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He that won't be counselled, can't be helped
People with the same size brain are as different in what they can do, as a pop and mom store and Walmart, the company.
If we compare people with computers, which we can… we can do whatever the hell we want to do, can’t we? So when we compare these two things: a human and a computer, is the difference in what they can do in the hardware or the software? Continue reading “Dopamine rush, coachability and a Stradivarius violin”
There is a Landmark Education distinction that no one gets…
It has a huge overlap with the distinction ‘you live in a world of your own design’.
This, the ‘you live in a world of your own design’ is somewhat like the Law of Attraction: you attract what you are… but much deeper. It is BEING that, not feeling, or thinking only, though you may feel and think it as well.
But thinking and feeling don’t create being… the reverse, the opposite is true. The thinking and the feeling come from your being.
Continue reading “How your past self is creating your future”
I have been looking at the memories surfacing in the past month… allowing me to look at them, like you would look at physical memories in an attic or a storage facility, and reminiscence and then put them back where they were, or in the garbage.
The first wave was shame.
I dealt with tens of instances in my past that I am ashamed of. Yeah, yours truly… I did all those things I am ashamed of now.
I have also gone back and watched some actors I grew up loving, now dead. Some theater plays. Some singers. And wept. Good cleansing tears.
And I am not even on my deathbed… as far as I know… lol. Continue reading “A wave of suppressed memories, feelings surfacing”
I love this joke:
This dude goes to his rabbi to find out the secret of living long.
The rabbi says: simple. In the morning get up, do your ablutions, have breakfast, kiss your wife, go to work, after work go home, kiss your wife, eat dinner, watch TV and go to sleep. Do this every day. That is the secret.
Oh, the dude says. And if I do this I will live long?
I don’t know, says the rabbi, but it will feel long.
This is where the laughter of recognition should come in.
The overwhelming experience of a lot of us of loooong days and short weeks is what I am going to look into in today’s article.
Life is empty and meaningless… says Werner Erhard. What he doesn’t say: it doesn’t need to FEEL empty and meaningless… It is up to you. That it IS empty and meaningless is independent of you. But the feelings are up to you. Continue reading “When life FEELS empty and meaningless… because it is”
I am noticing a phenomenon that is both interesting and terrifying:
When people include themselves in their cone of vision, in their visual field when they need to answer a question, give a view of something, they literally become stupid. Moronic. Continue reading “What does it mean: get out of your own way?”
There are a few jokes that I brought with myself from Hungary… that describe the human condition very well.
One of them is an elementary school joke:
Morris is asked to say the multiplication table… with 8.
He starts to chant… lalala-lala lalala… lalala lala lalala…
What is this? Asks the stunned teacher? Oh, I remember the tune, but can’t recall the words… answers Morris.
My estimate is that this global epidemic came just at the right time to show you that you have been swimming naked.
About 99% of humanity.
My students are not exceptions to this. The only difference, as far as I can see, is they took heed from me… on a Talk to me webinar a week ago, and some of them at least are using this time to double up on becoming worth a damn and be able to become more in spite of the trouble the world is in. Thank you for that, guys.
You have no skills, you are depending on bosses, depending on someone else provide you with a livelihood. Continue reading “You got bigger problems than I can solve, and you best move on”
Tunnel VisionOne of the barriers to a successful life is your tendency to look at the world with a tightly narrowed cone of vision.
You only see a tiny sliver of what-is, and you make your decisions from that.
It’s like doing grocery shopping in a pitch dark grocery store you are not familiar with, having access only to a pen-light… you would have to look at everything and it would take you hours what would only take me minutes.
But worse than that: what you actually see at the light of the pen-light, you now drag it into your man-cave… your mind, and start chewing on it… or denying it… either way: You stopped looking. Continue reading “The role of the size of your visual field in life”
…In everything.
There is a very educational tale in the 67 steps that few consider life altering. I do.
An airplane makes an emergency landing in the jungle. The plane carried a group of engineers to a meeting.
The engineers developed a superior way to cut the branches and trees at a precise 45 degrees, and they were cutting a path with good speed.
A non-engineer passenger, in the meantime, climbed a tall tree and looked around He saw habitation from there… the path cut by the efficient engineers ran in the wrong direction… Continue reading “Your direction is more important than your speed…”
I wrote this article five years ago… and it’s eerily actual today…
What you want to take away from this article is this: a year from now you wish you started today…
Start what? Digging that darn well: building skills. Building relationships. Building alternative ways to make a living. Raising your awareness, consciousness. Getting yourself off the social bandwagon, getting yourself well…
It make be late today… but life is not over. A year from now it might be… Continue reading “The plague of our century… Do today what’s today’s doing”
