Confession: You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me

One of your most defining characteristics as a person is, whether you are an optimist or a pessimist.

But the common, and ordinary way to look at those attitudes is inane… ((inane: stupid, moronic)) as in stupid and near-sighted.

Most words are defined with unreality as their focus… when you’ll start to see it, that is when your vocabulary start to hit the level where you can actually see some of reality, not just the “map” of reality.

In today’s parlance optimist is

I, occasionally, maybe twice a week, get listless… ((list·less
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adjective
adjective: listless

(of a person or their manner) lacking energy or enthusiasm.
“bouts of listless depression”
synonyms: lethargic, enervated, lackadaisical, spiritless, unenergetic, lifeless, vigourless, lacking energy, limp, effete;))

So I have been looking into what this listlessness really is. Is it an emotion? Is it a feeling? Where is it coming from?

It’s an unpleasant feeling. Not restful… quite the opposite, it makes me want to get rid of it.

I have, a few months ago, started to pop a tiny 5 mg Lithium Or

Lethargic is a way of being where there is no energy to live, to move forward, and there is not even hope.

It feels like deflated, the life force that was there before disappeared.

Tiredness that doesn’t ease up with rest, a good night’s sleep, isn’t tiredness. It is probably lethargy, depression, or purposelessness.

Why meaning disappears… when the future to live for disappears.

I experienced lethargy after my first time winning a national competitio

In yesterday’s Playground ((new groups are starting continuously…  )) we expanded what can be considered reality by a lot.

So far we have excluded emotions, words, memes, opinions, commentary, meaning… because they are totally personal, and isn’t shared by another, they cannot be part of reality, even if you consider it your personal reality… at your own detriment.

What do I mean, your own detriment?

Your personal opinions are not reality makers… no matter how highly you think of them or how real they feel.

Posted on January 10, 2019 by University in Evolution Modalities | Leave a comment

I have been listening to old, 5-6 year old recordings. For most teachers their talks would not be old… they have been, habitually, saying the same tired Tree of Knowledge stuff forever… but for me, they are fresh and surprising. Most of it I wish I remembered.

As we are gearing up to do the 20-day skill learning challenge, (to which surprisingly many people applied, 90% of them NOT American, now that is not a surprise! lol,) I am looking at two kinds of skills:

1. life skills that can get you do things you could not do before…

…but don’t need you to change who you are, your attitude, your behavior, other than be able to put in the 45 minutes a day.

• You can learn to play the ukulele, but you won’t become a musician
• You can learn to cook poached anything (yummmmmmm!)
  

You can pick anything. But it must be a skill that includes visible results… measurable results.

If you want to learn the skill of reading… at the end of the 20th hour you’ll be able to read without losing attention of patience… length of time, comprehension, number of books is a measurable, visible result.

If you want to learn the ukulele… just get ready to play to an audience.

If you want to learn to move your attention from your emotions, thoughts, reactions to reality… we’ll measure your results by the percentage of time you spend in your mind, being miserable.

If you want to learn to cook, let’s say, Hungarian dishes, we’ll see and taste your dishes… it is visible, and tangible.

It is really up to you to pick the target… and then follow through.

The role of this

I thought I have written all I wanted to write today, but man plans, god laughs.

It’s Monday, time to read the Monday Morning Memo by Roy Williams… the highlight, often, of the week ahead.

Today especially, because what he is doing is echoing my own teaching: The main principle of Life is the Anna Karenina Principle: the principle of the strait and narrow…

Attention: I am trying to teach you how to see beyond the obvious, beyond the surface…

He is a radio advertising man, so his examples always come from Radio advertising… those are trees… Pay attention to the forest.

He talks about how to define yourself (and your company, if you have one.)

Posted on January 8, 2019 by University in Evolution Modalities | Leave a comment

Here is another illustration of the main principle of life: The Anna Karenina Principle… the strait and narrow

I have been using Freecell as a training tool for myself.

Slow going, because sight, going from not seeing to being clear of what you are seeing is not a simple, one-step process… and playing Freecell well uses the sight… or shall I say Sight?

Today I even saw that it uses many of the principles, or better said: obeys many of the principles I write about.

Many card games in casinos ban card counters… because they have an advantage over everyone else… even over the house.

There are not many car

I woke up at 3 am with a start from a deep dream about principles spinning so hard that I could only follow them with full concentration…

I stared into the dark for a few minutes still seeing the images of the principles, and I got the words that go with the images:

Principles are like oncoming trains… you can’t fight them unless you want to crash your life.

I talk a lot about connecting the dots… and most don’t know what I am talking about. Connecting the dots is a highly intellectual activity based on SEEING that things are connected by more than just similarity: by invisible cords…

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