The Book and the Movement

 My regular morning Focusmate partner shared with me this book by Kelly Notaras on 5/26, called The Book You Were Born to Write: Everything You Need to (Finally) Get Your Wisdom onto the Page and into the World. It is geared toward authors of self-help books, which is why it has you follow these three basic steps:

1. Write a book

2. "Build your platform"

3. Publish (self or publishing house)

Step 2 is, when you break it down, essentially the networking process that I learned from Ford Myers back in 2013 when I was between jobs. The networking process is different for different professions but what is not different is that your career growth is always tied to real relationships with real people. Even if you know nothing more about one of the people in your network, than their email address on your email list, the person is a real person, and you have a real relationship with them.

Putting writing the book as step one makes sense for a self-help book but my book is not a self-help book. My book serves to expand the reach of a growing movement. Again I am borrowing lingo from my high school classmate Josh Spodek, who is the face of the "This Sustainable Life" podcast and who sees himself as a movement leader.

I've decided to just start my own group that meets on Zoom weekly. People who are interested in changing the world through a rethinking of "personality type"-- a rethinking of "personhood" itself, will join the meetings. I will explain why I consider myself to be part of the socionics community but also why I know that I have something new to offer.

In a nutshell, what I have to offer is a way to save humanity or to put it another way, is to offer my midwife services to the birthing of the next humanity- one where group mind is a reality, something you can build, something you can watch happening in yourself and in the world around you.

In other news, I need to devote a post to Antoni Kępiński, who provided the other pillar for Aushra's invention, i.e. alongside Carl Jung.

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