@ManticoreCap I'd occasionally find myself feeling that way too when I read from others on X. They inspire me to express myself through writing more on this platform!
Individuals with the right combination of curiosity and humility would eventually notice how the modern world is intentionally structured in a way that pulls everyone susceptible as far away as possible from their own intuition.
Every child is born with an innate closeness to their own intuition. There's this voice that directs them through every obstacle they're met with. No doubts, no friction..
Just flow.
But as we grow, we have been indoctrinated to silence that part of ourselves and instead place our faith in some external sources - some "expert", some data, or metrics. That's how the "health" industry and many postmodernist markets exist. They feed on the naive, lost, and desperate nature of many modern humans who lack an internal compass to move through life.
We used to intuitively eat according to the ever changing seasons.. use specific positioning of stars at specific times to aid voyages.. change our dietary and lifestyle choices based on the fundamental nature of solar mechanics..
Now?
"what's the macro of this meal?"
"need to use this app to confirm for me!"
"what's the source? peer reviewed??"
"did FDA approve this?"
A society becomes weak when the very people who populate it forget how to integrate a very natural part of their design - intuition. The further away the common man is from his intuition, the more reliant he is on the system, thus the less freedom he truly has over his own life autonomy.
If you respect the phenomenal nature of reality and our creator's magnificent design, then you would respect the sovereignty that comes from being close to your intuition. With every waking breath, inch closer to your intuition against the external forces that attempt to pull you away from it.. for that's one of the most impactful way to show your gratitude for having consciousness and the ability to experience this fantastically chaotic yet beautiful nature of our reality.
To be intuitive is to be sovereign.. to be intuitive is to move in alignment with God's designs.
The best in the world operate off pure intuition. You can only read so much. You can only think so much. Ask anyone who is the best of the best in their field how they do it and they can't give an answer.
They are not being humble or secretive. They themselves do not know. Magnus always talks about how he is a poor chess player by theory standards, but he just has one-in-a-billion intuition for middle and endgames.
The best traders in the world are not the smartest, they don't have the best models. They somehow just know where to allocate capital. Same for best researchers, best designers, best athletes, etc.
Of course, this does not mean that they do not work hard. Really, most of this intuition *comes from* the hours in the dark where they themselves were in the dark; learning to traverse the idea-tree independently. To gain the intuition, you need both hours and blessings.
"No amount of money poured into physics could have ever gotten you Special Relativity, only an Einstein daydreaming at a Swiss patent shop" - @iamgingertrash
Individuals with the right combination of curiosity and humility would eventually notice how the modern world is intentionally structured in a way that pulls everyone susceptible as far away as possible from their own intuition.
Every child is born with an innate closeness to their own intuition. There's this voice that directs them through every obstacle they're met with. No doubts, no friction..
Just flow.
But as we grow, we have been indoctrinated to silence that part of ourselves and instead place our faith in some external sources - some "expert", some data, or metrics. That's how the "health" industry and many postmodernist markets exist. They feed on the naive, lost, and desperate nature of many modern humans who lack an internal compass to move through life.
We used to intuitively eat according to the ever changing seasons.. use specific positioning of stars at specific times to aid voyages.. change our dietary and lifestyle choices based on the fundamental nature of solar mechanics..
Now?
"what's the macro of this meal?"
"need to use this app to confirm for me!"
"what's the source? peer reviewed??"
"did FDA approve this?"
A society becomes weak when the very people who populate it forget how to integrate a very natural part of their design - intuition. The further away the common man is from his intuition, the more reliant he is on the system, thus the less freedom he truly has over his own life autonomy.
If you respect the phenomenal nature of reality and our creator's magnificent design, then you would respect the sovereignty that comes from being close to your intuition. With every waking breath, inch closer to your intuition against the external forces that attempt to pull you away from it.. for that's one of the most impactful way to show your gratitude for having consciousness and the ability to experience this fantastically chaotic yet beautiful nature of our reality.
To be intuitive is to be sovereign.. to be intuitive is to move in alignment with God's designs.
The world is getting worse and i don't think it's going to stop. and the honest truth is, most people who tell you to fight back are also losing. the only person i've ever watched actually keep their mind through something terrible was a quiet woman who never talked about strength once. she just did normal things with frightening consistency. she waked up early, she made food, she cleaned her place, she talked to people like they mattered, even when she knew how bad it was. maybe especially because she knew how bad it was. and it shamed me, because i was out there talking about the darkness, thinking that made me useful. and she was just quietly not letting it into her kitchen
@ArsAlendi@melancoptimist Well said. I recently had a conversation about how normies would gatekeep useful impactful things that improves many metrics of their lives to have that sense of mystique.. and the reason for not sharing is because it'd break that aura about them which I find quite selfish tbh
POV of gamblers who has 0 clue about markets and only relies on their emotional compass to react
> BTC big down *panick screams*
> BTC big up *genius smirk*
Many such cases.
Every man who did something that looked impossible to the people around him just had will and nothing else. i know this sounds stupid and reductive but ive watched it enough times to stop doubting it. talent matters so much less than people think. intelligence matters less. money matters less. what matters is whether a man can hold one single decision inside himself long enough for it to start changing the things around him
Self-awareness is awareness of your feelings, impulses, motivations, and the truths they reveal about your inner state—not awareness of your thoughts and external standards. That is usually just reinforcement of egoic structures and programmed expectations.
The most frightening person i ever witnessed was a man who only wanted one thing. everybody around him had a hundred plans, a hundred projects they were going to start next month, and he had one, just one. and he never talked about it much, and that was the part that unnerved you, because when someone talks a lot about what they want, you can relax. talking is letting the pressure out, so it's harmless. but he was airtight.
Everything in him was moving toward one point, in silence. within a few years he was in a place no one else could reach, and everybody who had watched him stood there scattered and confused, with their mouths full of plans that never solidified into anything. i learned from watching him that the mouth is a leak. every time you say what you are going to do, you lose a piece of the will that would have done it
The secret to couragemaxx (which is the key to winmaxx + fulfillmentmaxx) is to have a tribe. This is especially true for men.
In no point in history people who thrived were true lone wolves. Tigers have claws, eagles have wings, people have tribes.
Digitalization of the world allows some true lone wolf behavior but it's always a losing game - you compound misery in small doses actually. Very dangerous.
When you look at all the old school baller businessmen, if they aren't truly lost/miserable souls but actually have both max fulfillment, happiness & winning - in 99% of the cases they either have close family and/or working relationships. They have a tribe.
The loneliest, most autist types who seem to suck at human relationships (like Elon) - even he has it. There are no lone wolves, that's usually a trauma-induced fantasy.
When you ask people about the most impactful things early (or even later) on their careers (and life), they'll often tell you about other people believing in them, helping them, some relationship, etc. It's always a secure relationship.
Without a safe, secure (on some level) home base & community (even if just one relationship, even if it's not with a living person or a person at all), why would your stressed out nervous system and gazillion-years-old unconscious mind, which have perfect data on what happens to people like you who are left alone (= death), why would your system ever predict you to actually win & succeed? Why would it even allow you to take any risks?
It simply won't. And people then beat themselves up again and again, thinking they have some courage deficit or aren't manly enough or something. In some cases that might be true depending on the context, which is no biggie, even Napoleon had times where he pu$$ied out ofc, that's human.
The secret to couragemax - which is THE key to thrive in this life and without it no matter who you become or what you do, life is stale and you fail on yourself - is to have a tribe. It is to have secure relationships. There's no thriving without it.