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Now add things that are ‘nice to haves’ but are unrelated to your broad objective. You want sharp, precise surgical strikes, my handsome ninja babies. Hence why I call it “increasing the chaos”. You see how if even just one of these sigils converts into a desired outcome, you start to “shift” the probability of the total outcome more and more in your favour? This makes it more likely that some form of cumulative advantage will come into play. Well timed phone calls or meetings with senior people.So, rather than sigilising for “money”, try instead You must separate your objective into smaller pieces. Prior to reading the book, I used to refer to this as “increasing the chaos” because you want to widen the potential outcomes you expose yourself to: be that in wealth, love, health, career… And so on. The next trick is to identify ‘weak points’ that are possible sources of Black Swans. Kinda like putting up a chaotic bird feeder in your head. You should aim instead to make your target outcome ‘Black Swan friendly’. The implications of this are that if you think you know precisely how something is supposed to happen and you enchant for it… You may have just blocked the enormous opportunity that would have landed if you didn’t go and mess every damn thing up. It looks to my eyes that Black Swan Dynamics offer the most effective way to map magical outcomes. There is more about this at the bottom of each post if you subscribe and then check the bottom of one of my posts in your reader. The first thing you need to do is assess your critical path. Well, it’s going to come in handy because shoaling is where you really get to rock your targeting. Remember my bee post? Seriously, how could you not? I link to it all the time. So here is how you shoal! Select your target One final warning: There’s a bit of a rant at the end. Presumably you want your sigils to cluster somewhere that allows them to take root and possibly feed.īeyond that, the metaphor starts to get a bit stretched but it’s a fun, mostly helpful name. Regardless, shoaling seems to me quite a good metaphor for multi-sigil experiments because you have the whole ocean/unconscious, ‘firing it off into the depths’ thing… But you also have predation in the form of your conscious intellect. (Also I am a bit of a fish nerd.)Īnyway, fish ‘shoal’ for some obvious reasons:īut there are other advantages that clearly haven’t been worked through yet. I’m not a fish nerd… I was paid to be a fish nerd. This post will make a whole lot more sense if you know that. You guys all know I used to work for Discovery Channel, right? Schooling gives a hydrodynamic advantage. That’s because fish ‘shoal’ when they aren’t heading somewhere, and ‘school’ when they are. Think of it like birds flocking but with a few key differences.įirstly, the aerodynamic (in this case hydrodynamic) advantages aren’t as great.