Joseph Maynor

Why are you believing?

Until someone swings a baseball bat in your direction then let's see how dead you are.

Yes. This can help you develop mindfulness of what I call "divinized intuition".

A bunch of birds chirping about things bothers you, why? Why are you attached to experience such that it's triggering you?

Are you God?

What is the Universe?

Whose moralization of sexuality?

Eliminating distractions.

Visualization as a re-programming technique

The 80/20 Rule. Find the 20% of the things you're doing that's giving you 80% of your results. This will help you identify the fluff in your schedule.

Learn to re-frame every problem as an opportunity to grow or to succeed. You can actually learn to become conscious of exactly how you're growing or succeeding in light of every problem, good or bad.

People do understand it. You can't know what to do until you know yourself. It's Maslow Stage 6 stuff: Self-Transcendence. We all have a need for Self-Transcendence. https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

This is good advice. Very, very good advice. It reminds me of a line I read in a book that said something like if you're capable of being distracted, you're not working hard enough. People who know what they're doing and are doing it are not getting offended by others. To be offended is to be distracted from taking the action that you know you should be taking in your own life. It's a kind of buck-passing mechanism of the Lower-Self. You stop looking at yourself and start looking at others. Something must be wrong with something other than me! Yeah! No, it's not me that's unfocused.

Thanks for this. I'll give this a go.

Careful. This should be in a journal probably.

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When truly you have it, you don't need it. What we're currently obsessed about is what we don't yet have. If I had Industriousness, I wouldn't be yammering about that topic in my journal like I currently am. If you have it, you're not talking about it. You're currently talking about and interested in what you want that you don't yet have.

If you find that out and can prove it you'll be rich and famous.

I'm not blaming, I'm perfectly accepting stupidity as a feature of reality. The point is to account for stupidity. Assume that reality contains stupidity. Assume that you must plan-around stupidity. This is a not a blaming or a shaming, quite the opposite -- it's an accepting. And it's a no-brainer. I'm surprised you don't appreciate this insight, Nietzsche's insight.

Take what people say with a grain of salt. Remember, we're the bullshitting animal. People can say anything. And people can mis-perceive and/or mis-conceive. Don't be naively trusting I think is what Nietzsche is saying. Make stupidity the norm rather than the exception. People also have confirmation bias, so they find what they're looking for. We must account for foolishness. Reality has foolishness. Lots of foolishness. Our job is to avoid the foolishness, or if we can't avoid it, at least account for it as Nietzsche taught. Stupidity must be factored into the human experience -- it's a necessary element in the system of life. Stupidity/foolishness is a feature in the system of life not a bug.

Those people can be mistaken and/or nuts too. Nietzsche said you must account for stupidity.

Enlightenment is death of an image of yourself -- death of a concept of yourself.

God doesn't know who He is.

I like the Big Five definition of Extroversion as including the two sub-traits of Enthusiasm and Assertiveness. Extroversion in the Big 5 sense is cultivation of social confidence. It's Openness to Experience in the Big Five that's about increasing smarts. The two sub-traits of Openness to Experience are Intellect and Openness/ Creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_Aspect_Scales // The Essence of Each of the Big Five Aspects of Personality: Openness to Experience — Smarts Conscientiousness — Work Ethic/ Career Prospects Extroversion — Social Confidence Agreeableness — Social Relate-ability Neuroticism — Emotional Instability

Every Egoic System wants to see its most sought after preferences reflected back to it by other people (systems). This is what makes other systems useful and valuable to you, including but not limited to the opposite sex. What we're looking for fundamentally is a sustainable solution to our most sought after objectives.