Paul Nervy Notes
“Jokes, poems, stories, and a lot of philosophy, psychology, and sociology.”


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Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta goals.  (1) Make a list of goals.  (2) Prioritize your goals.  (3) Spend more time on pursuing goals.  (4) Keep track of your progress on goals.  (5) Review goals daily.  ---  7/2/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  (1) Goals for all subject areas.  (2) Thought goals and action goals for each subject area.  (3) Personal goals and world goals for each subject area.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  Develop more and better goals.  ---  7/10/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-Goals.  Dream big.  Aim high.  Be creative, be innovative.  Expand each goal.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  Goals on various levels: (1) personal, (2) local, (3) national, (4) world.  ---  5/15/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  Information, knowledge, learning: ( ) Learn to read and write.  ( ) Get a computer and access to the Internet.  ( ) Spend a few hours every day pursuing knowledge.  ( ) Read several sources of news every day.  ( ) Be a critical thinker.  ( ) Practice developing goals.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  Personal goals:  ( ) Health.  ( ) Education.  School.  ( ) Career.  Job.  Work.  ( ) Home.  Pad.  ( ) Transportation.  ( ) Main squeeze.  ( ) Friends.  ( ) Family.  ( ) Altruism.  Philanthropy.  Activism.  ( ) Information.  Reading.  Internet.  Books, Music, Visual Arts, Movies.  ( ) Writing.  Notes.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  The main meta-goal is to think of new and better goals.  ---  5/12/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .Meta-goals.  World goals:  Cure the various problems and ills that afflict the world.  ( ) Stop starvation and hunger.  ( ) Stop war.  ( ) Stop poverty.  ( ) Stop illness.  ( ) Stop injustice.  ( ) Save the environment.  ( ) Get people educated.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  .This section is about specific goals.  ---  7/31/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  (1) Once or twice a week, mentally go over and improve current goals, tactics, and reasons.  (2) Mentally study own notes and book notes.  ---  07/30/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  (1) Waste less time.  No television.  (2) Spend more time pursuing goals.  (3) Study mentally (A) Notes in general.  (B) Goals.  (4) Get head and body and life in good spot to create.  (5) Read notes periodically (once a year?).  ---  12/02/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  A long, healthy (psychological and physical), happy, productive life.  Sounds good.  ---  12/06/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, literature.  (1) Read the great works of literature.  (2) Learn some literary theory, literary criticism and philosophy of literature.  (3) Write.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, movies.  (1) See the great movies.  (2) Do some film criticism.  (3) Make a movie.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, music.  (1) Listen to the great works of music.  (2) Listen to music from around the world.  (3) Make music.  Learn a musical instrument(s).  Compose music.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, music.  Learn an instrument.  Start a band.  Write some songs.  Make a record  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, other.  (1) Fashion.  Wear hemp.  (2) Gastronomy.  Eat healthy.  Eat vegetarian.  Make some good food.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts, visual arts.  (1) See the great works of art.  (2) Make some visual art.  (3) Work in all the visual arts: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and computer graphics.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Arts.  Create Progressive arts.  Make Progressive songs.  Write Progressive poems, jokes, movies.  Make Progressive visual arts.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Be outside for more sunrises and sunsets.  That's living.  ---  10/25/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Business.  Critique business.  Buy blue.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Create the great work.  Pick your best ideas and develop them.  ---  01/26/1994


