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About
Sometimes we encounter these ideas out in the world. Other times, we hear them in our minds. Sometimes they are language, other times feelings or thoughts. Whatever they are — they’re meaningful energy.
In the Ping Practice universe, we call these resonances “Pings”. 1234
What — if anything — these “Pings” might mean and how we might use them is rarely clear in the moment. Their meaning often unfolds and evolves over time.
The fleeting nature of these Pings, and the uncertainty of their significance, can make deciding if and where to hold them (and how to work with them) unclear.
Ping Practice emerged precisely from this place.
Ping Practice is a journaling method and app designed to help you synthesize these fleeting bits of resonance into wisdom you are inspired and equipped to embody.
The method emerged through years of experimentation orbiting a central question:
How might I locate what I learn and experience in ways that equip me to apply them in the fleeting moments when I sense opportunities to do so?
Ping Practices continues to be shaped by an expansive body of pre-existing thought and through conversations with people who see making-meaning from what they experience as an act of survival.
Method
Ping
Ping Practice assumes that within the tiny, everyday, and easy-to-dismiss moments of resonance are clues to new meaning and insight. Let’s call these “Pings.”
A ping can take on any form: word, phrase, title, rhyme, name, lyric, quote, place, color, texture, melody, idea, feeling, etc.
The most important thing about Pings — and what differentiates them from other thoughts — is that a Ping is language that moves you, “clicks,” or otherwise causes you to feel something in your body.
You are likely encountering a Ping if the attraction or resistance you sense seems intuitive, automatic, reflexive, and happens without thinking ... as if what you are encountering touches something latent within you.
Practice
Ping Practice is a 5-step method.-
The first step is Sense.
This means being aware and present so that you can notice things that “Ping” something within you. -
The second step follows quickly after the first:
Name.
To name is to externalize the Ping in a way that your future self can find its way back to the place in your mind-body where you first noticed it.
The most important thing in this moment is to relieve yourself of needing to know:
- What — if anything — this Ping might mean
- How — if at all — you might use this Ping
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The third step is to Revisit previous Pings.
How and when you revisit will vary. The most important thing is that you:
- Afford yourself the space to explore and respond to past Pings in ways that feel true to "where" you are in the present moment.
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The fourth step is Create.
The purpose of Ping Practice is to turn the little things you sense (Pings) into insights that you can apply/act on. A core part of the “applying” part is making sure Pings are easy for you to remember in the small windows you have opportunities to apply them.
This means two things:
- Making Pings that are important to you memorable so that you can quickly recall them and
- Placing these Pings where you will be able to easily “reach” for them when you sense opportunities to act on them.
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The last step — before the Ping Practice cycle repeats itself — is
Embody.
Taking the insights you have converged on and acting on them. Doing so will cause you to Notice new things which starts the cycle all over again.
App
App for iOS and Android
While Ping Practice is tool agnostic, a series of experiments have led us to think an accessible and dedicated app for smartphone would be worthwhile —
We are currently developing a smartphone app for iOS and Android.
Please get in touch if you’re interested in testing it and/or this method.
People
We are many people, thankful for conversations & collaborations with:* Nicolas Ayoub
* Bobby Bailey
* Miloš Balać
* Perry Bleiberg
* Kyle Brett
* Ashley Butler
* Sara Chandler
* Sonya Chandler
* Matt Charleston
* Sam Charleston
* David Chernow
* Matt Cleinman
* Janelle Christian
* Casey Courtney
* Jack Crocker
* Jordan Curry
* Nicole Delaney
* Elliott Etzkorn
* David Goligorsky
* Alex Hollender
* David Katznelson
* Tori Klein
* Chino Kim
* Andrea Lewis
* Carolyn Li-Madeo
* Scott Merritt
* Anthony Obi
* Jeffrey Noh
* Drew Pelberg
* Peter Pelberg
* Jason Perez
* Howard Rheingold
* Mamie Rheingold
* Natalia Rodriguez
* Jaynelle Saint-Jean
* Prateek Saxena
* Laurel Schwulst
* Reuben Son
* Annie Stancliffe
* Christian Taylor
* Lauren Tonokawa
* Andrew Trousdale
* Elizabeth Turner
* Melissa Uhl
* Caitlin Virtue
* Denny Vrandečić
* Yael Weissburg
* Joshua Weissburg
* Bryan Wolff
* Brett Yalof
* Isata Yansaneh
* Josh Zipin
This image is a still from IBM’s A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie viewable on YouTube (at the 37 second mark). Thanks to Perry for helping us track its origin!
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