9/4/2023

Salutations.

It is now 6:55AM EST for me.

I chose not to work today, since it’s a holiday.

I will explain idea ‘Impetus’ today. That way, all I have to do this coming Thursday is start explaining idea ‘Do something’, which was building up/upgrading for quite some time. I invented idea yesterday called ‘React avoid’, a variation of idea ‘Not use’. I could explain that idea as a separate idea, but elements of idea ‘Do something’ was used to invent it. So, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration that, by the time I finally explain idea ‘Do something’ and a few of it’s variations, that by the time I explain idea ‘React avoid’, it may be over a month before I get to it. For example, 4, maybe 5 Thursdays before I explain it.

For those of you that are new at reading this blog, you may wonder why only 1 day a week. I believe that it’s possible for people to emulate the strategy, if they have to. People have lives, responsibilities, and I believe that many readers already doubt that they can do something like this once a week as it is. But as a consideration, once a week I believe is not impossible to consider, even though some? of those who may consider it still cannot do it. There’s still the ‘other side of the fence’, so to speak, that there are people that can easily type in a blog several times a week, even more, but just based on my experience, once a week is what I do, and is the recommended pace for consideration by me.

I’m going to look for that music video and trailer now. When I start typing again later today, I’ll offer the definition of the word ‘impetus’ after I recommend the usual music video and trailer, and then we’ll see what happens.

Also, notice that today is an exception. I’m not obligated to type, but since it’s a holiday, I chose to use the time to type. Another exception is when I’m recovering. For example, when my back gives out, and it may take me some time before I am able to go back to work, I may choose to type in this blog.

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It is now 8:14AM EST for me.

Now, I’m going to look for that music video and trailer. If you are there later today, I’ll see you when I start typing again.

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It is now 9:04AM EST for me.

Less than an hour to find and prepare both. Not bad.

As I was watching the 1st music video earlier today, I was thinking of something that may be made into a useful idea for you. Normally, to describe to myself why it can be difficult as times for myself to select a music video and trailer, I would describe that as me being finicky. According to dictionary.com finicky means ‘excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy. While I was watching that music video, that ‘finicky’ feeling, if you choose to, could be used as something else. Soon after earlier today, I imagine the gist of various people in a similar situation. They chose to find a music video and trailer within a certain amount of time. I imagined them having some time to do it, and then I imagined a certain chosen gist of what they were doing, simplified to within 30 seconds. For example, an 8 year old boy within 30 seconds, while using his sense of expectations, within 30 seconds, eventually he had to choose a music video, and time itself seemingly was the only restriction used to finally cause that boy to make up his mind and choose that particular music video. Extrapolated, you may imagine, not literally, both that various people using other schools of thought, within 30 seconds, eventually choosing one music video, and time seems to be the delimiter/limitation/restriction that causes them to choose that music video. However, since I’ve been doing this for a certain amount of years, even though their time allowance caused them to eventually choose, most of them, not all of them, still experience difficulty because of the many expectations they are using to select that music video and trailer. In my situation, I’ve done it so many times, that not only do I find that music video and trailer, let’s say within 1 hour, I am also able to continue to add and upgrade more expectations as I evaluate my choices. I just thought that you may find that useful to know.

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The music video that I watched for the 1st time earlier today and recommend for this advice is called ‘Falling or flying’ by Jorja Smith. I think it was 30 seconds or so as I was watching it that I realized that I forgot to check how old she was. Here’s a short quote from wikipedia.org, just to verify her age:

Born

Jorja Alice Smith
11 June 1997 (age 26)
Walsall, West Midlands, England

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To start, here is a quote from a review that I found searching in www.google.com for phrase ‘jorja smith falling or flying music video reviews’. I quoted from the linkwww.stereogum.com:

‘ Smith says the idea for the video — her directorial debut — “came to mind ’cause i always wanted to shoot a video in space. ‘Falling Or flying’ just made me think of that. I wanted to go up into space with someone I love and cherish, but they didn’t want to come with me.” Sad! ‘

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That’s how I watched it, and I recommend that you watch that music video in that context, Jorja Smith asked someone to do something with her, and that someone didn’t want to go with her. Sad!

