HUMAN’s condition is a balance of: –STRESS, TENSION, and release –EFFORT , ENERGY (level) -joys and pleasures and WELLNESS and fulfilment Besides your long term goals — it’s IMPERATIVE you maintain yourself in GOOD CONDITION — by matching those NEEDS -if you don’t — you’ll quickly hate your life +you’ll CRACK in your pursuits …
Tag: Emotions
Self-Sceptical
You want to be self-sceptical “You should be sceptical about your own beliefs” This is absolutely basic and has been talked of over and over again You should be sceptical not just of your beliefs. That is easy. You should be sceptical of every THOUGHT which emerges in you And you should be …
No Regrets: Part II: Enlightened “No Regrets”
Test is continued from Part I: No Regrets: 3 Levels of “No Regrets” …and I’m not saying it’s easy This is why it’s enlightened. For as long as you’re in the paradigm of LOSS AND GAIN, of investment and return — you can never FREE yourself from regrets Because obviously the full insight to …
No Regrets: Part I: 3 Levels of “No Regrets”
There are 3 levels of “no regrets”: The negative level: self-delusion. The positive level: freeing yourself from regrets and starting over The enlightened level: living every moment like it’s your last, living every moment as though your dead future self told you how to live. The negative “no regrets” is a sure way to …
FUN, CREATIVITY and JOY are HOW YOU DO EVERYTHING
You don’t do art to be creative You don’t dance to have fun You don’t joke to laugh You don’t seek thrills to get excited You don’t indulge to experience pleasure You don’t do things to be happy You don’t seek love You are creative therefore do things creatively (including art) You have fun …
You’re CLUELESS About Risk Management
We all have some innate sense of risk-management. E.g. FEAR. And then we also have plenty learned methods of risk management. E.g. DIVERSIFICATION Alas we keep failing our “risk-management” in the modern world FEAR fails most of the time because most our modern “threats” are NOT mortal. Therefore you actually SHOULD take more …
ADAPTABILITY = IMPERTURBABILITY
Anger is frustration with inability to control something. Things don’t go the way you expect -> anger Someone disappointed you, didn’t do what you expected -> anger etc. Upon getting angry, you can: -choose to stay angry, and direct that anger towards acquisition of more control -choose to stay angry, and direct that anger …
Rigid vs Completely Ossified Minds
Most men are rigid. Most men eventually consolidate in their beliefs. The psyche wraps around those beliefs protectively. The entire machinery of schemas and biases makes it immensely difficult to penetrate. Don’t hope for an average person to change. People don’t change. Most men are rigid. There’s little chance of them changing. There’s little …
A Professional Solves Problems Calmly and Quietly and Efficiently
There’s the problem and there’s the solution The problem is a tension which necessitates a release. The problem entails solution. Direct or indirect. Sometimes you eradicate the problem and sometimes you accept it. But a certain attitude must be arrived at Problem evokes motivation which results in pursuit of the solution. This motivation can come …
See More = See More Negatives = Be More Cautious (But Not Less Optimistic)
The more you see the more possibilities you see Great possibilities and terrifying possibilities The more you see the more you see: -what can go wrong -what can be done better -how little control you have -how complex the matters truly are I used the word “SEE” — because it’s so neutral SEEING …