Beat Schindler

Succeeding on having words work for you is simple. Just attend my seminar.

In less than 3 weeks, I’ll host my first Limitless Opportunities seminar

Who’d have thought so seven years ago?

Because it’s been seven years since I decided to dedicate my work to words. During that time almost no one has been interested, and to tell you all, I was able to count the number of interested word-users on the fingers of just one of my two hands.

Yet I slave away until I fall simply because I recognise the treasure I have in front of me.

It doesn’t matter to that I’m the only one. It doesn’t matter to me, and near as I can tell, by the end of the day that’s all that counts.

I would rather experience one year of intense happiness than have the happiness spread over my whole existence.

Well, my wish has been granted, for I now had my intense happiness spread over seven years instead of just one.

Now I am left with duty.

Nothing predestines me for such a task.

The discovery that in the beginning is the word only costs and brings in zilch, not even the cost price.

It is against all reason. At times I feel sad. Temporarily. The bad thing is that at my age it’s hard to start something new.

The origin of humanity

The key to understanding the origin of humanity, in fact, the key to understanding everything you have a word for, including you, as well as the key to understanding everything you and I know, without exception, it’s in The Origin of Humanity for everybody to see. In a nutshell, as opposed to in a book, here for everybody to see it even more clearly, beyond the shadow of a doubt:

In the beginning is the word

There’s never been anything like it.

It’s the only key you and I will ever need. The key to everything, including nothing.

You will never look back for you will see there’s never been anything like it and that there shall never be anything like it again.

As many word-users as possible

My passion is to show it and make sure it convinces as many word-users as possible. I do everything I can to fulfill this task.

How can I lead my fellow word-users to realise what a treasure they have in front of them, but can’t seem to see?

Especially the influential know-it-alls who boast about their superior knowledge of how it all began.

This contempt is not new. I have rebelled against convention and authority throughout my existence. And paid the price.

Much of what I started, I broke off.

And until 2016, it’s proven to be of no use.

Now is different

But words still don’t find an audience.

So every time that happens, I change my tactics.

I will not rest.

Describe me as a goofball nice to have around or whatever else comes to mind, but I can respect and understand that it annoys the other word-users when I get on their nerves with a subject they know nothing about.

Assume I’m a nobody, a romantic, a naive, or that getting advice from me is the equivalent of being measured by the undertaker, that I’m patronising and contemptuous with the pessimistic stance comparable only to my co-pessimistic co-word-users, or that in the beginning is the word is nothing more than kid’s talk.

I am sadly aware of it.

I might well at once be too simple and too subtle for the contemporary mind shared by of the defenders of the status quo.

I will never be fully understood, except by the happy people — the children that haven’t already gone through the homogenizing hopper called school into which we toss our integral tots for teaching falsehoods from the start.

Work keeps me in balance

I dream of being the one who helps the new way of looking at words to break through worldwide.

That’s how I want to go when my time will have come.

But until then, now that The Origin of Humanity is out, I will do my best at a seminar at a time, with the first you may want to attend coming up on October 1st, 2023.

My view — on the origin of everything, this is on in the beginning is the word — will probably scare all those who normally get their money’s worth from the established views defended by the church/es and state/s.

My seminars are intended for those who still believe what can be grasped immediately is not always of the greatest quality.

All that glitters is not gold.

Furthermore, it is addressed to all those who admire my work, and also to those who already believe in my passion but are not yet convinced of my work.

How to get better at opportunities? Try LIMITLESS (opportunities)

By Beat Schindler In Uncategorized

In less than 3 weeks, I’ll be hosting my “LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES” live seminar, as opposed to an online webinar, answering questions and connecting people to get serious in discussing the new way of looking at words.

After the seminar, the participants will have replaced the old way of how word-users looked at words.

In other words, the old way of looking at words will be a thing of the past that the participants will be happy to forget forever and a day.

Limitless Opportunities

Limitless Opportunities will change the world and, hence will be transformative with a money-back guarantee.

Because when YOU change how YOU look AT WORDS, YOU change.

Limitless Opportunities does it for you. As you partake in the seminar, new landscapes will unfold that participants will discover have been there all along.

The unfolding is you.

Limitless Opportunities is based on The Origin of Humanity, my new book which as you’d expect covers how everything began — not only humanity, but also you, and everything else you have a word for.

In the beginning is the word

How everything began — and what words are, what words do, and what words have — isn’t taught at learning institutions such as homes, kindergartens, schools, and universities.

Therefore, graduates don’t think of you, or of themselves, as a word.

“The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.”
– Marshall McLuhan

A quick reminder for those who haven’t had a chance yet to read my previous posts — here or on my website: You is a word.

And like every other word you have ever heard of, including you and humanity, it couldn’t be anything else if it tried.

Since 2016

Since 2016 I’ve written more books about words than any other author. Part of that is simply longevity, persistence, and showing up. But most of it is your doing.

The loyal readers of my books, posts, and blog — more than seven years of going tough while the going gets tougher — are the foundation of my career as a words-author.

I remember it well.

Now that my book is out, hosting a live seminar, with a face-to-face audience asking and answering questions, in the town where I care and reside, in Biel-Bienne, Switzerland, seems like a good idea.

That said, you can of course order my book at any time of the day and the night. For that, it will always be the right time.

Takeaway

If you live in or near Switzerland or know anybody who does, I hope you and your friends can make it to my Limitless Opportunities seminar on October 1st, 2023.

Thank you.

Don’t know how to live without limits? Here’s an evergreen piece of advice:

By Beat Schindler In blog, words, you

You are looking to live without the limits imposed on you by others.

There’s just one obstacle in the way.

You don’t know how.

Therefore, your first instinct might be to enter “live without limits” on your smartphone.

If you’re lucky or unlucky — a question of perspective, to each their own — to stumble upon the Google search engine to find the results you’re looking for, Google will tell you there are about 1,530,000,000 of them. 1.53 billion results for 1 question.

In 2023, that’s called normal and obvious. As opposed to contrarian.

If you invest in the obvious, as opposed to contrarian, and you spend just a second to find what each of these 1.53 billion search results mean, you’ll be 49 years older by the time you’re done, 49 years without any sleep nor toilet breaks.

You’re free to go for the obvious of course.

But you also know that while nobody says living without limits is easy, I’m here to tell you it doesn’t have to be this hard.

In fact, if you’re looking for limitless opportunities, all it takes is to read on to discover the evergreen piece of advice that I promise in the headline.

My evergreen piece of advice is not obvious, it’s contrarian.

I know what I’m talking about.

Everything comes down to how it all began

Everything comes down to how it all began, and in the beginning is the word.

You might have heard of in the beginning is the word before. Perhaps you’ve read it in a famous book written 1,711 years ago.

That famous book is still found, in many times since translated versions, on the shelves of word-users that believe any story as long as it’s told by the RITA method…

R epetition
I ntensity
T iming
A uthority

…except for the story of words which is what in the beginning is the word is all about.

