History, personal history. --- .This section contains ideas for methods of historical analysis of one's personal life. --- 12/30/2003
History, personal history. --- .This section is about history of individual persons. Topics include: --- 1/24/2006
History, personal history. --- .This section is ways to analyze the history of an individual person. --- 10/25/2004
History, personal history. --- (1) Changes in attitude or philosophy toward x. (2) Changes in action toward x. (3) Degree of change, and speed of change. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Changes in interpretation of past, truer or falser. (2) Changes in ability to remember past, more or less. Changes in ability to remember most important events in past, for better or worse. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Chronological approach. (2) Specific relationships approach (subject of people I met/know). (3) Subject approach: work, leisure, sex, etc. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Facts of what happened objectively. Data available: physical things, mental memories. (2) Interpretation: lessons drawn. (A) Shoulda done, and not, and reason(s) why. (B) Should do now, and not, and reason(s) why. (C) Should do in future, and not, and reason(s) why. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) How long ago you're writing about. (2) How close you get to objective facts. (3) How close interpretation gets to objective truth. (4) How close you get to what should have been: by you, others, nature (objective justice). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Keep track of great ideas. (2) Keep track of performance. Measure, evaluate, and change gstr (goals, strategies and tactics, and reasons). Maintain excellent performance. Improve poor performance. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Objective facts: description. Actual vs. in my mind (then and now). (2) Subjective interpretation: then and now. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) Physical environment: natural and manmade. (2) Social environment: people you meet, how interact. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- (1) The thoughts I had and the emotions I felt about the thoughts. I.e., personal history of ideas (2) The actions I took and my attitudes toward those actions. --- 6/6/2004
History, personal history. --- (1) What I did. (A) Did right, helpful, how much, why. (B) Did wrong, hurtful, how much, why. (2) What was done to me, by nature, or by society. (A) Done right. (B) Done wrong. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Actual historical data on me. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Amount of free time available. Percentage free time used vs. percentage free time wasted. Amount accomplished (quantity and quality). --- 1/20/1999
History, personal history. --- Analysis of me: momentary vs. through time. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Areas: environment, pad, work, leisure. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Areas. Like/lust. Binges (leisure, drugs). Possessions (stuff I own). Artifacts and mementos. Arts: created as artist, or consumed as audience (literature, music, visual arts). Technology: clothes. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Artifacts of my life: records and stuff. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Autobiography and biography. (1) If its easier for other people to recognize your faults than to recognize your own faults, then biography is as valid as autobiography. (2) If everyone has an inner psychological life which other people have little access to, then autobiography is as valid as biography. --- 4/30/2005
History, personal history. --- Best and worst day and year I ever had and why. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Best and worst x I ever had. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Chronological period. (1) Total time line, total outline. (2) Period time lines, period outlines. (3) Yearly time line, yearly outline. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Could have done then, should have done then. Could do now, should do now. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Criticism: analyze and judge. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Data from 5 senses. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Describe specific conversations you had with people. Describe specific days when you hung out with people and what you did. --- 8/4/2006
History, personal history. --- Different types of personal development. Emotional development. Thinking skills development. Knowledge base development. Goals development. Ethical development. Social development. Economic development. Philosophical development. --- 1/20/1999
History, personal history. --- Direction: two points make a line. The past and present. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Directions I headed in, in all 26 subject areas. Intended vs. unintended vs. not intended. Aware vs. unaware. Was it gain or stagnation or decay. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Environment my development took place in. Effects of environment on me. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Environment, situation, events, changes. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Estir. (1) What is it? Recording every single thing I remember (estir), then trying to make sense of it all. (2) Why do it: see why study history. (3) How do it: see how method. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Event analysis: what does the event tell me about me, other(s), the place, and the times? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Event cause and effect (chains, webs). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Every idea you ever had. Date figured or found it out. Level of abstraction. --- 06/30/1993
History, personal history. --- Five methods for remembering. (1) Work from artifact. (2) Music. (3) Go to places. (4) Brainstorm. (5) Smell. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Four other related subjects: history, me, journalism, and memory. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Frame of mind during an event, or time period. Before, during, after. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- How did it affect me and my life? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- How far have I progressed on all fronts in thought/theory and practice/action? How hard and long have I tried in mental effort and practice effort? How much resources have I wasted (time, money), and doing what? --- 12/06/1993
History, personal history. --- How good/bad was thing I did or done to me and why. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- How long and strongly, and ways how, an event is still affecting you. How it is brewing in your unconscious? How often and long you think about it. How strongly you feel it (emotional reaction) (pain or pleasure). Lessons you did learn from it. Lessons you should have learned from it. Wrong lessons you picked up (drawing wrong conclusions). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- How often do you experience or witness disease, accident, crime, or mental or physical injury or death? --- 12/30/1995
History, personal history. --- How often, and how, do you think of your past, present, future? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Hypothetical history: what if I did x instead of y? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Hypothetical. Say I did x instead of y, what would have happened? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- In my life, list events and factors that were (1) Due to good or bad luck. (2) Things good or bad done to me by nature or by others. (3) Good or bad efforts on my part. (4) Successes and failures due to above three. That is, what I tried to get, vs. what landed in my lap, or was kept out of my reach. --- 02/20/1994
History, personal history. --- Jobs. Describe the projects you worked on at each job. --- 8/4/2006
