrɪstɪk/; from Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō) 'I find, discover'), or heuristic technique, is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation. Where finding an optimal solution is impossible or impractical, heuristic methods can be used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution. Heuristics can be mental shortcuts that ease the cognitive load of making a decision.[1][2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-discovery A "journey of self-discovery" refers to a travel, pilgrimage,[1] or series of events whereby a person attempts to determine how they feel, personally, about spiritual issues[2] or priorities,[3][4] rather than following the opinions of family, friends, neighborhood[5] or peer pressure. 2.00 - PRELUDE 2.01 - PERSISTENCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Murray The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951) but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. Angelina ‘learning how to learn’ - By practicing sail trim w/o river water victory begins where the perseverance of others wanes 2.02 - PROCESS 2.03 - EXPECTATIONS ex·pec·ta·tion a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future - that you will or should achieve something. 2.04 - PATIENCE 2.05 - PREPARATION 2.06 - SETBACKS (dealing with setbacks) “There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer - middleville setbacks - working with less than your dream - (taking trash out at apartment with COVID setbacks) - - wait weight - (truck tabs and AS financing)(watching kids ride their stingrays and ultimately getting a cruiser) - toy, tool and body maintenance - learning - "The eyes do not see what the mind does not know" - Stockdale pow self-awareness camp (no better time than to get to know who you really are) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” ― Jim Stockdale The VICE ADMIRAL JAMES BOND STOCKDALE “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” – Najwa Zebian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najwa_Zebian 2.07 - STRATEGY (developing your strategy) “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James DEFINE STRATEGY INCREMENTAL PROGRESS How do you climb a personal Everest? The same way you eat an elephant or a Cessna! One bite at a time capture of elephant eating websites Monsieur Mangetout - A crawling under the table (06.05-1820) - Chose to relocate - 06.06-0241 - making a list of to-do's - (06.05-1758) - buying tools over time LITTLE THINGS MATTER "A stitch in time saves nine" - do the practicing now - fixing stuff before you are on the road 05.20 clips capture of stitch in time websites - stepping on aluminum shaving... - a place for things - matching the missing screw and nut - fixing the sticking door - lamb chops (06.01) - Hoppers board game - strategy talk 2.08 - STRATEGY ABUNDANCE VS SCARCITY "abundance and scarcity - both take energy to do..." (gary Larson Far Side - glass 1/2 cartoon) A - Focus on OPPORTUNITIES, not capturing other's pieces (hopper explaination) + (volcano pieces) + (vaccum recharging) (raining mud on truck (05.22)) + "abundance of resources at home - water, electric - airstreaming reminds you of their value by losing them for a day or two" https://pixabay.com/photos/board-game-checkmate-chess-1846400/ B - Creatures of HABIT - once we decide, we repeat the move to spend less energy (scotoma) - even when the move stinks - Learn to recognize (habit) repeated moves that work (camping under the streetlight) + (change plans for rainy day rather than stick to habital Achiever) - Recognize moves that hurt (kite and tent with wind) - working on stuff that may NOT work out (WestWorld expo and Summit) C - Independent vs dependent - BROKE vs POOR (full hookups vs moochdocking vs boondocking vs overnighting) LEARN TO SPEAK THE TRUTH "You either learn to speak the truth or you grow to dispise yourself.".. Douglas Murray (Tucker Today) A - "SELLING THE DREAM" (panorama windows trashtruck) + (flies outside) + (fixing the drain petcock) ?