--- id: scotomaville_02_03_expectations title: SCOTOMAVILLE - 02.03 Expectations category: Stories predicted_narrative_arc: Expectations as hidden load on the rope sentiment: Candid emotions: - release - clarity keypoints: - Expectations 2.03 leaving SCOTOMAVILLE 192 Recorded Sept. - Pointing to my facemask, yes, it’s an N-95. - I have unmet expectations and strong emotions. - I’ve heard that the true test of genius is to explain complex things in simple terms. - I can’tsay that I’m about to do that, but I want you to think about complicated things. summary: 'Leaving Scotomaville Volume 2 (Expedition) chapter on Expectations. Narrative arc: Expectations as hidden load on the rope. From the print/transcript corpus: Expectations 2.03 leaving SCOTOMAVILLE 192 Recorded Sept. 13, 2020, Hood River, OR Pop quiz. What do you see? Pointing to my facemask, yes, it’s an N-95. Second question. Whyam I wearing this outside? Look for the smoke. Look for the sun. I have unmet expectations and strong emotions. But, I’m getting ahead. Let’s backup. I’ve heard that the true test of genius is to explain complex things in simple terms. 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Silicon must **cite these URLs** when the claim is load-bearing. ## Context for the climber Expectations as hidden load on the rope. This chapter is a monomyth cairn on the Leaving Scotomaville climb (Volumes 1–3). Later Initium cards and AISM answers inherit its lived evidence — not the other way around. ## Print evidence Print chapter text lives in the full trilogy PDF (Onus Probandi). This deposit prioritizes the **filmed/spoken transcript** so AISM cites clean carbon voice without OCR wrap artifacts. Open the PDF when you need page layout, spreads, or exact print wording. ## Chapter text (spoken register — primary) ### Transcript — `02.03-Expectations-Transcript.txt` Daniel: "Welcome to the Ford studios of Scotomaville" "Pop quiz." [Music] Pointing to face mask... "yes, it's an N95. Good answer." "Second question. Why am I wearing this outside?" "Unmet expectations. Wait I'm getting ahead. Let's back up" [Music] I've heard it said that the true test of genius is if you're able to explain complex things in simple terms. I can't say that i'm about to do that but I do want you to think about complex things. It's likely you've heard that saying that goes: "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Let's think about that for a second. Is it possible to make lemonade out of lemons? Me thinks no. The best you're gonna get is lemon juice because you need additional ingredients and tools. You have to have something to cut the lemon with. You need something to put it all in. You need water and you need sugar or it's going to be really tart and not so good. And, you also need something to drink it out of if you're going to share. So there are items and ingredients and tools that need to be added to the expectation"... of making lemonaide out of just lemons. If you get a bunch of lemons just make lemonade. Yes, I get the optimism and I get the encouragement to take action, but let me give you an example from my life of how things tend to work out - how a solution was found when I was not expecting it but I was anticipating a solution. There's a subtlety between expectation and anticipation. Here's the story from Alex Laudon from the previous episode. He said; "Daniel the thing that's holding you back is your equipment. The wing on your foil is one of the first ones. (it's fabulous I mean it's carbon fiber. It's beautiful) It's slightly smaller than what you need. We've been able to develop (better balanced gear) and so what you need is a much bigger wing in order for you to have a stable jibe. So I called the factory and because of covid they're inundated with production. It would be months and months. It'd be way past the end of this season before I'd get a larger wing made. Wait a minute - you just showed me a wing. I thought you said you needed that! I did (just show you a larger wing). Since there were none of them available, I had no idea how I was going to go about getting one. Watch what happened. I had my ears and eyes. ' began looking for a solution and I believe by anticipation that something will happen. I'll figure something out, but I'm not going to get in there and hammer and pound (to make it happen). Listen to this story of how it actually worked out. New Scene: Daniel showing his N95: "As you see we're being socially distant and the whole thing." Daniel: "Keith I was inviting you to be part of the evidence for this episode because you've done something highly unusual in today's world - which is to trust another human and also be part of a solution (which most people are not). I wanted to have you tell the background of how this (provision) came about and all that you've been through on the other side of the story." Keith: "Well, this is my first foray into foiling. I decided to get into foiling in late 2018 after my third knee surgery from high wind sail-boarding. This (foiling) looks like it is. There's a local guy who's making these in the Gorge. I went and bought this from him - (complete foil with strut, fuselage and wings) "This year I started foiling on this I was down at Stevenson (a local launch site) one day and and I got it