I found it by selecting in www.youtube.com publisher ‘InMusic Official’, select ‘VIDEOS’, select ‘New Songs Of The Week (September 1st, 2023) | New Music Friday’, published 2 days ago. A video clip from music video ‘Falling or flying’ starts 1 minute and 51 seconds into that video collection.

Here’s a quote from the lyrics to song ‘Falling Or Flying’:

I don’t know where you are, but I don’t wanna go to sleep, babe
I know you care, but please, don’t take it easy on me, babe
Ooh-ooh, hey
I could be fallin’, flyin’, I wouldn’t know the difference

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To watch music video ‘Falling or flying’, search in www.youtube.com for phrase ‘jorja smith falling’, and it should be one of the 1st selections offered, with 632K views. It was published 4 days ago by publisher ‘Jorja Smith’.

In my opinion, it was relaxing to watch and listen to. An attractive woman in my opinion singing solo, walking around somewhere, eventually wearing a spacesuit, like the quote from the review indicated.

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The movie trailer that I watched for the 1st time earlier today and recommend for this advice is called ‘SENIOR MOMENT Trailer (2021)’. Here is a quote that I found searching in www.google.com for phrase ‘senior moment movie reviews’. I selected link www.nytimes.com:

‘ The “Star Trek” legend here incarnates Victor Martin, a former test pilot living his retirement dream in Palm Springs, tooling around in a silver Porsche. In this vehicle he gives his best friend, Sal (Christopher Lloyd), rides to and from a retirement center. He poses for a photo shoot with the car and a young bikini model (Katrina Bowden) whom he imprudently tries to romance. ‘

‘ …That race gets Victor’s license suspended, and his car impounded. While taking the bus, he meets cute with Caroline, and a more age-appropriate affair begins. In reality, Jean Smart is only 20 years younger than Shatner, while Katrina Bowden is well over 50 years younger. Such is Hollywood. ‘

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To be clear, ‘drag racing’ is dangerous, which caused the main character to lose control of his car and have his license suspended.

I found the trailer by selecting from www.youtube.com publisher ‘Rotten Tomatoes Indie’, select ‘PLAYLISTS’, and from category ‘Sorted by Genre’, I selected ‘View full playlist’ from ‘Indie Comedies’. ‘SENIOR MOMENT’ is #73. I then searched in www.youtube.com for phrase ‘senior moment trailer’, and I compared the publishers that published that trailer, looking for the higher/highest view count. Movie Coverage has 131K views, Rotten Tomatoes Indie has 46K views, so I chose Movie Coverage, which was published 2 years ago.

‘If you choose to watch the trailer for this advice, don’t use the ‘drag race’ scene. It’s dangerous to do, and people can get hurt, especially the driver and passengers if an accident occurs.

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Impetus:

It is now 10AM EST for me.

I’m going to prepare the references for idea ‘Impetus’ now. I’ll start typing again soon.

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It is now 10:55AM EST for me.

I chose recently to shorten the definition of ‘Impetus’ because I want to explain it in a more reasonable time frame, preferably all of it today.

I’ll start with the definition of the word ‘impetus’ that I will use here. I searched in www.google.com for phrase ‘impetus motivation meaning’, and chose to use the link www.collinsdictionary.com:

‘ Something that gives a process impetus or an impetus makes it happen or progress more quickly.

anything that stimulates activity; driving force or motive; incentive; impulse ‘

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I’m using 2 characters, 1 from a tv series, and 1 from a movie, to explain the main idea, what I used as the main reference, for idea ‘Impetus’. One main character is Benoit Blanc(Daniel Craig) from the movie ‘Glass Onion(2022)’. For this story, Benoit Blanc is changed to a CEO of a company. The 2nd main character is B’Elanna Torres(Roxann Dawson) from tv series ‘Star Trek: Voyager(1995-2001)’. She is changed to an employee working for Benoit Blanc. Here is the story:

Benoit Blanc is giving a job assignment to B’Elanna Torres. Based on her reaction, Benoit Blanc is concerned if she will have enough impetus to keep her job, to be able to do her job.

