Why aren’t you the captain of your life? And how could you be?
Or how to go from drifting to achieving…
In this article I am going to give you the secret. The secret to success. The secret to a good life. And you probably won’t hear it… and ignore it.
How do I know? I have been doing it long enough that I finally distilled the secret down to the one issue that if it is there, you cannot be successful. AND you can’t hear me. The two are connected.
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If you find yourself on the wrong road… trace your way back to where you went astray… and choose a different road.
Why? Because trying to go across to where you really wanted to go, without going back, is fraught with death traps.
Humanity, some seven thousand years ago, took a wrong turn. In just a few words: they started to replace reality with word pictures in the mind. Concepts.
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Ascension? I mean going to the next level of evolution, to live in the ‘Promised Land’.
I am talking about looking deeper with the intention to see what is cause, what is effect.
It is both a habit, to look only at the surface of things. But what stops one to look deeper? What is that creates the habit of no curiosity, and therefore no interest in looking deeper.
Some cultures have developed the habit to ask ‘why?’ five times… so they get to the root of things. It is, I hear, a Japanese technique… although I don’t think it is taught in school, though it should be.
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I monitor visitor behavior on my site… to see how they treat my articles… I spend a few minutes a week, in the morning. It often gives me an idea of what to write about, what to teach next.
This article is a result of that few minutes of looking today.
Oh, I mostly look at people who signed up to get an email notification each time I publish a new article… by the way. Those people have expressed interest, so I want to see what people who say ‘I am interested’ are doing.
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The currency of life are capacities and distinctions.
The less capacities you have the closer you are to the bottom.
What? The bottom of what?
The bottom of the power pyramid. Where personal power, personal authority is the currency.
Asking what those capacities are, those seven is a little dumb, but just think about it.
So what does everyone who went to school has to have as capacity? Reading, using language, i.e. writing and speaking, adding and subtracting numbers, recognizing faces, smells, sounds, telling the time, basic stuff.
You may be able to cook.
You may be able to clean.
And of course, you may be able drive…
But these are not really capacities: they use capacities, but they are complex activities. Not VERY complex, and yet, complex nevertheless.
If you look, parents who take their children to play soccer or sports strengthen the base capacities, but don’t add any new capacities. Especially if the parent chauffeurs the child to those activities.
On the other hand intelligent parents enroll their children in extracurricular activities, activities that activate capacities beyond the base capacities.
Spiritual capacities… DNA capacities. They are beyond those base 7-8-9.
Bad news. On my way home, climbing the long stairway off Euclid Avenue, I was listening to Step 21 of the 67 Steps. It’s about the superpower of being able to get into a relationship with people. Get into a relationship because you can see how their machine works. and because you see it, therefore you can speak their language.
Everything comes to you through people… and…
…you cannot get more abundance than what your people skills allow you to have.
I have been resigned about my ability to get better at dealing with people.
Resigned means: I have a fixed mindset about it, that says: it may be possible for you, but it’s impossible for me.
But being resigned doesn’t mean I have given up. I haven’t. But every time I read someone’s stuff, or watch someone’s stuff who is good at it, and maybe that is their superpower, I resent them. I do. Not nice, I know, but it is how it is.
It goes hand in glove with resignation.
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Power tools: Human Evolution is powered by hate
I searched google to see what others have to say. But every article, every site only talked about the physical evolution, and none talked about the inner evolution: where humans conquer their animal nature and truly become human.
And the sites, books, etc. that talked about spiritual evolution, all touted love as the strongest energy to cause it. But love is only available AFTER a considerable level of spiritual evolution is achieved. Until that point what we call love is craving, lust, urge, but not love.
Whereas hate is readily available. Not hate of another. Not hate of another human, or group. No. Hate of not being enough. Hate of stupidity, bad feelings, misery.
If you are in the habit of ameliorating, avoiding, etc. misery, like Freud says in his famous essays, Civilization and its discontent.
The life imposed on us is too hard for us to bear: it brings too much pain, too many disappointments, too many insoluble problems. If we are to endure it, we cannot do without palliative measures. … Of such measures there are perhaps three kinds:
powerful distractions, which cause us to make light of our misery,
substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it, and
intoxicants, which anaesthetize us to it.
To cause self-evolution on the personal level, power tools are needed…
…not the tools Freud says we are already using. What is currently offered in the marketplace is weak, ineffective, and at best consolation.
I have found, and I had 37 years to look, test, evaluate, that a power tool only qualifies to be called a power tool if it can be used out of the box. It needs to be learned… and maybe other things unlearned…
And it needs to be able to raise a person’s quality of life (and consciousness) by at least 10%. Although I saw, in yesterday’s Moneyroots, that a simple tool well chosen, can increase that quality of life by 50% if learned correctly and used diligently enough.
Here are the power tools that I teach.
Are there, could there be more? Muscletest says: no.
Tools where a myth needs to be corrected before it is a tool:
wrong… from IS
I
because… be cause
Tool that is visualizing a situation: hitting bottom
Tool where the power source is regret/hate
To my utter surprise, possibility, purpose, meaning, everything Landmark Education teaches don’t qualify as a power tool… why? because they are positive thinking weak energies. Because a possibility’s shelf life is short… and unless a person has lots of support, the possibility disappears.
Whereas hate requires no words… it is there whether you want it or not.
Evolution Is Powered By Hate
Of course in order to be able to see what drives personal growth, personal evolution, one needs to be able to stand to the side… and look from there.
Helen Keller, a proponent of looking into the future, looking into the light, and not looking into the d
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I was reading a Lee Goldberg book, Fast Track, about illegal car racing in Los Angeles. (In the movie it is some German town, not Los Angeles…)
One of the drivers says: it is not how fast the car is… it is the driver that matters.
It is not how fast you can drive, it is the turns that make the winner.
It is a principle…
An object already in motion can change direction. But an object at rest cannot be easily turned into the ‘right’ direction.
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Your worldview is invisible to you. It’s like the floor you walk on… the foundation of your life.
You need to understand that your dislike of certain people makes you a moron if you also decide that THEREFORE what they say must be stupid…
Or you like how someone looks, and therefore they must be smart. Ugh.
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There are two main ways to live. It is the closest to black or white I have found in nature.
Living things that have their eyes in the front… the predators that go ahead and discover, that live through risk. And prey animals, that are hunted and killed for food.
Of course humans want to be very smart, so they added the categories: philanthropist and supporter, but in this b/w categorization philanthropists and supporters are also prey animals.
So what? you could ask, but there is something important to know here:
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