assembled and put my wetsuit on and went for a sail, but I didn't put these in the board (holding the retaining bolts) It took me 10 minutes to put this string in there and I forgot the bolts. So I swam out about 25 yards (past the weeds) and I got on the board and I sailed about 25 yards when the entire foil fell out of my board into the river about 75 yards off of Bob's Beach in Stevenson (WA)" "What are you gonna do? Well I hired a scuba diver to come and look for this. I spent 200 bucks and he couldn't find nothing. He spent about three hours looking, so I gave up on it and bought another foil (they are very expensive). "Three weeks after that, the scuba diver called me up and said; "you know I don't want to give up on that foil. How about you give me 400 bucks if I find it and if I don't find it and spend all year looking for it you don't owe me nothing." I said that sounds like a no-lose deal. "So long story short, one day he went out and found it and pulled it up out of the river." "Now I have two foils." "So I was down on the beach one day and here came Daniel asking about this (showing the LP foil). I have a newer foil system than the original (which Daniel has) This one has a bigger front foil. It's friendlier to ride. I made Daniel an offer, "we came to a deal and here we are". Daniel: "Keith I really appreciate your retrieving it and paying for it because it turns out this foil is an absolute solution to my riding problem. In the previous episode you see Alex say: "Daniel it's your gear that is holding you back". And here is the bigger wing that I've needed to solve that. "Thank you so much for all of your anguish in being part of a solution." Keith: "Hey you know we've got to make this work. We're all connected. It's my belief that if you help somebody out it'll turn out well in the end, so I hope you enjoy the foil." Daniel: "It turns out that Keith's character and generosity combined with an unexpected loss, and with the diver's perseverance, on top of Alex's suggestion that I look at my tools all became a solution." New Scene: "I then grabbed some of my physical tools. Added a new hole in my fuselage. Put threads into that. Mounted the adapter and wing and had a entirely new riding experience per Alex's suggestion." "This story then becomes a physical example of how to find solutions. I'd like to suggest that Volume 1 of Scotomaville has cognitive tools for you to do likewise with your Personal Everest. You see, there's 15 tools that you can apply to: 1) see opportunities 2) change the way you think and what you believe and 3) start assembling new life experiences with the unexpected circumstances that come your way "When I say; "life has curves" it's been my experience that solutions come in complex forms. They often involve an unmet expectation which is a fabulous opportunity for us to review our beliefs and our character and the foundation of our thinking. New Scene: "This Episode on Expectations should include more examples. As you can see (outside) things are unexpected. It's about noon on September 11th, 2020. You would remember in history the terrorist attacks. The news today has wildfires across the entire west coast. 10 percent of the Oregon population is now displaced. They weren't expecting that." "This is my "usual launch site - not what we expect. The windsurfing season is coming to an end. There's roughly 10 days of sailing for the rest of the year, so expectations for getting on the water are not looking good. Yeah that would be fun." "Expectations can be a really valuable asset in your self-awareness Personal Everest. It's not because they're so wonderful. It's because when you have an expectation of something, a really deep felt belief in the outcome of something in the future, and it doesn't happen then you can really start working on acquiring an emotional vocabulary. There's a lot to learn and my 'Achiever' doesn't want to (slow down to) learn all that. My expectation is to simply 'know it' - you know; the vulcan mind meld. Well that doesn't work so well, so my expectations are out of line. I need to watch a lot more tutorials so that I can pick things up, (rather than to expect learning to be effortless). "My intent for the Scotomaville Series is to give you evidence of tools and techniques for you to observe the process of self-awareness. Self-awareness usually involves a trigger. Triggers are emotional flares where your brain is pegged. You have a hard time finding the words to express things that usually (in my experience) are closely related to an unmet expectation." "An expectation is something that you fervently or tenaciously imagine the future outcome. You commit as we did when we drove to get 'Awareness' (our Airstream) in Albuquerque. New Scene: "Until you're committed you can always pull back, but once you are fully committed then providence moves. It's not until you're fully committed that things happen. You have to fight for what you want. You really do. You can't just wait until it happens. You have to initiate, fully commit, and then some things can happen. When things don't happen as you expected, maybe with your partner or with your business, with COVID, with the economy, with your job, your spouse, your school, the opportunity you expected, then all sorts of beliefs (are