How to be miserable.
1. Imagine that you’re alone in the world and that you can ???? ???? ??? ?????????? by achieving more and being better (than other people)

2. Create an imaginary person who is you, only better. An imaginary person who ???? ??? ??? ?????? ? ???? ?????? ???? i.e. gets up early, is dedicated and organised and never has bad thoughts about other people, who never gets jealous, despondent or cynical.

3. Create some imaginary people ????? ???????? ??? ???? to get to where you think you want to go.

4. Make a plan to become the ‘???? ??????? ?? ????????’.

But isn’t this what we’re supposed to do? Isn’t this what everyone on LinkedIn says I should do so that I can become rich and successful?

If you see the world the same way as the majority see it, it limits creativity. Creativity comes though questioning the pervasive value system, not by finding better ways to conform to it.

What is the effect of looking things this way? It promotes motivation through lack and not good enough. It promotes a rejection of now and the riches of just being aware of being alive, here and now (while it lasts), to send mind off into an imaginary future where you’ve ‘made it.’ It creates a dislocation and separation within mind. Dislocation and separation means energy-sapping conflict and isolation.

These are a far from optimal states.

A conviction that life is about me and I must achieve to deserve doesn’t promote easy access to intelligence, creativity and connection, which is where the great stuff happens.

As I work with people, I find that the thought system I describe above is their greatest obstacle to happiness, but they believe they need it to keep them in line.

As we examine together, we uncover the absurdity of this system, which is installed in us at such an early age that we believe that it
?? us,
and
?? the world.

There is another way.

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Image: Oskar Schlemmer Self-Portrait 1912