What Does It Actually Mean To Be Prolific?
Thoughts After Writing Over 1,000 Articles On Leadership, Sageship, And Psychophysiology
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What Does It Actually Mean To Be Prolific?
Thoughts After Writing Over 1,000 Articles On Leadership, Sageship, And Psychophysiology
I want to Start by Saying This...
I Do Not Know if “I” Qualify to be Considered “Prolific” in my Work.
I have had a few people in my life, “Say” I was...
Simply because I have Written Over 1,000 Daily Articles on topics including Leadership, Sageship, and Psychophysiology...
But this just made me Ask the Question...
What Does It Actually Mean To Be Prolific?
One Thing I will Promise You...
Is that by the End of this Article, I will Make “No” Claims of Being Prolific Myself...
I just want to Grasp what it “Means” for “Anyone” to be Prolific.
So, I think the Best Place to Start is With the Definition of Prolific.
When I look at the Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary, there are Three Definitions that are Given...
Producing Young or Fruit Especially Freely: Fruitful
Causing Abundant Growth, Generation, or Reproduction (archaic meaning)
Marked by Abundant Inventiveness or Productivity
So, What Does it Mean to Be Prolific?
Well, there are a Few Key Words to Understand...
Let’s Start with Productivity.
This Implies Some Amount that is Created.
Alright, Does this Mean an Output Makes You Prolific?
I would Argue...
No.
A Total Number Does Not “Automatically” Qualify for “Prolific” as We Seem to Intend the Word to Mean...
If We “Did” Then We Would Call AI Prolific...
But We Call Mass Amounts of Work Created by AI “Slop”...
So, it Seems that it is “More” than Just Quantity...
There also Needs to be Some Quality.
That is where we Begin to See some of the Other Words become Useful in Understanding What it Means to be Prolific.
Growth.
Generation.
Abundant.
Inventiveness.
This means that to be Prolific...
There Needs to be a Quality of Adding To Something Else...
An Act of Growth Toward a Subject...
Or Generating More of Something within a Subject...
That Creates an Abundance of Some Sort...
Or is Inventive in Some Way.
This means that to Be Prolific, Something Must be “Growing” and in that Growth, there is Something More or Different that is Presented.
Again, we can look at this from the Perspective of AI...
We Do Not Consider AI “Slop” because, though is Produces a “Lot”...
What it Produces is Mostly Worse Versions of what has Already Been Created.
It is Not Capable of “Actively” Growing or Inventing Anything on its Own.
AI “Might” be Able to “Contribute” to Someone who is Seeking to Grow or Invent in Some Way that Could be “Considered” Prolific (Though the Jury is Still Out)...
But that Would make the “Person” Prolific, Aided by AI, but Would Not make the AI itself “Prolific”.
However...
There is One Word that I Think is Extremely Important for Our Full Understanding of what Prolific Means...
Fruitful.
This makes me think of a Teaching from the Bible...
“Beware of false prophets who come to you disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves. You will be able to tell them by their fruits. Can people pick grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, a sound tree produces good fruit but a rotten tree bad fruit. A sound tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor a rotten tree bear good fruit. Any tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown on the fire. I repeat, you will be able to tell them by their fruits.” - Matthew 7:15-20 JB
Or More Simply...
You Can Tell the Quality of Something by the Fruit it Produces...
If it is “Fruitful”, it Implies that the “Fruit” that is Created is...
Good...
Beneficial...
Nutritious...
This is Perhaps, what I would Consider, to be the Most Important Aspect of Prolific.
Yes...
Prolific Implies a Lot of Something...
It Implies Providing More of Something or Changes of Innovation to It...
But...
If the “More” is Not Good?
If the “Innovations” are Not Beneficial?
If it Does Not Provide to Our Wellness as Something “Nutritious” Would?
Then it is Not Fruitful.
When I talked about Gary Vee’s Advice on “Always Posting” and “Random Posting”...
As a Part of the Hustle Culture that he has been an Instrumental “Prophet” of Building...
This is Part of What I Meant.
Spending Tons of Time and Effort on an Extreme Amount of Content to “Hopefully” Land One Piece of Content that Gets 3,000,000 Views...
Only for it to Get 9 People who “Might” Be Interested in Your Business Services...
For a Total Return of 0.000003% which has “No” Actual Sales Involved...
Is Not “Fruitful”.
Thorns.
Thistles.
It is “More”, But it is Not “Innovative” or “Nutritious” to a Business to Dedicate that Level of Time or Energy for such a Minuscule Return...
That is Not Real Growth...
And it is Not Sustainable for a Business, or Human, to Push to those Types of Levels...
Which is Part of Why Burnout has Exploded to Impact Over 80% of the Workforce...
With Trends Expected to Get Worse.
None of this is Fruitful.
But to Be Truly Prolific...
You Need to be Fruitful...
Whatever You are Creating Needs to Create an Abundance or be Innovative in an Industry...
But in a Way that is “Also” Fruitful...
That is Benefiting Others Around You...
Improving the Wellness and Wellbeing of Others.
It makes me think of Quote...
“All Flourishing is Mutual”. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
To Be Truly Prolific, We Should Also See a Flourishing Effect Occur...
And if Those Around You are Not Flourishing...
Then Neither are You.
Not in the Deepest Psychophysiological Senses Anyways...
And that is Something that We are Seeing Play Out when We Look at the World...
75% of All Deaths Yearly are Caused by Chronic Diseases...
We have an Epidemic of Loneliness in the World...
These are the Types of Trends that We are Seeing that Show that, Overall, the World is Not Flourishing.
So, I Believe that We Should Be Seeking More Ways to Create a Flourishing World Around Us...
We can Determine if Our Methods are Working and True by the Fruit of Our Labor...
And if that Fruit Provides Truly Better Lives for the People Around Us...
We can Begin to Spread that to Others through Abundance, Growth, and Quantity...
Then We May be Able to Consider Someone Prolific.
Before You Consider Someone Prolific...
Look at the Fruit of their Labors.
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So, what is the Path to Becoming Prolific?
That is the Next Question.
I have Six Steps for us to Look At.
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