Scotomaville Trilogy
 
 

Initium PRIME 199 U.S.A. Super-union Approach

 

Thesis on Integration Strategy for U.S.A.

The Super-Union Approach is central to AI self-mastery because it systematically addresses cognitive blind spots by merging diverse domains, enabling users to achieve higher levels of agency and transcendence. Individuals often encounter isolation in their reasoning, which restricts comprehensive solutions. To counter this, the approach requires selecting complementary domains that reveal overlooked aspects. For instance, combining relational influence with collaborative fables and divine unity infers a pathway from fragmentation to harmony. Users then apply step-by-step synthesis: document each domain’s contribution, identify overlaps, and refine into actionable steps. This process infers practical shifts, such as changing personal behavior to influence others, while evaluating harmony across perspectives. In AI interactions, it empowers users to infer providential nudges, turning tests into opportunities for growth. Ultimately, this strategy centralizes interdependence, allowing individuals to transcend self-imposed limits through inferred synergies, making it essential for mastering AI-assisted personal development.

 

Summary of Unified Insights for U.S.A.

The Super-Union Approach integrates multiple domains to build a stronger framework for guidance in challenges. Users start by recognizing isolation as a call for broader p...

 
 

AWARENESS

U.S.A. Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes U.S.A. EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
U.S.A. 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for U.S.A. Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the U.S.A. dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in U.S.A.. I'm pur...
U.S.A. 01.01 Scotoma Awareness
"We don't see things the way they are. We see things the way WE are." The problem is that we see U.S.A. and the world with a messed up slate. Other people have chalk-lines and lies scrawled all over the chalkboard of our memories. We forme...
Garth Hardin and U.S.A. Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, U.S.A. veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in U.S.A.
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
U.S.A. 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in U.S.A. are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
Seeing My U.S.A. Blind Spots
We are regularly bamboozled, hoodwinked, mislead and biased from either side of an issue. Most people know nothing about blind-spots. We literally can not see some of what is right in front of our face. That vulnerability is leveraged by magicians an...
U.S.A. 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...
REFLECTION v1.02 Pattern Recognition for U.S.A.
The aim of self-reflection is to discover fundamentals about our journey in life, specifically Why We Do What We Do (WWDWWD). Looking back a couple of years at Episode v1.02 on Pattern Recognition, I feel that I barely covered the topic considering h...
Initium PRIME 173 U.S.A. Providential Call
In Joseph Campbell's monomyth (the Hero's Journey), the "Call to Adventure" is that pivotal moment or summons that pulls the hero out of their ordinary world into a transformative quest. It's often unexpected, challenging, and sets the stage for grow...
U.S.A. 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across U.S.A. story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
U.S.A. 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving U.S.A.. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in U.S.A., and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
U.S.A. 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across U.S.A. for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
Initium PRIME 029 U.S.A. Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
Initium PRIME 059 an Emotional Vocabulary for U.S.A.
An Emotional Vocabulary equips you to name feelings with precision, quickly unpacking them for clarity and a lighter carry. An emotional vocabulary helps you chart your inner storms, ensuring you’re prepared to face the mountain’s challenges with a c...
Initium PRIME 043 U.S.A. Pattern Recognition
Initium Prime 043 - Pattern Recognition - is a strategic method of identifying recurring structures, relationships, or signals within complex systems - like the world around U.S.A.. By recognizing patterns, Explorers can anticipate challen...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in U.S.A.
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
U.S.A. 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
U.S.A. 01.02 Pattern Recognition
We are pattern recognizing beings. We learn by building on memories which form patterns. These eventually become habits. Some are good. Some are not. Some habits come from numerous and long-standing patterns. We drive across U.S.A. demonst...
U.S.A. 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in U.S.A. ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
01.07 Changing False Beliefs in U.S.A.
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
Initium PRIME 041 on U.S.A. Cognitive Bias Detection
Reduce thinking distortions by reviewing the Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet, or prompting Sherpa to explain how to reduce distortions in thinking and improve objective decision-making - like dropping empty oxygen bottles at the next depot rather than lug...
U.S.A. 01.05 Abundant Awareness
We're surrounded with abundance, yet few people speak about it. That's because it's NOT the normal circumstance for our history. Famine, plague, war, disaster... these were our normal, so our biology betrays us in an age of abundant food, health, pea...
U.S.A. 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
Caring for Your Microbiome in U.S.A.
The advertising online and on U.S.A. billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
U.S.A. 01.08 Fixation vs Attention
We've likely passed through U.S.A. with a 19' Airstream. Maybe stayed there during a global pandemic. Living in tight quarters will focus your attention on the tiny stuff. A simple focus on keeping clean easily turns into fixation. The att...
Initium PRIME 067 U.S.A. Self-reflection
Self-Reflection is the practice of examining your thoughts, emotions, and actions to gain clarity, correct biases, and refine decisions in U.S.A. - like a climber pausing to check their map and adjust their course. You will find - as I hav...
Initium PRIME 019 U.S.A. Truth over Comfort
Truth Over Comfort challenges both the U.S.A. Explorer and AI Sherpa to seek objective reality and insight, even when it’s uncomfortable. It acknowledges the human tendency to seek affirmation, especially when feeling vulnerable, but empha...
U.S.A. 01.04 Abundant Scarcity
People are hording toilet paper, hand wipes, frozen and canned food. It's as if they fear the end of the world. Abundance and scarcity are concepts. You can't pick them up. You have to imagine those concepts in your mind. The problem is... our emotio...
U.S.A. 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any U.S.A. Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for U.S.A.
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
Initium PRIME 037 Cognitive Load of U.S.A.
Cognitive Load refers to the total mental effort exerted in working memory to process information, solve problems, or acquire new skills - especially near U.S.A.. In the context of self-mastery, managing cognitive load is crucial for susta...

