Deserving, intelligent and some general thoughts.

I just got this comment here on this blog. It lead to some interesting thoughts.

If you are that intelligent, you should be able to come up with a better way to make the money to get to CGW. If roughly 1500 dollars is a stretch for you, you certainly are not providing enough value yet to earn a trip to CGW. No offense.

First thing that came to my mind was: What is the objective to leave such a comment on a blog? Is it to make me think? To try and offend me? Is this truly this persons opinion and he wants to share this with me?

Since I do not know this persons reason, I’m assuming that he means to honestly share his opinion with me and maybe try to make me think… If it was to offend me… mission not succeeded If it happens to be otherwise, hereby I invite this person to share the reason with me in a next comment.

First part of the comment; if I am this intelligent I should be able to come up with a better way to earn the money. Should I? Is there a better way? I’m sure there are different ways, but is there a better one? What is wrong with offering free value to people, and if they feel they received their value, asking for a donation in return? Not even needed, but completely voluntary.
I can come up with a better way to get money, of course I can. I could even just get it out of my savings. But would that be even half as entertaining?

One thing I am good at and I enjoy doing is brainstorming and coming up with ideas that are outside of the box. That is where my strong side is. Thinking up solutions for real or perceived problems. Implementing them, sure, I can do that, but it doesn’t give me half as much enjoyment as thinking of them.

Then the second part.. if 1500 dollars is a stretch, I’m not yet providing enough value to earn going to CGW.

First of all.. I understand that in order to get any worth from CGW I’m supposed to be already willing to take responsibility for my own life and not blaming external circumstances for my situation. And I also understand that there is a reason the price is in the range it is, and not for free or extremely cheap. I do understand that.

I’m not sure what is meant by the earning part. Does that mean that if I do not have 1500 dollars lying around to use as I please, I am not worthy of going to CGW? Or does it mean that I am only worthy to go if I do have these 1500 dollars? So, if I would earn them here, by prostituting myself (or at least my brain), would that make me worthy enough?

I happen to believe that everybody is worthy Some will get more worth out of the workshop then others, and people who do not want to take personal responsibility for not having the money, would probably not get any worth from it, even if somebody would give them the workshop for free. But that doesn’t make them any less worthy as a person. It doesn’t mean to me that they don’t earn to go there.

It is very entertaining for me to see what a long way I have come since a few months ago. At that time a comment like this would have probably hurt me and left me feeling worthless, incapable of change, and indeed unworthy of earning money or going to CGW.

As it is now, this serves to remind me how far I’ve come, I find it entertaining that somebody is actually putting time into giving a comment like this on my blog… But I thank you anyway. It has been extremely rewarding for me to compare my reaction now to the one I would have had some time ago.

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