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Gmail - Get Mad at Where You Are in Life
Gmail - Get Mad at Where You Are in Life
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The best periods of my life always came after a period of getting absolutely fed up
with the lack of progress I was making.
The advice.
The porn, beyond sex.
The promises of a better life.
The persuasive marketing angles.
The things that may provide a sense of security, but are not of your own
understanding.
A cure is painful.
It comes in the form of getting sick of being sick, to the point where you come full
circle.
Imagine a line colored in a black-to-white gradient with shades of gray in the middle.
Then, connect the ends of that line together so that black and white touch.
Or, a person so fed up with who they are they become an entirely new person.
It provides a boundary so that your thoughts don't fall into unknown territory and
threaten your entire existence.
Any given situation has too much information for the conscious mind to process (we
are capable of processing around 50 bits of information per second).
The identity, or character, you've cultivated with time will limit what information you
process that is available to the perspective that you have access to.
From that information, you will interpret it differently from everyone else.
I can ask you to think of a "bird," and the image that pops into your head will be
different from every other human on this planet.
Some will think of a cardinal, others a blue jay, both with faint lines forming the
image in your head. Yet the underlying essence of what a bird is remains the same.
The same is true for something like the concept of God. People go to war over
interpretation and "proof" when the experience or essence of what the concept points
at is the same, and it's right in front of you but conditioned thoughts prevent you
from seeing beyond the surface via the psychological security that conceptual proof
provides (yet pulls you further away from reality).
Don't assume that I'm saying proof is useless or unnecessary. Watch the story your
ego constructs.
He could perceive situations holistically and see them for what they are.
I am not here to lecture you on religion or ideology or dogma because that is the
exact opposite of what I am pointing to here. Be careful how your rigid identity
influences how you perceive these words (because I've been the dude that regurgitates
blind "facts," judging what I haven't experienced as if it couldn't possibly be there).
I do not subscribe to one perspective, but attempt to integrate truths from all into my
worldview. I am nowhere near perfect in this, but it is hard to deny that everyone is
pointing at the same thing across every cultural belief system. The meaningful
dopamine you reap from pattern recognition in studying different perspectives is a
sign that you are heading in the right direction.
People that are heavily tied to a religious, nutrition, business, or political ideology will
almost always act in alignment with the goals that were assigned to them by that
intellectual construct.
People that seek to open their mind to awareness and understanding can make
decisions that are conducive to their ideal future.
The question is whether or not those goals are self-generated or assigned to you by
the external.
A political ideologue that adopted the beliefs of their parents without question will
act toward goals assigned to them by the political party.
A bodybuilder by passion and self-study will generate their own goals and allow their
nutrition, lifestyle, and training to fall in alignment with that goal – else they
experience suffering, which is not bad, but a useful compass toward better.
Allow your actions to follow suit with time (not a day or week or even month, but a
lifetime).
You can note these patterns in architecture, music, all of creation, scripture, systems,
environment, economics, and your life.
The mind interprets the world through concepts, stories, metaphors, and symbols.
Your life wouldn't make sense without the current state of society and culture.
Everything you know is just a layer of stories containing billions of bits of on/off
information pieced together for your current level of understanding.
You will live out that story on autopilot if not made conscious.
What word, sentence, paragraph, section, and chapter is unfolding before you in the
book that is your life?
Now, we must bring in the topic of polarity to deepen our understanding of meaning.
In short, one thing cannot exist without the other.
On that last point, the climax of the story is often the most memorable.
When the symbolic villain is just about to win but the hero triumphs.
If there were no low points in your life it would lose all meaning.
It would become flat. Dull. Linear. Lifeless. Mechanical. Robotic. Mindless. Mediocre.
Emotional Transmutation
An ouroboros.
It is an image of a snake eating its own tail in the shape of an infinity sign.
A reminder that creation demands destruction and that one cannot exist without the
other.
It points to the Law Of Equivalent Exchange which states that for anything received
you must sacrifice something of equal or greater value.
Like using something as potent as anger to push you toward something good.
Of course, this can become dangerous fast.
To create a better life for yourself, emotional energy is the fuel, and intentional effort
is the vessel.
By hitting a low point in life, you come into direct contact with a powerful (yet
temporary) fuel source that most people waste. That low point is a rapid connection
to the divine.
When you reach that low point, you need something tangible to direct that newfound
(and hyper-potent) energy toward.
A vision-aligned project.
The opposing end of the low point you fell into.
From the awareness of negativity, you can easily identify that which you don't want
out of life. From there, you can visualize a better future to work towards.
If you hit a financial low point, maybe it's time to start a business or get a new job.
If you just got out of a breakup, maybe it's time to shift your priority toward your
health and personal development in the gym.
Most successful people I know started their journey out of raw hatred for a situation
in their life.
They hated that they let a relationship carry on, or that they weren't "good enough" for
one they wanted to keep.
When they felt that emotion and let go of the desire to hold on, a new potential
revealed itself and action became frictionless.
Most people think that "hate" shouldn't exist when it is just an obstruction of love.
And if that obstruction isn't removed, hatred latches on and extends it's stay.
Now, this is my philosophy through my direct experience, and why many of you read
these letters:
I believe that holistic entrepreneurship is the meta vessel for any man or woman
balancing the chaos in their life with the masculine pursuit of self-generated, goal-
oriented building.
If that makes little sense, let me explain the entrepreneurial landscape right now:
1) Everyone is an entrepreneur.
Centuries ago, individuals each fulfilled a purpose within their tribe or community.
They acquired skills and interests that fit the "marketplace" that was their
community.
We live in the virtual world right here and now. Virtual reality wouldn't be able to exist
without this societal backbone we already have.
You can't do that without money (to a point, but a hard point) in this society.
Therefore, it becomes one's life's work to leverage modern technology to make an
income doing what one enjoys.
You do this by pairing your personal interests with the skills of social media
(understanding society), writing, speaking, marketing, and sales.
That is a loaded question, but I believe that the answer that makes the most sense is
to raise the collective consciousness.
To help others solve their problems so we can transcend the superficial and live in
accordance with what is.
The problems in your life are mental, physical, financial, and spiritual.
Same goes for anyone else.
Those are the problems we must individually solve for collective growth.
We as humanity are only as strong as our weakest link, and that weakest link is
mediocre, mindless, and destructive. Hence, why you must learn marketing and
persuasion for the sake of awareness. You don't push your worldview, you simply
illustrate it and let it do its thing.
When you solve your own problems, it is implied that you can pass down a solution.
This solution is both how you gain a readership on social media (through content)
and sell a product that saves the world one purchase at a time (through education).
If you don't know where to start, try 2 Hour Writer.
When you learn, dissect, reconnect, and teach you flex the creative ability of your
mind, and in the wise words of Arnold:
To me, the pump kind of feels like having sex with a beautiful woman and
coming. You know? It just feels fantastic. I am coming all the time, you know!
And if everyone leans into their nature as a creator, it is difficult for saturation to
exist.
Your story, or identity (that you display in the creator society), is nowhere near the
same as anyone else's – even if you are pursuing the same high-level goals like
"making more money."
You can process 128 billion bits of conscious information in your lifetime.
At any given moment, you are wasting that potential through distraction or using it to
craft a conscious character by which you can contribute to humanity.
This letter may not even make sense to you at your current level of awareness.
- Dan Koe
Koe Enterprises
1817 E Southern Avenue Suite #462
Tempe
Arizona 85282
United States