History, personal history. --- Latest interactions, latest views. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Lifestyle. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Map: age, year, job, home, school, lover, hobbies. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Mechanism. (1) Sum up every 6 months. (2) Throw in notes as needed. (3) Study it to remember lessons learned. (4) Writing style: compact, complete, organized, prioritized, clear, accurate. (5) Brainstorm, then prioritize. (6) Archive management. Things had, have, will have. Chuck, keep, get. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Memories: important and why, unimportant and why. Pleasurable (good), painful (bad). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Most important memories. (1) Length remembered. (2) Intensity of emotions of memory. (3) Biggest impact on life then and now. (4) How right or wrong the event was. (5) Most important idea learned. (6) Most important idea capable of potentially learning from situation, then and now. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- My history. Who am I? (See Psychology, personality, self.) (1) The attitudes I have toward myself. (2) The attitudes I have toward life and the world. (3) How these attitudes change through time. --- 6/6/2004
History, personal history. --- My situations, and problems faced with. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- No such thing as bad memories, all memories painful by degree. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- One can do the history of a person by analyzing the philosophical, psychological, social, political, economic, technological and artistic sides of the person and their life. --- 12/12/2004
History, personal history. --- Order by most important memories. (1) Things that made the biggest impression, positive or negative. (2) Things that changed my mind or behavior most, for better or worse. (3) Memories that stick in my mind most. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- People, places, things (objects, events). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Personal development: psychological development, behavior development, and physical development. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Personal history. (1) Why record and replay your personal history? For health. For truth and justice. (2) How record your personal history? (A) Written diaries. (B) Photographs. (C) Sound recordings. (D) Audio-video tape. (E) Talk to people. --- 6/6/2004
History, personal history. --- Persons: friends, neutrals, enemies. Places: school, home, neighborhood, work. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Physical, psychological, and environment analysis for every year. Potential could have reached, with x amount of work. Actually reached. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Problems and mistakes. Opportunities and chances. Successes and wins, failures and loses. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Progression vs. stagnation vs. regression. Speed, degree, duration, frequency, causes and effects. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Record (1) What bothers me (now, then) about past, present, future, and why. (2) What did about it. (3) How good what I did was objectively. (4) How good I thought it was then subjectively. (5) How good I think it was now subjectively. (6) What to do now about it. (7) How good it is objectively. (8) How good I think it is subjectively. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- School. Describe the work done in the courses you took. Class lectures. Homework. Textbooks. Tests. Papers wrote. --- 8/4/2006
History, personal history. --- Situation environment analysis: things in the situation (elements) and progress of the situation (events). --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Situations, events, actions by people, dialogues, and mental states. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Some things you can only get and/or enjoy at certain ages. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Subject areas: work, leisure, like/lust, studies. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- The effects (before and after) of a quick, clearly defined event (good or bad) are easier to notice, measure, and appreciate (ex. a sudden injury), than a slow event (ex. doing or not doing physical exercises, or the psychological work of therapy, and working on your work and love relationships) where you do a little everyday for your whole life. But the effects of the slow and steady way can be greater than one quick rush. Trust me. --- 12/30/1995
History, personal history. --- The rememberer, the remembering, and the remembered. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- The story of your life. The story that you write about the life that you live. --- 10/25/2004
History, personal history. --- Those who remember mostly the good, or bad, see optimism/pessimism. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Top ten mistakes, and top ten right things did. What should I have done instead of the mistakes. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- Total current specific relationships = sum of total current interactions = (1) Environment. (2) What you and they are actually and objectively. (3) What you and they think self and other is. (4) Goals. --- 04/30/1993
History, personal history. --- Types of experience. (1)(A) Experience for self. (B) See and hear personally. (2) Learn from primary sources. (3) Learn from secondary sources. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What did I learn about life from x? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What did I learn or decide, from event, about work, like/lust, blood, then and now? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What I did, causes of it, and what effects it had. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What I did, reasons then, and how I look at it now. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What really happened, and how does it fit into my life? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- What were the most important (good or bad) events in your life? It could be (1) A person met, a lover. (2) A lifestyle change, or place you live. (3) Injury. (4) Job got or lost. (5) Someone else you hurt or helped. (5) Its tough to tell because you don't know all the effects (on you or others, consciously or unconsciously) of what you did, and you don't know the results of the paths you didn't take. --- 12/30/1995
History, personal history. --- When reviewing your life and thinking about all the things you did and experienced, think also about the things you wanted to do at the time, and the things you feel you should have done in retrospect, and the things you want to do now. That is, connect your past history to your current situation and to your future goals. Your thinking should span time. Connect the past to present to future. --- 4/24/2007
History, personal history. --- Where was I (environment)? What was I "minding" and doing, and about what? --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- X period or event: the crisis issues (problems) faced with, and actually confronted in action, or theoretically brought up in thought or discussion. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- X time period, and its relationship to the rest of my life. --- 12/30/1992
History, personal history. --- You can write like a journalist, describing the current events of your life, like your job, hobbies and friends, but it still pays, years later, to write like a historian, looking back over the years, to gain new insights into what you have experienced. It pays to be a journalist and historian when writing about your individual life. It does not hurt to be a futurist either. --- 10/31/2001
History, personal history. --- Your development in areas and sub-areas of (1) Philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics. (2) Artistic. (3) Psychology. (A) Attitudes. (B) Memories: remembered, forgot. (C) Behavior. (D) Thought. What subjects was I thinking about. What methods of thought used. Conclusions reached. How often did I think about x subject? What were my thoughts on x? Development of my philosophy of x. (4) Physical. (5) Economic/financial. (6) Sociology: who with, doing what, interact how, how well, how much. --- 12/30/1992