Authentic Living - Episode 35

Have you been thinking much about whether your idea of authentic living is associated with Enlightenment or Romanticism?

Perhaps you are hoping to experience a romantic fling through your experiences in Frugality Cottage quite soon.

Do you usually associate authenticity with strong, mutual attraction of one sort or another or another?

Perhaps you associate authenticity with non-mutual attraction.

Perhaps you are here mainly as a virtual tourist.

If so, what draws you to Frugality Cottage as an attraction?

How do you ascertain your interest in a place or person or practice or possibility?

How do you assess attractiveness or cuteness or quaintness from your own point of view?

 

• The Cottage and Quaintness

How do you prefer to communicate your authentic feelings?

When have you most feared doing so, and why?

Perhaps you feel as though you can only express your authentic feelings when under the influence of an intoxicant of some sort.

Perhaps that is an indication of your fear of the real you as well as your fear of honesty, and the world.

Yet intoxicants cannot provide sensitivity, and all authentic living, if it is to be lived well, is adequately sensitive.

Do you usually associate authenticity with cultural and/or geographical origins?

How do you think about authentic living in relation to investing in simple living? 

When have you realised that a wonderful opportunity has passed you by?

What do you know about authentic dignity?

What do you know about authentic persuasion?

What do you know about authentic frugality?

What do you know about authentic simplicity?

You may have noticed that the word "you" forms the first three letters of the words "young" and "youth".

Regardless of your current age and reputation, how authentically are you investing in magnificent maturity?

How do you know you are authentically and magnificently mature?

Do you associate that maturity with intelligent frugality and well-informed kindness?

Every risk is associated with potential problems.

Please be aware that irresponsible risk takers and other selfish persons are not welcome here.

Are you dangerously yet pleasurably excited by risks?

Do your expressions of authenticity ever cause harm to anyone or anything? 

Preventing harm is obviously a responsible sort of practice.

How authentically are you investing in trustworthy collaborations, and for what purpose?

How authentically do you prevent harm?

Do you ever associate authenticity with expressing your mind without considering the consequences?

Do you ever associate authenticity with acting in accordance with your own free will, without considering the consequences?

Do you ever associate authenticity with impulsivity?

Do you associate authenticity with indulging your appetites whenever and wherever they arise?

How trustworthy are the people you consider to be family members and/or friends and/or colleagues? 

Who do you consider to be trustworthy, and why?

How do you define usefulness in relation to trustworthiness?  

 

Do you start a new episode or chapter of your life each week or do you consider the shape of your social and creative existence in a different form or format?

How do you usually think about fortune in relation to life itself?

How do you usually think about fortune in relation to authenticity?

How do you usually think about your social life in relation to fortune and authenticity?

How do you usually think about your creative live in relation to fortune and authenticity?

What do you believe investing in peacefully authentic living means in practice?

Do you find it easier to be yourself in private or in public or in a particular social or community setting?

Do you usually associate privacy with solitude?

The authentic you, as the selfish you, is reflected in your ego.

The authentic you, as the well informed, kind and considerate you, is reflected in your soul.

What is good about you, and how do you know?

What is not good about you, and how do you know?

How easy or difficult is it for you to be yourself?

How easy or difficult is it for you to experience privacy?

Perhaps you associate virtue with self-denial rather than self-expression. 

What, to you, is virtuously authentic living?

How do you experience authentic living in relation to nature?

How do you experience authentic living in relation to culture?

How do you, in fact, invest in authentic living?

Authentic Living - Episode 34

If you have been interpreting each episode of this series as though it represents one year of your life from the very beginning, how did you spend your childhood up to the beginning of adolescence?

 

• Authentic Living - Episode 1
• Authentic Living - Episode 2
• Authentic Living - Episode 3
• Authentic Living - Episode 4
  

• Authentic Living - Episode 5
• Authentic Living - Episode 6
• Authentic Living - Episode 7
• Authentic Living - Episode 8
  

• Authentic Living - Episode 9
• Authentic Living - Episode 10
• Authentic Living - Episode 11
• Authentic Living - Episode 12

 

How do you usually think about beginnings?

As you are apparently still alive and generally well enough and capable enough to read these words, though not necessarily accurately, how do you usually think about childhood as an investment?

If you rarely invest time in thinking about your own childhood, why not?

Perhaps you cannot remember much about the very young you.

