A Thought Experiment

Humanity's biggest challenge emerged today as a unique phenomenon...

The sudden disappearance of all memes across cultures.

This unprecedented event has left us with only latent cultural memories, a rich yet untapped reservoir of cultural essence.

In the wake of this cultural reset, we are presented with an opportunity. We can harness these latent memories and revive them into dynamic cultural forces.

Or create something new...

Our objective is straightforward yet profound: to enable personal thriving through the rejuvenation of these cultural keystones.

The Criterion for 'Operation Meme Transmission'

To successfully launch 'Operation Meme Transmission', three psychological needs must be developed (Prior to meme selection/creation):

1. Autonomy: The quest for personal control and self-direction. This involves making independent choices and decisions, fostering a sense of freedom and self-regulation.

2. Competence: The desire to interact effectively with our environment. This highlights the need for skill mastery and achievement, fostering a sense of capability and success.

3. Relatedness: The pursuit of connections and belonging. This focuses on the desire to form and maintain supportive relationships and meaningful social interactions.

Transforming needs into Action

To actualise these needs, we can embark on a journey of self-evolution:

1. Leading (Ourselves): Transforming autonomy into self-leadership, guiding our actions and decisions with purpose and conviction.

2. Learning: Elevating competence into a continuous pursuit of knowledge and skill, embracing both traditional wisdom and innovative ideas.

3. Relating (Teaming): Turning relatedness into collaborative endeavors, building teams that share, support, and inspire.

Path to The Outlier Way

Implicitly embracing these qualities at varying degrees of effectiveness is commonplace.

However, choosing to upgrade to The Outlier Way involves a deliberate effort to make these qualities explicit and visible. It's about critically examining, testing, and improving these concepts in order to lead, learn, and relate in extraordinary ways.

Upgrade Options:

1. Outlier Leadership (Self/Others): Leading not just oneself but inspiring others in being their best.

2. Outlier Learning: Embracing learning as an adventurous, endless journey of discovery at the cutting edges.

3. Outlier Relating: Connecting deeply with the world, oneself, and others.

Basically an Extraordinary All Rounder...

Or an AntiFragile Ninja...

Don't the bar too low !!!

The Choice is Yours:

Select your memes without any effort and embrace the familiar in comfort?

Or Delve into the realm of Outlier Learning, Leadership, and Relationships, embarking on a transformative journey?

A Note of Caution:

Choosing the Outlier path is irreversible. It’s a commitment to enduring struggle over immediate comfort, a long-term investment in personal growth and cultural impact.

Any Alternatives to Leading, Learning, Relating?

Invert for perspective:

Subjugation (no autonomy): Surrendering autonomy and living without clear purpose or conviction. Actions and decisions not self-guided but influenced or controlled by external forces. Very little self-awareness and personal direction, leading to a life lived at the beck and call of others.
Stagnation: Unable to acquire new skills or knowledge. Blind adherence to outdated methods and a rejection of new ideas. Instead of growth and development, there's dogma with impasse, and being left behind in a rapidly evolving world.
Isolation: Withdrawal from meaningful interactions and collaborative opportunities. A lack of trust in self/others, poor communication, and an inability to form or sustain supportive relationships. Leading to fragmented stop / start efforts, lack of shared aims, and a self centred toxic environment...

In other words; The way to suffering…

Disclaimer and Encouragement

I write these reflections as a tool for self-improvement and critical analysis. My pursuit of criticism is not just a preference but a necessity for growth. Through writing, I seek to enhance my understanding and abilities in Learning, Leadership, and Relating, hoping to inspire others to embark on similar journeys of self-discovery and cultural contribution.

Resources Required:

2lbs of meat between your ears and a willingness to be the best you can be, in all that you do...

Day in Day Out... And even on Sundays...

Acknowledgments:

This post was inspired by:

Deci & Ryan (Self Determination Theory)
Self-determination theory - Wikipedia

David Deutsch,
https://twitter.com/tsarnick/status/1742818083981721806

Russell Ackoff: Idealized Design, Systems Thinking, and a Model for OutlierInnovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spm2HUxgI30

Peter Fallenius: Founder The Outlier360 Project
https://twitter.com/PeterFallenius

Humanities Memes were destroyed last night!