Every time I try listening to myself, my subconscious invents me some new and “deep” explanation that I then actually believe for a day or two. It’s an endless quest.
A more fruitful strategy for me was taking some minutes or hours every day to grow something new in my mind, ignoring the old stuff completely. A couple times the new stuff in me eventually grew strong enough to overthrow the old stuff for control of my life without much struggle.
Every time I try listening to myself, my subconscious invents me some new and “deep” explanation that I then actually believe for a day or two. It’s an endless quest.
That’s not listening, and it’s not your subconscious. Your other-than-conscious mind doesn’t do explanations—heck, it doesn’t even grok abstractions, except for an intuitive (and biased) sense of probabilities for a given context (external+internal state).
The type of listening I’m referring to is paying attention to autonomous responses (e.g. a flash of people laughing at you if you fail), not making up theories or explanations. It’s harder to learn, but more worthwhile.
Every time I try listening to myself, my subconscious invents me some new and “deep” explanation that I then actually believe for a day or two. It’s an endless quest.
A more fruitful strategy for me was taking some minutes or hours every day to grow something new in my mind, ignoring the old stuff completely. A couple times the new stuff in me eventually grew strong enough to overthrow the old stuff for control of my life without much struggle.
That’s not listening, and it’s not your subconscious. Your other-than-conscious mind doesn’t do explanations—heck, it doesn’t even grok abstractions, except for an intuitive (and biased) sense of probabilities for a given context (external+internal state).
The type of listening I’m referring to is paying attention to autonomous responses (e.g. a flash of people laughing at you if you fail), not making up theories or explanations. It’s harder to learn, but more worthwhile.