Quality of Information
Now more than ever quality of information is crucial. What kind of information are you getting, who and where is it coming from? What is their credibility, and are you getting diverse perspectives on various stories? How you arrive at the truth can sometimes be in the form of a compilation. Here at Life with Ken we are not the standard bearer for truth, having a strangle hold on what is and isn’t true. We share what we believe to be objectively true and create a relative space where you can decipher things and draw conclusions for yourself.
The foundations of Life with Ken are in enabling you to live your life more confidently and fully. We wouldn’t serve that mission or you well if we didn’t provoke your capacity to think critically. Turning your mind off is how you optimize yourself to be killed. In the Bible God says that his people perish from a lack of knowledge. Ignorance doesn’t serve you as it relates to you being agile and nimble in life. You should want to experience longevity. The second part of this is application of that knowledge.
The way you get from knowing better to doing better is by knowing how to do better. A whole lot of knowledge without the capacity or know how to apply it is like a dull knife. It works but it’s less effective. I want to encourage better decision making in you. Help you cultivate an ability to execute in a way that is wholly beneficial to you, and not just superficially. I want to help enable you to be able to make decisions that are good for your life. And not just for a moment or situation that you find yourself in.
Objectively better people do objectively better things. The reality is you want to and are to a certain degree predisposed to making your desires a reality. How you manifest who you are as a person has repercussions. Not just for you but also for the people around you. In that context of influence your thought process and behaviors, informed by the quality of information you have, creates ripple effects. The people in your life pick up on your behavior. Then they perpetuate that same or a similar behavior or thought pattern to someone else.
Stop thinking that you are not influential. If you don’t think that you aren’t influential, consider how you handle that responsibility. We all have everything we need according to the scale at which we can handle it. The issue is this doesn’t absolve you from responsibility. A high quality of information helps you rise to the occasion of your responsibilities. Someone with objectively less may feel as though they don’t have to be as responsible over their things as someone with objectively more. The key point to note here is that the reason the person who has objectively more does so, is because they are good with the responsibility of taking care of what they have.
Throwing up your hands and saying that you just won’t take care of anything then, instead of becoming a better steward of what you have, is antithetical to life. You demonstrate that you are not in favor of living when you concede life. The chore of life is responsibility. In some respects, you aren’t really living until you take on some responsibility. Here at Life with Ken we promote life and living. We respect death and embrace its role in life, but while you are living, we think you should be alive.
Having access to quality information is valuable to your pursuit of life. When you use your knowledge in an informed way you can more easily bend life to your will. Life wants to happen for you not to you. When life is happening to you it’s likely because you are not in an authoritative position in your life. Life happens for you when you have some say in how things ultimately construct themselves. I recognize in life that there are things that you can’t control. When I say having a "say in how things ultimately construct themselves," I'm referring to having influence on an outcome.
Regardless of how you feel about whether or not the role you play in your own life conclusively matters, at least in the moment that you are playing that role, it does. Knowing better and knowing how to do better influences that. And that informs the trajectory of your life. Having access to good information makes your life better. The standard for good information here at Life with Ken is reinforced to be high.
You may not get the whole story in all its gory details, but we strive to work towards giving you enough breadth and depth of a story, for you to draw your own conclusions. The better you get at drawing your own conclusions in a way that is life affirming holistically and not just self-serving contextually. the better life will be for you and the people around you. We care about this at Life with Ken because I know what it’s like to be proverbially upstream without a paddle.
I do this because I care. I care because this is my contribution to the world at least in part if not in whole. At some point in life, you have to decide if whether or not you care about someone other than yourself. And if you do what are the obligations that come with that and how do you meet them? Your reward will come as a byproduct of your diligence. But if you place the reward where meaning is supposed to be you'll end up with shallow results. None of these concepts are life threatening individually, but they resonate with the kind of person you want to be.
The kind of person that you want to be matters because if for no other reason you must live with that person every day. You should at least be able to enjoy yourself in whatever space of life that you find yourself in. If at the end of the day you can’t get along with you or someone else, that is the condition where hopelessness can set in. Hopelessness can lead you to maladaptive thoughts and behaviors. Those thoughts and behaviors can hurt you and the people around you. Life with Ken provides you with a high quality of information to give you the opportunity to escape from and or prevent that cycle from perpetuating in your life.
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