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Current goals.  PART ONE.  Personal goals.  (1) Save the world.  (2) Do not waste your time.  Do not waste your life.  (3) Be a Progressive activist.     PART TWO.  Social goals.  (1) Save the world.  (2) Get the neo-cons out of office in the USA and other countries.  (3) Stop the genocide in Darfur.  (4) Promote Progressivism world wide.  Promote ecological sustainability.  Promote human rights.  Including women's rights, children's rights, worker's rights, etc.  ---  5/5/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Don't feel you need to have kids.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Eat locally grown, organic, vegetarian foods.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Economics and business.  Be a social justice entrepreneur.  Be an environmental entrepreneur.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Economics and Business.  Start a business.  Get a job doing what you love  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Economics.  Learn the criticisms of capitalism.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Education.  Build an informed, educated society.  (1) Get people educated.  Get people empowered.  Get people on the Internet.  Educate all sides of a person.  Educated young and old.  (2) Use different methods.  Psychological therapy.  Philosophical therapy.  Writing therapy.  (3) Develop people's knowledge.  Develop people's critical thinking skills.  ---  3/3/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Energy.  Reduce oil consumption.  Use wind and solar power.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Every year, month, or week.  Write a song, a poem, a story.  Make a visual art work.  Invent something.  Take political action.  Do some history.  Plan for the future.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Geography.  (1) Learn natural geography of mountains, rivers, deserts, jungles, etc.  (2) Learn social , political and economic geography of nations, cities, etc.  (3) Memorize the world map, much like you memorize the constellations in the sky.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Give money to philanthropic organizations.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Goals by importance.  Goals, generally, in life, in the world.  (1) Know what is going on.  Identify the worlds problems.  (Epistemology.  Reason.  Thinking.  Information.  Ideas.  All these are good.)  (2) Solve the worlds problems.  Improve the situation.  (3) Do good.  Do right.  Do justice.  (4) Don't settle.  Don't sell out.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Goals by importance.  My goals for me.  (1) Primary goals in my life: Stay healthy.  Get knowledge.  Help the Progressive Cause.  (2) Lesser goals in my life: money, social life, etc.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Goals by importance.  My goals for the world.  Most important goals.  (1) Save the world.  (2) Improve the world.  (3) Save a life.  (4) Improve a life.  (5) Environmental sustainability.  (6) Social justice.  (7) End global poverty.  (8) Millennium Development goals.  (9) International Declaration of Human Rights.  (10) Pursue truth and justice.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Goals by importance.  My goals for the world.  Most important goals.  Biggest, most pressing, problems in the world today.  (1) Social justice.  Human rights.  Minority rights.  Children's rights.  Women's rights.  (2) Environment.  (3) Health.  (4) Information, education, media, attitudes.  (5) Political.  (6) Economic.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Health in order to get education, to get job and career, to get money, to save and invest, to keep going and write notes.  Physical health (diet, sleep, exercise, doctors checkup) and psychological health (reduce stress of job, reduce pathological behavior, get love from girlfriend, get friends).  ---  07/05/1997


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Health.  (1) Learn about health.  (2) Get healthy.  Sleep.  Exercise.  Eat healthy.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  History, current, future.  (1) Learn about history.  (2) Think about the future.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  History.  Do a Progressive history.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Home.  Safe place to live.  Not too expensive.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  I produce best outdoors.  How to bring the outdoors in?  Windows.  Porch.  Pictures of outdoors.  Tape of outdoor sounds, rock, water.  ---  07/30/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  I want to be more effective and productive.  Not only doing my writing.  Not only talking to people I meet in person.  Not only reaching people who visit my web site.  I want to do more to change, improve, save the world.  ---  2/27/2007  ---  *


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  I want to be the perfect mix of jock, brain, and head.  ---  07/30/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Information goals or knowledge goals.  (1) Gather knowledge.  Gather knowledge in all subject areas.  Gather knowledge in all media.  (2) Start recording my own ideas.  Write my own ideas.  Write my own history.  Write my own goals.  Write my own outline of concepts.  Write my own list of resources.  First goal is to make a goal list.  (3) Have a variety of experiences in all areas; work, relationships, leisure.  Do many different things.  ---  1/23/2004