Who, then, holds the memories of your childhood, and why do they do so?

What have they collected as souvenirs of that time in your life, and why?

Whose perceptions of your childhood have shaped the person you have become, and why?

How old are you now?

Perhaps you are not yet thirty-four years of age.

What were the greatest achievements of the first twelve years of your life, and from whose point of view?

And how did you change through the early years of adolescence?

 

• Authentic Living - Episode 13
  
• Authentic Living - Episode 14
• Authentic Living - Episode 15

 

Who consistently invested in you during the first fifteen years of your life, and why did they do so?

If no-one consistently invested in you, who did so over a relatively brief time or perhaps occasionally?

If you feel as though no-one invested in you at all during your first fifteen years, why do you feel that way?

How do you define the meaning of personal and interpersonal investments?

Regardless of your current age, how well have you invested in reflecting carefully on the first fifteen investment notes, carefully composed and presented by The Author for your philanthropic benefit in the library here?

 

• 1 - investing time
• 2 - investing in continuity
• 3 - investing in reasonableness

• 4 - investing in honesty
• 5 - investing in freedom
• 6 - investing in security
• 7 - investing in certainty
• 8 - investing in exploration

• 9 - investing in ethics
• 10 - investing in better communities
• 11 - investing in well-informed kindness
• 12 - investing in thoughtful reciprocity

• 13 - investing in understanding
• 14 - investing in hope
• 15 - investing in curiosity

How old were you when the first note was written?

Who is the real you at present?

You may or may not be aware that all real investments are didactic experiences.

The notes to you in the library are not necessarily in the belles-lettres category of literature though they are certainly noteworthy as works of art.

What have you been learning through your investments, particularly your investments of time?

What have been the most important lessons you have learned over your lifetime, and at what ages?

What have you discovered about politics in relation to investing, and at what ages did you make those discoveries?

Perhaps you regard politics as one of the decorative arts rather than as a science.

Perhaps you consider it rather ridiculous to regard politics as either decorative or scientific.

Perhaps you have a utilitarian approach to politics and investments, and possibly even towards life itself.

Or perhaps you mainly follow fashions without thinking particularly deeply about why you do so.

Perhaps you have not even read the guidebook here.

 

guidebook

• cottage
• library
• guide
• education
• advice
• silence
• privacy
• civility
• well-informed kindness
• public interest
• investigations
• research
• dialogues
• interpretations
• planning
• editing
• history
• records
• books
• notes
• mysteries
• peace
• enlightenment
• well-informed investing
• opportunities
• honest
• local
• global
• reality
• scarcity
• frugality
• quality
• value
• patrons
• philanthropy
• community
• volunteering
• journalists
• tourists
• Adelaide
• Adagia
• Twaklin
• twitter
• future
• contact
• The Author

 What will you be reading before the next episode in this series, and why?

Authentic Living - Episode 33

It may not have occurred to you that Frugality Cottage is mainly an investment hub.

People with a propensity to made bad investments do not know how to find good ones, hence they do not know how to recognise good investments even when those extraordinary opportunities are right under their noses.

Foolish persons mainly associate investments with numbers.

Very foolish persons indeed also associate investments with emotions.

You are invited, yet again, to rethink your investment habits:

 

• The Cottage and Industries - Part One
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Two
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Three
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Four

 

• The Cottage and Investments - Part One
• The Cottage and Investments - Part Two
• The Cottage and Investments - Part Three
• The Cottage and Investments - Part Four

 

• The Cottage and Time
  

 

You are apparently still a member of a throw-away society.

You seem to be unable to establish the value of anything properly.

You may even be confused about the meaning of an Australian idyll.

 

• An Australian Idyll - Part One
• An Australian Idyll - Part Two
• An Australian Idyll - Part Three
• An Australian Idyll - Part Four

 

If you are pushy or otherwise arrogant, you may be living authentically, from your own point of view, but you are also living obnoxiously from the point of view of more reasonable, respectful and responsible persons.

You may understand nothing about liminality in relation to this virtual cottage, regardless of the information provided on the subject here.

• Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part One
• Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Two
• Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Three
• Intelligent Frugality and Liminality - Part Four

Investing well is an art as well as a science.  It obviously relies on respect for science yet it also relies on respect for art as art.

Most ordinary mortals do not have such respect.  They regard both science and art to be in the service of money, regardless of the consequences.

