You have options that you could never have imagined.

--Xacryixpe.

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=The Open Speaking Construction (OSC)=
Practical tools for difficult decisions and hard conversations.

The world is vast and the available interactions infinite. I can't tell you what to do, I don't know your situation, or what you want. There just aren't any rules that always apply and always work.

That said, there are some ideas and some problems that come up again and again.

So I read and listened to all that I could, and found these: practical ways to understand many different facets of life, from the largest social systems to the most internal experiences.

Each of these tools should show you the foundation of their subject, but you'll have to work through your specific circumstances to get the answer you're after.

==The Operation of Societies==
: "Three and a half million people walk into a bar...."

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=== [[Power Systems]] ===
Made from agreements, operated by flow charts and feelings.
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=== [[Economic Systems]] ===
Bartering and its extensions.
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=== [[Task Systems]] ===
Orders are nice, but someone needs to actually do the work.
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=== [[Power Problems]] ===
Unity: An ancient English expression meaning "Stop complaining and obey me!"
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=== [[Economic Problems]] ===
This section is guaranteed to be free of asbestos! Do you really want to click the [https://xkcd.com/641/ others]?
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=== [[Task Problems]] ===
Even the veteran of a thousand battles shivers in fear when confronting mission creep.
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=== [[Organizational Analysis]] ===
The leader reacts to the masses, the masses follow the leader.
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=== [[Influence, Establishment and Culture]] ===
Nice theory! How does it really operate?
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=== [[Negative and Positive Liberty]] ===
Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.
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== The Self and Others ==
: Important to you is important to me.
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=== One and One ===
Competition is not Opposition, Cooperation is not Collaboration.
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=== Understanding Others ===
There are many approaches but only one way.
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=== Identity and Changing it ===
What does it mean to change yourself?
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=== Trauma ===
Even if you don't experience it, you'll need to understand it in others.
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=== Maladaption ===
A once and future thing.
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=== Nicepush ===
It gets better.
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== Useful Personal Skills ==
: Note: Also very useful when you recognize when others are using them.
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=== Help ===
Help is work.
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=== Empathy ===
Open your eyes.
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=== Advice ===
Better to listen than to be clever.
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=== Dominance ===
Stop! Go!
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=== Submission ===
What do you need?
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=== Leadership ===
Back and forward and forward.
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=== Letting Go ===
I wish...
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=== Criticism ===
I couldn't have done it better myself.

But you could have.
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=== Small Talk ===
It's not about the words, but the person.
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== Meaning, Cognition, Communication ==
: I spoke to someone about how the language centers in our brains were more connected to each other while talking than they were to other parts of our own brains. We were of one mind about what that implied until we stopped talking to think about it.
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=== Networked Constructionism ===
Disambiguate!
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=== Finite Load Problem (Network version) ===
Two times three times four.... what do you want?
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=== Negotiators Problem ===
Welcome to the interview.
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=== Access Constructions ===
The tale of an eggplant.
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=== Different Interpretations ===
Multipurpose, not contrarian.
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=== Context versus Object ===
Everything its own shadow.
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== Critiques and Commentary of Analytical / Philosophical Rivals ==
: People develop when given love and support; ideas develop when challenged.
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=== [[Lightning Round Criticism]] ===
An overview of the uses and limits of different things that we commonly use to guide us.
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=== Neoliberalism ===
A thousand pages of talk about the magic of innovation and competition, a footnote that says it happens in something called a "Human Being".
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=== Marxism ===
From each according to ability, to each the realization that Marxist analysis is woefully incomplete.
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== Spotlights, Deep Dives and Models ==
: Important issues demand our time, our respect, and the very best criticism we can offer.
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=== Social and Political Structures: USA ===
A deep dive from an outsider's perspective.
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=== Social and Political Structures: China ===
A deep dive from an outsider's perspective.
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=== Model Religion: Religiously Pro-Human ===
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=== Model Political Structure: Wide Democracy ===
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== About the OSC ==
: "Read, Listen, Compile, Communicate"
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=== Purpose ===
Because there are hard problems that everyone runs into eventually and pretty much need to work through for themselves.
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=== What does it try to solve? ===
We live in a vast ocean of difficult problems. Beware the Leviathans.
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=== What are tools? ===
Putting the constructionism into the Open Speaking Construction.
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=== My Beliefs and Biases ===
Human beings are important, both as individuals and as communities.
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== Mental Health Tools and Exercises ==
: Denying pain does not make us strong.
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=== Groundwork: Mindfulness ===
Winded? Sore? Touched something hot? So much physical feedback about health, so little mental.
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=== What's "Healthy"? ===
Ever look in a mirror and go "hmmm, my brain is looking pretty muscular!"
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=== Addiction ===
Know it before you see it.
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== Miscellaneous ==
: "Well begun is halfway done"
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=== That which is Natural ===
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=== N6 Color Thinking ===
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=== Scene vs Predators ===
Trust me, I love you.
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=== Conspiracy Theories ===
It's not about the content.
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== Personal Projects, unrelated to the OSC ==
[[Dungeons and Dragons Content]]

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