Real life is the game that – literally – everyone is playing. But it can be tough. This is your guide.
You might not realise, but real life is a game of strategy. There are some fun mini-games – like dancing, driving, running, and sex – but the key to winning is simply managing your resource
I mean this article to be the first installment in a series.
The underlying principle is the Anna Karenina principle
The Anna Karenina principle
The Anna Karenina principle is: good systems must meet simultaneously a number of requirements. All good systems are alike, bad systems are bad in their own way
Tolstoy said: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
Aristotle said: success/failure: …it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the
Did you notice that we are not talking here about IQ? About ability?
No, the behavior ascribed to the stupid and the behavior of the wise can and often come from the same IQ.
The ability to do things differently can’t be accessed without a modicum of humility. Modicum means: a little bit.
Humility is a capacity, an attitu
In the past four months that I have been able to turn on individual capacities for people, I have received no request to turn on trust.
Why is that?
After all people, rightly, asked me for self-trust. But self-trust won’t be enough.
So what can be the current world view with regards to trust, that trust doesn’t come up as number one to turn on.
Because, whether you know it or not, without trust there is no winning. Without trust there is no flow. Without trust there is no fulf
Here’s an awareness exercise (meditation) that I particularly like for rejuvenating yourself with silence:
Sit up straight.
Close your eyes.
Take a few deep breaths to settle down. (if you know how to center yourself, you can do it first)
Then here’s what to do with your awareness:
Eyes closed, get a sense of the end of your personal space in front of you. It’s an energetic phenomenon, mine is about three feet… You’ll feel it. Second: let me explain the picture: no teacher is worth a darn, unless the student is able to handle, utilize what the teacher teaches. And therein lies all the difficulty you are experiencing. As you can, maybe, track, I am becoming obsessed with learning to learn… or more precisely said, teaching you to learn to learn… Because you have been mi Which attitude will get you what you want? No contest, I hope, learned helplessness will get you more of the same. 50% of the world’s population behaves like they can’t handle it. It is learned helplessness… it is not innate. But it feels innate… But it is, in reality, a reflex built and initiated by parents, religion, school, and politi One of them actually did what I did, followed my example, and wrote to me about his experience. He is astute ((having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people)). So what did the rest of them do? Some of them, at least, hugged themselves, and felt the pain or the sadness. Did any of them have a conversation? Yes. Some of them. So why do I say they didn’t do what I did? Because they didn’t catch that I didn’t talk about what’s wrong with me… Urges make you do self-destructive, self-damaging things. Things that when you watch other people do them, you shake your head. Fear of being left out, fear of being left behind has an age associated with it. It’s young. And your behavior to “fix it” will be young too.
Why, your chances to become worth a damn (dime?), are less than 2%?
First things first: the saying is “become worth a damn.” But a lot of people consider damn a curse word, so they say “become worth a dime”… Oh well, here you have it. Become worth a dime… lol. Learned Helplessness: 50% of humanity is a wuss, a sissy… a cry-baby. In 1945 it was 7%… In Jesus’ time it was 1%
Learned helplessness, this is today’s topic. The opposite of “Bring it on…!” Your life depends on which is your dominant attitude. Astute, foggy, clueless… how many distinct things can you tell apart?
So far 46 people read the article about the exercise for self love. Another way lack of humility screws with you
The Detached/Unattached ((I am starting to realize that a better name would be: Unattached… but then, Left out, left behind… and you are scrambling or resign…
When you become aware of your urges… a feeling that urges you to do something, mostly to relieve a tension, a pain, a fear, you’ll probably find this fear of being left out, being left behind.As you may know,