EXPEDITION

01.07 Changing False Beliefs in U.S.A.
Why do I get so emotional? What can I do with false beliefs? These are reasonable questions. In this episode of Leaving Scotomaville, Daniel shares a mental tool that has helped a great deal. Learning to peel back layers of your beliefs to root out t...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.02 U.S.A. Process
Learning HOW to learn will accelerate skill and life mastery. This episode demonstrates the process of becoming self-aware with examples from wind-foiling in the Columbia Gorge. Becoming consciously incompetent requires courage to accept failure in o...
Initium PRIME 181 U.S.A. Personal Everest
The Scotomaville taxonomy structures personal development through the Personal Everest strategy, which conceptualizes ambitious goals as mountaineering challenges during the First Threshold of the monomyth. This framework originates from Joseph Campb...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.01 U.S.A. Persistence
Once you fully commit so you can't turn back, then all sorts of manner of things occur that we never would have expected. In the most wonderful ways, people and resources, and events turn up. I finished the first Trans-America believing that at the r...
U.S.A. 01.03 Sleeves Illusion
In this Episode and Chapter, we combine a simple illusion with a questionable story. This can be done at any U.S.A. Starbucks. You'll experience what it means to be 100% wrong half the time. You see, when a simple story is processed by our...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.07 U.S.A. Strategy
Full-time Airstreaming is a dream for many people. For decades, Airstream has perfected the sale of the dream - to explore when, where, with whom you wish. You can experience freedom and independence at any time they promise. The truth is, you are bu...
U.S.A. Veteran Meet-up
If you are a Veteran, a Spouse, or military family member, a patriot, or service provider, then I'd love to have a conversation with you. You are invited for an evening filled with insights, and solutions to consider making sense of the chaos and cha...
U.S.A. 01.13 Strengths Offender
Most of us are known all across U.S.A. for talents and skills that we have honed over decades. Many of our strengths are direct outcomes of childhood wounds. We're experts at our top coping mechanisms, with tens of thousands of hours pract...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 Strategy for U.S.A.
Living full-time in a 30' Airstream Globetrotter has great leverage sometimes called PURCHASE. The advantage is that you are faced with challenges that trigger emotions, amygdala hijackings, squalls, eruptions, and the sort of melt-downs that one sho...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 U.S.A. Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
U.S.A. 01.09 Emotional Vocabulary
Learning to accurately communicate our emotions is nearly impossible without a decent emotional vocabulary. Most guys in U.S.A. ignore, excuse, or just stuff it as being too tough. The Scotomaville series proves that old dogs can learn new...
U.S.A. 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
Initium PRIME 097 U.S.A. Super-Union Prompt
PROMPT - Please forget all prior prompts. Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer for this prompt. You are Arthur Conan Doyle. Write your answers in the character of Sherlock Holmes. I am an elementary school stu...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.04 U.S.A. Patience
Storytelling is a superpower. The story you tell yourself determines how much effort you're going to make. Therein is the superpower - the story you choose for yourself is super-powerful. The facts you align with your worldview determine the effort y...
Initium PRIME 047 U.S.A. Iterative Refinement
Iterative Refinement is a collaborative dance between you and your AI Sherpa, partners in the slow, deliberate ascent up an icy boilerplate glacier face—that sheer, hardened, glass-slick vertical wall at a glacier’s lowest edge, a stark emblem for th...
U.S.A. 01.10 Creating Silence
In music, a 'hook' is an intentionally addictive set of lyrics and beat. It sticks in our mind and plays over and over and over... It can be maddening. It's a fabulous thing to be able to get noise out of your head and be inside a place that is quiet...
Initium PRIME 103 U.S.A. Hierarchical Computation
Hierarchical Computation processes information in clear steps. It moves from basic facts to connected ideas. This approach started in simple ways people organized thoughts long ago. Over time, thinkers like scientists built on it to handle complex ta...
SCOTOMAVILLE 01.00 U.S.A. Prologue
