Discussion Forum > Personal experience with Mark's: How to Make Your Dreams...
avrum:
<< Do you have any evidence to suggest that writing trumps recording the spoken word? Have you tried recording the audio? >>
I've never tried, but I can't see any reason why audio should be inferior to writing. It's a matter of personal preference. I hope though that you have one of those audio recorders on which you can date/tag the recordings because there are times when it's useful to go back and compare your Present Reality today with, say, a week or a month ago.
Also once your Future Reality has settled down for the time being, you might want to type it out and put it where you can see it while you work (probably better than playing it aloud to yourself on a continuous loop!)
<< Do you have any evidence to suggest that writing trumps recording the spoken word? Have you tried recording the audio? >>
I've never tried, but I can't see any reason why audio should be inferior to writing. It's a matter of personal preference. I hope though that you have one of those audio recorders on which you can date/tag the recordings because there are times when it's useful to go back and compare your Present Reality today with, say, a week or a month ago.
Also once your Future Reality has settled down for the time being, you might want to type it out and put it where you can see it while you work (probably better than playing it aloud to yourself on a continuous loop!)
May 30, 2011 at 16:17 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
avrum:
<< The hardest part - for me - was to get past the critical, perfectionist inner-voice proclaiming I'm doing this wrong... or that my vision isn't compelling. >>
The best way to think of it is that you are writing a happy ending to a novel about yourself. In "Dreams" I advised people who had difficulty deciding on a compelling vision to write two or more different happy endings and then choose one. And of course your novel will have some sequels!
<< The hardest part - for me - was to get past the critical, perfectionist inner-voice proclaiming I'm doing this wrong... or that my vision isn't compelling. >>
The best way to think of it is that you are writing a happy ending to a novel about yourself. In "Dreams" I advised people who had difficulty deciding on a compelling vision to write two or more different happy endings and then choose one. And of course your novel will have some sequels!
May 30, 2011 at 16:24 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
I think this thread is now too long to be manageable, so I am going to close it down and start a new one.
May 30, 2011 at 16:34 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
<<The past few days, I have been tempted to break the rules and skip ahead to the larger vision,>>
I worked on this yesterday. The hardest part - for me - was to get past the critical, perfectionist inner-voice proclaiming I'm doing this wrong... or that my vision isn't compelling. I did this by reminding myself that the daily updates will refine my future/present realities into something uniquely mine.
Because the material is too personal, I won't be posting it publicly. However I will provide updates.