You don’t want to reveal your process unless your archetype is teacher and you don’t want the role of teacher unless you are a modern guru or how to expert. Said myself.

Many want to learn to be the best in the world and if you are a teacher or if you can convince that faction of the public you are a teacher even if you aren’t or aren’t a good one, then you will attract followers and devotees. If you are an artist, then you are selling an end product to the public, whether it be comedic induced laughs or music induced emotions or story induced excitement and you are not a teacher unless incidentally the end user learns something as a result of your artistic expression.

In a way teaching is a pyramid scheme and conversely artistry is of intrinsic value. I am often gravitated towards teaching, not directly in an academic or tutorial sense, but in a how-to guru YouTube/author sense, like anyone from Napoleon Hill to Tim Ferriss, but then I feel it is less noble than artistry, and it is only for the money. Many obviously obtain true joy from teaching and it gives them intrinsic value, but the ultimate exchange is that the learner hopes to gain something to better themselves so the transaction is inherently pyramidal in nature.

And this brings me back to my process. If this blog post is just me explaining this, I am revealing my process, which I don’t like to reveal, so now I feel vulnerable. Possibly I am attempting to teach something. If this blog post is a piece of artistry or entertainment then possibly I have committed a falsehood and this post is a comical distraction, the joke being that I am concerned about any of this when it is simply a morsel of divertissement at the end of a long day of doing something, towards some end, that I will not reveal, until it is complete.

Aaron Indirectly

10-1-2017