What is superstitiousness? You think it’s “seeing a black cat, thinking it’s a bad omen”. You think it’s stupid. It’s only as stupid as your own collection of cognitive biases. This one is called Post hoc ergo propter hoc. The Post hoc fallacy. Correlation does not imply causation. But you don’t realise it. You …
Tag: Psychology
The Problem With Modernity Is That We Are Simply Not Modern
Mankind is not so modern. We are old. Governed by our instincts. Our best response to our bestiality is to hamper it with laws and regulations. Which itself is bestiality (answering force with the threat of a force). This barely even works and we will probably kill each other soon. Whatever. Instead I …
Thirst For Knowledge Is Just Thirst
Thirst for knowledge is just thirst. It implies thirst. Thirst. A burning need. A desire. A LACK. When you’re lacking — you are poor. You are poor and suffer from all it’s afflictions. You poor condition permeates your being. You become poor at heart, poor at mind, poor at soul, and poor in …
You Want To Be Inspired Because You Aren’t Inspired
You want to be inspired because you aren’t inspired. You want to be motivated because you aren’t motivated. You always want what you don’t have. When you have something – you don’t even recognise it. You only know you have something if you can compare it with NOT having it. And you are uninspired …
No Thing Is Exciting In Itself
What makes the thing exciting? It’s the novelty effect, isn’t it? Obviously it is. It’s not exciting because it is exciting. It is exciting because it’s new. You say that extreme sports are exciting or this or that. It’s not. It’s the fact that you don’t do those things every single day of …
Self-Improvement Is Mental Masturbation
Self-improvement is mental masturbation. You don’t really care about improving. You just want to feel good about yourself. “Motivation” is about feeling good about yourself. “Inspiration” is about feeling good about yourself. “Hustle” is about feeling good about yourself. Even “PLANS” are about feeling good about yourself. Oh and obviously resolutions are about …
THE WANT THE CHOICE THE NEW
What is the want? You want thing. It quite gives meaning to your life. You have an idea that this will make your life better. Then the movement of time makes sense. You are moving somewhere. And that somewhere is “better”. How do you conceive of better and worse? You have your memory. Thus the …
NEVER justify yourself to ANYONE
NEVER justify yourself to anyone. Never ever. You don’t owe anyone an explanation. You don’t owe anyone anything. When you are genuine — there is nothing more that you have to do. When you are genuine, when you are simple, when you speak your mind, when you don’t look to manipulate people — there …
Perpetuation of Negativity
The only way for negative person, that is aggressive, proud, ambitious, to not be repulsive — is when you identify with “them”, as a group. Ambition is always aggressive therefore it is always threatening. But when you yourself harbour that ambition then it’s not threatening to you – or at least that is what …
The Truth About Plans and TO-DO Lists
The truth about TO-DO lists is that you can’t complete them. Why can you not complete those lists? Does this fact render them entirely useless? Let’s enquire. On the basic level – you make a TO-DO list in order to… KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TO DO. Nothing fancy. You make a list of …