[ 1 / 8 ] The playGROUND for Curiosity, Mastery & Growth / evoLution ... red
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Human A C ?? R N .. Village S T ?? R Y .. F ?? R E S T playGround .. Sprouting G L ?? R Y ..
.. a Dream lands into the Body in the Womb .. to grow within the warm Darkness through all the prior Stages of the deep Story .. then to play, to explore, to create & to Elevate the Game ..
The playGROUND
The Story & the Game are two well understood and powerful concepts to employ as analogies for describing the Human action on Earth.
We can witness the power of these two meta-forms in today's World within the various systems and institutions of Human Life through the obvious trends of (1) STORIFICATION of the content and (2) GAMIFICATION of the processes mostly in the areas of Business organization, Education, Social Media and Entertainment.
The meta-form of the STORY helps to explore and understand the two of the four areas of Life's causality described by Aristotle: "Where it is coming from?" (Efficient cause) and "Where it is going to? What is the Purpose?" (Final cause).
The concept of the GAME supports the perception within the 3rd area of Aristotle's causality framed by the questions "How everything is structured? How it works?" (Formal cause). The major attributes of the Game provide the basic structure for understanding the process and the Gist of the Human action: Field, Laws, Goals, Rules, Roles & Resources.
The general Human action on the playGROUND Earth in a way can be described as shaped and driven by the three major innate Human qualities: MASTERY, CURIOSITY & GROWTH (evoLution).
Towards MASTERY: A-chieve, A+ & "choice"
Usually the Player arrives into the playGROUND through being taught the basic Rules and Roles of the Game by the family and early education institutions. The main focus of the Player is on the performance, compliance, quality, achievement and understanding better the Rules .. to make the first steps of progress through the ladder of the Roles. Basic (A) curiosity is enough to improve the Play and to achieve the initial Success.
Advanced (A+) Curiosity steps in to help proceed further up towards the managerial Roles in the Hierarchy of Success through the better understanding and mastering the "inner" efficiency of the Self and of the others under Ones leadership and oversight.
At the particular level of the Mastery (and stage of the Journey) the Player arrives into the space of transition or "choice": [ 1 ] to become a TEACHER within the Field of Basic (A) & Advanced (A+) Human Curiosity .. or [ 2 ] to proceed on the path towards the Roles of more powerful Master and the Rule Maker ("the RULER") .. or [ 3 ] to enter the other space of Human Curiosity ("B") focusing the attention on the STORY behind the current Game ..
.. or [ 4 ] to combine all or some of the first three into the specific mix that fits best the particular section of the unique personal Journey.
Next CURIOSITY: B-ehind & C-hange
In a way the Human Curiosity always lies behind and works hand-in-hand with the Human Mastery. Before every performance there is an inner pull to act to get the experience of action, to get the result and then to look what new understanding and discovery brings the experience and what new possibilities brings the achievement.
After amassing the experience and mastering the particular way of action there comes the comprehensive understanding of the action and the kind of boredom with it. Then the innate Curiosity steps in. Asking what kind of innovation is possible here to arrive into the completely new level of Mastery.
In the Human Game of Life at the particular stage, usually after gathering some amount of experience and understanding the certain laws of repetitive human behavior (especially the competitive part), One can arrive into the questioning the Meaning and the long-term Purpose of the whole Game. Particularly when One starts foresee the likely end-result of the whole Human Species Game while looking at the systemic trend of that kind of collective Human action.
The Player then moves into the space "B" of Human Curiosity placing attention onto the STORY and the major Narrative that lies B-ehind the Game and is the foundation for the basic entrainment (Laws & Goals) received by every Human through the Stories told, observed and experienced after arriving into the playGROUND Earth.
When the Player starts perceiving the whole Story behind the Game (and the basic Human entrainment) the innate Curiosity naturally welcomes her/him into its space "C" (C-hange) .. permeated with the guiding question: How the current foundational STORY can be changed or re-written into something "better", i.e. the evoLutionary Next .. ?
How the reSTORY of the Human being, Human action, Human Game & the whole playGROUND can happen .. ?
GROWTH into reSTORY: D-eeper & E-levate
Might be before figuring out how to make the reSTORY of the Game happen it would be reasonable first to gain some deeper perception of that Next STORY we would want to move personally and collectively into ..
What if there is some D-eeper and "bigger" STORY that waits to be discovered and explored .. ? What if our current foundational DarWINian STORY behind the Human Game is only a Chapter within that Deep(er) STORY of our collective Human Journey .. ?
What if in order to perceive truly that next Chapter of the Deep Human Story One needs to allow her/him-Self to step out (at least temporarily and to some extent) of the rhythm and environment of the current DarWINian Stage of the Game .. ?
Might be then (and from there) through the personal experience One can start to gain understanding about WHAT that next Chapter looks like and HOW that reSTORY can happen (or happens) .. both personally and collectively ..
Might be in that personal reSTORY experience lies the answer to every WHY about the Meaning and the Purpose of transition into the Next Chapter of the evoLutionary Human Story that can E-levate our shared Human Game into the New playGROUND full of Wonder, Curiosity and Joy equally for every Human being ..
This article (and the whole series of 9) is meant to share the particular subjective view on the structures, processes & evoLutionary developments of the earthly human Life. This might add to the diversity of questions to explore at the particular Stage within the unique personal Journey of the other curious One.
Thank you! Let's talk through our walk .. when timing is right ..
Links to all articles in the series. Each to become active after the publishing.
[ 0 - white ] A JOURNEY into Deeper Stories
[ 2 - orange ] The Meaning of the STORY & the Story for the MEANING
[ 3 - yellow ] Human Action: the New rePLAY of the Old GAME
[ 4 - green ] TRANSITION into the Promised Next CHAPTER of the Story
[ 5 - blue ] Slow CONVERSATION of the Curious Ones
[ 6 - indigo ] Authentic inSIGHT (AI): reCognizing the Story Behind & BEYOND
[ 7 - violet ] SLOWING down into Letting Go to reSTORY the Game
[ 8 - green into blue ] A CALL to Slow adVenture to ELEVATE the Game