koolhead17
It is amazing how we humans think about ourselves and crave for our significance. It can be any social structure: job, family or religion.
We don’t realize that our significance in this compared vast universe is meaningless. We accumulate wealth or crave for respect, love Et all.
To be significant one requires more than wealth power or superiority: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. Et All showed it to us.
I have been under anxiety for the past few weeks. Most of it was fueled because of overthinking. I was not able to sleep, felt very tired and sad.
The self-introspection helped me realize about my irrationality. I was trying to control things which I should not have.
It takes time to be virtuous, in my case it will take a few more decades.
We all make our own unique story, a fiction of ourselves through the course of our life. Psychologists say we humans are individually different, we perceive, react and respond to scenarios differently.
The journey of our life plays a big role in the genre of our fiction. Most of us are fighting for survival, we go through our own share of misery and sufferings.
What genre of fiction are you writing?
I find it weird seeing people how they identify themselves on the basis of their caste, class, religion at all. Some showcase their wealth, while others their materialistic possessions.
In the end, we are a piece of meat and acquainted with the power of thinking (which we are on the verge of losing). We are conditioned with our society and biased with our own ideology.
How much of it and I matters?
Still halfway through reading: the courage to be disliked, the author talks about the superiority complex.
Like the inferiority complex, the superiority complex comes to someone for his/her urge to cease power and respect.
One cannot get over the Superiority complex unless he/she stops craving for things in his/her way. With our cravings and urge to be liked, respected: this looks like a tough ask.
The easiest thing is giving assurance. Some people are just good at it. How much impact it makes in life, they don’t care.
Be very careful with picking someone as your last resort, it can hurt and make you weak.
Those who help don’t speak much, they keep giving without expectation.
Being sad or living a miserable life is a choice. The reason for it could be anything from a job to a relationship.
I find it weird when people crib about their toxic work environment and how they are barely keeping up with their health. In the same conversation they mention, pay is great so they are continuing at it for their better future.
I also find it weird seeing friends continue to live in failed relationships because they are used to each other. Both sides have given up in finding a truce or moving on.
We are letting Sunk Cost fallacy dictate in most scenario. As a rational human, the Opportunity cost is what we should be caring for.
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
― Seneca
While reading “Age of Propaganda”, I came across the subject of fear. It talks about how to generate fear on a group or individuals.
These are some well-known trick marketers, politicians and preachers have been using.
A fear appeal is most effective when:
This reminds of anti-tobacco and use condom for safe sex campaign.
We are living in an odd world. Dreams and working on making it true is limited for a few. Every now and then media glorifies success and we fall for survivor bias.
This utopia we call society empowers a few lucky ones. Rest of us have forgotten about our dreams.
I have been rejected a few times during job interviews. Most of the times reasons for rejection were not provided. It made me angry and sad at the same time.
One of the principles I am trying to adhere to is to give genuine feedback and reasons for not hiring someone.