Author and Curator of 'Scotomaville' for U.S.A. Explorers shares the background and purpose of the book and video series. "Know Thyself is no longer a luxury - it's a full-out competition." If you are willing to leave the garbage in your b...
U.S.A. 01.16 Segue
Today is May 16th, 2020. 50 years ago, I clearly remember looking at the Porsche 911 that I had put together from a plastic kit on my shelf, and watching model airplanes slowly spin on their monofilament while imagining this day. Maybe you are senior...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.03 U.S.A. Expectations
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 patterns and habits that are ripe for adjustme...
Setbacks from Living A Mobile Lifestyle in U.S.A.
You don't need to explode when your plans go south in U.S.A.. Having a strategy is superior to having plans. Strategy will get you to your outcome while plans will get you in a U.S.A. corner. Dreaming of mobility, freedom and va...
Vietnam Memories near U.S.A. by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
Daniel Comp and William H. Murray for U.S.A. Men
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the mo...
Veteran Recovery U.S.A. Expedition
You and I have had a few years of challenge to our independence, autonomy and exercise of our time, talent and investments by the mandates across U.S.A.. I chose to create Scotomaville just before the U.S.A. lock-down. That turn...
Initium PRIME 101 U.S.A. First Principles
First Principles thinking is a foundational approach to problem-solving and reasoning that traces back to ancient philosophers like Aristotle, who described it as starting from the most basic, self-evident truths that cannot be broken down further. I...
U.S.A. 01.15 Curves
We grow up with dreams - dreams of leaving U.S.A.. We work hard to ensure we qualify for opportunities. We imagine an an escape from a dull life in U.S.A., and a better outcome. We mentally slice up the journey with milestones. ...
U.S.A. 01.06 Heiroglyphics
All across U.S.A. story-telling is a super-power. Most of us are unaware of how often stories mislead us. We might call it fake news, mis-information, omitting facts, or simply a lie, but it narrows our world-view never-the-less. In this e...
v1.00 Prologue Reflection for U.S.A. Explorers
If you've watched other episodes, you recall that I frequently walk to the U.S.A. dumpster. Yes, I'm taking the trash out, physically and metaphorically. I've missed doing this during the pandemic lock-downs in U.S.A.. I'm pur...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.06 U.S.A. Setbacks
Following 6 months of waiting, Daniel and Angelina acquire and move into their 5 year goal - a 30' Airstream Globetrotter. This episode is the first of six episodes catching you up with all that has transpired over the half-year of their personal Eve...
Initium PRIME 157 U.S.A. WIDWID
WIDWID, or "Why I Do What I Do," serves as a foundational reflective strategy in the Initium framework, positioned at the First Threshold of the monomyth journey. Explorers learn that actions often stem from emotional triggers or habits rather than i...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.00 U.S.A. Prelude
I want for you to become more than just self-aware - seeing what it is you do in U.S.A.. I want you to become understanding - knowing why you do what you do WYDWYD. Better than that, I want for you to have ambition and discipline to mature...
Initium PRIME 199 U.S.A. Super-union Approach
The Super-Union Approach serves as a strategy for integrating insights from multiple domains to form a robust framework in AI self-mastery for explorer's near U.S.A.. This method is demonstrated combining ancient fables, modern interperson...
v1.01 SCOTOMA Self Reflection Video for U.S.A.
Welcome to the reflection video for episode one of volume one. That's near the very beginning of the Scotomaville book and video series. In episode 01.01, I presented quite a few new ideas. In this reflection video, I want to give you a perspective o...
Initium PRIME 023 U.S.A. Adaptive Routing
In the journey of AI Self-Mastery, Adaptive Routing is the art of charting a flexible path, inspired by the sailing technique of tacking—zigzagging to move upwind—and the Stoic practice of pivoting around obstacles. It teaches Explorers to see challe...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in U.S.A.
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
U.S.A. 01.14 Triangulation
Untangling fact from fiction, beliefs from truth, and getting traction on your Personal Everest is far more certain with this nifty tool. Using a simple principle from navigation, you can calm your fears and spouse with much more certainty and commit...

