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 …
Tag: Psychology
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 …
You Couldn’t Have Done More
“I could have done more” Could you really? If it truly is so, then please answer me one question: WHY DIDN’T YOU? Oh yes. You just didn’t. You say: “I could have done more but I DIDN’T.” You say you will have done more the next time. Now there is the past, the present …
Excuses Only Indicate Confusion
You have many excuses not to do something. But you want to do this thing. Or you “have to” do this thing. You use excuses to escape the doing of the thing, the doing of something. You find temporary comfort in the lie of your excuse. Until you realise your excuse was… well – just …
Blind Spots Will Persist Until You Actually SEE
Blind Spots Will Persist Until You Actually SEE “Blind spots” make you stupid. Blind spot is when you don’t see a simple fact, a simple solution, etc. You accept that when the problem is difficult – you will make mistakes. But you don’t understand why you sometimes fail to see the simplest solutions, …
What You Think You Want
There is only what you DO. You only do what you WANT. If you don’t want someting you don’t do it. If you don’t do something that is because you don’t want it. The problem of not doing something that you want is merely you not really wanting it. The problem of wanting something, …
Replacing One Word with Another Misses The Point
Some gurus and coaches and whoever else will tell you to replace certain words in your vocabulary with better ones. It’s a trick. A lovely trick. See, thoughts comprise of words. You think in words. Words, which are mental images. But you don’t just think in any mental images — you think in words. Your …