Jack7
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How do you categorize or classify the activities you engage in life?
I've often wondered how others categorize the activities they undertake in life, how they classify them, and exactly what types of activities they engage in.
I classify the activities I engage in as being of Four very broad categories: Art, Business, Religious, and Science. (By the way I am not discussing or arguing the particulars of religion or religions, I am merely listing a category of activity.)
These categories are very broad of course, and are basically catch-all terms. But they are terms I use to divide all activities I undertake into general categories. So I can work on and develop my activities in each category.
There is of course overlap between the different categories from time and time and in certain situations.
That said this is generally how I divide out my activities:
Art - art to me is any creative activity. That includes, but is not limited to art proper - sketching, drawing, painting, photography, as well as architecture, design, writing poetry, writing fiction, composing music, etc. If it involves creative activity, or sub-creative activity, I classify it as art.
Business - to me business is any enterprise designed to achieve a specific end and/or any for profit activity. This includes finance, capital activities, business projects and pursuits, investments I become involved in, and anything involving money and/or wealth (in the broadest sense of the term).
Religious - this may be the broadest category for me as it includes religious proper activities, personal spiritual and psychological (as the Greek use the term - of the soul) pursuits, my relationship with the Divine, prayer, meditation, contemplation, my philosophical outlook, charitable and philanthropic activities, and most any kind of service to my fellow man.
Science - to me science is any technical pursuit that involves a high degree of craft, observation, study, and investigation. It includes my scientific studies, experiments, pursuits of, and understanding of Nature, matter, physical, chemical, and biological laws and behavior. To me it also includes my studies of and understanding of the mind, behavior, and psyche of man.
In a way I consider everything a Religious activity, but the same might be said of Art, Business, and Science as well, for everything I do has some element of the other categories inherent in it.
For instance it is sometimes very easy for me to see a particular business activity as much as an art and a science, as a business pursuit. So none of these categories are strictly cut and dry, and none are islands unto themselves, so to speak. I don't necessarily consider any one category more, or less important than another, though there are times for me in which one category may be more important to concentrate upon than another.
These activity categories aren't really necessary of course, but they do help me divide my activities into manageable realms or spheres of action so that I can track what I'm doing and pursue those things that interest me.
So, how do you categorize (maybe you don't) or classify or view the activities of your life?
You don't of course have to have a system even remotely similar to mine.
Just interested in how you view and arrange the things you do in life?
I've often wondered how others categorize the activities they undertake in life, how they classify them, and exactly what types of activities they engage in.
I classify the activities I engage in as being of Four very broad categories: Art, Business, Religious, and Science. (By the way I am not discussing or arguing the particulars of religion or religions, I am merely listing a category of activity.)
These categories are very broad of course, and are basically catch-all terms. But they are terms I use to divide all activities I undertake into general categories. So I can work on and develop my activities in each category.
There is of course overlap between the different categories from time and time and in certain situations.
That said this is generally how I divide out my activities:
Art - art to me is any creative activity. That includes, but is not limited to art proper - sketching, drawing, painting, photography, as well as architecture, design, writing poetry, writing fiction, composing music, etc. If it involves creative activity, or sub-creative activity, I classify it as art.
Business - to me business is any enterprise designed to achieve a specific end and/or any for profit activity. This includes finance, capital activities, business projects and pursuits, investments I become involved in, and anything involving money and/or wealth (in the broadest sense of the term).
Religious - this may be the broadest category for me as it includes religious proper activities, personal spiritual and psychological (as the Greek use the term - of the soul) pursuits, my relationship with the Divine, prayer, meditation, contemplation, my philosophical outlook, charitable and philanthropic activities, and most any kind of service to my fellow man.
Science - to me science is any technical pursuit that involves a high degree of craft, observation, study, and investigation. It includes my scientific studies, experiments, pursuits of, and understanding of Nature, matter, physical, chemical, and biological laws and behavior. To me it also includes my studies of and understanding of the mind, behavior, and psyche of man.
In a way I consider everything a Religious activity, but the same might be said of Art, Business, and Science as well, for everything I do has some element of the other categories inherent in it.
For instance it is sometimes very easy for me to see a particular business activity as much as an art and a science, as a business pursuit. So none of these categories are strictly cut and dry, and none are islands unto themselves, so to speak. I don't necessarily consider any one category more, or less important than another, though there are times for me in which one category may be more important to concentrate upon than another.
These activity categories aren't really necessary of course, but they do help me divide my activities into manageable realms or spheres of action so that I can track what I'm doing and pursue those things that interest me.
So, how do you categorize (maybe you don't) or classify or view the activities of your life?
You don't of course have to have a system even remotely similar to mine.
Just interested in how you view and arrange the things you do in life?
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