(bacon into jar-off list) B - COUNTING THE COST (fixing the hose, fixing the bayonet cover) + (tieing shoe) + (pulling weeds) + (taking time to dissasimble hitch rather than breaking it) C - Play the LONGGAME - look for and take multiple hops (spider riding on windshield) + (Newtown road barn to Tacoma tour ) D - Learn NEW MOVES (segmenting grapefruit) (longevity in mind - viome (06.05-1755)) 2.09 - SUBTLETIES (learning to listen to your gut) SUBTLE PREPARATION Kite in the tree - tent overturned Water ballast on solar briefcase (read up on this in Amazon reviews) SUBTLE ORGANIZATION Shoes in basket not a pile, cords in a basket/box - taking tags off cloth baskets (patience) Nesting cups in drawer Bottled water storage location Bacon jar velcro Knife holder in trashbucket bleach on spatula Fleece rags SUBTLE RESOURCES Toilet water levels Shower from gallon Jugs Battery cell water level Recharging devices Turn off antenna Move solar onto truck Microwave use SUBTLE EXPECTATIONS Garbage man panorama windows Car horn while taking a nap 18 Wheeler at event site Train @ Memalose PROFOUND OUTCOMES Newtown Road - bigger outcomes than you were handed 2.10 - SQUALLS LEARNING THROUGH OTHERS - Airstreaming the first time somewhere: adventure, variety, excitement, uncertainty, anxiety, fear - Revisiting a previous place: rehursing, advancing, do-over, practicing, accomplishment, confidence - Define Squall - first storm sceen captures - Twin Falls - Nicki & Steve Cunningham Malad Gorge Bridge hanging from safety chains - we chose ProPride (attention! - @ OK City) - 4 months ago: kidney stones + shooting OK City HISTORICAL BLACK BOXES - When my wife and I argue... she gets Historical - Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex: Sleep shunting - Dr. Matthew Walker - anxiety over being in the wrong site (#16 vs #19 - Angelina with the Duck) ? kidney stones make this humorous FIND AN ADVOCATE - Find an Advocate: Patrick Cameron CONSIDER THE EVIDENCE - James Cameron Master Class: Storyboard first, then produce. Daniel Comp - trust that when the 'Student is Ready that the teacher will appear (record the events - then storyboard it) A BIG EVENT “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” ― Jim Stockdale The Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale - Lightening Storm screen capture CLOSING THOUGHTS 2.11 - SATISFACTION Mick Jagger Keith Richards and Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood in San Francisco, California - Birthplace of the 1960s counterculture movement, Haight-Ashbury draws a lively, diverse crowd looking to soak up the historic hippie vibe. Upper Haight Street is a hodgepodge of vintage clothing boutiques, record shops, bookstores, dive bars and casual, eclectic restaurants. Bordering Golden Gate Park, the neighborhood features many colorful, well-preserved Victorian homes, including the storied Grateful Dead House. Hedonic treadmill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill "the tendency for humans to quickly adapt to major positive or negative life events or changes and return to their base level of happiness. As a person achieves more success, expectations and desires rise in tandem. The result is never feeling satisfied — achieving no permanent gain in happiness." confident acceptance of something as dependable, true - near to CONTENTMENT CONFIDENCE - confidence comes by doing the tough thing (even poorly is better than failing to act: Chris) - freezer ice blocks and not knowing the word "confidence" - Confidence to fix Nose of board - easy to fix AGAIN tendon ages - fixing drain petcock in the wind - overcoming failure - Water filter hose flex adapter repair - shaving with self-talk CELEBRATION - grand canyon setup and leveling - Grand Canyon appreciation of America 02.12 SELFCARE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt the longest-serving first lady of the United States Hypocratic Discipline - proactive selfcare using available tools - eating nutrition and celebrating - Picking fresh blackberries - making breakfast and lunches We chose our BELIEFS. These form our ATTITUDE, which determines our BEHAVIOR. We can reverse engineer beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. In foiling, we fly by adjusting yaw, pitch, and roll. Likewise, we can adjust our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors to change our altitude. Beliefs Attitude & Behavior: Cognitive Consistency: Motivational Antecedents and Behavioral Consequents. (2013). Netherlands: Elsevier Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/all-188-cognitive-biases.