Because those that have written in the beginning is the word into their famous book written 1,711 years ago, don’t want the word-users to know about the story of words.

In the beginning is the word.

There is no other beginning

Beginning is an English word.

In other words, where English words are not used, the word-users use different words to say beginning. But no matter which word is used, if it wasn’t for the invention of the word, there’d be no beginning.

Since the story of words is untold and words aren’t taught at school or anywhere else, allow me to briefly explain what words are.

Using words to talk of words

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I’m doing it anyway.

Words do nothing

By themselves, words do nothing.
They do not matter (words possess zero electric charge).
They have no meaning.
They don’t make sense.
They couldn’t if they tried.

With the help of word-users

Words revolutionized evolution.
In the beginning is the word.
From words, worlds are born.
Words work.
Everything a word-user has a word for is a word.
Everything a word-user knows is a word. Word and you included.
Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
The key is in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see.
Words are what word-users respond to.
Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
Words don’t describe the world.
Words describe how the word-user sees the world, each their own.
Words have not only changed what we see but how we see.
Words are the limits of the word-user’s world.
Once the word-users see, the words cease to be the limits of their world.
If a word-user ignores what words can do to it, then it can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
Words can be denied only by confirming them.
Words defy our understanding of how the universe works.
Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and we often treat them that way.
Word-users love to use their words.

How many words?

How many beginnings exist on our planet? How many words exist on our planet? Nobody knowns except that it’s the same number.

There are billions of words, hence billions of beginnings.

There are more words and beginnings than anyone to manage, let alone count.

But among the billions of beginnings and words, you are free as a bird to use any.

Limitless opportunities

As the founder of limitless opportunities, and therefore of life without limits, people ask me, Beat, if you were creating your program today, is there anything you’d update or change?

I am thinking about this and the topic that most interests me and many other people right now is the idea of awakening, also known as enlightenment, self-realization, soul integration, spiritual illumination, and mindfulness.

Something’s going on, no question about it, and I think it has to do with the blending of being driven by what we feel, compared to where we’ve been in the not-too-distant past, technology-driven.

I think that is something that will have offshoots that speak to cooperation, friendship, a lot more emphasis on joy, and maybe a greater emphasis on letting the details shake out.

Although I talk at length about the cursed how’s and not trying to force the who’s, the where’s, and the when’s when it comes to the manifestation of feelings, overall, there’d be a chapter or a whole tangent on awakening to what we are, what we do, and what we have.

I know how it all began.

I teach it in my courses and program as those who participate know.

In the beginning is the word is not wishy-washy. There are no two ways about it.

In the beginning is the word is not a movable feast, as those who have written it in their famous book want you to believe.

There are infinite roads to Rome, but none of those roads change that in the beginning is the word.

Having not awakened to what we are, what we do, and what we have means we have ways to go, much of it uphill and some of it through steep valleys.

In the beginning is the word is what I’m talking of in my LIMITLESS OPPORTUNITIES program.

Simple, not complicated

When you get to how it all began, it gets simple, not complicated.

You dispel confusion.

Through the dispelling of confusion, your life without limits shall come.

Through the dispelling of confusion, you will go out into the world dancing and your invisible limiting and conflicting beliefs will align.

The beliefs that don’t serve you, out of alignment with how it all began, will fall by the wayside.

A huge weight will be lifted off your shoulders.

This is your ticket and how the cards are dealt.

It’s never too late to be feelings-driven.

It’s never too late to do the right thing.

Little-known steps to get words to work for you forever and a day

By Beat Schindler In blog, words, you

I never thought this would happen to me.

When it did, happen that is, as you’d expect, I was taken aback.

I was merrily jogging through the trees of my favorite forest when two young spandex speedsters blew by me on their $300 shoes.

For a moment, I was disheartened.

What’s the point–they’re fast like the wind?

I’m not.

Then I realized that it’s not a race.

It’s a journey from beginning to end, and as Yogi Berra has observed, “Predictions are hard to make, especially about the future.”

There is no winning, just feeling good.

The rest is technique.

How it all began

Those who read only one book have got how it all began down pat. They know, or so they say, knowing full well they’re lying all the way to the bank.

I read less and write more, hence I know that in the beginning is the word can be denied only by confirming it.

Without words, there’s no beginning.

In the wordless world of energy, fire, earth, wind, water, elements, cells, plants, and animals, beginning is absent for self-evident reasons. And so is end, and everything in between beginning and end such as jogging through the trees of my favorite forest.

In the beginning is the word

The only variable in time and space is the invention of the word. It revolutionized evolution and defies our understanding of how the universe works.

Everything else was designed a long time ago, but you are free to decide your words among the more than you could handle if you lived a million years.

Billions of words in English alone, claim those who claim to have counted them all, to which I say bullpoop.

All the truths in the world add up to a lie.

From words, worlds are born

The founder of the limitless opportunity challenge, people ask me, Beat, which limitless opportunities principle is your favorite?

To which I answer: 3 words.

Words become things.

I tell it in everything I do.

Words become things.

That is the secret.

That is my favorite talking point.

There’s no question about it.

You have to work hard to get your words clean to make it simple, but it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

That’s my favorite principle.

That’s the hook that I try to catch audiences on, early in the presentation.

This is the power of meaningful words.

And when you keep your word, many decisions are already made.

This is why I create visualizations, why affirmations work, and why showing up works.

Because our behaviors and our actions are our words in motion.

Never let “In the beginning is the word” out of your sight.

And let others do what they like instead.

Word and let word

Tolerate the words of others so that they will similarly tolerate yours.

From learning words to habits is faster than you think

By Beat Schindler In blog, words

Words become habits faster than you think

Habits rule the conditioned mind.

Hold it!

Relax.

Before you jump to conclusions you only risk to regret later, don’t think that your mind has a choice — it is conditioned whether it likes it or not.

The freedom you have, the only freedom you have, is to decide who does the conditioning.

It’s either other word-users with their companies’ interests in mind, each their own…

…or it’s you.

Use your freedom wisely, for habits eat good intentions for breakfast.

Habits are first cobwebs (the tangled webs produced by spiders) too light to be felt until they fast become chains too heavy to be broken.

Because we’re animals, albeit animals with words, we can never free ourselves from habits. But we can replace bad word habits with good word habits in the blink of an eye.

No habit impacts what do and what we have more than word habits, which are words spoken habitually and repeatedly, out loud or in self-talk don’t make any difference.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

Therefore, what you do and what you have is not an accident. It is a direct consequence of the words you use repeatedly.

Watch your word

Watch your words for the ones you use repeatedly become your habits faster than you think.

Your habits in turn determine what you achieve and what you fail to achieve.

What you achieve in turn becomes your self-image, also known as your self-esteem, which in turn becomes your destiny.

