Manan Sharma

Fashioning intuition through the counter-intuitive.
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[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

Rest easy Legend...gone too soon...

#kavinsky

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What a fight today by Justin. Against all odds. What a story! The cloth one should aspire to be made of. #UFCFreedom205 @Justin_Gaethje

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

Through the highs and the lows.

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If ~ Rudyard Kipling

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

@bluewmist That comes either as a consequence of Ego Death or Psychic death (as some Jungian psychoanalists would say). Or as the aftermath of actualized Solipsism - a frenzy of narcissistic mania. A vast part of lived life, which consists of states in between, is pervaded by suffering.

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@sushantsareen Poonch and Jammu would beg to differ with your "no civilian targets" take.

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

@RedCorner_MMA Impressive nonetheless.

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

I want it all - the glory AND the smoke. All of it.
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Come at me, brah.
#SelfMusings #nopicklelicking

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

The architecture of excellence, it turns out is built not on the solid ground of certainty, nor in the Entropic drifts of chaos, but on the dynamic equilibrium of optimal tension, where a man's potential finds its fullest expression.

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

To reject the world’s cold logic and double down - unyielding in the face of doubt, might be the most foolish move you ever make.. or the one that carves your name into eternity. Salvation might just be hiding behind madness - the choice to bet it all on a fire only you can feel.

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You have toiled far too hard to be content with a moral victory, your soul yearns for victory in its full glory. All or nothing. Know that all the toil that shall lead you to the throne...it's meant to be.

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

The latter's yearning for solitude is the 'cope' to create. Musashi, Bruce Wayne, Van Gogh, Zach Pogrob (@zachpogrob ) (if I may), fit the latter archetype.
Cope can be deadly. Cope can be powerful. Yin and the Yang.

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

Cope is undeservedly vilified. While it is easy to default to cope when the going gets rough. On the contrary, cope can be useful if it gets you to create. Two sides of the same coin.

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Solitude, for example, can be on such 'cope'. Exemplified in the hermit - ascetic - monk archetype, vs. the wounded warrior archetype - the one who's been trodden upon, who's been spit on, dismissed, labelled as past his glory days, discarded...

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

@sometimesjoey @bonspy2 @Rainmaker1973 So does that mean the mass being lesser due to the slab sinking, and as a consequence of the lesser mass, the gravitational pull is weaker. Or am I missing something?

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

To grow is to make the dance between intuition and counter-intuition - fashioning counter-intuition into intuition, and analogously intuition through counter-intuition. Interestingly, it also demands when to trust the instincts, and when to hold back, retreat and think it through

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

To staying humble in victory or defeat, yet refusing to be humbled by either!

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To understand the dissonance and not be fooled by it, is a worthy pursuit.

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Turns out there were some blanks in my ammo, which ended up costing me the battle. Lesson learnt, the hard way. Better to enter a gunfight with a bazooka than to be undone by own ineffectiveness. We live to fight another day. Down, but never out...

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If ~ Rudyard Kipling

[Manan Sharma @padfoot_07__]

Alhamdulillah, God is great.