How can we find that resonant synchronization? I am of the opinion that we all have a number of personal resonances (talents?) that if discovered give great emphasis to our life's satisfaction. Those individuals who discover and exploit such a personal resonance can find great self-satisfaction. If that particular resonance strikes a social resonance then the accompanying social display of appreciation can add to the personal satisfaction to the individual. I think a successful artist is a good example of what I speak. The singing artist who happens not only to discover a particular musical talent and, if that talent is in accord with a public musical taste, that individual would reap great personal and economic satisfaction. The actor or painter, or any of many possible talents that are appreciated by the public would serve as examples of what I mean by resonance. Few individuals discover and display a talent, a personal resonance that can truly excite public appreciation. Those who do display such a resonance are truly rewarded. However, I am not particularly interested in those few but I am interested in considering all the rest of us who have resonances (talents?) and especially all those that remain undiscovered by ourselves. It seems that society and all its institutions are focused upon making everyone of us efficient producers and consumers. Nothing prepares us for self-discovery when such discovery is not supportive of a drive to produce and consume. I think that most social pressure from birth to death is directed at the drive to make us effective producers and consumers. I chose to use the word “resonance†rather than talent because I think our sense of the meaning of the word “talent†will distort the point I wish to make. “Talent†is such a ‘produce and consume' word. In fact we have little vocabulary available when discussing what I mean. At mid-life when our career ambitions dim and our family are cared for is the time that is available to us to begin to de-emphasize the world of ‘production and consumption' and begin exploring the world of the intellect directed as an end-in-itself'. Our intellects have been so totally directed as a means to an end that we will have some difficulty thinking of knowledge and understanding that is considered as an end-in-itself. Our first encounter with resonance, as the word is normally used, might have been when we first discovered on the playground swing that a little energy directed in synchronization with the swing's resonant frequency would produce outstanding movement. What a marvelous discovery. We might make similar marvelous discoveries if we decide, against all that we have learned in the past, that the intellect can be used as an end-in-it-self. I also think that if a person reaches mid-life without having begun an intellectual life that person will be unlikely to begin such a life. It appears to me that if we do not start such an effort before mid-life we will never have an intellectual life. After our school daze are over it might be wise for a person to begin the cultivation of intellectual curiosity even though there may not be a lot of time available for that hobby. Get a life-get an intellectual life!
yeah definitly man, I can tell quite some about this. how i figured it out, I think it was just me following my interests when i was a young boy. it started with me always wanting my mother to read me books, but we always had books with alot of beautiful drawings in it, of all kinds. so then i started drawing and i loved it, to let my imagination go and just try to draw something as good as i can, from memory. i loved Dinosaurs, they were so intrueging and mystical.. and just awesome back then, also to draw. then Pokemon came out and i started drawing that, Dragonball Z also, Pokemon became too simple. about satisfaction, good god, Yes. individual satisfaction at first, but i also drew alot when i was in school ofcourse, nothing better or more fun to do then that for me at the time. so everyone in class wanted me to draw in their drawing-maps or teach the willing. also it is kind of an ego boost when u see people trying but not succeeding, atleast not in the slightest to be compared to you. i also have had this with martial arts, all when i was little. im kind of lazy now.... could it be the weed? .. naahh.. happy self-exploring ... follow your senses!