Look back at everything you’ve seen in life and realize how EVERYONE has been WRONG so many times We have a certain strange reluctance to admit our own cluelessness and of those around us There’s a whole lot of inane nonsense one is subjected to as a child, without having a choice on the …
Tag: Psychology
Aggregate Willingness Aggregate Unwillingness
Behind what you don’t want there’s a truth concealed as to why you fail to get what you DO want. The aggregate reluctance, aggregate failure to get-what-you-want comprises of conscious and subconscious WANTS but also conscious and subconscious DON’T-WANTS. Counting in the *wants* and counting out the *don’t wants* results in net willingness …
Values And Repulsion
It’s only natural to be REPELLED by behaviors which don’t lead you to where you want to be (providing you know and value the place you want to be). Such REPULSION has nothing to do with “being negative” or “mean”. It’s a natural protection mechanism for values. Conversely: If your values are …
Convey YOURSELF
You likely didn’t upset that person. They were upset to begin with. It’s very easy to upset a faceless stranger. It’s very easy to impress a stranger. You don’t want to impress random strangers. You don’t want to cater to the mob. You don’t want to make it happy. Make your loved ones …
Fear As The Truth About Risk
Fear is exciting until it is overwhelming This nature of fear reveals the truth about life: Risk is advantageous until it is excessive. Then it becomes harmful. (At least when you’re antifragile) Your default risk-management system — FEAR — doesn’t always understand the risk concerned. Most people overestimate the risk in their own lives. …
POMP
Pompousness is not just painfully turgid but it outright betrays incompetence, sentimentality and delusion. If it’s pompous and “inspiring” then it’s probably not very meaningful and intelligent. You probably want to avoid it. Energy spent on appearances and emotion is energy not spent on competence and not spent on what actually gets results …
Idealisation Is Escapism
Idealisation is escapism There’s nothing “ideal” about idealisation. It’s simply avoidance of reality. There’s nothing ideal about idealisation. Nothing aesthetic about it. Reality is all there is and is therefore perfect. Idealisation is escapism and nothing else. CREATION has nothing to do with idealisation. What is ever created — future or past — …
Waiting NOT Optimal
Waiting is not optimal either for your goals or your experience of life Wait without waiting Wait without needing or expecting Wait only in stoic understanding of the cause and effect Waiting, psychologically, is a delusion — just like time is. There’s only what you do now and what you do now …
Do Away With Habits
your first impression is a habit your first emotion is a habit your first thought is a habit. your first reaction is a habit if you want to choose your path — choose your habits if you want to be free — do away with habits
You Are Scared To NOT Be Boring
You are scared to NOT be boring The average is the boring is the accepted The extraordinary is the rejected We wonder why is everyone so dispassionate and generic It’s really obvious. The unification is a coping mechanism Everything of lower consciousness will acquire it’s character from it’s environment The higher the consciousness …