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Information, Communication.  Get knowledgeable.  Learn a foreign language.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Information, education, media.  Books, music, visual arts, movies, web.  Read Noam Chomsky.  Read Jeff Sachs.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Job.  Get a job that promotes social justice and ecological sustainability.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Job.  Get a job.  Get a job that is part of the solution, not part of the problem.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Job.  Money.  Make a living.  Get a Progressive job.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Languages.  Learn to speak a foreign language(s).  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Law.  Improve the legal system.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Leisure.  (1) Get some leisure time.  (2) Don't waste your leisure time.  Use your leisure time productively.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Leisure.  Spend leisure time productively.  Don't waste time.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Life goals.  (1) Philosophical therapist.  (2) Speaker.  Presentation on Notes.  (3) Progressive activist.  ---  5/15/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Live simply.  Do not overconsume.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Major life goals.  (1) Stay healthy.  (2) Get educated, informed.  (3) Decide what work to do; decide how to make a living.  (4) Decide how to spend leisure time.  (5) Decide whether to have a relationship with a significant other or not.  (6) Decide whether to have kids or not.  (7) Decide whether to take control of your life or not.  (8) Decide whether to decide or not.  ---  2/28/2004


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Mate.  Girlfriend.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Math.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Money: I suppose, if money was one of my primary values and primary goals, then I would give more attention to debits and credits, and I would find it fun and interesting to keep a spreadsheet of debits and credits, expenses and revenues, and bank account balances.  But money is not one of my primary values nor one of my primary goals, thankfully.  I made a set of personal financial spreadsheets but found them essentially boring.  ---  3/8/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Most important knowledge, on all subjects.  That you got (notes and books).  That you can get.  ---  12/30/1992


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Move someplace where you can sit on a bench and read and think everyday of the year.  ---  06/30/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goal.  Find and read more and better books.  Less pathological behavior.  Less work stress and anxiety.  More mental health, and more money.  I need more time, energy, brains (intelligence, creativity, memory), drive and focus.  ---  08/02/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goals for me.  Ongoing personal goals.  (1) Exercise, aerobic, anaerobic and stretching.  (2) Eat more veggies.  Drink less coffee.  Don't overeat.  (3) No carpel.  ---  5/29/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goals for me.  Ongoing personal goals.  Activism.  Be more politically active.  Get knowledgeable about the issues.  Take more action.  ---  5/29/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goals for me.  Ongoing personal goals.  Chick.  Find a chick.  Keep a chick.  ---  5/29/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goals for me.  Ongoing personal goals.  Notes:  Think.  Write.  Read.  Type.  Publish.  Promote.  ---  5/29/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My goals for world.  My political platform.  Justice.  Health, physical and psychological.  Ecological sustainability.  Information, media, education, literacy.  ---  5/29/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  My latest very important goals.  (1) Cultivate a mental state of serene peace and optimism (undeluded), even in a godless, imperfect, horror filled world.  (2) Develop mind, body, environment, stuff, experiences.  (3) Develop knowledge of all areas, not just philosophy.  (4) Go after goals.  (5) Don't lose touch with reality.  ---  02/10/1994


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  One of my goals is to earn money over the next 30 years in order to support my causes of worldwide social justice and environmental justice.  This in order to both help the world, and to feel better about myself, in order to be more productive in my writing.  A win, win situation.  ---  12/29/1997