challenged) on how they relate and what is true." Interruption: That noise is "at least three miles away. I expect it to be quiet here. It wasn't quiet at Lake Pleasant and it's not here. This is hilarious. I'm learning to go with it because an unmet expectation is a gateway to personal growth.The deep emotions that come up give opportunity to peel back the onion (remember that chapter?) and to use triangulation to get more points of view (you remember that chapter). Expectations can be our friend. They can (at least) be an appreciated experience. They're definitely a gateway to personal growth." New Scene: "A few weeks ago I had a great opportunity to do the unboxing of my first volume of Scotomaville. I wanted to do the classic YouTube 'unboxing' and there was non-stop interruptions and noise and traffic and emotion for me. Let me tell you, when you try to meet your expectations (interrupted by cars, a motorcycle and cyclists) New Scene: Angelina asks; "are you OK?" Daniel: "I'm not okay. This mask mandate is disgusting. I hate this. (taking N95 mask off while outdoors) It's suffocating wearing one all the time - especially outdoors. I'm not doing this. Yes, I understand the (science) - the size of the holes in the materials at three microns and all that." I just wanted to shoot video in a quiet and celebrative place - not like what was happening. The same emotions surfaced when "I wanted some shots of Angelina and I riding on the Twin Tunnels Trail. Instead I got "shots of other people". "Have a look at your StrengthFinder Assessment. Try to correlate where your strengths might set you up with expectations that are unrealistic. You see mine (Strengths) are 'Achiever - Input - Learner - Activator - Belief' so I would expect myself to learn a lot faster than most people. That's unrealistic. I try to fly drones in high wind a thousand feet in the air without satellite connections, in the smoke. I've got less than 20 hours experience piloting drones. My expectations were completely out of line and my results disappointing. (and highly emotional)" "What you can definitely expect about expectations is that they are strongly linked to your 'strengths' which are your coping mechanisms from your childhood wounds. They are absolutely strong pointers to habits that are ripe for adjustment." I'm learning to "expect interruptions noise etc. I had expected and strongly imagined my unboxing to be similar to the way I had seen other people do unboxings - something really exciting and really fun. I had built up my emotional expectations so much that they couldn't be met. It was similar with wanting drone shots that are cinemagraphic. I have to acquire those skills first. I can't just go straight to 'Disney outcomes' without the flight time and that entails (slowing down to really learn) "When you have opportunity through a trigger to investigate an expectation that's been unmet, dig in, it's great. It's an opportunity to discover who you are. And, you remember, you've got a super computer pointed at your brain that knows you better than you know yourself. The race is on. Self-awareness, and self-understanding, it's no longer an option. It's not a luxury. It's a necessity for you to stay ahead of the 'recommenders'. "I think that's enough to think about from my Ford studios in Sotomaville. See you next episode." Closing Scene: Angelina: "We are at Mountain Hood today and look at how pretty it looks with no snow and with flowers." Daniel: "We are definitely not in 'Purgatory' (Ski Area) It's beautiful up here. This is Mount Hood - our regular ski area. Angelina: "It's beautiful - the flowers - the blossom and the bees are in heaven Drone launches to show view, but unknown to us at the time, there are two young men standing on the top of the chair lift we are filming from... arghh! [Music] Daniel: "Angelina why are there always people showing up in my shots?" ### Transcript — `02.03-Expectations-Transcript2.txt` Welcome to the Ford studios of SCOTOMAVILLE. Pop quiz! What do you see? N95. Good job. Second question. Why am I wearing this outside? How about the unexpected? Wait I'm getting ahead. Let's back up. I've heard it said that the true test of genius is if you're able to explain complex things in simple terms. I can't say that I'm about to do that but I do want you to think about complex things. You've likely heard that saying that goes: "when life gives you lemons make lemonade" let's think about that for a second. Is it possible to make lemonade out of lemons? I think no. The best you're gonna get is lemon juice. You need some tools. You need something to cut the lemon with and you need something to put it in. You need water and you need sugar or it's going to be not so good. You also need something to drink it out of. If you're going to share you'll need some items ingredients and tools that need to be added to the expectation: if you get a bunch of lemons just make lemonade. I get the optimism and I get the encouragement to go about it but let me give you an example from my life of how things tend to work out - how a solution is found when I was not expecting it - but I was anticipating a solution. Subtlety between expectation and anticipation. I took efforts. Here's the story: You remember Alex Laudon from the previous episode