CarryTheFire
@AtomicPatterns
Seeking the system of meaning in stories and science. Extracting signal from noise. DM for freelance writing work.
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The Illusions We Forge in Our Minds Consume Us. In "Moby-Dick", Captain Ahab hunts the white whale that took his leg. What follows is a story about how obsession with a self-created illusion leads to tragedy.
If our freewill to choose really meant we could exactly control outcomes , we wouldn't need food , water or air.
Inner emotional turmoil shakes your world and makes it hard to focus on the outside world or the inner world of anyone else. The only way to overcome it is to give your attention to something that you believe is truly more important and meaningful than your own suffering.
When a wise man's leg is cut off , he ignores the blood he has already lost and focuses on the tourniquet to preserve what remains.
The problem with making a deal with the devil is he invests in the economy of hell and that's where you get your returns. 🕸️
The world gives you choices and you must choose because not choosing is also a choice.
Experiences that seem incomprehensible at the time become loops that never close. Years later, the benefit of making sense of them is that the loop is finally closed. Energy and resources that were being diverted to them are finally available.
Whoever you are,all you have in your life are your choices.They may not be the choices you want, but they are your choices.Once you have made your choices, you will have your consequences.Your life today is the sum of your choices and their consequences. Not choosing is a choice.
Your ability to make better decisions improves directly proportional to your ability to regulate your emotions.
Do you want lasting change in your beliefs or habits ? Change the emotions behind them. Until the junk food that entices you starts to make you feel nauseous, you won’t sustain healthy eating.
Time is coming for you with a 100% kill rate and you still delay going after what you really believe in ?
You can expect questions from outside the syllabus in the test of life.
Engaging with reality in good faith is best. Accept that you have to engage with the parts of reality that are engaging with you in bad faith , without starting to engage with all of reality in bad faith. If a snake you feed bites you , should you start biting others ?
You will encounter new sides to reality until you die. The optimal way to integrate past experiences with endless novelty is humility. New places. New people. Changes in your own body and mind. All of these are engagement with new sides of reality.
If your hope for something is tempered by a real fear it won't happen , you can rest assured that it is real. Otherwise , it might just be a delusion. Few people can have true , real conviction in exactly how something is going to turn out.
If you fail to build and have conviction in your own robust internal model of reality, you will become susceptible to adopting the model someone else tries to impose on you. Their's being worse won't matter if they have more conviction in their model than you do in yours.
Chronic question-askers get stuck in endless loops , and never build forward momentum. True wisdom lies in posing queries whose answers unlock real progress. Question your questions.
Thrown into crisis? 🔥 Keep your focus on 'not failing' and your focus stays on failure - you might sabotage yourself. Keep your focus on 'succeeding and thriving ' and you give yourself the best chance. How often do you practice framing things to give yourself the best shot?🚀
In 'The book of five rings' , Musashi asserts that the mind prioritizes one thing during action. Even in the midst of complex activity like sparring , the mind prioritizes one thing. No matter how many complex sub-tasks are involved , the mind focuses on the chosen top priority.
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