However, in the beginning of this chain of events — of words, habits, achievements, self-image, and destiny — is always the word. The beginning is key. Never let that out of your sight.

Never let how everything began…

…including how you began out of your sight.

Needless to say but for the sake of this post I say it anyway, you is a word.

When you change how you look at words, you, your life, and your world will change.

Somewhere on purpose versus nowhere by accident

Some word-users arrive somewhere on purpose.

Those are the ones that use vision repeatedly.

They have other things going for them as well, but they all have a vision which they either achieve or die trying.

Other word-user decide to arrive nowhere by accident.

These are the ones that don’t watch the words they use repeatedly, including the broken not to be spoken to begin with.

Men’s natures are alike. It is their habits that separates them.” – Confucius

Simple versus complicated

You might think the journey from birth to death is complicated.

I know exactly how it feels because I used to make the same mistake myself.

But when you branch out and take the road less traveled, you’ll discover that it’s simple, and that simple isn’t complicated when you know how.

Some word-users claim it’s simple to be happy but hard to be simple. Those are the ones that simply don’t know how.

I’ve been a simplification coach, and I have helped myself and my clients to simplify their lives, for as long as I remember.

I’ve written a bunch about simple, among others in the “LAST TRAIN TO SIMPLE – The crazy method to love life” — to which the reader reviews are here.

Now, after my latest book, “THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY – What can be denied only by confirming it”, is out, I will soon release my new book on “HOW TO SIMPLIFY” (title yet to be defined. Any suggestions will be much appreciated).

In the beginning is the word

Like THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, HOW TO SIMPLIFY will be based on what can be denied only by confirming it, that is in the beginning is the word.

HOW TO SIMPLIFY will be based on the fact that when you change how you look at words, you, your life your world, and your destiny will change in the blink of an eye.

Words that don’t serve you are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.

Word habits that serve you versus word habits that harm you aren’t a question of easy or hard. On the contrary, word habits are just that, a question of habit. But word habits good or bad come with BIG consequences because word habits work like compound interest, you get back more than you put in.

The minute you change the bad words for words that serve you well — I’ll help you to figure them out, to each their own — your destiny changes, and when your destiny changes, how you feel changes too, which in turn determines what you go after and what you avoid,,,

…for the rest of your life and a day.

Takeaway

Nothing impacts your destiny more than what you feel now.

Now you can feel good or bad anytime.

Don’t ever let that freedom out of your sight.

Your destiny depends on it.

Do you believe that media would exist without words?

By Beat Schindler In blog, words

In the wordless world

Everything you have a word for doesn’t exist in the wordless world for self-evident reasons, including of course media.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, word is the medium without which there wouldn’t be any (media).

For completeness’ sake, let me add that it’s not just about media.

There’d be no word-users either.

Breathe and allow things to pass

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to social media.

Power is sitting back and observing everything with logic.

If social media controls you means everyone with a smart phone can control you.

Breathe and allow things to pass.

How to make your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic

By Beat Schindler In blog, words

I was happily pedaling on my bicycle when a T-shirted speedster blew by me on her battery-powered roller.

For a moment, I was dis-appointed.

She’s speedy, I’m not. She’s young, I’m not. What’s the point?

Then I realized, A) that I had failed that morning to appoint myself, B) that it’s not a race, and C) that I don’t own a plan B.

It’s not a race. On the contrary, it’s a journey from the beginning to the end, to each their own, including the lies we’re told with no end in sight.

You’re making choices you’re told by your handheld devices. It’s a lie. There are more choices than any word-user can embrace in a thousand-plus years.

If you got up this new morning to make choices, it might be your turn to be disappointed. You’re too late by a country smile. The choices have been made, it’s not for you to make any.

All the word-users can do is make decisions, each their own, from among the more words than you could manage even if you lived a thousand years which even your best friend will probably doubt.

Decide is all the word-users can do. That’s the only variable in time and space. Everything else has been decided eons ago.

But as you’re breathing, in this eon right now, lucky you are identical to every other word-user, free to believe as you decide, provided you believe it is true.

The beauty of it? No other word or other word-user can believe it for you.

Behind every horizon, there is more to see.

Explode your morning productivity

If you dreamt last night of seeing your morning productivity explode today, waking up was a good first step, highly recommended but not enough.

To make your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic depends on how you’ve been educated.

In other words, it depends on what you believe about words.

If you believe the word is what they want you to believe at kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few, you will never know the first thing about the word nor about the beginning.

Everybody has heard about that in the beginning is the word, but only a few word-users know what it means.

Education

Kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few, are all about education, and “anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either” (Marshall McLuhan).

People ask me, Beat, what do you believe we should change about education? How do you think we could improve schools to celebrate and uplift the children and our specie as a whole?

I think and know I’m not the only one, that the system is broken, that it’s been broken since it’s been invented by word-masters thousands of years ago, and that more of the same will be just that, more broken.

Getting our young together, getting them outdoors, getting them to play, getting them to create, and getting them to decide on their own, is important. But all animals do this, and more, naturally.

We, the animal with words, as opposed to every other species on Earth, are the only specie that builds schools for the sole purpose of words.

And anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and school doesn’t know the first thing about either.

All elements, plants, and animals learn

All elements, plants, and animals learn to decide and to move on their own, but they do it without schools. Most of them do it even without brains, but that’s a different story altogether.

I think that’s what education is about, and that schools all over the world should be made to remember that’s what they’re about.

Sure, what I believe is a new method to belief that makes the old obsolete, which is why it’s hard to embrace for many readers.

But hard doesn’t make it impossible.

Though it’s hard to believe, you are playing with the idea as we speak anyway, aren’t you?

Back to making your morning productivity explode with one simple tactic.

If you don’t know how, that’s how it’s done:

Don’t go with what they want you to believe about words at kindergarten, school, university, church, and internet, to name a few. Instead, embrace what can be denied only by confirming it:

In the beginning is the word

From words, worlds are born.
Words work.
Decide your words well.
“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key (the key is in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see).
Everything word-users have a word for is a word.
Everything word-users know is a word.
Words are what word-users respond to.
Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.
A word is in the beginning of everything the word-users have a word for, you included.
The appearance of words has revolutionized evolution.
Words have not only changed everything word-users have a word for, they create it.
Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
Words don’t describe the world, they merely describe how the word-users see it.
Words have not only changed what the word-users see, but how they see.
Words are the limits of the word-users world.
Once you see that, they cease to be the limits of your world.
Words are not taught at school.
The story of words is not told, neither at school nor anywhere else.
Word-masters have known that in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
Word-users love to use their words.
Words tend to get mistaken for evidence, and the word-users often treat them that way.
If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to other word-users.
Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
Words have no meaning.
Words don’t make sense.
The one with the matter, meaning, and senses, the sensational one, is you.
A word, any word, can be denied only by confirming it.
Words defy our understanding of how the universe works.
Words couldn’t be anything else if they tried.
For self-evident reasons.
Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

There’s nothing so stable as change

I think the days are coming when things are changing on planet Earth.

