-“The Author is a “dinosaur” and he survived!!”

Smarter #7600 – #3 -“The Author is a “dinosaur” and he survived!!”

Are you a “dinosaur”?
Let me tell you what I mean by a “dinosaur”…..

The Author’s “dinosaur” is a person who has his set of standards, who has his sense of commitment and responsibility, and who “doesn’t” judge others by his standards.
The Author does not pass judgement and say whether his standards are right or wrong. They are simply his standards.
The Author uses his sense of discrimination and chooses those who come close to his standards as his friends and his company.
The Author tolerates, he socially accepts, and he politely accepts those standards that may be different from his standards. But he does not let them interfere with his personal choices in the way he chooses to live.
The Author strongly rejects all those who willingly challenge his right to his standards; but he does recognize and follow all of society’s “legal” rules and standards. The Author accepts these legal “rules and standards”, under all conditions, even though they might restrict his personal conduct. The Author recognizes the necessary “legal” limitations and disciplines of a society in which he lives.

This “dinosaur” has plenty of personal space to roam…. internally, intellectually, and physically … without feeling limited or constrained in any meaningful personal way.
This “dinosaur” survives and “thrives”!!!
But why is it necessary to be a “dinosaur”?
Why not just a “survivor”? …. Why not “just learn to live with it”!!!

The answer lies in the quality of the personal life one can lead. In the amount of joy one can receive without the tension and apprehension that occurs around one.

Can one have personal opinions? Can one have personal judgements? Of course!!! But they are your own. They are observations that others can accept or reject.
It is up to “them” to ask; or, to make use of; or, to reject entirely. It’s “up to them”!!
There can be no “tension or apprehension” if it’s “up to them”!!

This “dinosaur” is involved to the point of presenting or of explaining, to the best of it’s ability …. of trying to influence.
This “dinosaur” is not trying to interfere with “their” way of thinking or “doing”. Again, the Author is merely trying to contribute … not to “rule”!!!

One’s measure of success is “internal”. Are you satisfied that you did your best? Do you judge your efforts with pride or could you have done better? It is “your” judgment of yourself!!!

If one is partially dissatisfied, one can always try a different approach next time. No tension, no apprehension!! Just the pleasure of knowing what you did, and perhaps, what you can do better!
It’s always positive, always constructive.

Let “them” do the overcoming!!!

Even as a “dinosaur” one is still an active part in the world. …. One survives!
You have reached a point in time where you finally realize that there are other “animals’ in the world. Animals that do not seek to understand but rather “to rule’, to pass judgment, to defend themselves. Animals that are more interested in having and stating their unasked for opinion rather than seeking the possibilities of more information and understanding.

Reason and logic have become “dinosaurs” as well. Expressing, advocating, defending have become the words of “them”.
The new “standard” for the majority seems to have become … “If you can get away with it, it’s O.K.”
New information, the search for logic and reason, the idea of “sharing”, of mutual understanding all seem to have become the ideas of the older “dinosaurs”.

It is true that the search for “science and facts” are eagerly sought by the “few’, but the much more difficult and particularly human understandings of how to live successfully together are not sought after by the “many”?
The process of thought, through shared and mutually understood communication, seems to be another idea of the “dinosaurs”.

The “many”, the “them”, seem to be caught up with the material standard of living.
What happens if this is diminished?
Will life be more stressful, more agitated, more violent?

What other “successful alternative” has been proposed?

How can a “successful alternative” be proposed if there is no ability to successfully and “mutually” communicate?

The “dinosaur” understands this!!
He looks at his future in a different way.
He is always preparing for his future.
His life in the present is an evolving process for success in the future.
He is not dependent on “them” for his “successes”.
He has a different set of values.
He measures “success” joyously, without comparisons.


Before one gives his opinion ……

“Wouldn’t it be a useful to try to understand what the “dinosaur” is already thinking and what he is now doing?”