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I am committed to not making this mistake
My children will inherit a complete and total onboarding experience onto life and an unconditional lifelong mentorship
I will do everything in my power to enrich them into escape velocity, and will still keep going until I die!
To be truly confident is to operate as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You say, "this will happen. I am right about that because I am going to cause it to happen" I am declaring an effect then positioning myself as the causal chain.
You set out to achieve a goal that is outside of your comfort zone. You've never been there, done that, so you don't know if you will achieve it. It's truly risky, uncertain.
But you decide that it will be. You take yourself as the guarantor of your goal, so as far as you're concerned, it's inevitable, inexorable. Why? How? Because you have decided you will put as much time and energy as it takes. You write a blank check on your level of investment. Not because you want permission to bang your head on the wall, but because you don't control life. So you don't decide in advance when you're going to give up. It may not happen the first time, or within your initial parameters, but that's irrelevant. It will happen. That's all that matters.
Then you make it happen. You've conquered some new territory and it's yours now. It's your new comfort zone. You develop competence in that zone. Another kind of confidence. But to get there it took the confidence to leap into this new zone in the first place.
Trump does this all of the time, that's why they think he's a lier. He's not. He's a grandmaster wizard. He says stuff that isn't true knowing he has the power to make it true. So he's not lying, he's just got a lot of truths that are at different stages of coming true. Just because it's not true now doesn't mean it's false, it's just not true yet. When you realize you have the power to make things true like this, you don't get bogged down by true or false at this moment or that moment. He knows all things will become true in the final analysis. The real lies for these people are when they knowingly state something they have no intention of creating later. This is ordinarily a very slippery slope, see Elizabeth Holmes. People fall for all kinds of traps along the way trying to tango with life like this. But that doesn't invalidate the notion. Just as a deadlift is tricky and can be dangerous, but can absolutely be done safely and to unmatched gains in strength by any individual, so too can this. It's all about not getting lost in the sauce, seeing clearly, not getting stuck, remaining a good faith actor.
The deadlift is actually the perfect analogy here. It's one of the few lifts where at the top end of what you can handle, it reduces down to "Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right". If you hesitate for one second, you won't get the bar above your knees. If you come in with the Mandate of Heaven, you can lift it with no issues. This hesitation is analogous to the part above about not pre-deciding when you'll quit; both are forms of impure/mixed intention - you need to remove any space for holding failure as a possibility. This has various manifestations and expressions depending on whether you're lifting the bar or acting at a more extended timescale.
I found the key.
Not being able to let the dart go comes from a preoccupation with not allowing it to miss. Controlling the outcome which is not controllable. Which is always a form of trying not to lose. Trying not to lose at best causes a miss, at worst prevents one from taking the shot. Because "trying to not to lose" = I'm making a map in my head and all I need to do is follow it.
The solution is to assume the dart will hit the bullseye. Assume success. Expect it will work exactly right. Whatever happen will happen, but it doesn't matter. The most important variable is whether intent was direct instead of indirect, how direct was it. Choosing the intent properly is what allows one to surrender to the outcome. Assuming you will win allows you to not need a map, which is the only way to execute well and the only real way to win. The dart may miss, because you were only 95% direct, still some reliance on a map. So you try again for 100% direct. And it works.
And then there's @chrislakin 's teleologist approach: we create our wickedness and commit sins to unconsciously incentivize our own implicit goals
You must be willing to leap outside of your comfort zone to develop competence.
That willingness is a kind of rudimentary, fundamental confidence.
The kind it takes to bet on yourself and know you'll win.
Then, when you win, you know you can win again - you feel competent
One kind of confidence, the fundamental kind, comes before the proof.
The other kind, from competence, comes as a result of the proof.
The latter presupposes the former
The former is a prerequisite of the latter
To be truly confident is to operate as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You say, "this will happen. I am right about that because I am going to cause it to happen" I am declaring an effect then positioning myself as the causal chain.
You set out to achieve a goal that is outside of your comfort zone. You've never been there, done that, so you don't know if you will achieve it. It's truly risky, uncertain.
But you decide that it will be. You take yourself as the guarantor of your goal, so as far as you're concerned, it's inevitable, inexorable. Why? How? Because you have decided you will put as much time and energy as it takes. You write a blank check on your level of investment. Not because you want permission to bang your head on the wall, but because you don't control life. So you don't decide in advance when you're going to give up. It may not happen the first time, or within your initial parameters, but that's irrelevant. It will happen. That's all that matters.
Then you make it happen. You've conquered some new territory and it's yours now. It's your new comfort zone. You develop competence in that zone. Another kind of confidence. But to get there it took the confidence to leap into this new zone in the first place.
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Really interesting pic for Vance to choose.
Notice how everyone on Trump's right hand side are all looking at each other and engaged in conversation or laughing? JD Vance is just staring off into the distance and chuckling, while the person to his left looks in the opposite direction.
Makes Vance look like an outsider despite being in a room among friends.
Acting to make others approve of you merely makes you feel relief.
Acting to make you approve of yourself makes you feel alive.
Fascinating body language.
JD looks like he just twisted a chicken's head off. Trump looks like he's on standing back and standing by.
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I really need conservatives to understand that there are three kinds of people on the Right, basically, not two. Two of them are bad.
1) Real MAGA patriots (Americanists, good)
2) Neocon RINOs (Mondialists, bad)
3) New Right radicals (Duginists, bad)
3 is using "2" to steal 1
Luciferian occultist Alexander Dugin reposting Jack Posobiec, who is a mouthpiece for the Russian propaganda campaign against America.
This summarizes this morning's Russian message: "Neocons" (good old-fashioned American Conservatives who believe in the American-Israeli alliance) are to blame for election losses.
Why the heck does @TPUSA keep partnering with this transparently anti-American foreign agent?
James Lindsay is on the money again.
It will be fascinating to see what the President will do, given who he is. It's not over. Never doom.
No no no no, NO
This "every person is God" type of Christianity is maximum bad.
We don't need to convince everyone that they're isomorphic with God to make cooperation, peace, kindness
This has no intersection with Christianity. The "Left" can absolutely do better than this
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they expect one of us in the wreckage, brother
BREAKING: Donald Trump and his top White House aides are reportedly preparing to directly blame Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the Republican midterm defeat, along with military commanders who pushed for war with Iran, per CNN and CBS News.
“Trump, always one to crowdsource an opinion, has asked allies about their thoughts on Hegseth’s performance of late,” sources told CNN.
CBS News also reports that Trump believes the election results would have been entirely different without the Iran war. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine and CENTCOM commander Gen. Brad Cooper are also reportedly facing scrutiny as Trump looks for someone to blame for the Republican midterm defeat.