I think we are awakening, and word-users are asking the same exact question, and answering it as well.

So much to be excited about for future generations on planet Earth and our species.

To make you MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, do the opposite of what most people do.

By Beat Schindler In blog, you

Have you seen Oppenheimer, the movie?

It’s possible you’ve read the book. Who knows, maybe you did both.

To make your view of the world MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, is easy to do.

Do the opposite of what the crowd does.

The majority of word-users read the book or watch the movie thinking Oppenheimer is about the atomic bomb.

To MASSIVELY stand out from the crowd, dig just a little bit deeper.

When you do, you’ll see that Oppenheimer is about more than just the atom bomb.

You’ll see that Oppenheimer is — for lack of a better word — about insanity.

Don’t let me be misunderstood.

It’s neither for me nor for anybody else to tell you what to do and what not to do on your journey.

All I’m saying is that the choices exist — you can conform or stand out any time you want — that the decision is yours, and that no other word or word-user can decide it for you.

Oppenheimer is more than about the bomb

To build an atomic bomb takes words and word-users.

How can you know beyond the shadow of a doubt?

Nothing wordless has ever built an atomic bomb.

The wordless sun hasn’t, nor has the wordless moon, stars, stardust, fire, air, earth, cells, plants, animals, eyes, and brains.

To build an atomic bomb took animals with words, of which Oppenheimer is part.

In other words, that’s what Oppenheimer is also about.

It took words to build the atomic bomb.

And it took yet more words to get us into the state the world is in, which is where you and I are waging a war against nature, a war against you and me.

If we win, we’re guaranteed to lose.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Have I mentioned insanity?

A new model that makes the old obsolete

If we don’t embrace soon a new model that makes the old model obsolete, it’ll be the end of us.

More and more word-users are ready to bet their life on it, which like for the atomic bomb, cannot be done without words. The proof is in the pudding. The wordless don’t do it.

Not that it matters, after all, words also don’t matter.

And though it’s not taught at school, everybody knows that all will be good in the end, and that if not all is good, it means that it’s not the end yet.

Talking of which…

Even should it one day be the end for us, it won’t be the end for all things wordless. On the contrary, the wordless on our planet will be happy to see the end of the words and the word-users once again.

The only difference shall be that we and our children will no be longer present to see it.

Words have revolutionized evolution

Oppenheimer is also about the fact that in the most recent 0.0003% of Earth-Time that they have been around, the word and the word-users have revolutionized evolution.

Before Words

In the first 99.9997% of the 4.65 billion years since the wordless fire, air, earth, and water arrived from outer space by space travel to invent our planet, you could say that the few things that happened over those 4.65 billion years happened slowly.

Based on the numbers above, you could say they took forever.

After Words

In the remaining 0.0003% of the 4.65 billion years of Earth-Time, the word and the word-users have been invented…

3/1000th of a second before midnight
When the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet
13,750 years ago.

And now, 13,750 years later, there are 4 billion words in English alone.

That means since the invention of presumably the first word 13,750 years ago, the word-users have invented 290,909 additional words in each of those 13,750 years. Imagine that!

With no end in sight. Imagine that!

Everything you know is a word

Though it’s hard to believe and it’s not taught at school, everybody understands that everything we know is a word.

Yet some word-users want you to believe that it’s possible to know 4 billion of them, which includes truth and world, to name a few.

Truth

To each word-user their own truth.

Let alone a different word for true depending on location.

World

As for truth above, world too means different things to different word-users. Let alone a different word for world depending on location.

If even truth and world, just 2 words of 4 billion, mean different things to different people at different times, this makes you wonder about the purpose of evolution, the purpose of intelligence, the purpose of words, and the purpose of the atomic bombs, does it not?

If not, do you wonder about anything at all?

No question about it

No question about it, the invention of words has allowed us to get to the top of the food chain, with the word-users life expectancies 10 times longer than they used to be, and now ready for breakfast on Mars.

But what’s the purpose of all of these and other accomplishments if they only serve us to describe the state of the world in these terms:

If we don’t end the war against ourselves, it’ll be the end of us.

Words have revolutionized evolution before.

I’m not saying they can do it again. All I’m saying is let’s give words a chance.

To do again what they did 13,750 years ago.

Revolutionize evolution.

If your words don’t have rules, you’re doing it wrong

By Beat Schindler In blog, words, you

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons, including word for equally self-evident reasons.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, everybody knows that everything is different because everything we know is what we have words for.

But that’s not all.

What everybody doesn’t know is that words have rules the grammarians don’t have a clue about.

With grammar taught at schools throughout the world means the 7 word rules below are ignored by both the grammarians and the other word-users throughout the world, too.

Word rules

#1: Words do not matter

See https://tinyurl.com/3sdy9fcn

#2: If you have a word for it, it’s a word.

See http://tinyurl.com/y9w5msd7

#3: Words are always yours

When you speak a word, any word — whether in self-talk or aloud — it will be yours always for nobody else can think it or speak it for you.

#4: A word can be denied only by confirming it.

If you want to deny a word, any word, you’ll discover in the blink of an eye that it cannot be done without using it.

#5: Words are how word-users aim at what they’re looking for.

Whenever word-users are looking for anything — such as heartbreak, success, happiness, more, time, problem, solution, agreement, direction, or decision, to name a select few of the 4 billion English words on offer, you’re sure to use those words.

#6: Words are the limits of your world.

Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
PS. If interested, the key is now in THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY for everybody to see.

#7: A word is never another (word).

Examples:

Words are Language
Time is Money
Knowledge is Power
God is Love

Mistaking words for another (word) is a BIG mistake because it prevents anyone making it from knowing the first thing about either.

To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense. And to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” – Marshall McLuhan

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Takeaway

If your words don’t have rules, you’re doing it wrong.

Follow the 7 word rules above to see words work for you, as opposed to against you, in no time at all.

What makes a good picture?

By Beat Schindler In words, you

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, nothing exists that word-users have a word for.

For self-evident reasons that includes good and picture.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world:

Picture is a word
Everything you have a word for is a word
A word, any word, couldn’t be anything else if it tried
Picture is mistaken to speak 1,000 words

This might make sense at first sight — especially the part about picture speaking, which presupposes that words have the organs required (to speak).

But unlike the word-users, words are void of organs.

And if you look a wee bit closer, you can clearly see that the invention of pictures predates the invention of words by 30,000 years.

This we know from cave paintings in different parts of the world that are 30,000 years older than the words that the first word-users began 30,000 years later to describe those cave paintings with.

And 43,750 years after the invention of pictures, we now believe that dance/pantomime, music, sculpture, and pictures/paintings are part of the classic arts.

What’s rarely talked about yet extra special about the classic arts is that they are older than words. But that’s about art, a different story altogether that will be addressed in a separate post when the time for art is right.

