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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story--Ch1-Part-2-e2fsed

Continued from Part 1: https://is.gd/ig6fWa

L: - "..."

The Young Man: - 'When my mother had so stupidly said in response to my displeased reaction at missing the fly, hitting and exploding the light-bulb: "Well we can't be perfect," I knew it was based on a short-sighted and limited perspective. And I said most earnestly: "Why not?" Rhetorical to my mother, but not to me. And lol, little did I know, not to the Universe either.

The first thing I did, right then...'

L: - "..."

The Young Man: - '...was to go to my room, close the door, lie down, and...Think.
I thought, well, why can't one be perfect? Then I thought, well to be perfect, one, first of all, has to know what perfection means. I thought about what I had heard in this regard. Stuff like: "Well who would want to be perfect, that would be sooo boring." !!! Just blew my mind. Made no sense. if it was boring it would hardly be perfect. Really? The logic! Confounded me how people could say something which was so obviously and plainly self-contradictory. but I saw then how they just believed ideas, believed what they had heard, and had not thought about it. Just could not make sense, so I threw it out.

Then there was the idea that perfection is impossible to attain. This made more sense. But still, it troubled me. So I thought yes, but who is saying what that standard is. I had no answer. So I thought I would make my own. I would figure it out.'

L: - "I've been wanting to hear this story! :) "

The Young Man: -  'I thought about it for a long time. Formulating this way and that. Looking at perfection from every angle I could. If perfection couldn't be boring, then it must be fun, enjoyable, even more, rapturous, blissful, ecstatic and so on. Thus perfection would be what we would want. Also fulfilling, satisfying on all levels. However, we didn't always know what we wanted, through lack of imagination, but, we always could recognise what we *didn't* want. We'd want something different, if we could... Thus I Thought-It-Through-To-The-End, until eventually I came up with this definition of Perfection:

"Perfection is the state, from which, if one had the power to change anything at all, one would not do so."

Just like that, punctuation and all. That's how I ended up with it.'

L: - "Good definition! Makes sense!"



The Young Man: - 'I took my definition to heart, for me it was then my goal. Because when I had said "Why not?" it had been a profoundly Earnest question. A statement also, a statement of amazed wonder. I was astonished in that "Why Not?' that this was not automatically a goal and a motivation. My "Why not?" was the shock of realization this was not obviously so for my mother, and by implication, all in that one moment, not generally so.'

L: - "Hmmm..."

The Young Man: - 'But to me, not something I was willing to forgo as a life goal, as a personal goal. I felt incredibly strongly, that how could one *NOT* pursue Perfection. It was the only logical thing to do in life.'


L: - "Wow ..."

The Young Man: - 'Haha why Hmmm? Because of the Implication inherent in her statement that this was not a goal generally?'

L: - "Oh no! Like I was thinking. ...that's all! Got me thinking. ...Don't stop!!"

The Young Man: - 'Ah lol, no no, much more to come. I'll say, The End, when done. :)

That most obvious logical goal of perfection, how could it be anything else, surely this was the goal for all? Amazed my mind. But it was so to me. I didn't care it wasn't so for my mother, or anyone else for that matter. I had always known she was a silly person despite being intelligent. So didn't overly surprise me. But it was that, *WE.*'

The Implication *others* may also believe as she did was disturbing. Not of course that there were obviously others like her, that was obviously so, but that it was *generally* so by implication of the *we,* and her tone, general demeanour and all the other ways we communicate, she wasn't referring to any limited group. When I put it all together, had to be general.”

L: - "Ahah!"

The Young Man: - 'If such an obvious goal wasn't generally seen to be so, had to be because of the flawed conception of Perfection. Haha yes, I thought conception then. Don't ask me how.

That's why I had to examine the Concept and definition of Perfection. But didn't end there... Once I had my definition I set about what was to become a lifelong habit...'

Continued in Part 3...

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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story--Ch1-Part-3-e2g3cr


Continued from Part 2 : https://is.gd/2mH4dr

L: - "..."

