Experience

Your are the sum total of every single experience you've ever had.

Experience points are awarded to role-players for reaching milestones, completing quests, overcoming obstacles, and beating opponents.

We all play a role in the game of life.

In yoga, each class is 1 hour. I was informed the other day that I have over 1239 hours logged at my current studio, putting me among the top five. If one hour was an experience point, I'd have over 1239 XPs (Experience Points) in the yoga 'role.'

The experience points are what makes yoga often effortless for me. It's also a reflection of how much I enjoy yoga and the community within.

How does experience play into Wireframed?

You can tell you are on your way to mastery when you see the gap closing between Willing and Experiencing. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Experience is the output from the programs I run. As an observer, I can see where the program needs further debugging, but as a participant, I become part of the experience itself. In a state of flow, I'm co-creating with the experience itself.

Experiments and Experience

Experiment: A test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth, to examine the validity of a hypothesis, or to determine the efficacy of something previously untried. The process of conducting such a test; experimentation. An innovative act or procedure.

Experience: Direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge. The fact or state of having been affected by or gained knowledge through direct observation or participation.

Notice the use of OR in the definition of experience: You can't both observe and conduct an experience at the same time.

At my best, I am not observing, I am becoming.

When I write at my best,

I'm at my best in the activity when I become one with the experience itself. Take writing for example, when the words I write become one with the reader, I feel as if every word I write is more significant.

Roleplaying

Be careful what you say, for what you affects what you think. Be careful what you think for it determines what you do. What you do determines your character and your character determines your destiny.

Does our character define the roles we play, or do the roles we play define our character? Is who we are the result of nature or nurture? Our DNA or our environment?

Authenticity is staying true to your character, despite the different roles you play. It's what you do when nobody is watching. I've observed that many people, including myself, behave quite differently in a social setting.

And the people we associate with. From outside the circle, we can't understand why people act they way they do. But if we were in their shoes, we would act the same way.

I recall how empowered I felt with a small group of us that were in Landmark. We saw each other for our possibilities, not our past. Imagine if you choose to associate with similar people.

An internal conflict can arise when the image we try to uphold is inconsistent with our true character. The social dynamics may require a role change. Who are you when you are playing yourself? Often we are cast into roles by others, based on their assumptions of us, and our character attempts to morph into that role. We try to live up to (or live down to) their perception, real or not. When I go home to visit my parents, I sense a shift in playing up (or more often playing down) to the image they have of me.

In Wireframed, I explain how the analogy of computer programs can unlock new possibilities for our own lives. You will learn how own programming reflects different attributes depending on the routines you've been programmed to run. Your source code was embedded early in life, the result of circumstances mostly beyond your control. Now that we have the benefit of a life of experience, we can discover how to write new subroutines that work with your existing programming to produce your new results.

Next time you are facing an opportunity to react, can you ask yourself how the one you most admire would respond. WWXD? We admire those who exhibit aspects we already like about ourselves. What we notice in others is a reflection ourself, good and bad. By seeing others as a reflection of ourselves we can only respect others as highly as we do our self. Therefore, the better we relate to our self, the better we relate to others. This is another way of seeing that who you are is connected with everyone else.

What Would ___ Do?

We or You?

Related

Feelings underlie both the inputs & outputs of the program.

Because emotions are experienced "as a unity in a relationship to the self and its goals," it's the relationship that we need to explore. Our feeling of self-worth depends on the goals we set. Taylor Swift, as compared the majority of the population has reached the pinnacle of success in the music industry. But if her own self-worth is measured on how her latest album did, or how she measures up to Katy Perry, she may feel as badly as anyone else - despite the fact she's successful in every other way.

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