Last update: May 14 2021
1) Take responsibility for learning in a way that strengthen your level of self trust. Anybody who offers a belief system should be considered an enemy if you want to trust yourself more. A belief system becomes a barrier that prevents you from finding the truth by yourself.
Learning is not about putting information into the body. Learning is about gathering information out of the body – by the use of your own attention – interoception). It requires that you have the guts to leave the known for the sake of the unknown. No matter the source, gathering information from the outside is not learning. (Interoception: Your brains representation of all sensations from your internal organs and tissues.
2) Intrinsic motivation. Be motivated by the act, not the result of it. The latter is a recipe for failure and never to try again. Forget about “good enough”. The term is a device that encourage you to aim for less than your best. You like yourself best when you are at your best – not when others think it’s good enough, right?
3) Habits. Always begin the day with something that reminds you to be your best self today, a person who get’s better at anything you care about. Examples: Make your bed, Movement routine, splash cold water in the face.
4) Progressive progress. Make sure that when you begin something good, it will never get you back to where you started. Ensure that the progress of every step makes it easier to achieve the same level of progress in the next step. In short: Get better at getting better in everything you do!
5) Honor your habits of excellence. Deal with resistance the second it arises. Find excuse for why you CAN do it! When you feel like two people in a boat paddling in opposite direction, you must recognize it immediately. Find out what caused it, and make a plan for how to avoid it. Remember the great goal: To be your own best friend! Honor your subconscious but train it to know that you want your thought to be your good friends. We don’t want low quality habits – they will glue you to the past, making you feel left behind.
6) Being magnificent and fearless includes gentleness. Remember that feeling tough and feeling fearless are two opposites. If you are fearless there is no reason to feel tough.
“We have a lot of misunderstanding between men and women because each one is so busy being their particular sex that they have nothing in common. Although you may be a male, always have a certain feminine quality and thus be more of a universal channel. This has particularly to be learned by men in the United States who tend to overcompensate masculinity and be ashamed of gentleness. They tend to emphasize a kind of self sacrificing ya-ya-ya attitude to life. Which usually indicates a fear of incipient homosexuality.
The idea of Tao (ancient Chinese philosophy) then, is the strength of gentleness. It is on this philosophy that the Japanese worked out the science of Judo. Do is the way the Japanese pronounce Tao. Ju means gentle, judo, the gentle way, whereby a strong man is alarmingly defeated by the use of his own strength against himself.” – Alan Watts
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