The Young Man: - 'Testing and Checking! I set about checking my hypothesis, what it was to me at that stage. I guess I had an inbuilt humility, that went along with an inbuilt ability to question the world. I mean when I look back now it amazes me. I can write about it only because I am so disconnected by time from that boy I can be more objective. In the objectivity is an amazement at what these mindsets came from. They were just out there some of them.
Of course later I made concerted efforts to acquire mindsets and abilities, but those two, among some others, were there from the get go.'

L: - "You brought them with you!"

The Young Man: - 'Yes! So it seems. But lol don't side-track me with that story. I made a post about it - couple I think.
Anyway, so I set off with my hypothesis and proceeded to check it out. To see how valid it was. I started by asking people what they thought Perfection was. Haha, I knew so clearly I had to ask randomly, without revealing why, so I could get accurate answers which weren't influenced by my agenda. I knew that then!'

L: - "OK lol ..."

The Young Man: - 'I encountered more of what I had already heard. Just in detail. That field study was most illuminating!'

L: - "You are sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me Happy when skies are gray .. (On right now. :) )"

The Young Man: - 'Oh YAY! Yes you are that. (heart)

Yeah, it's a massive lol to me now. I knew if I said why, they would try and present arguments to me to counter what I had come up with. But this is not so amazing really. Remember that was in a very conservative culture at the time. "Ideas" was almost a dirty word. People who had "Ideas" were seen as being full of themselves. And egotistical.'

L: - "(Heart) Hahaha teehee."

The Young Man: - 'Also, there was a very specific big deal unspoken undercurrent Perspective: The 11th Commandment: "THOU SHALT NOT QUESTION!!"'

L: - "Wow ...don't ask why!"

The Young Man: - 'This had always stuck with me. It went against me, to my core. From the earliest that was just *Wrong.*
Oh, that, thou shalt not question, is prevalent in all very conservative societies. Because questions threaten stability. Questions are change. Questions expose. Many reasons.'

L: - "oooohh ....

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story---Ch1-Part-4-e2gcl7


Continued from Part 3: https://is.gd/225eFE
L: - "Haha yeah......

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story---Ch1-Part-5-e2gigc

Continued from Part 4: https://is.gd/SHXWsC

The Young Man: - My task was to figure out just how exactly I was going to implement my objective. The first and most obvious was to look at when I had done something stupid. Which at ten, was much more often than I would have liked. :)

Starting with my mindless behaviour was obvious. But not simple...

I didn't think I *was* stupid. Yet I was keenly aware of silly and worse things I had done. A conundrum.

How could I have been so foolish when I wasn't a total idiot?

I sorted the nonsensical behaviour. Okay, some were because I had simply been ignorant. I hadn't known better. Ignorance, I knew even then, was not the same as stupidity.

I remembered one incident in particular., happened when I was about five...

This incident had affected me profoundly when it occurred. Because I had at the time, become thoroughly aware I could do things without knowing better. And I had become Aware I could act not knowing the consequences. It had been profound at five. And has never left me.

That incident became a large part of what was to follow...

Continued in Chapter 2 - A Young Boy's Story...

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Podcast: https://anchor.fm/nobelia/episodes/The-Young-Young-Mans-Story---Ch2-Part-2-e2h12p

Continued from Ch 2 Part 1: https://is.gd/t1Q6qD

The Young Man: - After the adoption of Perfection as my reason for being, the Rock Incident came back to me. When I was thinking about what to do to get to Perfection, starting with the elimination of stupid actions, I remembered my rock-throwing. Yes, it was stupid, but in some respects it had been sensible, good strategy, logical and reasonable.

There I was at ten, thinking: “There I had been at five, believing I was doing a good thing, but actually I wasn't!!”
So, what all was involved? How could I prevent that sort of misconception from happening again? What would I need to change to prevent me from repeating such misguided behaviour? What had been the major problem with the Rock Incident?

L: - "❔❔