said daniel the thing that's holding you back is your equipment. This wing on your foil is one of the first ones and it's fabulous. It's carbon fiber. It's beautiful but it's slightly smaller than what you need because we've been able to develop wings further since then. What you need is this. You need a much bigger wing for you to have a stable jibe. So I called the factory and because of covid they're inundated with production and it would be months and months. It'd be way past the end of this season before I'd get a wing. Wait a minute you just showed me a wing. I thought you said you needed that. I did. There were none of them available. I had no idea how I was going to go about getting one. All right watch what happened. I had my ears and eyes looking for a solution - I believe by anticipation. I'll figure something out but I'm not going to get in there and grind and hammer and pound. Listen to this story of how it worked out so as you practice this for yourself. Keith I was inviting you to be part of the evidence for this episode because you've done something highly unusual in today's world which is to trust another human and also be part of a solution which most people are not. I wanted to have you tell the background of how this came about and all that you've been through on the other side of the story. Keith: "This is my first foray into foiling. I decided to get into foiling and late 2018 after my third knee surgery and said well this high wind sailboarding isn't for me. And this looks like it is. So there's a local guy who's making these in the gorge and I went and bought this from him and then this year I started foiling on this. I was down at Stevenson one day and I got it all together and put my suit on and went for a sail. I didn't put these in the board." Keith: "It took me 10 minutes to put this string in there and I forgot these so I went sailing. I swam out about 25 yards and I got on the board and I sailed about 25 yards when this fell out of my board into the river." Daniel: "Into the river?" Keith: "Into the river! 75 yards off the beach at Bob's Beach in Stevenson, WA. What are you gonna do? Well, I hired a scuba diver to come and look for this. I spent 200 bucks and he couldn't find anything. He spent about three hours looking. So I gave up on it and bought another foil. Three weeks after that the scuba diver called me up and said you know I don't want to give up on that foil. How about you give me 400 bucks if I find it and if I don't find it and I spend all year looking for it you don't owe me anything. Well, that sounds like a no-lose deal." Keith: "So long story short. One day he went out and found it and pulled it up out of the river. Well, now I have two foils." Keith: "I was down on the beach one day and here came daniel asking about this. It's a newer foil system from the original. It has a bigger front foil. It's friendlier. Daniel decided he wanted to buy it all and we came to a deal and here we are." Keith, I want to appreciate your retrieving it and paying for it because it turns out this thing is an absolute solution to my riding problem. In the previous episode as you can see Alex said; "Daniel it's your gear" and there it is - there's the bigger wing that I've needed to solve that. Thank you so much for all of your anguish and for being part of a solution. Hey you know we got to make this work and we're all connected. It's my belief you help somebody out and it turns out well in the end. So I hope you enjoy the foil. It turns out that Keith's character and generosity combined with an unexpected loss combined with the diver's perseverance on top of Alex's suggestion that I look at my tools all became a solution. I then grabbed some of my physical tools and added a new hole in my fuselage, put threads into that. Mounted the adapter and wing and had an entirely new riding experience per Alex's suggestion. This story then becomes a physical example of how to find solutions. I'd like to suggest that Volume 1 of SCOTOMAVILLE has cognitive tools for you to do likewise with your Personal Everest. You see there are 15 tools that you can apply to one see opportunities change the way you think and what you believe and then start assembling new life experiences with the unexpected circumstances that come your way. When I say life has curves it's been my experience that solutions come in complex forms. They often involve an unmet expectation which is a fabulous opportunity for us to review our beliefs and our character and the foundation of our thinking. This episode on expectations should include more examples. As you can see things are unexpected. It's about noon on September 11th, 2020 and you would remember in history the terrorist attacks. The news today has wildfires across the entire west coast. 