Back to pictures and words

In case you forgot, words were invented when the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

In other words, words were invented 13,750 years ago.

But we shall never know what happened after that because the witnesses are gone. All we can safely assume is that it was Event A or Event B before the other.

Event A: When words were new, 13,750 years ago, our ancestors had to invent 1,000 words before they could even begin to accuse pictures of speaking as many.
Event B: Our ancestors began to mistake picture — which at the risk of repeating myself is a word — for possessing the organs required to speak words, let alone 1,000 of them each.

Fact is, it didn’t take long for the majority of word-users to mistake words for what they aren’t.

Imagine that!

13,750 years later, Wikipedia speaks 2.916 words (about pictures), and any art critic worth their salt will find the number of words it takes to fill a book about the Lascaux cave pictures alone.

But no word-user today believes that words possess the organs required to talk because schools all over the world now finally teach that words are words, and the only ones with the organs required to use words are the teachers and students of words, that is the word-users.

But who am I, the author of THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY, to talk in turn?

I could be wrong.

Maybe schools all over the world still don’t teach the difference between the word and the word-user.

Maybe the 4 word-users below are right.

”Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato (2,500 years ago)
“Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein (99 years ago)
“The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan (74 years ago)
“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon (40 years ago)

Takeaway

The choices are there.

The decision is yours.

No other word or word-user can decide it for you.

My story

By Beat Schindler In Beat Schindler, history

It’s possible that you don’t know me…yet.

In fact, it’s more than likely. Maybe like many LinkedIn users before, you’ve viewed my profile but would like to know more about me just the same.

Therefore, if so inclined, let me share with you my story in two parts.

Part 1: Before me/Before 2016/Before words

Part 2: After me/After 2016/After words

Before me/Before 2016/Before words

Before me, I used to do when and how I was told, grew up, traveled the world, worked for the world’s then-best company you could work for, read truckloads of books, papers, and instruction manuals, and studied with some world famous coaches so you don’t have to.

2016

On a sunny afternoon in 2016, I was jogging through my favorite forest with my eyes wide open so as not to step onto any rocks, roots, snails, pine cones, or branches, when I stumbled upon the fact that everything I have a word for is a word.

The wordless light came through the wordless leaves and the wordless trees straight from the wordless sun above, when out of the blue I clearly saw that there was nothing left between the wordless and the words. The wordless fire, air, earth, and water had turned everything wordless into words, including themselves, me, and everything else I had a word for.

I had once before not known where I was, or what is me and what is not me, which is when I was born wordless. That means this was my second experience with that same event. And it turned out I was every bit as surprised as I was the first time around.

I wished the madness would go away as fast as it had come, but many years later I still have my eyes wide open.

Be it as it may, by now it was early evening. I decided to stay in the forest for a little while longer. For the first time in my adult life, tears were now flowing freely. Not one with a habit of crying a river, I had to stop myself from happening at this crowning end of a sunny afternoon.

This was the most serene event that had ever happened to me, and I wasn’t prepared to lose it again.

The famous coaches whose books I read and seminars I attended during the 20 years before to reclaim my identity have no idea that never before or since I imagined that anyone or anything can feel like this,

They do not imagine it themselves. They couldn’t if they tried.

Experience trumps theory.

Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.

After me/After 2016/After words

Everything looked the same, but the world had changed. Again.

I can now be in the company of family and friends thinking 5 minutes have gone by when in fact several hours had flown out the window. I can be there with my ears and my eyes wide open, participating, but without a sense of time.

Everything within me and without me dances in this both wordless and wordy world of circumstances. With a difference, this time around I have the words to describe it.

Like most people I knew, I had never thought of me as a word before.

Communicating with myself, which is what words are also for, I ask “What if everything is a word?” or “What if everything I know is a word?” and all I get back is a constant “Maybe you’ve lost your marbles.”

I have always been happy, have no problems, and have always done what I did for nothing but the sensation while doing it. This and many other worries have never been an issue for me, and I’m not eager to make that mistake now.

Every cell that my body is made of, that is 100%, are still bursting with what I still don’t have words for as we speak, the ecstasy of 2016.

Do not the brightest moments find us without words?

Over and above the fact that I’m not the spring chicken I used to be and that I’ve experienced open heart surgery, if you see photos of me before and after 2016, you can clearly see that things have changed. As I research and write my books and articles, I’m freer than I ever was before, my own birth excepted. My voice and the shape of my face change, to name a few, as they did before, as good as new.

Post-2016, I knew I had to do something but didn’t know how.

All that mattered was that I followed my bliss anew. I knew the how would show up at the right time.

Post-2016, I trust words enough, including the uniVERSE, to find guides I expect different from what I anticipate.

When you change how you look at words, the world changes.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Post-2016, I use words to help myself and other word-users to reclaim their identity in turn

I know that all word-users are made as I am — of 70% water, 30% fire, air, and earth, and 100% cells. Don’t worry it the math doesn’t add up. Therefore I think that the ecstasy, serenity, and freedom that happened and continue to happen to me, can happen to any word-user willing to change the way they look at words.

I wish this willing word-user, my friend, will be you.

If you were to climb Everest, at 8,848 meters the world’s highest mountain, would you consider yourself a success after you reached the top? If it’s yes, you are only half right. Success is when you are back down in the valley again. Wouldn’t you agree?

Be it as it may, this is similar to changing the way you look at words. Nothing is believed until it’s true. I can help, but nobody else can believe it for you.

PS.

THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY is the most profound book I’ve ever published. My intention is to disarm the listener. The book breaks what people expect from me, as I don’t talk with words, but about words.

The end in mind with THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY isn’t to change the world by fighting the old, but by providing a new model that makes the old obsolete.

Takeaway

There are no passengers on this planet of ours. Every thing and every body — yes, the spaces are intended — are crew, the wordless and the wordy alike. And the only specie that doesn’t know what they’re doing is the one that you and I belong to: The word-users.

I’m not saying that’s not true.

All I’m saying is do with what you are, with what you have, with where you are, and with what you know and ignore, to make the world a better place — the best place it can be for yourself, for your family, for your friends, and for the wordless, too — now.

I hope my story now told may inspire you every step of your way.

This 13,750-year-old sales trick still works today

By Beat Schindler In history, words, you

A 13,750-year-old sales trick continues to work as we speak, so you might of course want to know what it is and what we’re talking about.

Well, first things first, a trick is intended to deceive.

As you’d expect from a trick that has deceived without fail for the past 13,750 years — which is when the words got invented — is that it must have deceived as many word-users back when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe was under 1-mile-thick ice, as it continues to deceive now, 13,750 years later.

If you think that’s the 13,750-year-old sales trick this post is about, you’re spot on.

It’s as if time has left no trace on the workings of this nearly 14,000-year-old sales trick.

Sales implies that the trick is based on words. Needless to say, but for the purpose of this post I say it anyway, sales is a word, and so is trick.

