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| + | You can pick an ideal that fulfills the role of ideal for you. You can say, “well, if things could be set up for me, the way I need them to be, and if I could be who I needed to be, what would that look like?” And you can figure that out for yourself. And then instantly you have a judge. And I also think that’s part of the reason people don’t do it, right? Why don’t people look up and move ahead? And the answer is, you start formulating an ideal. You formulate a judge. It’s pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal. That’s what happened to Cain versus Abel, for example. Then it’s really easy to destroy the ideal instead of try to pursue it because then you get rid of the judge. But it’s way better… lower the damn judge if it’s too much. If the current ambition is crushing you, then maybe you’re playing the tyrant to yourself and you should tap down your ambitions. Not get rid of them by any stretch of the imagination. But at least put them more reasonably within your grasp. You don’t have to leap from point 1 to point 50 in one leap, right? You can do it incrementally. But I really like this idea. I think it’s a profound idea that the process of recapitulating yourself continually is also the process of… it’s a phoenix like process right? You’re shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you’re valuing. And then I would say the idea here is that as you do that, you shape yourself ever more precisely into something that can withstand the tragedy of life. And that can act as a beacon to the world. That’s the right way of thinking about it. Maybe first to your friends and then to your family. It’s like it’s a hell of a fine ambition. And there is no reason that it can’t happen. | ||
| + | Everyone of you knows people who are really bloody useful in a crisis and people that you admire, right? Those are all… you can think of all those people that you admire as partial incarnations of the archetypal Messiah. That’s exactly right. And the more that that manifest itself in any given person, then the more generally useful and admirable that person is in a multitude of situations. And we don’t know the limit to that but people can be unbelievably good for things. It´s really something to behold. | ||
| + | <hr><ref>[https://youtu.be/2iO-YW7hTQc LET YOUR FEARS AND INSECURITIES BURN OFF LIKE DEADWOOD - Jordan Peterson]</ref> | ||
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===== Develop a Noble Vision ===== | ===== Develop a Noble Vision ===== | ||
“Don’t overestimate yourself now, but *don’t underestimate who you could be. start now, develop a noble vision of who you could be, develop discipline, familiarize yourself with the great works, learn to read,write, speak, to think you will be deadly.”<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup> | “Don’t overestimate yourself now, but *don’t underestimate who you could be. start now, develop a noble vision of who you could be, develop discipline, familiarize yourself with the great works, learn to read,write, speak, to think you will be deadly.”<sup>[Citation Needed]</sup> | ||
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Contents
Definition
Applications
Lower The Damn Judge If It’s Too Much
You can pick an ideal that fulfills the role of ideal for you. You can say, “well, if things could be set up for me, the way I need them to be, and if I could be who I needed to be, what would that look like?” And you can figure that out for yourself. And then instantly you have a judge. And I also think that’s part of the reason people don’t do it, right? Why don’t people look up and move ahead? And the answer is, you start formulating an ideal. You formulate a judge. It’s pretty easy to feel intimidated in the face of your own ideal. That’s what happened to Cain versus Abel, for example. Then it’s really easy to destroy the ideal instead of try to pursue it because then you get rid of the judge. But it’s way better… lower the damn judge if it’s too much. If the current ambition is crushing you, then maybe you’re playing the tyrant to yourself and you should tap down your ambitions. Not get rid of them by any stretch of the imagination. But at least put them more reasonably within your grasp. You don’t have to leap from point 1 to point 50 in one leap, right? You can do it incrementally. But I really like this idea. I think it’s a profound idea that the process of recapitulating yourself continually is also the process of… it’s a phoenix like process right? You’re shedding all those elements of you that are no longer worthy of the pursuits that you’re valuing. And then I would say the idea here is that as you do that, you shape yourself ever more precisely into something that can withstand the tragedy of life. And that can act as a beacon to the world. That’s the right way of thinking about it. Maybe first to your friends and then to your family. It’s like it’s a hell of a fine ambition. And there is no reason that it can’t happen. Everyone of you knows people who are really bloody useful in a crisis and people that you admire, right? Those are all… you can think of all those people that you admire as partial incarnations of the archetypal Messiah. That’s exactly right. And the more that that manifest itself in any given person, then the more generally useful and admirable that person is in a multitude of situations. And we don’t know the limit to that but people can be unbelievably good for things. It´s really something to behold.
Develop a Noble Vision
“Don’t overestimate yourself now, but *don’t underestimate who you could be. start now, develop a noble vision of who you could be, develop discipline, familiarize yourself with the great works, learn to read,write, speak, to think you will be deadly.”[Citation Needed]
Interpretations
You see what you aim at. What you aim at is what manifests for you in the world.
The higher the goal, the greater the kick. But don’t set the goal so high that you are always failing.
Specify your goal and a transformation process which will get you there. If you persist with very small improvements, you will eventually win.
You must have direction, because direction causes positive emotion. You must have a goal, a direction, value structures
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