Your Journal

Article Summary

John S Veitch
The Network Ambassador

Discovering your own purpose.
You write a journal to influence who you are becoming. I encourage you to make plans in your journal.
You write down what you have done, or intend to do, or have read or have learnt today.
Give emphasis to your own primary experience. Recording what you alone know is something nobody else can do.
Your primary experience has no structure. You impose order on it by choosing what is important.
If you can measure, count, compare or make categories, that's helpful. Your own self collected data is real knowledge and real strength.
Only one person can collect your own primary knowledge. Without that record, your mind pretends it has perfect recall of past events.
Believe me, your own brain is most unreliable when it's telling you you've got perfect recall.
When you really absorb your primary experience, reflect on it, understand it, you are better able to know what's real, true, or valid.
We don't live in an information society. We are fed with other people's propaganda and encouraged to believe it.
We live in a society that agrees to ignore the information, a society that constructs a fabric of mis-information and agrees to call it "truth", or common sense.
Your journal filed with your own primary knowledge can help you stand for reality against the tide of "me too" claims, or self chosen not knowing.
Such personal and grounded knowledge allows you to be strong when faced with fierce opposition.
It's said that if you keep a journal for 20 years, one day the journal will keep you. Much of who I am is based on what my journal has taught me.

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