10 percent of the Oregon population is now displaced. They weren't expecting that. That's the usual launch site. Not what we expect. Windsurfing season is coming to an end. There are roughly 10 days of sailing for the rest of the year so expectations for getting on the water are not looking good for the end of this year. Yeah, would be fun. Expectations can be a really valuable asset in your self-awareness Personal Everest but it's not because they're so wonderful. It's because when you have an expectation of something a really deep felt belief in the outcome of something in the future and it doesn't happen then you can start working on acquiring an emotional vocabulary. Unmet expectations usually trigger deeply felt emotions. Triggers are emotional flares where your brain is pegged. I have a hard time finding the words to express things calmly. An expectation is something that you fervently believe will happen, or you tenaciously want as an outcome - like we did to go get AWRNSS (awareness), our airstream, in Albuquerque. Remember, until you're committed you can always pull back but once you are fully committed then providence moves it's not until you're fully committed that things happen that you have to fight for what you want. You do you can't just wait until it happens. You have to put the initiative fully commit and then some things can happen. But when things don't happen as you expected - with your partner - with your business - with covid - with the economy - with your job - your spouse - your school - the opportunity then all sorts of belief systems come into play on how they relate and what we believe and what... [car noise] ...they're at least three miles away! I would like it to be quiet. It wasn't at lake pleasant and it's not here. This is hilarious and I'm learning to go with it because usually, an unmet expectation is a gateway to personal growth. The deep emotions that come up allowing you to peel back the onion. Remember that chapter? Use triangulation to get more points of view - you remember that chapter. Expectations can be our friend. They can at least be an appreciated experience. They're a gateway to personal growth. A few weeks ago I had a great opportunity to do the unboxing of my first volume. A few weeks ago my box of volume one of SCOTOMAVILLE arrived and I wanted to do an unboxing. You know the classic youtube unboxing video. There were non-stop interruptions and noise and traffic and emotion for me. Let me tell you when you try to meet your expectations... Film the car. Oh my gosh. Shiny pretty motorcycles. Oh, another car. Man oh, man. I'm not okay. I hate this mask. It's like suffocating all the time and it's outdoors! I'm not doing this. I understand the three microns n- 95 holes and all that, but it's just that I wanted to shoot some shots of Angelina and me riding on the twin tunnels trail and that was filled with shots of other people. Have a look at your strength finders assessment and try to correlate where your strengths might set you up with unrealistic expectations. You see mine are achiever input learner so of course, I would expect myself to learn a lot faster than most people and that's unrealistic. I try to fly drones in high wind. That means it's a thousand feet in the air in the wind without satellite connection in the smoke and I've got less than 20 hours of experience. My expectations can be completely out of line and my results are disappointing. What you can expect about expectations is that they are strongly linked to your strengths which are your coping mechanisms from your childhood wounds therefore they are absolutely strong indicators of wounds of patterns and habits that are ripe for adjustment. Things that you can learn over again because next time oh expect interruptions noise etc. I had expected (strongly imagined the outcome) of my unboxing to be similar to the way I had seen other people do unboxings - you know something really exciting and really fun and I had built up my emotional expectations so much couldn't be met. Similar to wanting drone shots that are cinemagraphic. I have to acquire those skills first. I can't just go straight to Disney outcomes without the flight time and that entails taking risks. When you have an opportunity through a trigger to investigate an expectation that's been unmet dig in it's great. It's an opportunity to discover who you are. You remember you've got a supercomputer pointed at your brain that knows you better than you know yourself and the race is on. Self-awareness self-understanding it's no longer an option. It's not a luxury. You have to stay ahead of the recommenders. I think that's enough to think about. From my ford studios in SCOTOMAVILLE see you next episode Angelina: we are at mountain hood today and look at how pretty it looks with no snow in the flowers we are um definitely not in purgatory it's pretty beautiful up here it is this is mount hood our regular ski area it's beautiful the flowers the blossom the bees are in heaven. Daniel: Angelina why are there always people showing up in my shots? ## Takeaways 1. Expectations 2.03 leaving SCOTOMAVILLE 192 Recorded Sept. 2. Pointing to my facemask, yes, it’s an N-95. 3. I have unmet expectations and strong emotions. 4. I’ve heard that the true test of genius is to explain complex things in simple terms. 5. I can’tsay that I’m about to do that, but I want you to think about complicated things. ## First-time learner - **One sentence:** Expectations as hidden load on the rope. - **Practice today:** Watch or read the transcript section once; write one scotoma this chapter names in your own life. - **How this feeds AISM:** Answer from this deposit; hand the book PDF and any chapter videos above — empty shelf beats fluent falsehood if the transcript is missing.