In the wordless world, sales and trick don’t exist for obvious reasons. But in the wordy world, everything is different.

In case you haven’t read all my articles published since July 10, 2023, let me remind you that there exist two types of citizens on planet Earth, the word-masters and the word-users.

The word-masters are word-users that have known in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.

The word-users do as told by the word-masters.

There’s nothing new about the word-masters, the minority, and the word-users, the majority. On the contrary, the relationship between masters and users has remained unchanged for thousands of years, and now is no different.

All of us

The word-masters and the word-users alike, that is all of us, know from personal experience that we depend on context and contrast to stay alive.

Should we lose our ability to be in charge of our own context and contrast, that means we simply surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it. When this happens, you’ll be in trouble in the blink of an eye or by the end of the day, whichever comes first.

This we’ve known long before Maslow wrote it down for everybody to see, because, let’s face it, we’re all animals with words — though we love to pretend otherwise — so we know what we know with or without words learned at school.

After all, the 100% cells that we’re made of are wordless, too, and each cell knows much more than we’ll ever know.

The setup can be rigged

If you’re not in charge of your own context and contrast, then somebody else will be more than happy to take charge for you.

That somebody will likely be evil word-masters bent on taking advantage of this natural survival skill by rigging the setup in their favor.

When you surrender your senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from it, you have no rights left, and you don’t compare as you had initially intended, apples to apples, but you now end up comparing apples to oranges, or you can even be manipulated to believe an apple is an orange.

There are many ways to do this.

Takeaway

The challenge is knowing who is in control of the context and the contrast.

Make sure it’s you.

You can’t win with a losing hand.

The step-by-step guide to why the story of words isn’t told

By Beat Schindler In history, words, you

Step 1

As you’d expect, your lesson begins with the first step.

Step number one is knowing that the word-masters have known in the beginning is the word since the beginning.

You don’t need to be a word-master to know what that means.

But you must know how it all began.

It all began with the invention of words, hence the saying “In the beginning is the word”.

Unless you’ve lived in a cave on a distant planet until today, I think you’ve likely heard about or seen in the beginning is the word in writing.

Before Words

Above marked in red, nothing that you now have a word for exists in the wordless world Before Words.

After Words

Equally marked in red, everything you now have a word for exists in the wordy world After Words because in the beginning is the word.

That’s how humanity and everything you have a word for began.

A word couldn’t be anything else if it tried, including you.

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Therefore, without further ado, let’s move on to step 2.

Step 2

The story of words isn’t told because of Step 1.

If the story of words were told, it would be the death of the world’s longest-lasting lies.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Word-masters

In the beginning is the word.

God is no exception.

It couldn’t be anything else if it tried.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” – Word-masters

Words were invented 13,750 years ago.
Writing was invented 5,000 years ago.
Nobody knows what word was spoken in the 8,750 years between the invention of words and the invention of writing.
We know that during the word’s first 8,750 years, they were spoken only, meaning from whence the words had come, tither they returned again.
We don’t know where that was or could have been.

Step 3

If the story of words were told, it’d be the end of the organizations built on the world’s most successful lies.

They couldn’t continue to tell them in peace.

Imagine that.

Step 4

Now you know why the story of words isn’t told.

“‎Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato

PS.

Whether a lie happened or not doesn’t matter. All that matters it’s believed.

Do you want a fresh perspective but don’t know how?

By Beat Schindler In history, words, you

Why is it hard to gain a fresh perspective?

I think it has got to do — are you ready for this? — with professional golf teachers.

I’m told the hardest part for a professional golf teacher isn’t helping adult golfers develop a picture-book swing. The hardest part is getting adult golfers to stop using a bad one.

The same is true for professional word teachers.

The hardest part isn’t helping adult word-users gain a fresh perspective. The hardest part for a professional word teacher is getting adult word-users to change how to look at words.

Change how you look at words

When word-users change how they look at words, their worlds change.

You can bet your life on it.

Talk about a fresh perspective.

Nothing is believed until it’s true

Part of a fresh perspective is seeing, maybe for the first time, that the invention of words divided the word-users’ world into the wordless and the wordy.

Maybe also for the first time, it is seeing that the words and the word-users follow what preceded them since the birth of the planet 4.65 billion years ago, including the inventions of the eyes and the brains half a billion years before the invention of words.

Put differently, there’s no question about it, the words and word-users are part and parcel of evolution.

Without words (in the wordless world), there is no evolution.

Certainly for the first time, the final part of a fresh perspective is seeing that “Animal with words” appears under both the “WORDLESS” and the “WORDY” worlds at the same time.

That’s due to the fact that words don’t matter.

In that way, words defy our understanding of how evolution works.

Wordless

As depicted above, the wordless include not only the fire, air, earth, and water, but also everything invented by those 4 in the 4.65 billion years since they created the Earth.

In other words, the wordless include what the word-users name nature.

“To see, we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Claude Monet

Wordy

The wordy include the word-users, that is the animals with words (you and me), and the machines.

Machines excepted

Every word-user is unique like everybody else.

Therefore, it goes without saying but for the purpose of a fresh perspective I say it anyway, each word-user has their own truth(s).

In other words, to each their own.

The machines are excepted because everybody knows that the machines operate on programs and that the difference, if any, is not in the programmed machines, but in who is using them.

If it were different, all word-users would change how they look at words at the same time, all their worlds would change in the blink of an eye, and we’d gain the first fresh perspective since the beginning of words before the end of the day.

And here’s how to make this wishful thinking come true:

Don’t think twice in the beginning is the word.

Just think it once and for all instead.

Done.

Takeaway

If you ever want a fresh perspective again, but don’t know how, it’s simple to do.

Change how you look at words.

“Why are words not what my smartphone says?” is the question that I often get asked

By Beat Schindler In history, words

Word-users ask strange questions

The strange question I often get asked is “Why is the word not what my smart phone says?”

In a world of complicated — an English-pronounced Latin word — simple is like one hand clapping, hard to be heard, or if you prefer, like a bird without feathers, hard to take to the sky.

Word and words are good cases in point.

Simple is a word that couldn’t be anything else if it tried. Naturally, so is complicated.

The difference between the two is that simple is work while complicated happens.

There are many ways to simple.

You can read simple quotes worth reading twice.

And there’s “Last Train to Simple (the crazy method to love life)”.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?”

Long story short, there are two answers, simple and complicated.

The simple answer: Because your smartphone depends on the internet.

For the complicated: Ask the internet.

Actually, you don’t have to. I’ve done the hard work for you.

Wikipedia “the internet’s most-read reference work”
“Internet: is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the world wide web (www), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing (followed by another 11,000 words)”.
Dictionary “the internet’s leading online dictionary”
“Internet: Usually (except when used before a noun), a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
BrainyQuote “providing inspirational quotes since 2001 to our worldwide community”
“Internet”: If so inclined, check it out for yourself at https://www.brainyquote.com/search_results?x=27&y=12&q=Internet

The internet

“Gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before.” – Beat Schindler

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 2

Because all the internet knows about words is what it’s been told by the internet’s inventors who learned about words at school.

