The elevation from weak follower is not to the courageous leader. The elevation from mindless consumer is not to the industrious producer. Leader needs followers. Producer needs consumers. Leader is but another side of the follower coin. Producer is but another side of the consumer coin. I say – dispense the coins altogether. …
Category: Lifestyle
Value and Consequences
Why is this “success” thing so convoluted and enshrouded in mystery? There’s plenty uncertainty and unknown in life. Doesn’t matter. You don’t have to be certain. You only need to be pretty sure. I’m pretty sure there are consequences. Can you produce value? Can you give value? What are the consequences of producing …
Self-Focused Learns Nothing Sees Nothing
Can you be looking at two things without dividing your attention? When you’re looking at an apple, can you simultaneously look at a pear, with the same attention? Or does your attention divide? What happens when you’re looking at yourself? You’re not looking at something else, are you? What happens when you …
Consolation Only Aggravates The Problem
Consolation only aggravates the problem. It doesn’t relieve it. It escapes it. Consolation is but a distraction. It distracts you from the problem by bringing your attention to something else. In the same time – it is inseparable with the problem. You can only receive it having paid for it with suffering. Thus, in fact, …
SPONTANEITY IS CONSCIOUSNESS
Anything done for a “reason” is already corrupted and it’s bound to produce mediocrity. There is only THE DOING. The choiceless, inevitable, endless ACT OF DOING – the very eternal wheel of the universe. The best reason to do something is a WHIM. Anything more is utter delusion. You are deluding yourself …
Repeating Reason Is An Excuse
Delusion breeds inertia. Inertia breeds delusion. Psychologically, if you want to do something, but don’t do it for some reason – that reason is probably an excuse. If it repeats itself – then it’s certainly an excuse. You think your motivations and actions and pursuits can be reduced to a finite, logical plan. …
The Curse Of Being Smart
The curse of being smart is that there are few to show you how stupid you are. Unintelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns. Intelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns.. The difference between an intelligent person and unintelligent is that intelligent person naturally perceives and understands more. However, being …
Attached to Feeling Good
“Feeling good” can be an attachment too. You attach yourself to it. Now, whenever you’re not feeling good – you are feeling even worse. Can “feeling good” be captured? Can happiness be captured? Can it be encapsulated in a word? Words? By naming your feeling it now becomes an idea. A standard. Now …
Your Toolkit Expands With Your Creativity
Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity. The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using. A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless. By idea – I mean a creative idea. You can have all the instruments in the world …
To Do What You Want
to do what you want this could be everything that ever needs to be said about life the deepest words, most misunderstood of all the words, quite certainly. We don’t do what we want. We do what we hate. We don’t do what we want. We do what we think we want. …