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Positive ancestral father
If you put yourself in a new situation, then genes code for new proteins and build new neural structures and new nervous system structures. Same thing happens to some degree when you work out - your muscles are responding to the load. Your nervous system does that too. Imagine that there is a lot of potential you locked in your genetic code and then if you put yourself in a new situation then the situational stress unlocks those genes and then builds new parts of you. And so that's very cool because who knows how much there is locked inside of you
As you move towards the goal there are certain things that you have to accomplish that frighten you. Maybe you have to learn to be a better speaker, a better writer, a better thinker, you have to be better to people around you or you have to learn some new skills and you are afraid of that... whatever. Because it's going to stretch you if you pursue a goal and so that will put you up against challenges
Rescue your father from the belly of the whale
The fundamental measurement of unit is the individual and the fundamental task of the individual is to engage in the process of humble self-improvement
What's the antidote to the tragedy and malevolence of life?
How do you know when you are incrementally self improving?
I don't know what to do
You could be way better! You could be incompatibly better across multiple dimensions and in pursuing that better that's where you'll find the meaning in your life and that would give you the antidote to the suffering
Are you okay the way you are?
Your best strategic position is how am I insufficient and how can I rectify that. That's what you've got. And the thing is you are insufficient and you could rectify it. Both of those are within your grasp if you aim low enough
Where is the meaning to be found?
What's the right way of being in the world?
Could you be slightly better tomorrow than you're currently flawed self?
What is personal responsibility?
What is lesser self?
If you are improving yourself then what you are doing is competing with your lesser self
If you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you
The question is - who should you defeat in the final analysis? The answer is - you should defeat your former self. You should be constantly trying to do that. And you are the right control for yourself to because you're the one who's had all your advantages and disadvantages. So if you want to compete fairly with someone then you should be competing with you
What does the person who loses something important with grace do?
The great athlete and the great person is not only someone who's exceptionally skilled at what they do but who's trying to expand their skills at all times and the attempt to expand their skills at all times is even more important than the fact that they're great to begin with because the trajectory is so important
Get the hell out of where you are safe into what you don't know. You are going to find the catastrophes of life but if you keep yourself morally oriented and you make the right sacrifices then you can transcend the catastrophe of being and prevail
Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals
Get your act together! Have a vision! Straighten our your life! Say what you think! Stay away from the ideological idiocies and simplicity and oversimplifications and try to put yourself together!
Wisdom
