Antifragility

[Agrande]

My emotions are fragile
My epistemology is fragile
My feelings are fragile
My mindset is fragile
My assumptions and expectations are fragile

my plans are fragile

my self esteem is fragile

My social circle is fragile

my attention span is fragile

My external dependence is fragile

my social life is fragile

my knowledge is fragile

my happiness is fragile

my health is fragile by the garbage I put into my body

My life itself is fragile

My thoughts, judgements and inner discipline is fragile

My looks is fragile. 
My self control is fragile. 
my practice is fragile.

my work ethic is fragile

my confidence is fragile

my spirituality is fragile. (Think of the story of the sufi mystic starving in the desert with no food or water. I would fail this test) (perhaps God in the ultimate sense is antifragile because of its eternity and infinitude in all directions?)

My thoughts, judgements and self discipline is fragile

The Self is fragile because of self deception. Thus my intelligence is fragile because there will always be gaps in my thinking

my ideology and worldview is fragile

My addictions make me fragile yet the addictions themselves seem antifragile. 

My sanity can be fragile when i’m on drugs

my concentration, focus and attention is fragile. Easily broken.

my mind itself is fragile.

my lies are fragile

My financial situation is fragile, one less paycheck and it could be over

my (self) love is fragile 
My creativity and productivity is fragile (wrong environments can stunt my creativity and productivity)

My tolerance for pain is fragile

My theories are fragile

My ego can be fragile. 
Whatever I own is fragile. Can easily be taken away whenever Fate decides to. 

My capacity for God is fragile (recall the verse in the bible where God is so bright the man is literally blinded)

 

 

The crux of self improvement for me is to build antifragility. I need to be more robust, grow a pair and be more antifragile. The mindset of the Stoics and ancients inspires me. 

Mostly boils down to being a sucker vs nonsucker. (I’ve been reading a lot of Nassim Nicholas Taleb I know lol)

 

What I think is antifragile:

direct experiences

Discipline (goggins mindset)

Insights born from practice

stoic mindset

Having great epistemology

God

Truth

ego death

death itself (since there’s no way to avoid it. It’s universal)

(Financial) independence

thinking for yourself

… and you can add your own. 

 

I need to take action. 
3 stoic exercises 

1. View from above. From above your head zoom out until you see Earth itself. Zoom out further if u like. Now visualise from the beginning of time to the end of time. Notice the little speck of dust everything is and you’ll feel more relaxed less neurotic

2. Negative visualisation. Imagine worse things that couldve happened and be grateful. 

3. Voluntary discomfort (the grind can bring the most reward) (gym, take ACTION., lose weight, socialise more, quit addictions, actually solve my problems, confront denial, therapy etc.)

 

 

Edited May 22 by Agrande
Added something i missed

[archi]

All is temporary aka fragile from certain perspective.
Even whatever you mentioned as antifragile.

Even you might think something is antifragile , you do not know like black swan effect.

Nice question would be : Is there a possibility that God is temporary ? I guess it leads to mind blowing states of mind.