Gentle reminder:
Block out time away from the screen.
Force yourself if you have to.
Read a book for once. Hit the coffee shop. Do anything that gives your mind space to process all of the noise you've accumulated.
You will feel the immense difference in mental clarity.
27 years!
27 years of persecution.
27 years of torture.
27 years of families torn apart.
It has been 27 years since the Chinese Communist Party launched its brutal campaign against Falun Gong.
Millions have been imprisoned, tortured, and persecuted simply because they chose to live by the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Their stories deserve to be heard. Their courage deserves to be honored.
The world must not stay silent.
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist.
If you're an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don't make everything a matter of life and death.
Orwell's most brilliant observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that reducing a person's vocabulary also reduces his capacity to think.
Reading old or difficult literature will unleash the full potential of your mind.
Great video 👇
Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought.
You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.
your brain is always becoming better at whatever you repeatedly do. that’s why repetition changes people more than motivation ever will. if you spend every day stressing, overthinking, comparing yourself to strangers online, replaying old mistakes, and expecting the worst, your brain slowly starts treating those patterns like home. it begins scanning the world for more proof that you’re not enough, that life is against you, that things won’t work out. the scary part is your brain doesn’t care if the pattern is helping you or destroying you. it only cares about what gets repeated.
but the same thing works in your favor too. when you repeatedly choose discipline, growth, gratitude, focus, and belief in yourself, your brain slowly reshapes around those things as well. at first it feels unnatural because your old patterns are louder, but over time your perspective changes. challenges stop feeling like signs to quit and start feeling like part of the process. your mind becomes whatever it practices most. so be careful what you keep giving your attention to because eventually, your thoughts become your reality.
The 2-4 hours you spend scrolling each day (or 730-1460 hours each year) is more than enough time to write a book, build a business, or get in shape. In the moment, it seems like nothing. That's why it's so dangerous. Your time disappears without you being conscious of it.
Since everyone is trying to become an ai-specialist or pivot towards ai & robotics, because they apparently believe that is the only way to stay useful, i will focus on exactly the opposite, because when the whole herd believes and does something, real opportunity often lies exactly the other way
I will focus on:
- encouraging others to develop their unique human skills that machines cannot have: intuition, energetic skills, spiritual development, human connection, love
- helping people, as a human, since many appreciate to know that a real human is listening. If somehow i lose all my money, i can always become a therapist and charge money if needed
- encouraging people to be closer to nature
- how to keep doing inner development while ai & robotics do all
- growing things with nature and selling organic products
And if you are thinking of setting up a business or making money that is not related to ai, i think there are huge opportunities in:
- retreat places where technology is minimally present
- eco-farms where youngsters can still learn to grow their own food and re-connect with nature
- becoming a therapist specialised in helping people find meaning in their lives when all is done for them
- teaching people all kind of uniquely human skills as a counselor: relationship-wise, sexually-wise, all of it
If i see what people are willing to pay me just to do retreats, or meet me, or talk to me, or how much interest there is in grass-fed meat i grow, or things like that, there is plenty of opportunity in this world for people that do not want to go the robotics & ai way
“Never depend on a man”
“Focus on getting a degree/career/money not a husband”
“Have kids later, you’ll have time”
“Break the rules, you can do anything you want”
Or some other silly little version of this same nonsense. These were the empty platitudes we were all given, and we followed them, that’s what every adult, every magazine, every teacher, every “empowered woman” told us was the path.
And what do we have to show for it?
Oh, just the most miserable generation of women to ever walk the earth.