CRAFT & SPIRIT

Table of Contents

• THE GAME OF FORESIGHT & DEDUCTION

• GUIDE POST 🪧 - TRAJECTORY

• TRAINING

• MY CURIOSITY

ART
THE GAME OF FORESIGHT & DEDUCTION

A closeup image of a 19x19 inch wooden board with intersecting lines formed clearly in my mind. Black and white stones began taking turns building a familiar formation on those intersections, but before each stone was placed, a faded transparent stone appeared before it. These stones created a standard progression of moves found in the basics of GO. An ancient Chinese game that is thought to come centuries before its 5th-century BC writing references. I woke up and instantly knew why this image appeared in my dream. I was predicting the moves before they even happened.

Though the rules of Go are simple - gather the most territory to win - the tactics to do so are extremely complex. It takes a deep knowledge of the game and a large set of experience to gain progress in skill level for the game. It takes quite a bit of foresight and deduction to make any great progress in this game.

Foresight to look forward and predict a particular move and deduction to reduce the possibilities based on rules, laws, potential subjective psychology, and more. I used to play the game of GO but gave it up as the learning curve was so daunting to me. There were other things that I had been wanting to learn, but there’s a reason it’s popping back up, I’ve been thinking a great deal about, foresight, and deduction.

Looking back on my college years, pre, present, and post, I get a sense of how I could have avoided many silly little mistakes, and big financial mistakes. All the problems occurred in the present moment, but all could have been navigated with greater tact and more than likely, completely avoided with the skills aforementioned. This is a poor habit I’ve become aware of with myself. There are things I get excited about, and actions I take too quickly, and miss out on the actions taken from proper foresight and deduction, because they seem less exciting to me. Because of this, I’ve been planning this year-long process to get me back into shape.

Deduction and foresight take imagination, in this very artistic form of life that I’ve formed for myself I’m utilizing imagination every day, these images strengthen the more I utilize them. Sending myself into different circumstances in the future is a way that I can understand how I might prepare. Imagining myself in the future with my current debt without changing my circumstances sets me back even further, realizing that if I don’t make any changes then I’m not going to progress in getting rid of my debt.

Deduction and foresight take a level of imagination, visualizing the self in front of the circumstance and recognizing the events that take place, planning accordingly for such events, creating new scenarios, and stress-testing them in your imagination. As I’ve grown, my imagination has expanded in its capacity to meet the demands of my work, my passion. Taking into account the skill that I have now I’d like to continue to develop my imagination, as well as to utilize and practice taking that skill and continuously develop courses of action based on the practice of foresight and deduction.

I’ve written in the “Training” section what I will be enacting for this particular journey.

(If you’d like to learn the basics of GO, you can start here)

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