What are the 10 to 20 businesses that inspire me the most?
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Understand the configuration of your motivation.
This is KEY.
Follow your motivation. Harness your motivation. Use it.
This is one of the borders that separates childhood from adulthood.
Child: inspired by someone else, wishes to have their strengths, their personality, their motivation
Adult: accepts own motivation, becomes a student of it, learns to work with it
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It seems to me that I’m generally discerning significantly less than 1% of any phenomenon that I am observing.
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I’ve been reflecting on this point, and let me be clear that I do not think it is a bad or terrible thing.
I think the reason that we discern so little of anything is that we have been bred to selectively and instinctively focus on survival-salient factors.
The same ignorance that I curse is the exact same ignorance that has been my best friend, keeping me alive this whole time.
But this can be a dialogue.
I can accept the influence of my historically and genetically informed tendencies, but I can still direct my attention and my consciousness in order to speak back to those tendencies, and, in some cases, suggest or insist upon preferable alternatives.
This is the nature of the human being, and it is one reason that essentializing arguments about human nature are so insufficient and unsatisfactory.
Our natures are, and have always been, in flux and subject to further deliberation.
This is one of the key evolutionary features of human beings. We’re the animal that developed the greatest capacities to learn and to imagine so far.
hahaha. Imagine that Nature gives you a tree, paint, and some paint brushes, and tells you to go be creative. You respond by choosing the paint colors that precisely match the tree’s colors and hues and then paint over the tree to look exactly the same as it did before. In this case, was there any benefit to your painting the tree in the first place?
This is like a person who, using essentializing narratives, says, ‘Such and such is human nature because we did such and such before in the past for quite a long time.’
The fact that you spent the preceding year in 3rd grade does not make 4th grade somehow unnatural. In fact, it’s quite the converse. Your past year spent in 3rd grade actually makes your current sojourn in 4th grade extremely natural.
Having occupied a position in the past does not somehow naturalize that position for all time. We are an animal whose very nature is to quickly learn, transform, and adapt. Those features more than anything else define our natures.
Beyond that? It’s everyone’s guess.
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Balance and compensate for instinctual and biological tendencies and responses; but without sacrificing their value, or throwing them away.
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Today is another listening day.
Interesting.
My son was dealing with a flu/cold sore-throat thing since last week. He was getting better, but I kept him home for the first three days of this week. He went back today.
The interesting thing is that for the first time in a very long time, this illness actually passed on to me. My household members have gotten sick at various times in the past 4 years, but this is the first time it got into me. Interesting.
But I’m gradually getting better and stronger.
Anyway, for my loops today, I’m thinking 5 minutes of POOLS of Healing and 5 minutes of PHENOMENAUT Genesis.
Think I may do them in that order. I want that healing energy combination of Paragon and Khan Black to hit first.
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Alright, did today’s listen. And now we’ll see what the next two days hold…and we’ll find out what I have in store, as well.
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In this life, the foundations of wisdom, knowledge, and Value do not advertise themselves.
They’re often hidden.
A wise person for example would be much more concerned about his internal organs than he was about his face. But we’re not wired for that. And with all of its problems, the instinct-driven way works pretty well. (If your main goals are to survive long enough to reproduce.)
Ironically, sometimes we’re forced to pay attention to factors that might actually contribute to greater insight and greater wellbeing…
…and most of the time we have to be dragged kicking and screaming into learning about those factors. Often, it’s only much later that we can really feel how important they were.
All of this definitely holds true for dating.
The things that attract you to get involved with someone are generally pretty short-lived.
This means that, ultimately, what you’re left with in the end is NOT going to be what originally got you in the front door.
That’s crazy. And pretty funny.
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Reminded me of this:
Not quite the meme I wanted, but the same message.
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"The ingrained, reflexive patterns of cognition and perception that we often mistake for Reality."
This is a recurring theme for me these days.
I’m guessing this is how my being is unfolding with the stimulation of Revelation of Mind and Revelation of Spirit.
Let’s keep going.
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Yep.
But I’m definitely putting that on me.
Reality is like: ‘excuse me? excuse me?..’
and I’m like: ‘yeah, yeah. Come back later. I’m busy. Tryna understand reality over here.’
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Moved up to 5 minutes each of my two customs today.
PHENOMENAUT Genesis (Program Cores: Revelation of Mind, Revelation of Spirit, Genesis)
POOLS Black (Program Cores: Paragon Complete, Khan Black Stage 2, Revelation of Dreams)
My life feels controlled and constrained by money and work concerns. That’s something I’m working on.
There’s also something about interpersonal/social forces and increasing self-determination.
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Learning to think proactively about ‘Enough is Enough’.
To make my thinking and planning more lean and agile.
Lean is not always best. But sometimes it is exactly what the doctor ordered.
For a contemplative introvert like me this is a very important reminder.
Keep it lean.
Keep it light.
Get it done.
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Process
Kether An idea waiting to be recognized and grabbed
Chokmah It is charged with the spark of creativity
Binah Structure is put around it and it is given form
Chesed Excitement builds, ideas flow, opportunities exist
Geburah Anything unnecessary is removed
Tiphareth The idea is balanced and its true beauty shines
Netzach Time to invest your feelings and joy into it
Hod Time to brand and create the image
Yesod Remember old pitfalls and learn from the past
Malkuth Time to land, to manifest
Just leaving this here.
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I decided to make Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday subliminal-free processing days. Then we’ll see where we are when I come back on Wednesday.
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Did today’s meditating in the evening from 6:58 pm to 7:58 pm and when the final chime dinged I really had no idea whether I’d been sitting for 30 minutes or 60.
Still getting over the flu/cold thing. That may have had something to do with it.
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It’s a typical human contrivance to consider every situation as having one ‘correct’ course of action. Better to focus on learning from any experience than to hypothesize a mythical ‘mistake-free’ or ‘difficulty-free’ path.
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Instead of ‘rest days’, think of your processing days and washouts as ‘Action-focused Days’.
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You know those words are in hebrew yes?
Kether - Crown
Chokma - Wisdom
Binah - Intelligence
Chesed - Grace
Geburah - Heroism
Tiphareth - Glory/Magnificence
Netzach - Eternity
Hod - similar to Tiphareth
Yesod - Fundamental
Malkuth - Kingdom
You might already know this but i dont want to assume 
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Yes.
They are the names of the 10 sefirot. Kabbalah. My username is the sefira Malkuth.
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