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This page is all about your tremendous potential!
Micko knows you may not feel like you have great potential, you may be uptight and confused inside, worried about how you look and other stuff, but all that doesn’t matter!
Your brain and body are going though some incredible changes, but the good news is that these changes are working to unleash your full potential.
One clown psychologist, FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel), believes that teens will be the key to solving the big problems we face in Clown Nation. FlowingLove says that young clowns can approach old problems in new ways and maybe save our planet.
According to FlowingLove, one of the neat things about your growing young brain is that you are learning “divergent thinking”, which means “thinking outside the box”. In the illustration we see FragrantPeach solving a stopped-up toilet problem using divergent thinking.
You see, your brain is like a sponge….it wants to keep on absorbing new things like juggling, pie-throwing, seltzer squirting, quantum physics, cosmic spirals, how to get rid of acne, how to kiss, how to do all that stuff after kissing, and many other important things. Neuroscientists say your brain won’t be fully developed until age 24.
No wonder your growing brain gets so confused!
So, this stuff FlowingLove talks about…teens’ emerging potential, saving the world, thinking outside the box…Micko wants your help. Micko has a plan to create a World of Love, a world where the big problems have been solved and we all Love each other.
But so far, adult clowns don’t really believe this could happen, so Micko wants your opinion, as a young clown with an open mind.
Will you check out Micko’s plan and give Micko feedback?
Micko’s plan based on swarm behavior in nature.
What is cool about swarm behavior is that a group of individual critters such as ants, termites, fish, and birds. can communicate in a way that results in group behavior and accomplishments that the individual critters could not do on their own. Clown scientists believe that very simple rules in the behavior of the critters account for the working together of the group.
It is not thought that the individual critters are planning these collective actions; rather that they are programmed to do these actions.
We can create our Clown swarm
Micko says that we can choose to create our own Clown Swarm that wouldn’t be preprogrammed.
Our swarm would be synergistic: individual clowns would become happier and more satisfied with their lives while working with other clowns to create a better world, and Clown Nation would also get better as it created social stuff to allow individuals to flourish.
Like swarm behavior in nature, our swarm would have rules, but we would create these rules:
- Each clown could choose to maximize their Love Flow.
- Each clown could choose to minimize their negativity.
- Clowns could choose to work together with other clowns to create a World of Love, either in person or in spirit (being part of a global movement).
- Each clown could adjust their sense of identity such that their personal identity is merged with a more inclusive social identity that Micko calls Swarm Identity.
- Each clown could choose to find their own unique way to help create a World of Love.
In this way we could develop our own form of swarm intelligence.
What do you think so far?
So what do you say? Are willing to explore your potential and help solve the world’s problems?
Great answer!
FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) wrote a whole book on the power of the teenage brain. and suggests this holds the key to solving the problems we face in the world today.
In the table below, the first column presents the theory, the second column presents several Love Experiments (things you can try for yourself) and the third column includes Micko’s ideas and comments.
So, smarty-pants teen clowns, Micko has some homework assignments for you:
- Write an essay on what you think has to happen to create a World of Love. Open your mind and GO BEYOND what adults say about this…what NEW WAY OF THINKING can you bring to the table…
- Google Jane Goodall and see what she did with her life and what she says to you about the ways you can impact your world in little ways every day of your life. Think about this.
- Google “Earth Community” and see what you find. Better yet, read the book The Great Turning, What do you think about that stuff?
- Do a piece of art related to clown potential.
- Google what BeingLove said to his students: “If not you, then who?” about. Micko says to you “If not you, then who?
- Google what LoveBlossoms says about micro-moments of Love.
- Start a conversation with a stranger. How did it feel? How did the other clown feel? This is Lovesight you are doing.
- Draw a doodletoon illustrating a micro-moment of Love you have experienced. Don’t be a chicken, try it! Micko guarantees you will feel better!
- Google Omega Point to see what you get, and write an essay on whether you think it might be possible.
| Your Potential to save our world. (Theory of FlowingLove.) | Love Experiments | Micko, other Clowns, Internet |
|---|---|---|
-Healthy nutrition
-Exercise
-Nature
-Positive self-affirmations
-Loving-kindness towards Self
-Therapy
-Gratitude
-Cultivating optimism
-Acts of kindness/cultivate kindness
-Nurturing social relationships
-Strategies for coping
-Forgiveness
-Making amends
-Increasing Flow activities
-Savoring Joy
-Committed goal pursuit
-Create high quality connections
-Strengths
-Visualize your future
-Joy portfolio, others
Can you…
FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) wrote a whole book on the power of the teenage brain. and suggests this holds the key to solving the problems we face in the world today.
In the table below, the first column presents the theory, the second column presents several Love Experiments (things you can try for yourself) and the third column includes Micko’s ideas and comments.