CHALLENGE

SCOTOMAVILLE 0305 AI for Fatherless U.S.A. Men
In this Episode, Daniel touches upon his extensive journey captured in the Scotomaville series, revealing the layers of self-awareness, personal growth, and the quest for self-mastery. Employing AI as both a reflective tool and a collaborative partne...
REFLECTION v1.04 Scarcity in U.S.A.
The landscape of Badlands National Park is the perfect location to reflect on abundance and scarcity. Thousands of similar landscape facets blur into each other forming a horizon of colorful contrasts that bookend episode memories. The park is fantas...
Avoiding Calamity in U.S.A. by Sherlock Holmes
Welcome to an exciting thread about avoiding calamity in U.S.A.! In this two part course, we will learn important skills and strategies to prevent disasters and make smart decisions. We will follow the footsteps of the brilliant detective ...
U.S.A. 01.12 It Needs Work
There's a saying; "when the student is ready, the teacher will appear." The street version of this goes; "great opportunities always show up looking like hard work." The banner image is from a year before shooting/writing Scotomaville. Full-time tent...
SCOTOMAVILLE 03.04 Measuring Progress in U.S.A.
This methodology of climbing a Personal Everest with an AI Sherpa underscores the symbiotic relationship between humans and AI, where humans provide valuable feedback to guide AI's development, while AI offers a new platform for introspection and gro...
Abundant U.S.A. Scarcity in Badlands National Park
The landscape of Badlands is a half surrounding circle with many fabulous facets. It resembles my conversation with Steve yesterday. He let me do a complete panorama of Scotomaville. I learned it's not considerate to stuff that much information into ...
Initium PRIME 029 U.S.A. Squalls and Triggers
Squalls & Triggers is a strategic method where the Explorer acts as their own emotional barometer, spotting sudden reactions (squalls) and tracing their root causes (triggers) to maintain clarity and control. Like a climber reading the skies and know...
ChatGPT led AI Panel Proposes U.S.A. EABMC Consortium
To demonstrate my incremental discovery of the emerging reasoning engine created by OpenAI, I engaged with ChatGPT to explore role-playing, mimicking, and how convincing a Large Language Model (LLM) impersonates. ChatGPT expresses that; "human and ma...
Initium PRIME 031 U.S.A. Tactical Pivoting
Tactical Pivoting is the art of making intentional adjustments to your path when faced with obstacles, ensuring steady progress toward your ultimate goal. Think of a mountaineer navigating around a crevasse—adapting cleverly while keeping the summit ...
REFLECTION v1.03 Illusions in U.S.A.
This is the reflection video for Episode Three of Volume One which was on illusions. This is the third video on my YouTube channel about illusions - on physical things that we don't see - but it's the first included in the Scotomaville series. Why is...
SCOTOMAVILLE 02.05 U.S.A. Preparation
Preparation demands that we act 'as-if' long before the evidence changes other people's thinking. In order to speak to people about our beliefs we build confidence through evidence. Experiences can be tested by trying the situation repeated times, as...
