ZZense Anthropic Technology

Physical technology exploded during the last century -- automobiles and airplanes to isotopes and iPhones -- and yet, are we as human beings more content? Feeling a life of worth? Fulfilled? Or is life not filled, but cluttered with things, and seeming to have no purpose or direction? Can we change languishing and floundering to Flourishing? Does it require changing the world order, the government, the "system"? Or is it easier than that -- easily within our grasp -- within ourselves?

Introducing zZense, a technology. Not a physical technology about things but rather an anthropic technology about us as personal human beings. ZZense guides us to maximize our well-being and live a full and satisfying life. In short, to help us Flourish. From landing a career to enjoying marriage, raising kids to growing companies, being happy and healthy, zZense speaks to our true inner needs. It’s a "how to" guide for living.

ZZense Technology has three key parts.

1. Understanding the Goal -- what are the elements that make up Flourishing, that make up a fulfilled life?
2. Familiarity with the Toolkit -- the tools that we can use to build the elements of Flourishing
3. Propagating zZense Technology -- paying it forward to help those around us Flourish

Goal

We lead busy lives. Amid the daily hustle and bustle, we need to stop and ask ourselves a fundamental question. Do we know where we are trying to go in life? Not just our five-year goals, or career goals or family goals, but overall to Flourish?

What exactly is Flourishing? It's probably happiness, "feeling good", isn't it? That seems too shallow -- there must be more to it, but what? To avoid wandering aimlessly through life on stray paths, zZense crystallizes this goal. In the next folio we will see six primary elements of Flourishing distilled by leading researchers and thinkers in the field of personal well-being.

With the specific elements clearly in our headlights, we will be able to steer our lives to be full of these elements. A clear actionable statement of the Goal (Flourishing) is the first key part of zZense Technology.

Toolkit

To build the elements of Flourishing, our goal, we need tools. Familiarity with the Toolkit is essential. We will see that the most effective, fundamental tools are our internal Centric Skills. The executive part of our brain guides us via these skills to be effective and to Flourish.

Based on work of leading researchers, the following Toolkit folio details twenty-four Centric Skills, from which seven Foundational Skills are highlighted in greater detail.

Each of us as a unique individual has greater or lesser strength in each skill. These strengths can be measured to give our Centric Skill Signature. Then, as common sense tells us, we can choose to employ the best and sharpest tools (skills) from our Toolkit, not the dull ones.

Research finds that Centric Skills are influenced by genetics and early childhood events, but they are not then fixed as if in stone. They are significantly malleable, approximately half fixed and half changeable. Our tools can be enhanced, they can be honed by appropriate honing techniques. Curating these techniques is major thrust of the zZense Technology and this website.

Because honing takes time, effort, and going outside our comfort zone, we need a Growth Mindset, which is one of the Centric Skills. This is belief that skills are malleable, and a desire to expend effort honing. Time spent honing pays off as we create our Goal of Flourishing. This is the sharpen the saw concept popularized by Stephen Covey.

Familiarity with our Toolkit -- techniques for identifying, assessing, honing, and using the tools -- is the second key part of zZense Technology.

Propagating

It's important that we Propagate zZense Technology -- that we pay it forward and help others to Flourish. This leads directly to greater Meaning in our own lives, which we will see is one of the six elements of our goal, Flourishing. And helping those around us Flourish creates a rising tide that lifts all boats.

For some of us, we Propagate by raising children -- by parenting. Also, we can teach zZense to family, friends, other loved ones, and the world at large.

The third and final key part is a personal mission and the techniques to Propagate zZense Technology.

Triskelion

In summary, zZense Technology crystallizes Flourishing as the Goal of life and enables us to move effectively toward that Goal, while bringing others along with us. ZZense Technology has three parts, visualized as our triskelion symbol . Three petals spiral outward from a central core.

• The top petal represents the Goal -- Flourishing, the meaning of life -- which we seek to build
• The lower-right petal represents familiarity with our Toolkit with which we create our Goal
• The lower-left petal represents the importance of Propagating the technology to others -- paying it forward by raising children or teaching others.

Now we've glimpsed the surface of zZense Anthropic Technology, for and about us. One that will energize us to happily and effectively create the life we want.

Next

The next three folios (web pages) cover the three key parts of zZense Technology. Follow links or consult the Resources menu to dive deeper into detailed references supporting the technology.

Have fun and get ready to Flourish!

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