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Striving Hard To Live
Our daily lives are filled with ambition, deadlines and competition.
- It is taught to us that we have to strive for everything: accomplishments, prosperity, or happiness.
- We have to do stuff: act, think, eat, dance, slog, sleep or practice, trying to optimize our ways of being.
It is a never-ending rat race where the faster we run, the more we have to sprint ahead, as there is always someone ahead of us.
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The Flow State
In the state of flow, our attention is on a limited perceptual field which gets our full attention and investment, not bothered about the score, we are fully into the action and awareness of the activity, doing what we love.
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Embracing Our Inner Amateur
- It is often found that practising hinders progress and that real, authentic and individualistic mastery emerges when one gives up formal practising and gets completely natural and experimental.
- The 10,000 hours of practice formula, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell i...
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Our Inner Amateur
The word amateur came to the English language in the 18th century, making the distinction between the newbie and the professional. The amateur does the particular activity (painting, music, sport)without any spirit of mastery or competitiveness, making the pursuit itself the rewa...
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Competition on Our Confidence and Fixing It
We lose our confidence when someone surpasses us. But, we were confident when we were at the top. This competitive atmosphere is usually witnessed in the workspace, school, or an event.
Of all truth, this TOXIC competition will ruin our confidence since we won't be at the top forever. For i...
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