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The 2nd story has 2 main characters, both from the movie ‘Glass Onion(2022)’. One is Benoit Blanc, still a CEO of a company, the other is Miles Bron(Edward Norton), who is deciding whether or not to work for Benoit’s company. Here’s the story:

Miles Bron is talking to Benoit Blanc. Miles Bron said to Benoit Blanc, that, after talking to several of his employees, he has decided to work for his company. He is particularly interested in how one of his employees showed him with his understanding of company benefits, that $20,000 can be added to his yearly salary, and of course after a few years, that won’t matter, since he’ll be making millions a year in a few years anyway. Miles Bron accepts Benoit Blanc’s offer.

After Miles Bron explained what had happened, Benoit Blanc said:

Benoit Blanc: ‘I didn’t say anything.’

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Miles Bron thought that his conversations with a few of Benoit Blanc’s employees was the conversation that he was supposed to have with CEO Benoit Blanc. Instead, Miles Bron was talking to employees that regularly work with CEO Benoit Blanc, but that wasn’t the actual conversation with Benoit Blanc. What happened was that he talked to employees that have a lot of practiced use with company related impetus. The actual conversation did not occur, not until he actually talked to Benoit Blanc himself. It’s a misunderstanding, and what those employees said to him was also true, and can be used.

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So, the 2nd story with Miles Bron gives you a story example of employees that have available a lot of job related impetus, and in the 1st story, B’Elanna Torres represents an employee that may not have enough job related impetus to do her job.

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It is now 11:43AM EST for me.

I want to finish explaining idea ‘Impetus’ in an hour, and with most of my free time remaining for today, I want to finish watching tv series ‘One Piece(2023)’. For me, I can’t just ‘fast forward’ through it. I find myself watching most of it, and I’m only up to the 3rd episode. Maybe I’ll be able to ‘fast forward’ through it more, and I’ll finish watching it by today.

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Back to the story again. CEO Benoit Blanc doesn’t just have employees that have an impressive? amount of impetus to do their jobs. In fact, there are many job related projects that he considered that he hasn’t introduced to their employees because none of them have enough impetus to successfully interact with them. Putting that aside, yes, the employees that he works with directly and regularly all have more than enough impetus to do their jobs, but those employees are not the ones that concerns him in a certain impetus related context. Many of his non-managerial employees do not have enough impetus to continue to work with certain job assignments, and he regularly thinks about such situations.

One day, to better understand job related impetus, and how he could offer such impetus to his employees, especially his non-managerial employees, he decided to work for Alaric Saltzman(Matthew Davis) from the tv series ‘Legacies(2018-2022)’. Here is a quote from wikipedia.org, link ‘Legacies (TV series)’:

‘ …17-year-old Hope attends the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted. The school provides a haven where supernatural beings can learn to control their abilities and impulses. ‘

‘ Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman: Josie and Lizzie’s father and the human headmaster of the Salvatore School. Davis described Alaric’s role in the series as “somewhere between Professor X and Dumbledore”. ‘

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To be clear, since it doesn’t say in the description, Alaric Saltzman is a vampire. If you watch the tv series, he just doesn’t seem to look like one. For example, he doesn’t do the running that they do. I think that’s because that’s meant to emphasize his experience and intelligence.

Have you ever watched any of those old ‘Mission: Impossible(1966-1973)’ tv series? Amazon.com seems to have season 1 streaming at least. You don’t have to watch them. I’m guessing that in many of those episodes, the ‘Mission: Impossible’ team would place certain people in fabricated/not real situations in order to extract certain information from them. What CEO Benoit Blanc did with Alaric Saltzman was voluntary. Benoit Blanc believed that the circumstance working for such a headmaster would allow him to naturally? and normally talk about his employee impetus problem. Here’s an illustration refurbished example. I’ll quote from episode 3.7 ‘Yup, It’s a Leprechaun, All Right’ from tv series ‘Legacies(2021)’, and then change that reference to include Benoit Blanc’s participation with the headmaster. The episode is available streaming from Amazon.com, and according to Amazon Video, that scene starts 37 minutes and 20 seconds into the episode. Here is the quote:

Kaleb Hawkins(Chris Lee): ‘So what are we gonna do about the school, Doctor S?’

Alaric Saltzman: ‘Fortunately, turns out that leprechaun had a pot of gold after all. [heavy Irish brogue]: Or should I say a potbelly o’ gold? I believe these… are yours. After we pay back the townies, we still have plenty to spare.’