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Philosophy.  (1) Learn about philosophy.  (2) Do philosophy.  (3) Study epistemology and ethics.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Plain tips for practical living.  How to live justly.  How to live well.  ( ) Transportation.  Get off oil.  Do not own a car.  Have a good bike with a strong rack, panniers, and a bike trailer.  Get a car that does not use gas.  Or get a car that uses little gas, like a Prius.  ( ) Housing.  Live in a tent.  Know how to camp.  Or live in a small rented room.  Do not heat your room, put on extra clothes, develop better personal heaters.  ( ) Things.  Do not own a lot of stuff, so that you don't need  so much room, and so you can carry it all with you.  Possibly, get rid of the books you own, and do so by reading all the books I need to in the library or at the bookstore, and do a good outline of each book, and keep outlines on the computer.  Keep all your music on the computer.  Keep all your video and movies on the computer.  ( ) Move away from oil based products.  Wear organic cloth clothes.  Do not own a lot of clothes.  Do not wear leather clothes belt shoes to support animal rights.  ( ) Money.  Do not go into debt.  Do not have a big mortgage.  Have few expenses, so that you do not have to spend all your time working to make money.  ( ) Don't get married.  Don't have kids until the world population is down around one billion.  ( ) Everyone should have access to information.  Everyone should be committed to life-long, self-directed learning.  Everyone should find out and figure out, and do their own Notes.  Everyone should have a computer with Internet access.  Make computers more green.  ( ) Stay healthy.  Exercise.  Eat healthy.  Get enough sleep.  Do not smoke.  Do not drink.  ---  5/9/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Politics and law.  Get a law passed.  Protest.  Write elected officials.  ---  4/15/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Politics.  (1) Learn about politics.  (2) Be politically active.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Politics.  Do some Progressive activism.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Problems: Political.  Economic.  Tech.  Health.  Info, educ, media.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Psychology.  (1) Learn about psychology.  (2) Be psychologically healthy.  (3) Be psychologically developed.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Psychology.  Develop a better brain.  Faster.  More accurate.  More creative.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Religion.  Learn the arguments against religion.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Save the world.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, astronomy.  (1) Learn the constellations.  Learn all about astronomy.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, biology.  (1) Learn the system of biological classification.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, chemistry.  (1) Learn the periodic table.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, earth science.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, ecology.  (1) Save the earth.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Science, physics.  (1) Learn Newtonian physics, Relativity physics and Quantum physics.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Shelter in ecologically sustainable homes.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Social.  Gather together a group of Progressives, so that they can network and be productive.  How?  By sending out an email?  How to get people to interact?  Hold parties in restaurant?  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Society.  What kind of society do I want to live in?  What kind of society should there be?  The goal of achieving a Progressive society.  The goal of environmentally sustainability and social justice.  Universal health care.  Free college education.  Uphold women's rights.  Uphold children's rights.  Spend less on bombs.  More equitable income distribution.  ---  5/12/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Sociology.  (1) Learn about sociology.  (2) Be social.  (3) Fall in love.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Spend at least 15 minutes every day thinking about "everything else".  That is everything else besides your job and your other survival matters.  Use the Notes outline, zero in on something, mentally review your own notes and book notes, think of new issues.  This is very effective.  And this is very important.  Why?  To get the most out of your brain, and out of life.  I can produce new ideas.  I just need to take time to every day.  In morning, evening, or at lunch, etc.  ---  9/30/1996


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Stop consuming so much.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Technology.  (1) Develop technology that is ecologically sustainable and that promotes social justice.  ---  3/5/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Technology.  Use technology, like computers and Internet, to design a web site that draws people and their input.  A popular Progressive website that makes a contribution, that makes a difference.  ---  6/7/2007


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Ten years working on Notes.  Conclusions.  (1) Work harder on it.  Devote more time to it.  Put in more time thinking, reading it, typing it.  (2) Stay urgent, stay motivated, stay optimistic, about your Notes, yourself, and the world.  (3) Goof off less.  ---  05/10/1997


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  The quantity and quality of ideas I want will only be reached if I exercise, eat right, put in effort (study and think), maintain mental health, and not do things that fu*k me up.  ---  06/30/1993


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Think, Write, Publish.  Speak up.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Walk and talk.  Read and write.  ---  6/10/2004


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Wear organic clothes.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  What I really want.  (1) Safe place to live and work.  (2) Reasonable amount of money and possessions.  (3) Health.  (4) Good relationships.  (5) Good sex.  (6) Good job.  (7) Not experience permanent pain, mistakes, misfortune, problems.  ---  12/30/1996


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  Work on solving the biggest problems in the world.  ---  4/23/2006


Psychology, drive, goals, specific.  ---  World goals.  Reduce child labor rates worldwide.  Reduce slavery worldwide.  Increase free education worldwide.  Increase women's right to vote worldwide.  ---  12/20/2003




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