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Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
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Re: Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that you have this grandiose idea about yourself that you transcended ego and are beyond basic judging of others or of yourself and so on doesn't give you pause to say that maybe that's a bit naive and ego-centered? How can someone declare themselves done with this? It's like someone telling me they achieved a state of never having a bad thought again, I know they are lying.
The problem is that state cannot be expressed in words or cognition, because it isn't part of your mind. I cannot fully explain to you what it is like, I can only experience it myself. Until you have the same experience, you will continue to doubt it in the exact way you currently are. And that's perfectly fine, and natural and still good. It's like trying to describe a color in its actual raw experience, or describi…
> that state cannot be expressed in words or cognition, because it isn't part of your mind
What else can it be, if not a part of the mind of a state of it?
Re: Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you experience this or are you guessing? Because I think you are thinking this again through ego. I don't have a thought that I appreciate sunset when I see one. The sunset looks magical. There is a shift in experience. Before watching sunset was like watching in 420p. Now it's 4k. The consciousness is heightened. You only see the sunset. You don't think of old memories of sunset. Or random events from past or th…
The fact that you have this grandiose idea about yourself that you transcended ego and are beyond basic judging of others or of yourself and so on doesn't give you pause to say that maybe that's a bit naive and ego-centered? How can someone declare themselves done with this? It's like someone telling me they achieved a state of never having a bad thought again, I know they are lying.
Did I miss where they claimed absolute perfection in shedding their egotism or something? Because this interpretation of self-reformation after an actually humbling admission of having once lived in devotion to narcissism as being braggartry is what screams insecure egotism to me.
Re: Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
#284This is just ADHD. Look up the symptoms (there's a lot more than just "can't focus sometimes").