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Something from driving which can apply in everyday decision-making as well. Twists and turns we go through at many points, but how often do we check the mirrors when turning? Checking the mirrors in this case meaning review the decisions, or seeing if there is anything heading towards us outside from our point of view.
Not that decision making isn’t already difficult enough to go through. A curious thing is how the decision to be made is a major obstacle, but does not comprise of any physical difficulty to be overcome at all. It’s like how the greatest challenge is comprised of mental energy and our self-doubt.
Self-doubt adds friction to all things, but what is the journey without the joy of overcoming the challenge? This is even if the challenge is something we have added to our own burden. We seemed to have conditioned ourselves to derive the greatest joy even from the littlest thing, especially in adding friction for the increased labour.
On this meander on self-doubt, and I seemed to have lost the point on checking the blind spots. What are the views that we do not see, and what distracts us from paying closer attention? We would be invincible from temptation if we can figure what attracts us, or what do we lose control over. Thus approaching the theme of self-mastery.
I enjoy scenes of experts sensing things happening without any visible sign to it (though the lack of visibility is due to not being an expert). Having a sixth sense creates the image of omnipotence, when you are fully in tune with all the necessary signals and intuiting what they mean.
Then (why do I use the word ‘then’ like it follows through logically?) self-mastery is merely the intuitive connection of our intuition with our consciousness, the ability to read the signs of our body effortlessly. How many signs do we ignore every day, masked by the loud noises of in the social environment and technological empowerment?
As new forms of empowerment appear, we should also take care not to lose the initial point, the starting power of humanity. There are different speculations on why humanity has arisen to be the dominant species, including but not limited to the presence of thumbs, communication, and a large brain. What is your own unfair advantage (consciously referring to the book by Ash Ali)?
How do you not get your personal and unique brilliance buried by your own environment? That is to me, the greatest blind spot while cruising on the highway of routine and normality.