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One more illustration reference from the movie ‘Hawk the Slayer(1980)’ starring John Terry as Hawk, and Ferdy Mayne, Old Man, Father of Hawk and Voltan. It will be refurbished with inapproprieities removed. The movie ‘Hawk the Slayer’ is available from Amazon.com streaming. I recommend that you buy it, it’s about $10 HD streaming. That way, you can keep referencing/watching that scene when you choose to. You can rent it, but I don’t recommend the Freevee option. Even though it’s free, you would have to also watch a certain amount of commercials just to see a short scene. In my opinion, even just using the renting option, a few dollars, is better than that.

The scene that will be used from the movie ‘Hawk the Slayer’ will be refurbished. There won’t be any tragedy in it, but it’s illustration of power will be used. According to Amazon Video, that scene starts 2 minutes and 36 seconds into the movie. Here is the quote:

Father of Hawk: ‘Take the pouch from my neck. The great sword, place it between us. Empty the pouch into your hand. Look… Look into the heart of the stone. Quick.(edited) [high-pitched hum] The last Elfin Mindstone. Think of the great sword in your hand, and it will be so. The Mindsword is now yours, my son.’

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So, here’s the story again, with CEO Benoit Blanc working with Alaric Saltzman from time to time. If you choose to imagine an employee of Benoit Blanc witnessing certain interactions with Alaric Saltzman, that employee would find the experience insightful, because Benoit Blanc says to Alaric Saltzman things that would be useful to Benoit Blanc’s employees to know about. He naturally talks about such things because of the nature of the situation.

There was one situation that allowed CEO Benoit Blanc to directly talk about his impetus problem to Alaric Saltzman. He explained to Alaric that scene from the movie ‘Hawk the Slayer’, that he gave one of his employees the last Elfin Mindstone. It was pretty much like the movie, but the employee didn’t see it that way.(How could that employee?) No tragedy, no actual sword wielded, but the power was given to that employee just the same. Benoit Blanc said that he did that just to basically allow that employee to do his job. The impetus was very fundamental. It’s not the impetus that he is seeking, something that he can create or provide to his employees.

In that situation, Alaric acknowledged what Benoit Blanc said, and said that they could use the gold from the leprechaun as an alternative to pay certain debts. (story intentionally incomplete)

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I don’t know what that ‘impetus’ is that the imagined CEO Benoit Blanc is looking for. I just imagined it. However, I thought that you may find idea ‘Impetus’ useful to you, to have an idea of what ‘impetus’ is, that it’s useful to have in a job related context. Maybe by knowing more how to explain it, you can find more of it if that is useful to you.

In my opinion, the best? illustration reference that has ‘impetus’ in it in my opinion, and I’m a non-managerial employee, not in management, is a David Tennant Doctor Who episode, episode ‘Planet of the Dead(2009)’ from tv series ‘Doctor Who(2009)’. In my opinion, there are a lot of ‘impetus’ creating moments in that sci-fi episode, even though it’s kind of survival needing extreme. You can find the imdb.com link by searching in www.google.com for phrase ‘doctor who planet of the dead imdb’. The episode is available streaming on Amazon.com. Just go to the Amazon.com home page, select Prime Video, search for phrase ‘doctor who planet of the dead’, select ‘Doctor Who: The David Tennant Specials’, then purchase the ‘Planet of the Dead’ episode if you haven’t purchased it already.

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It is now 12:53PM EST for me.

I am going to close this list now. This coming Thursday, I will start explaining idea ‘Do something’, unless I change my mind. So, if you are there, I’ll see you then.

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Some viewer discretion for movie ‘Senior Moment’. Rated PG-13 for strong language, some violence, sexual material and drug content, viewer discretion for movie ‘Glass Onion’. TV-PG mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Star Trek: Voyager’. TV-14 mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for tv series ‘Legacies’. Rated PG mature themes, sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for movie ‘Hawk the Slayer’. TV-PG sci-fi violence, viewer discretion for Doctor Who ‘Planet of the Dead’. Use only refurbished for advice references recommended. Throw away rest of episode, series, and movie. [Use mental bookmark ‘Impetus’ for reference, allocation, and prevention when needed.