Joseph Maynor

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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. Make benefits your points and features your details, your backup to your points. A lot of people get stuck in the features and don't highlight the benefits. It's like putting the cart before the horse. https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/02/21/features-vs-benefits
  5. 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.
  6. If you find that out and can prove it you'll be rich and famous.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Those people can be mistaken and/or nuts too. Nietzsche said you must account for stupidity.
  10. Enlightenment is death of an image of yourself -- death of a concept of yourself.
  11. 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
  12. Good
  13. I notice a lot of people are not conscious of these decision trees in themselves. This will also show you the limits of the Rational Mind; including but not limited to how the Mind forms blocks like: false choice, taking the belief for reality, limited beliefs, excuse making, disempowered attitude, etc. What I find is that a lot of people need to dump the Mind and just go do for this very reason. That's why I like to say, all beliefs are excuses. This is like the dark side of the Mind if we think of the Mind as a double-edged sword. The Mind is pretentious in its authority. It makes it seem like its thoughts are reality, which gives the Lower Self mental justification to not do the Good.
  14. 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.
  15. You're both a self and a no-self. You wanna sort of accept that paradox and work both ends of it. Actually, in truth, you're neither; you're God, but that paradox is one mental framework that we can put over Being that is less likely to lock you of thinking of yourself as one side of the paradox to the exclusion of the other. That's a trap that a lot of people do is they define themselves with mental categories instead of using mental categories to explore themselves. The Paradox of Ego and No Ego is not a truth, it's a tool to keep you open to exploring yourself because you're not clinging to being an Ego or a No-Ego. God is not limited by the Mind's categories. God demotes the Mind from Colonel to Corporal. The Mind and its concepts/beliefs are a hand-maiden to God not the other way around.
  16. What are the intentions of your Higher Self? What would you changing yourself to embody the Good with your life look like?
  17. You're both an Ego and a No-Ego at the same time.