Joseph Maynor

This is good advice. Very, very good advice. It reminds me of a line I read in a book that said something like if you're capable of being distracted, you're not working hard enough. People who know what they're doing and are doing it are not getting offended by others. To be offended is to be distracted from taking the action that you know you should be taking in your own life. It's a kind of buck-passing mechanism of the Lower-Self. You stop looking at yourself and start looking at others. Something must be wrong with something other than me! Yeah! No, it's not me that's unfocused.

Thanks for this. I'll give this a go.

Careful. This should be in a journal probably.

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Make benefits your points and features your details, your backup to your points. A lot of people get stuck in the features and don't highlight the benefits. It's like putting the cart before the horse. https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/02/21/features-vs-benefits

When truly you have it, you don't need it. What we're currently obsessed about is what we don't yet have. If I had Industriousness, I wouldn't be yammering about that topic in my journal like I currently am. If you have it, you're not talking about it. You're currently talking about and interested in what you want that you don't yet have.

If you find that out and can prove it you'll be rich and famous.

I'm not blaming, I'm perfectly accepting stupidity as a feature of reality. The point is to account for stupidity. Assume that reality contains stupidity. Assume that you must plan-around stupidity. This is a not a blaming or a shaming, quite the opposite -- it's an accepting. And it's a no-brainer. I'm surprised you don't appreciate this insight, Nietzsche's insight.

Take what people say with a grain of salt. Remember, we're the bullshitting animal. People can say anything. And people can mis-perceive and/or mis-conceive. Don't be naively trusting I think is what Nietzsche is saying. Make stupidity the norm rather than the exception. People also have confirmation bias, so they find what they're looking for. We must account for foolishness. Reality has foolishness. Lots of foolishness. Our job is to avoid the foolishness, or if we can't avoid it, at least account for it as Nietzsche taught. Stupidity must be factored into the human experience -- it's a necessary element in the system of life. Stupidity/foolishness is a feature in the system of life not a bug.

Those people can be mistaken and/or nuts too. Nietzsche said you must account for stupidity.

Enlightenment is death of an image of yourself -- death of a concept of yourself.

God doesn't know who He is.

I like the Big Five definition of Extroversion as including the two sub-traits of Enthusiasm and Assertiveness. Extroversion in the Big 5 sense is cultivation of social confidence. It's Openness to Experience in the Big Five that's about increasing smarts. The two sub-traits of Openness to Experience are Intellect and Openness/ Creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_Aspect_Scales // The Essence of Each of the Big Five Aspects of Personality: Openness to Experience — Smarts Conscientiousness — Work Ethic/ Career Prospects Extroversion — Social Confidence Agreeableness — Social Relate-ability Neuroticism — Emotional Instability

Every Egoic System wants to see its most sought after preferences reflected back to it by other people (systems). This is what makes other systems useful and valuable to you, including but not limited to the opposite sex. What we're looking for fundamentally is a sustainable solution to our most sought after objectives.

You're both a self and a no-self. You wanna sort of accept that paradox and work both ends of it. Actually, in truth, you're neither; you're God, but that paradox is one mental framework that we can put over Being that is less likely to lock you of thinking of yourself as one side of the paradox to the exclusion of the other. That's a trap that a lot of people do is they define themselves with mental categories instead of using mental categories to explore themselves. The Paradox of Ego and No Ego is not a truth, it's a tool to keep you open to exploring yourself because you're not clinging to being an Ego or a No-Ego. God is not limited by the Mind's categories. God demotes the Mind from Colonel to Corporal. The Mind and its concepts/beliefs are a hand-maiden to God not the other way around.

What are the intentions of your Higher Self? What would you changing yourself to embody the Good with your life look like?

Thanks! I'll watch these.

You're both an Ego and a No-Ego at the same time.

Who says there's no free will? Does God white-knuckle cling to beliefs about reality?

If you're wise you should be able to flourish in any kind of environment. You're just gonna have a different set of initial conditions to work with. This doesn't mean don't focus on Political Work. It means exercise all your brains irrespective of which clown is in office. Oftentimes, focus on Political Work prematurely can function as a distraction to you getting your own life well put together. Get your own life well put together and then worry about exercising your powers beyond that first priority. Assume the people in office are all idiots and take that into account as you design the systems of your life and your community. Nietzsche said it's wise to factor in stupidity and to account for stupidity. This means that you prepare contingency plans around expected (foreseeable) stupidity. You should be able to flourish in life no matter what anybody else does, including but not limited to the government or silly politicians.

Your life should be great no matter who's in office.

You are always doing what you think is the best thing you can be doing at any given moment in time.

You got it. I just pop in now briefly from time to time. I like to come on first thing in the am and not stay too long.

Gain a Maslow stage and then lose it and you'll find out the worth of each stage. Maslow's Pyramid is brilliant as a model. Of course, you do need to balance the Paradox of Needs And No Needs. Gain Stage 2 and lose it, gain Stage 3 and lose it, and gain Stage 4 and lose it -- then you will know. It's very common to lose Stage 3 say in the case of divorce. See what that does to your life, especially if your intimate partner was the centerpiece of your love and belongingness needs and you have few close friends. Maslow figured it out for us to apply. It's a powerful model for personal/ interpersonal development work. It's not the only model you need, but it's a key one, a big one.

I'm better than I was yes. I'm happy, but I still need to integrate Maslow 4 which I was meeting superficially with my participation on here. So, I kinda took 2 steps backward to take 10 steps forward. My self-esteem has taken a hit, but I'll be fine. Maslow Stage 2 and 3 really need a strong 4 and 5. All the stages work together as well as each stage needing the stages that come before it. Stage 4 needs 3 or else you don't really got 4 fully. But I got Maslow 1, 2, and 3 pretty good now. Unfortunately, I have very little 4 now though which has set me back a peg when it comes to self-esteem and a feeling of power. But I wanna make sure 4 sits on a strong foundation of 1, 2, 3 and 5 in my life. I see the mistake and tragic results that people who shoot for 4 and 5 but lack 1, 2 and 3 get. A missing 3 will throw everything off. You can't have a healthy 4 and 5 without a healthy 1, 2, and 3. Finally, you gotta apply the Paradox of Needs And No Needs -- which is a corollary to applying the Paradox of Ego And No Ego.