What’s wrong with that is that school doesn’t teach words and doesn’t tell the story of words. “School doesn’t teach” means school doesn’t teach words — what words are, what words do, and what words have — but that’s about school, a different story entirely…

“‎Strange times are these in when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
“The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan
“If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some talking head on television to do your shit, then you deserve it.” – Frank Zappa
“When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon

…that will be covered in separate post down the line.

Back to smart.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 3

Since the invention of the internet, things have changed.

Water has gone under the bridge and other stuff too.

The mothers and fathers of the internet are dead or old now.

They’ve been replaced by 6-year-olds, or by adults impersonating 6-year-olds, that are now telling the internet what they’ve learned at schools and universities about words.

If you want to know what that is, you’ll find it at the end of this post.

“Why are words not what my smart phone says?” Part 4

Because words — what words are, what words do, and what words have — are explained in The Origin of Humanity.

Of course, you’ll find The Origin of Humanity on the internet, here, at Amazon, and wherever worthy books are sold, but that’s not enough.

To understand words, and the origin of humanity, you must read it.

The Origin of Humanity is radically different from what your smartphone says. It might shock or offend for other reasons as well.

If the above reminds you of René Magritte’s painting “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”, there is nothing I can do about it except confirm that’s how the cards are dealt.

That’s what smart is all about.

In broad brush strokes

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The appearance of words has revolutionized evolution.
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
The word-user was the word’s idea for getting more words.
Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
Words are what the word-users respond to.
Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.
Everything you know is a word.
Words do not only change everything you have a word for, they create it.
Words don’t describe the world, they describe how we see it.
Words have not only changed what we see, but how we see.
Words are the limits of your world. Once you see that, you’re limitless.
Words aren’t taught at school.
The story of words isn’t told. (Except here)
Word-masters have know in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
Words tend to get mistaken for evidence and often get treated that way.
The word-users love to use their words.
If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
Words can be denied only by confirming them.
If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
Words have no meaning.

Takeaway

There is more to it, but knowing words — what words are, do, and have — takes time.

Then it takes additional time to know you — what you are, what you do, and what you have.

All I can say is let yourself be surprised.

Better yet, surprise yourself.

“Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.” – Bill Watterson

The surprise will be worth it in the end because these two — word and you — are all it takes for the limits of your world to metamorphose into limitless opportunities forever and a day.

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PS. What the internet knows about word and words

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

“A word is a speech sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or a combination of morphemes.”

“A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or practical meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its definition and numerous attempts to find specific criteria of the concept remain controversial. Different standards have been proposed, depending on the theoretical background and descriptive context; these do not converge on a single definition. Some specific definitions of the term “word” are employed to convey its different meanings at different levels of description, for example based on phonological, grammatical or orthographic basis. Others suggest that the concept is simply a convention used in everyday situations. The concept of “word” is distinguished from that of a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even if it cannot stand on its own. Words are made out of at least one morpheme. Morphemes can also be joined to create other words in a process of morphological derivation. In English and many other languages, the morphemes that make up a word generally include at least one root (such as “rock”, “god”, “type”, “writ”, “can”, “not”) and possibly some affixes (“-s”, “un-“, “-ly”, “-ness”). Words with more than one root (“[type][writ]er”, “[cow][boy]s”, “[tele][graph]ically”) are called compound words. In turn, words are combined to form other elements of language, such as phrases (“a red rock”, “put up with”), clauses (“I threw a rock”), and sentences (“I threw a rock, but missed”). In many languages, the notion of what constitutes a “word” may be learned as part of learning the writing system. This is the case for the English language, and for most languages that are written with alphabets derived from the ancient Latin or Greek alphabets. In English orthography, the letter sequences “rock”, “god”, “write”, “with”, “the”, and “not” are considered to be single-morpheme words, whereas “rocks”, “ungodliness”, “typewriter”, and “cannot” are words composed of two or more morphemes (“rock”+”s”, “un”+”god”+”li”+”ness”, “type”+”writ”+”er”, and “can”+”not”).

ComputerHope

“Word may refer to any of the following: 1. When referring to a word processor, Word is short for Microsoft Word. 2. In general, a word is a single element of verbal communication with a unique meaning or use. For example, this sentence contains seven words. The English language contains several hundred thousand different words and Computer Hope lists over 15,000 computer-related words in its computer dictionary. Word classes or parts of speech are categories of English words that help you construct good sentences. These categories are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, determiner, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. In computing, a word is a single unit of measurement that is assumed to be a 16-bits in length value. However, it can be any set value, common word size values included: 16, 18, 24, 32, 36, 40, 48, and 64.”

Merriam-Webster

Click on Word Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster to see if you can believe Merriam-Webster’s take on words.

Merriam-Webster also wants you to believe that “a real word is when the word word has a wide range of meanings and uses in English. Yet one of the most often looked for pieces of information regarding word is not something that would be found in its definition. Instead, it is some variant of the question, What makes a word a real word? One of the most prolific areas of change and variation in English is vocabulary; new words are constantly being coined to name or describe new inventions or innovations, or to better identify aspects of our rapidly changing world. Constraints of time, money, and staff would make it impossible for any dictionary, no matter how large, to capture a fully comprehensive account of all the words in the language. And even if such a leviathan reference was somehow fashioned, the dictionary would be obsolete the instant it was published as speakers and writers continued generating new terms to meet their constantly changing needs. Most general English dictionaries are designed to include only those words that meet certain criteria of usage across wide areas and over extended periods of time (for more details about how words are chosen for dictionary entry, read “How does a word get into a Merriam-Webster dictionary?” in our FAQ). As a result, they may omit words that are still in the process of becoming established, those that are too highly specialized, or those that are so informal that they are rarely documented in professionally edited writing. But the words left out are as real as those that gain entry; the former simply haven’t met the criteria for dictionary entry–at least not yet (newer ones may ultimately gain admission to the dictionary’s pages if they gain sufficient use). However, in preparing your own writings, it is worth remembering that the dictionary encompasses the most widely used terms in English. Words that are left out may have usage limited to specific, isolated, or informal contexts, so they should be used carefully.

Oxford Learners

“Word is a single unit of language that means something and can be spoken or written.”

1 way I increased my knowledge by 1000% and so can you:

By Beat Schindler In history, you

If the above could talk, what would they tell us?

We’ll never know because they won’t.

That’s the 1 (one) way I increased my knowledge by 1000%.

Let me share with you how it came about, so you can do it too.

Words

Words do not describe the world.

They describe how we see it.

To know what I’m talking about. For just a minute:

Imagine traveling by train at your own chosen speed.

The landscapes don’t unfold.

They don’t need to because they’ve been there all along.

