I had this life changing insight...

[theleelajoker]

... but now, I forgot. 

[Someone here]

What is the message you are implying? 

[theleelajoker]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

What is the message you are implying? 

That theses "big life changing insights" are close to useless in real life application. Even if they were, they are not transferable to other people's real life behavior.

Go ask any AI for the most important insights in life or any domain. Chances are, most people will agree to most of those insights presented. It's no rocket science to come up with an order of some clever sounding words, aka  "insight". I can buy a new age calendar for that.

Many posts here suggest that having this or that insight it what it's about. I wholeheartedly disagree. Yeah mind calms down for a while, but that's it. Finding, becoming aware, announcing, reading about big insights doesn't change much, if at all. 

So from time to time, I'm making fun about this kind of stuff. 

Edited 19 hours ago by theleelajoker

[Someone here]

37 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

That theses "big life changing insights" are close to useless in real life application. Even if they were, they are not transferable to other people's real life behavior.

Go ask any AI for the most important insights in life or any domain. Chances are, most people will agree to most of those insights presented. It's no rocket science to come up with an order of some clever sounding words, aka  "insight". I can buy a new age calendar for that.

Many posts here suggest that having this or that insight it what it's about. I wholeheartedly disagree. Yeah mind calms down for a while, but that's it. Finding, becoming aware, announcing, reading about big insights doesn't change much, if at all. 

So from time to time, I'm making fun about this kind of stuff. 

But this is unwise of you to do . 

[theleelajoker]

18 minutes ago, Someone here said:

But this is unwise of you to do . 

Because.....?

[Someone here]

4 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

Because.....?

Because you are engaging in trolling. Is trolling wise ?

[theleelajoker]

11 minutes ago, Someone here said:

Because you are engaging in trolling. Is trolling wise ?

Hm don't see it as trolling. In my POV, there is the intention to create value. 

If my hypothesis is right - > others can learn.

If my hypothesis is wrong -> I can learn. 

It's just my way of doing that. 

[Someone here]

11 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

If my hypothesis is wrong -> I can learn. 

This one. 

[UnbornTao]

I think that a real insight can be powerful. Not as an abstraction but as something real that you perceive regarding the nature or workings of something.

If it's an abstraction, which might be what you're referring to here, then that isn't that real, but perhaps a good occurrence. When it is experiential it is powerful. 

[theleelajoker]

1 hour ago, UnbornTao said:

I think that a real insight can be powerful. Not as an abstraction but as something real that you perceive regarding the nature or workings of something.

If it's an abstraction, which might be what you're referring to here, then that isn't that real, but perhaps a good occurrence. When it is experiential it is powerful. 

Yes, fully agree. 

My impression that abstraction is often mistaken as experiential. 

First comes the experience, then the concept. Not vice versa. 

[theleelajoker]

1 hour ago, Someone here said:

This one. 

Second time you write short statements and posts that lack depth, reasons and context in this thread. 

Zero value added for me. 

[Xonas Pitfall]

#HardSkillIssue I say 

[Someone here]

3 minutes ago, theleelajoker said:

short statements and posts that lack depth, reasons and context

 

On 24/02/2026 at 7:06 PM, theleelajoker said:

... but now, I forgot. 

 

[theleelajoker]

@Someone here

Yeah, I forgot what it wanted to write. Did that not become obvious by the statement "I forgot" ?  

Edited 12 hours ago by theleelajoker

[UnbornTao]

3 hours ago, theleelajoker said:

Yes, fully agree. 

My impression that abstraction is often mistaken as experiential. 

Oh yeah, defintely.

3 hours ago, theleelajoker said:

First comes the experience, then the concept. Not vice versa. 

Sounds about right. It's possible that concept influences experience, too. Tricky stuff.

[LastThursday]

To me insight is the same as understanding, with a sprinkle of surprise. Something like, it was there all the time, but now I've become aware of it, I understand, how surprising. 

I think it's totally possible to forget insights and to get dumber over time. Sometimes there's a certain amount of practice needed to make them stick, especially if they come from other people. Also, sometimes it's like, ah yeah I get it now, wow. And then sometime later, actually I don't get it, I thought I did, doh!

Commonplace book. Why does that phrase spring to mind...? I forget.

Edited 9 hours ago by LastThursday

[theleelajoker]

@LastThursday

I had this funny moment two years ago. I had an Ayahuasca ceremony and in the evening I was lying in my bed. I was not in the peak high but almost sober again, just the afterglow.

I felt very much aware, calm state, my thoughts very clear, orderly and sharp. I was pondering this and that, some insights about me and the world that came to me during the last 24h. 

And then it suddenly hit me. "I have been here before". I don't mean in sense of reincarnation, but in a sense of "I had all this clarity, and insights, and epiphanies before."

Most of it I wasn't new, I just forgot. Some insights I lived, others I didn't. No matter how clear they seemed to me in whatever state. 

And now, when I see myself or others proclaim big insights, I typically treat it with a certain scepticism until I see the action in real life.