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cognitive_Bias_Codex_-_180%2B_biases,_designed_by_John_Manoogian_III_(jm3).png https://www.designhacks.co/products/cognitive-bias-codex-poster Awareness of tire wear - gut inflamation... inflammitory cholitis - 'meditation' awareness of body state and breathing - liver cleanse - (january folder 02.14) - Dr. Gundry & The Plant Paradox - viome vs. supplements Dr. matthew Walker https://sites.google.com/nbook.42web.io/dbook26/pdfonline-read-why-we-sleep-the-new-science-of-sleep-and-dreams-by-matthew-walker-full-version#h.nazsdxnbb6e3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwV7tfJ6_Rc Prevention - kneeling chair - pain on the edge of the table (David and dying cells) - movement breaks (walking to hook) Injury - cut finger on sail Arnica - back pain from stooping - Texas Crappy Ribs - Interview Angelina about Chris 02.13 STORIES James Cameron Teaches Filmmaking | Official Trailer | MasterClass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4qHXx034E From The Terminator and Titanic to Avatar, James Cameron has directed some of Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. Now, for the first time in his 40-year career, he opens up about his process. Through behind-the-scenes breakdowns, James shares his approach to developing ideas, storylines, and characters; harnessing technology; and worldbuilding on any budget. Explore the innovation and imagination behind epic moviemaking. - Rainy day - the stories we were told - the stories we tell ourselves THE STORIES WE ARE TOLD fMRI synching 131224.mp4 Harvard Classics Volume 17: Folklore and Fable : 82 of Aesop's Fables, 41 from the Brothers Grimm, 20 Tales from Hans Christian Andersen 115916.mp4 Cracked pot (Daniel, you may have a hidden value) Image by Michael Drummond https://pixabay.com/users/fotshot-401149 Image by Thomas B. https://pixabay.com/users/didgeman-153208 Image by RÜŞTÜ BOZKUŞ https://pixabay.com/users/kareni-5357143 Image by mosapictures https://pixabay.com/users/mosapictures-15370226 Image by Hanna Groß https://pixabay.com/users/hasogr-23048968 Image by WhisperingJane_ASMR https://pixabay.com/users/whisperingjane_asmr-2418596 Nobody Wears Shoes Gold Fish THE STORIES WE TELL OURSELVES - If I have the tools, I will do the work (Tech, Airstream = Scotomaville) because SOMETHING will appear 132744.mp4 and step repairs plus host wrong site again - beliefs attitudes & behaviors - 133142.mp4 Cave or Tunnel Weeds across the Columbia THE STORIES WE TELL OTHERS - Fai returns through reboot 113219.mp4 - Good Grief Angelina! - I know what Yuval is concerned about - I should do what i can 02.14 - SUMMIT Am I what I remember from before - or am I who I am now? Living at the Summit - or finding a new expedition - or fulfiling earlier obligations 02.15 SUMMARY - Airstream license plates! - misinterpretting events clip - while driving in dark clip - using mental energy on premeditateg responses: Port electrical (room to grow) - Sleeping at night - cooling cabinets - Cheaper per month - 07-31 0936 ?- removing plastic from cushions ?- cutting board Port Power defense thinking Making breakfast - gas burner details 2.11 - SCORES (raising your financial IQ and scores) - living debt-free? - financial progress - untrustworthy - digital assets - collaborative - first boondocking dinner - petrified forest (clips from decades ago) - measuring progress - birthday clip 2.12 - SHIFTING/PIVOTING - getting familiar with failure - rebooting w/o boots - embracing opportunity - asset inventory (roads, information) - feedback loops (tracking, peers, ) - reframing (master table cracked pot) - license plates finally - curtain rail slides - - heater settings and cold outside - lost in the woods - pattern recognotion - bridge clip 2.08 - STATISTICS (counting on curves and scatter-plots) - Probabilistic vs deterministic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics Misinterpretation: Correlation does not imply causation - vocabulary (Dad, nobody wears shoes!) - risk scatter-plot of number of rvs that drive over a bridge - ask ask ask - subjective vs objective (faith/fact) - might could should - lost in the woods clips found in 02.12 - Fermi Paradox - Pascals Wager: on doubting and following someone whos been there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager "But at least learn your inability to believe, since reason brings you to this, and yet you cannot believe. Endeavour then to convince yourself, not by increase of proofs of God, but by the abatement of your passions. You would like to attain faith, and do not know the way; you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness" Pensées Section III note 233, Translation by W. F. Trotter https://youtu.be/gXYR9K1Ie8U