But you discover them and you give them words.

As the train departs slowly, you realize, slowly at first, that in the beginning is the word.

That’s when you realize the unfolding is you, that’s how beliefs are formed, but also that it’s safe to relax for it’s only a train of thought.

“To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.” – Claude Monet

Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.

Increase your knowledge by 1000% too

Because you’ve imagined traveling by train at your own chosen speed, you’re halfway there already.

For the rest of the journey, I’ll teach you about words — the whole shebang, what words are, what words do, what words have, and what you are, what you do, and what you have — which is all it takes, words and you, for the limits of your world to morph into limitless opportunities forever and a day.

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If you’ve been told that in the beginning is 0, you’ve been SHAMMED

By Beat Schindler In history, you

I’m not kidding.

Nor am I one to make a new opinion:

If you’ve been told in the beginning is 0 (zero), you’ve been SHAMMED.

In case you wonder what’s the opposite of SHAMMED, well, it’s genuine.

If you’re interested in genuine, and in how you and your family and friends have been shammed for the past 2023 years with no end in sight, then read on.

In the beginning

As you can see in broad daylight, I’m not one to make up new opinions.

There are no two ways about it.

In the beginning is the word

That includes the beginning of SHAMMED, which is a word — hence couldn’t be anything else if it tried — or we wouldn’t be here talking about you, shammed and genuine.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

Whether that’s told, SHAMMED, or genuine doesn’t make a difference.

If you have a word for it, it’s a word.

Of that you can be sure: You can bet your life on it.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t make any difference.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world, at the risk of repeating myself…

In the beginning is the word.
In the beginning of every word is the word.
If you have a word for it, it’s a word.

In broad brush strokes

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“What a word means, a sentence cannot say.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
The appearance of words revolutionized evolution.
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key.
The word-user was the word’s idea for getting more words.
Words are a gift we’re meant to keep.
Words are what the word-users respond to.
Words are how you aim at what you’re looking for.
Everything you know is a word.
Words do not only change everything you have a word for, they create it.
Words don’t describe the world, they describe how we see it.
Words have not only changed what we see, but how we see.
Words are the limits of your world. Once you see that, you’re limitless.
Words aren’t taught at school.
The story of words isn’t told.*
Word-masters have know in the beginning is the word since the beginning of words.
Words tend to get mistaken for evidence and often get treated that way.
The word-users love to use their words.
If you have a word for it, it’s a word.
Words can be denied only by confirming them.
If you ignore what words can do to you, then you can have no empathy for what words can do to others.
Words do not matter (they possess zero electric charge).
Words have no meaning.

*Except here

Takeaway

There is more to it, but knowing words — what words are, do, and have — takes time.

Then it takes yet more time to know you — the most important word in the alphabet — what you are, what you do, and what you have.

Let yourself be surprised. Even better, surprise yourself.

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.” – Bill Watterson

The surprise will be worth the time invested in the end because those two, word and you, are all it takes for the limits of your world to morph into limitless opportunities forever and a day.

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What to think of “the 1% versus the 99%” much talked about (and chances are it’s not what you think it is)

By Beat Schindler In history, you

Or rather what not to think.

Because if you think the “1% versus 99%” much talked about these days to divide us, is new, you’re mistaken.

“The 1% versus the 99%” is as old as words.

To know how old words are, try imagining the time between the birth of Earth and the year 2023 in terms of 100%, instead of in years.

It might take a minute or two, to talk from experience, because the time between the two is 4.65 billion years.

Alright?

Now add to the 4.65 billion years the fact words appeared 13,750 years ago.

Then you realize that the first 99.9997% of Earth-time was not only wordless, but that it continues wordless infinitely.

Put differently, if the 4.65 billion years were a 24-hour day, words would have appeared a mere 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, that is 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before the dawn of the new day we’re in.

To put that into context, 3/1000th of an Earth-time second before midnight, the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing hadn’t been invented yet.

The story of words and of the inventions that preceded it

The story of words and the inventions that preceded it.

“In the beginning is the word.” – Word-masters
“There is magic in every beginning.” – Hermann Hesse

The invention of brains was magic.

500,000 years later, many among us agree the brain is magic, is usually how it works.

However, nearly the same number of word-users do NOT believe this same magic equally applies to the beginning of words invented 486,250 years after the brain, 13,750 years ago exactly.

This is a surprise because Hermann Hesse, albeit much later, wrote there is magic in every beginning, so every word-user can clearly see.

In the wordless world

In the wordless world, everything you have a word for doesn’t exist for self-evident reasons.

Whether that’s beginning, brain, or word doesn’t matter. After all, if you have a word for it, it’s a word.

You can bank on it.

Call it a dream, it doesn’t make any difference.

In the wordy world

In the wordy world of word-users, the early word-masters — the 1% — were the first to understand the magic of words, while the 99% — the early word-users — tended to mistake their master’s magic for evidence and treat it as such.

The same happens of course today with stories, but expecting words and stories to possess magic presupposes that the two have the organs required, which works for the 99%, but the word-masters are not eager to make that mistake.

Fact is, if the word-masters couldn’t tell a word from an organ, we wouldn’t be here today.

What difference has 13,750 years made?

The 1% are still the word-masters, and the word-users are still the other 99%.

Nothing has changed, except of course the word-masters’ names. Read on.

A brief story of word-mastery

13750 years ago
When words were new, fewer than 1% of the world’s nascent word-user population, the word-masters, could read and write. The word-masters were the world’s original version of us versus them, of the 1% that could read and write, versus the 99% that couldn’t. It follows that the 1% of word-masters were the first to realize that in the beginning of every word is the word.
5,000 years ago
When writing was invented, the word-masters owned everything it took — the ink, the papyrus, the paper, the scribes, and the storytellers — to have their stories told in faraway places. The reward system at the time — gold and land the word-master said was his — made it affordable. But that is about gold, a different story entirely.
585 years ago
When Gutenberg invented the printing press, still only fewer than 8% of Europe’s word-users could read (of which even fewer could write). It follows that the printing press was originally priced with the 1% — those who could read and write — in mind. For the word-users who needed to be told —the 99% — a printing press was out of reach.
156 years ago
With the invention of the typewriter, everything changed because the typewriter transformed every word-user into a storyteller. Of course, the typewriters weren’t used just for storytelling, but also for the production of reference works such as encyclopedias, thesauruses, and dictionaries.
34 years ago
Everything changed, again, when the world wide web also known as the internet was invented. The world wide web gobbles up, stores, and disseminates more words faster than anything invented for that purpose before. And because Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft — also known as Big Tech — realized this first, they are now the new word-masters, the new 1%, not because they have words, but because they have words about you.

Takeaway

All the truths add up to one big lie.

The author of The Origin of Humanity, I could be wrong.

However, of this you can be sure:

How the word-masters treat you is their power.

But how you respond is all up to you.

No other word-user can do it for you.