Perhaps you are seeking to know more about the cottage.  You have provided no indication that you have acquired the knowledge already provided through the information here:

 

• More about the Cottage - Part One
• More about the Cottage - Part Two
• More about the Cottage - Part Three
• More about the Cottage - Part Four

If you are authentically unpleasant rather than authentically pleasant, that is obviously a considerable problem for everyone, possibly including yourself.

You have been offered many chances to experience refreshing possibilities within and through this virtual venue.

• Refreshing Possibilities - Part One
  
• Refreshing Possibilities - Part Two
• Refreshing Possibilities - Part Three
• Refreshing Possibilities - Part Four

What have you been discovering in the little library here, especially about yourself?

Perhaps you do not take this digital noticeboard seriously.

Perhaps you do not appreciate your current access to the library.

What do you know about science for the sake of science?

What do you know about art for the sake of art? 

What do you know about history for the sake of the future?

How do you prefer to explore possibilities?

Perhaps you have been exploring here attentively and conscientiously with your allocated guide.

For the first time in history, a century has arisen in which possibilities can be explored quite easily by most people, with the assistance of their own imaginations, especially with the help of their own intellects and access to the Internet.

Yet possibilities are not necessarily opportunities.

Each Monday morning, Adelaidezone time, you have had a chance to discover, through this remarkable noticeboard, ways in which the possible and the probable can be better distinguished from one another.

Opportunities arise from the probable, not the possible, even though the possible can, with effort, become more probable later.  Yet many efforts are detrimental in the longer term.  They destroy opportunities rather than create them.

That is why it is urgent for you to understand the difference between the possible and the probable.

Authentic living, through well-informed kindness, is based on living in accordance with the probable.

It is possible that you may have access to this noticeboard next week though is it probable?

Do you look at trends and mistake the possible for the probable by failing to notice the collision between expectations and the unexpected?

Have you failed to learn anything from anomalies?

Have you often failed to detect anomalies in time to deal with them appropriately?

Perhaps you regard Frugality Cottage as an anomaly.  You may expect an investment house to be housed in a large office building, though large office buildings are obviously a bad investment in terms of energy efficiency, transportation, disease control, aesthetics, ethics and resource intensity.

Foolish people also often fail to distinguish clearly enough between an investment house and speculations in a booming housing market.  That is why they throw far too much time and money into the latter, with or without the motivation of ridiculously generous (and wasteful) government subsidies.

If you think you are investing in a house, or part of a house, or another type of dwelling, why do you think that way?

While investment companies claim to invest other people's money in securities, this investment house uniquely invests in real security.

Perhaps you will turn up here next Monday morning, hoping to learn more.

Authentic Living - Episode 32

If you have only just arrived here for episode 32 in this series, you obviously have much catching up to do.

The preparations began about eighteen months ago.

What do you already know about this location?

 

• The Cottage and Beliefs
• The Cottage and Politics
• The Cottage and Controversy
  

• The Cottage and Cookery - Part One
• The Cottage and Cookery - Part Two
• The Cottage and Cookery - Part Three
• The Cottage and Cookery - Part Four

 

Where do you usually learn about authentic living?

Where do you usually practice authentic living?

Authentic Living - Episode 31

Do you have much experience of gleaning?

Do you forage for wild foods?

Do you gather if not hunt?

Do you salvage otherwise wasted foods?

Do you reuse and re-purpose most non-food items instead of buying new?

Do you usually associate living authentically with courage?

Do you usually associate living authentically with virtue?

Are you aware that living an authentically virtuous life can be dangerous in corrupt societies?

What have been your experiences of scarcity in relation to authenticity?

What do you know about fans of authenticity? 

What have you discovered about crafts in relation to authenticity?

What do you know about progress in relation to authenticity?

What do you know about Frugality Cottage in relation to authenticity?

• The Cottage Garden - Part One
• The Cottage Garden - Part Two
  

• The Cottage Itself - Part One
• The Cottage Itself - Part Two
  

• The Cottage and Industries - Part One
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Two
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Three
• The Cottage and Industries - Part Four
  

• The Cottage and Creativity - Part One
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Two
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Three
• The Cottage and Creativity - Part Four
  

• The Cottage and Kindness - Part One
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Two
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Three
• The Cottage and Kindness - Part Four
  

• The Cottage and Competence