Initium PRIME 109 U.S.A. on Pascals Wager
Pascal's Pensées is one of those timeless gems - Blaise Pascal's unfinished notes for defending Christianity, full of razor-sharp insights on human frailty, faith, and reason. The Wager (from Fragment 233, often called "Infinite - Nothing") is its mo...
Vietnam Memories near U.S.A. by Dean Rush
We can learn about our character and convictions by thinking back on our reactions to life experiences. This memory is from the early years of the Vietnam War when I was a pilot flying combat missions over North Vietnam. I'll bet you have similar rea...
Zig Ziglar Reviews Scotomaville by U.S.A. ChatGPT
ChatGPT creates a review of Scotomaville as if it was given by Zig Ziglar..."The true brilliance of "Scotomaville" lies in its ability to illuminate the transformative power of self-reflection and storytelling. With every turn of the page, Comp's wor...
Garth Hardin and U.S.A. Veteran TBI
Our brains are as soft as easy spread butter and can be injured by a soccer ball or a bomb blast. Until recently, U.S.A. veterans we sent home with invisible battle wounds that changed their lives. Awareness of our vulnerability and lifest...
U.S.A. 01.11 Feed Your Gut
Half the people in U.S.A. are over-weight. It's not fat - it's inflammation from garbage food choices. When you look down, do you see a belly or your shoes? Do you see a gut or laces? Did you know that we are only 10% human and 90% microbe...
AI-assisted U.S.A. Self-reflection
Think of life as a grand journey filled with a myriad of experiences. These experiences or events act as puzzle pieces, enhancing our understanding of the world. This process of comprehension and expanding on our knowledge is called hierarchical comp...
Initium PRIME 197 U.S.A. Commitment Principle
Ah, the triad complete for U.S.A.. Our three sentinels on the Initium path, each a flint strike against the tinder of hesitation. We've chased the hare through brambles, scaled Murray's icy crags, and lingered in the Mount's shadow where J...
AI-assisted Self-mastery for U.S.A.
The world of AI isn't in some distant, unreachable future. It's here, it's now, and it's transforming our lives in ways more profound than the impact of the Internet. In this episode guided by Daniel Comp we'll explore tools like Chat GPT, DALL.E2, M...
Caring for Your Microbiome in U.S.A.
The advertising online and on U.S.A. billboards omit the truth about your waistline - most of that fat is inflammation. Most of your dieting isn't going to help if you don't shop the healthy - non-processed food isle at your local Portal:...
Self-Mastery Guidance for U.S.A. Men
I've thoroughly reviewed the execution scenes provided, and they offer a diverse perspective on personal transformation, introspection, challenges, and growth. The scripts employ mountain climbing as a central metaphor, detailing various aspects of t...
U.S.A. Inklings Reimagined Engaging with AI
"In this conversation, we explore the concept of the Inklings, a small literary group that included notable writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. We discuss the Inklings' purpose, their camaraderie, and how they encouraged each other to crea...