A lot of people have been shitting on psychology lately and I understand why. Fiat has corrupted the field but there are still some based psychologists out there. Highly recommend you take the time to listen to this. He explains how your thoughts impact your feelings which shape your reality. What you focus on you will find.
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Love this. I also think your thoughts impact not only your feelings but actually also your body and health. So in my perspective controlling your mind is essential in order to fully control your body. Learned a lot about this during my time as an elite soldier and what I noticed is the better my mind became the better my body was performing. We are incredible creatures. Every single one of us. There is a lot we can unfold within us. Bitcoin helps doing exactly that along the way also. 💪🏼🧡
The mind body connection is powerful. I remember trying to use my thoughts to change how tired I felt while playing basketball once. I was so fucking exhausted but the game wasn’t over and I wanted to win. I had that painful feeling in my ribs that you get when you’re out of shape. I kept telling myself “no I’m not tired, I still have more energy, this feeling isn’t real, I can still push myself more.” The discomfort went away and I had a second wind of energy. I finished the game and played better than I did before the pain started. I know it was just a game of basketball but I felt so powerful because I was actually in charge of my body.
I love this story. And I confirm with everything you just said. I experienced exactly the same. Fun fact. Also with bball.
My story: after my time in the army I actually started to intensively playing bball. I was not super talented. I’m not tall. (6ft). But my new mindset shift and relentless attitude put me in a position to play on a professional level making fiat. This was not possible with my skillset or my body but it was with my mind. A valuable lesson that I learned that way. Keep it up bro 👊🏼
I believe this. I think what separated stars like Kobe from the rest of the greatest athletes was his mindset. If you listen to Kobe talk about failure and fatigue in interviews, it’s pretty obvious he selectively chooses his thoughts to control his attitude and body.
You might enjoy the Amazon documentary “Look into my Eyes.” A small town teacher was able to get some of his school’s sportsball players to play through pain and exhaustion using some sort of hypnosis. I found it to be a really interesting exploration of the mind-body connection.
That’s interesting! What kind of things were said during the hypnosis? 🤔
It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it but what I do remember is that it wasn’t some kind of simplistic positive thinking exercise where you tell the kids they’re “the best sportsball player ever.” Rather, he taught these kids how to toggle their mind into a different state. As I recall, the trigger to enter the state was some sort of blinking sequence.
What’s really crazy is that this teacher wasn’t some kind of PhD psychologist or doctor. He’s just some random dude who bought a Teach Yourself Hypnosis seminar/manual from a magazine ad because he had an interest in the topic.
The documentary was made because his students started dying in unusual ways, and their parents tried to pin the deaths on the teacher, claiming that the kids had been under in a hypnotic state at the time of their demise.
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Psychologists do themselves no favors when they shit on Carl Jung
I like Jung. Not aware of any psychologists that shit on him though.
They do. Or, more often, they just pretend he didn't exist
I think that comes with any well known psychologist. They can get pretty culty with their preferred psychological theory. But I believe Jung inspired a lot of the personality tests that are used today so his work is definitely respected among the honest professionals.
Disregarding Jung is ghey and stupid. He is the most important dude in his field by a long shot. He's not perfect but he never claimed to be.
Life reflects yourself back to you. No doubt. You take positive steps mentally you'll see positive outcomes in reality.
What kind of positive steps have worked for you in the past?
I would always hold a negative "what if this goes wrong" in my mind but that doubt only made it more likely to manifest. If you take an action believe in yourself 100%. I've noticed women are especially sensitive to this.
Yeah I think women are more in tune with their bodies and emotions. The video says you need to block and replace those “what if this goes wrong” thoughts with something else. What do you try to replace it with? I get those thoughts a lot as well.
I've never been religious at all but over the last 18 months I pray daily. It definitely taps into some higher layer. I started to feel resistance to certain paths and encouragement down others. I don't replace the doubt so much as I trust in the path once I believe I've recognised it.
Very good thread. The advice in the video are pretty solid and work. In short, both pessimism and optimism are spirals. You are right either way, therefore the choice is obvious if you're not fucked in the head. If you are, you have to unfuck your head first.
This is very easy to do with joyful motherfuckers and extremely difficult with stubborn retards who think they know stuff already but the game is rigged against them because [insert reason].
Finding a balance is really important. At what point are the negative thoughts and fears no longer productive? That seems to be the big question. Research shows that most of the time, the things we worry about don’t end up actually happening.
This researcher says that what you fear you can't escape. I'm heavily invested in folklore, ancient traditions, customs and sayings. Little to no superstitions tho.
To entertain your point, I'm thinking any occupation that would benefit from adversarial thinking can and will have negative thoughts. However, this is extremely dangerous on the long term. I absolutely do not recommend it.
I’ve heard a similar saying: what you fear, you attract.
Yeah I noticed this negative effect first hand around 2023. I was deep down the Bitcoin rabbit hole and I was euphoric. I was so excited and hopeful for the future. It was the Trojan horse. It was savior of humanity. But then I came across Matt Odell and listened to the dark side. The surveillance state’s violation of human rights. That put the black cloud back over my head. And even though I know things hardly ever turn out as bad as we imagine them to be, it’s hard to shake it off. Too much euphoria left me vulnerable but too much pessimism makes life unlivable.
If you really care about someone joining bitcoin tell them to shut up about it, like really shut up, at least until they understand what's what. This is rarely the case.
Optimism is not euphoria. Optimism is cheering for your benefit. This doesn't have to be reckless. Pessimism is cheering against you.
Bitcoin doesn't have to be perfect to be the best chance out there. It's pretty good tho, it offers you the chance to plan long term, like really long term.
Paranoia is only half the story. Pronoia pays better. Anyway, the state doesn't give a shit that Bob or Alice have a few bitcoins stashed away. People are less important than they think they are, on a larger scale.