D Language Foundation Weekly Planning Session Update

[Ali Çehreli]

On 5/15/23 15:55, WilliamJames wrote:

Earlier you said:

 > If your mind conceives it, it exists only in your mind.

And everything exists in my mind anyway.[1]

 > An alternative perspective, that could be argued, is that the concept of
 > an 'individual self' is more like a disease, and that the way out of it,
 > is to keep as busy as we can thinking of things and of other people, or
 > preoccupied with a constructive passion of some kind.

Since I make everything, that's exactly what I am doing all the time anyway.

 > In this view, the self does not matter. It's just tedious egotism.

However, self is the only entity that produces motivation and motivation 
gets things done. That's how I related to IVY.

I've always found motivation a magical thing: I never know when it comes 
and how. There has been times where I was very motivated, taking tasks 
and running with them. Other times, I am not motivated at all. I know 
and research confirms you can't buy motivation, you can't ask someone to 
be motivated, etc.

I took IVY to be an attempt at explaining where motivation comes from. 
It defines the concept of "ideal vision of yourself". It argues that 
every person has a vision of themselves. When their activities align 
with that vision, they are motivated and things happen.

A big challenge is discovering that vision of one's self. The same thing 
happens with the organization: It has a vision as well and it is 
difficult to define. And then there are the "customers". They have a 
vision as well.

Like a Venn diagram, the three visions intersect. There are different 
outcomes expected at each intersecting area. The best place is at the 
center where all three visions are aligned. Then we have happy and 
successful people, organization, and customers.

That's what I understood of IVY.

And that ties into goals and tasks. That's how IVY is supposed to help 
with organizations. I am confident we will take advantage of IVY.

Ali

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism