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. …
Tag: Psychology
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 …
Dissipation – Moderation – Safety – Exploration
Sensual desires are nothing in comparison with the psyche’s craving for permanence It’s better to be dissipated then safe Dissipation is futile and vain but at least it’s a genuine try Safety it is ever doomed because there is no safety there is no permanence no escape from death no escape from change …
All Memory is Confabulation
All memory is confabulation We are way too confident in veracity of our memory Memory it’s an image taken by shortsighted eyes Words recorded by prejudiced ears Events translated by biased cognition Wise mistrusts memory Wise understands the uniqueness of every moment Wise is ready to meet every situation anew, only …
Be With Your Desire
Don’t pretend you don’t want something. Don’t assert that you can’t get something. It’s just another way of deceiving yourself. Be with your desire. Respect it. Seek to understand it. You may already know that it’s attainment is not ultimately significant — but the problem of self-delusion is of paramount gravity. Therefore do whatever …
Own Your Shame
You repress what you’re ashamed of about yourself — which in turn prevents you from addressing it’s very cause. It’s a vicious circle. You must OWN what you’re ashamed of. Laugh at it, really! The more you’re ashamed of something the more it will paralyse you, and control you. The more important is the matter …