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"Garden variety" self-help enjoys deploying all sorts of hokey tactics for efficiency and life hacks. The truth is, you ...
24/03/2023

"Garden variety" self-help enjoys deploying all sorts of hokey tactics for efficiency and life hacks. The truth is, you need to reclaim your mind. More on the slides.

Banter, March 12, 2020.
23/03/2023

Banter, March 12, 2020.

"Is it a sign of our dystopian society that people need to go through trash to survive? Or are people merely feeling lik...
18/03/2023

"Is it a sign of our dystopian society that people need to go through trash to survive? Or are people merely feeling like they're getting a bargain by trading their valuable, conscious time here in exchange for "free" money? Or am I just judgmental?"

Repost, Feb 16, 2020.

Dabbling in a different medium.Loops, a poem by Michael Boateng. March 17, 2023 ...
17/03/2023

Dabbling in a different medium.

Loops, a poem by Michael Boateng. March 17, 2023

To expand on the post. I want to be clear - there's nothing wrong with plans, routines, models, vision boards etc.They'r...
16/03/2023

To expand on the post. I want to be clear - there's nothing wrong with plans, routines, models, vision boards etc.

They're just not the literal work that you have to do. If you are writing a book, and you spend a week forming a mind map, storyboard, or a multi-chapter plan, that may help. However, it's just not the deeper work of actual writing.

It's easy to get into the hamster wheel of planning and modelling, self-help and motivation. You're on the path...kind of. To me though, it's like preparing a ship for a voyage and checking the mast, sails, ropes, anchor, rations and weapons day after day after day, and never leaving dock.

You haven't taken the first step yet.

I do believe that self-belief to the point of the highest level of achievement does require a level of delusion. Any pioneering outcome will be beyond our current understanding of what is possible, and therefore be seen as irrational.

You can find examples here in essentially every groundbreaking invention - flight, the printing press, the atomic bomb etc.

Pre-flight, the notion of intercontinental flight would have been seen as irrational and thus delusional - we now take this as a normal part of our economy. It was simply a limitation of the data at the time.

When you apply this to yourself, there are clearly things that are delusional. I'll never be Michael Jordan - just not going to happen. However, if there has been even one person who has pushed their mind, body and spirit to their maximum potential (so, if n = 1), then I believe that I can do that too.

Someone before me has already broken that ground, blazed that trail. I just follow in their wake.

If I have picked a goal so lofty that it has never been achieved, then I am a pioneer, a Tesla, one of the Wright brothers, the first person to use a spear or a fire. Their existence and achievement proves that the impossible can be made possible.

Repost, 7 March, 2020:M: "What's with the mask?" "It is Japanese Zen Buddhist style!" March 7, 2020, Streets of Sonder 0...
14/03/2023

Repost, 7 March, 2020:

M: "What's with the mask?"

"It is Japanese Zen Buddhist style!"

March 7, 2020, Streets of Sonder 0002

Another late night post. Don't feel like writing anything else :)
14/03/2023

Another late night post. Don't feel like writing anything else :)

Have you ever been put under? Anaesthetised? How much do you remember - if anything?I believe these distractions that su...
13/03/2023

Have you ever been put under? Anaesthetised? How much do you remember - if anything?

I believe these distractions that surround us have a similar sort of effect of sedation. Days, weeks, months and years fly by since we're barely there in each moment. Barely engaging with the present moment - hazy, self-medicated and detached.

To clarify, when I mention "self-medication" in the post, I'm not necessarily just talking about compounds, that's one thing.

However, as a society, we have multiple modes of delivering self-medication. It could be that new game you're bingeing, that new TV show, the new phone, or infinite distraction on your phone, or even your job.

Whatever "thing" it is that you've distracted yourself with, chasing it with reckless abandon, at the cost of all else. That is self-medication.

I'm not some absolutely ascetic monk that believes that you should discard all material. I do however think that there is a point where you are no longer consuming, but are being consumed.

Where you become just a cog in a machine to have what ever money, resource and consciousness you generate be milked back off you.

And that's no life at all. The cost of self-medication is your self-actualisation - your ability to bring forth the ultimate version of yourself.

Self-medication allows you to ignore and suppress this calling, but not entirely eliminate it. Thus why I believe that it causes a lot of our mental health issues. We KNOW what we need to do, deep down. We just don't do it.

Some primal, latent aspect of our psychology demands more of us, and when we deny that call, we deny our humanity and slowly strangle this incredible future version of ourselves that is waiting to be manifested.

Repost, 8 March, 2020:(Part 3/3) "I've learnt that everyone is born messed up somehow, but y'all can hide it. You can dr...
12/03/2023

Repost, 8 March, 2020:

(Part 3/3)

"I've learnt that everyone is born messed up somehow, but y'all can hide it. You can dress it up and make it look good. I have to flaunt it, and I have to live it"

"Get up and keep going is the only thing that got me somewhere. I was told I'd die by 16, and now I'm 30. Now I just live life. I've learnt to live like I could die tomorrow. Too many people worry about the next day, like it's a given, like you'll wake up tomorrow. You have to live in the present"

"Yesterday can't be changed"

"The future is unwritten"

"Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present"

M: "Thank you so much for sharing that with me"

"It's all good man. I just ask for one gift - please just share my story"

March 7, 2020, Streets of Sonder 0001 George St, Sydney

Everything is impossible until it's not.Were the Wright Brothers delusional before their first flight?Was Tesla delusion...
11/03/2023

Everything is impossible until it's not.

Were the Wright Brothers delusional before their first flight?
Was Tesla delusional before demonstrating alternating current?
Were ancient explorers dreaming of distant lands delusional until they found them?

Delusion is defined as "a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions".

The problem with applying this to achievement in life, is that you have incomplete knowledge of yourself and reality. Therefore, there is no real way to definitively "know" what your potential is or how it will fit with the future.

Pure reason will fail you here. You can think and consider and ponder and project and model on and on, and you won't get any closer to whether what you're trying to do is possible or not. There just isn't enough data you can ever possibly gather to predict the future and feel 100% safe in any decision.

Of course, there are things that are most likely fruitless - belief and action definitely aren't always enough. Pure delusion is believing that you will achieve anything by doing nothing, of that we can be sure.

The point stands that this inability to know your potential, the future, and how these two will mesh means that if you want to achieve, it makes more sense to err on the side of optimism than pessimism. Pessimism closes potentials, optimism opens them.

People often posit pessimism and cynicism as realism. "I'm just trying to keep everyone's feet on the ground". To be frank, that's a bu****it stance.

How much ego do you have that you think you have any idea how much potential you or anyone else has, let alone how this will benefit either of you in the future?

Why are you so self-assured, in a negative way? Are you scared? Does destiny frighten you? Do you prefer the sickly, amniotic comfort of familiar drudgery? Have you convinced yourself of this "truth" that x or y or z aren't possible, because it's easier to live this way than if they ARE possible?

It's midnight and I'm tired and I don't feel like writing anything else. Again, I'll let the slides do the talking :) ...
09/03/2023

It's midnight and I'm tired and I don't feel like writing anything else. Again, I'll let the slides do the talking :)

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