What can you do to try and be undivided if you don’t know any of the mental and emotional moves that go into this sort of integration? You can tell everyone you know, “I’m this sort of person!” and try super super hard to never let that identity falter, and feel like a shitty miserable failure whenever it does.
You can tell everyone you know, “I’m this sort of person!” and try super super hard to never let that identity falter, and feel like a shitty miserable failure whenever it does.
“So the aim isn’t to be productive all the time. It’s to be productive at the times when your internal society of mind generally agrees it would be good to be productive. It’s not to be able to motivate yourself to do anything. It’s to be able to motivate yourself to do anything it makes sense to do.”
I notice some of my older implicit and explicit strategies were, “Well first I’ll get good at being able to do any arbitrary thing that I (i.e the dominant self-concept/identify I want to project) pick, and then I’ll work on figuring out what I actually want and care about.”
Oops.
Also, noting that the “then I’ll figure out what I want” was more “Well I’ve got no idea how to figure out what I want, so let’s do anything else!”
Being undivided is cool. People who seem to act as one monolithic agent are inspiring. They get stuff done.
What can you do to try and be undivided if you don’t know any of the mental and emotional moves that go into this sort of integration? You can tell everyone you know, “I’m this sort of person!” and try super super hard to never let that identity falter, and feel like a shitty miserable failure whenever it does.
How funny that I can feel like I shouldn’t be having the “problem” of “feeling like I shouldn’t be having XYZ problems”. Ha.
You could also just avoid the feelings of miserable failure by reclassifying all of your failures as not-failures and then forgetting about them. :-)
More Malcolm Ocean:
“So the aim isn’t to be productive all the time. It’s to be productive at the times when your internal society of mind generally agrees it would be good to be productive. It’s not to be able to motivate yourself to do anything. It’s to be able to motivate yourself to do anything it makes sense to do.”
I notice some of my older implicit and explicit strategies were, “Well first I’ll get good at being able to do any arbitrary thing that I (i.e the dominant self-concept/identify I want to project) pick, and then I’ll work on figuring out what I actually want and care about.”
Oops.
Also, noting that the “then I’ll figure out what I want” was more “Well I’ve got no idea how to figure out what I want, so let’s do anything else!”
Oops.