One of my students wrote: ‘I don’t know yet why I run from it, why is it uncomfortable for me to take responsibility’
This is an excellent question.
Why? Because every person that has ever been confronted, yes, confronted with the possibility to having their responsibility gene activated, has, so far, chosen not to use it, not to benefit from it.
What is responsibility in terms of the world? Blame. Duty. No fun.
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Do you remember the pie chart of all knowledge? The circle, the pie, represents all facts in the universe?
A tiny slice you know and you know that you know it. It is your address, it is your name, it is facts that you can prove.
Another tiny slice is all the things you know that you don’t know. For example you know that you don’t speak Japanese, unless, of course, you do.
The rest of the pie is the things that you don’t know that you don’t know. Some of it you think you know, but what you think is just isn’t so.
I just listened to a Frank Zappa song and I loved it.
Most people I know listen to music. What they call music is songs. You listen to them. And you are put in a trance. The songs are hypnotic in nature. They implant b.s. in your mind about HOW IT SHOULD BE. About the order of nature. Ugh. (aside: movies too)
I don’t understand the words in American or British songs, but I do understand them in my mother tongue, and those lyrics, although I haven’t heard those songs for 40 years, reverberate in my head.
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You’ve heard it said that, ‘Every person is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.’ Yet we routinely craft our own facts from the fabric of personal experiences, preferences and prejudices.
A stereotype is nothing more than a pattern we’ve observed.
This pattern isn’t always predictive, but it is a pattern nonetheless and we trust it. We do this in the misbegotten belief that we have correctly interpreted our past experiences and that our preferences and prejudices are, in fact, correct and reliable interpretations of objective reality. We’re a funny, funny species, aren’t we? (~Roy Williams)
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When you change the way you see things, the things you see change!
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
-Einstein
I have a disproportionately large number of people asking for their numbers, whose soul correction is ‘Sexual Energy’
I could ponder why the Kabbalists named the soul correction that… but instead of that I’ll say:
How you do anything is how you do everything…
meaning whatever your attitude to one thing in life, will be visible in every area of life, including sex.
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My most influential teachers teach new expectations through invalidating the ones that create a life of misery.
Ben Settle is one of those teachers.
I subscribed to his newsletter and then quit it after a year or two. Why? because for a time he was more interested in world building and world domination than what concerned me more: a healthy business that served me. And he was more political than I could stomach… so I quit.
I had benefited from my subscription… How? I managed to double my monthly income and at the same time reduced the amount of work it took. I also doubled my self-respect… hm.
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You may think that procrastination is reserved for lesser people like you, but you would be mistaken.
I have been observing this famous dude procrastinating, waiting, and not doing much for the past year or so…
He is a well-known public speaker, highly effective coach who has made many people very very rich.
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I am re-reading a book I read years ago. Happiness is a Serious Issue
It has a truth value of 10%. Relative to other books, it’s high truth value.
Sometimes truth value is low because the author propagates deliberate lies, or personal misunderstanding.
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Real Royals… Like Muhammad Ali…
Real Royals take it on the chin… If you were really a princ(ess), you would too.
Disappointments, slights… yeah, those are what I am talking about.
I read every book some writers write. Or have ever written.
One of these is Neal Stephenson.
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Poetry, poetic, poetic mind… not part of the fabric of culture in our times.
JFK was inspiring, Trump, Biden? coarse or boring.
At the same time there is a quirk to human nature: A result that is not poetic, a result that is not uplifting, a result that is not inspiring doesn’t register as a result. So people are left with a sense of nothing important got done. No happiness, no fulfillment. Nothing to be proud of, nothing to be inspired by.
And then the second quirk: that the skill people have for poetic language is completely undeveloped.
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