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Self-Awareness

Chapter 04

Self-Awareness

Self-awareness is the ultimate lifehack. Once you know your superpower, it’s easy to “modify” mainstream tactics to suit your own style and gifts. But most people spend their entire lives denying truth, their entire orientation designed to run away from it.

The Mirror Never Lies

The hardest truth about self-awareness is that your actions are the only real data you have. Everything else—your hopes, your aspirations, your exceptions for lack of performance—are self-deceptions.

“To MAXIMIZE your self-awareness you must look only at your own ACTIONS as the Truth of your situation and realize all else that is self-generated internally (your hopes, aspirations, exceptions for your lack of performance, results you get on your one-off BEST day, etc) are self-deceptions”

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If you only seem to go .5 steps, then accept that and design a new route to get the result you want by going .5 steps each time. Don’t magically assume you’ll randomly just fly 300 steps and keep the success of the plan dependent on that fallacy.

The problem isn’t that your mind misses—it always will. The question is: do you have a system to ensure greater degrees of accuracy for when your mind inevitably misses? Your mind distorts reality and gives you incorrect information all the time, to very severe degrees.

“A FOUNDATIONAL mental model you need to carry in everything is ‘brain is wrong, reality is right’”

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The Intuition Paradox

Your intuition is 100% accurate. It’s a supercomputer that uses knowledge you can’t even articulate into the answer for you. It knows everything about you—every desire, every dislike, every secret hatred. It factors literally all of that into the answer it feeds you.

“I believe intuition is a direct link to the FUTURE of your highest self. Meaning - in a reality with an infinite amount of future realities - I believe your intuition is able to ‘peak behind the curtain’ & guide you in the direction that you need to go by sourcing information that your 3D self does not have access to.”

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But here’s the problem: listening to your brain (only what you can articulate, which is .000000000000000000000000000000008% of the knowledge that you have) over that is literally retarded.

“Your intuition is a little flashlight that shows u 3-5 feet ahead in TOTAL DARKNESS. You can WALK THE PATH or IGNORE IT FOR ETERNITY LIKE ALL OF YOUR SIMP ASS FRIENDS. Do u have the BALLS to FOLLOW it into the ABYSS towards ur God-given destiny? Or will u DIE ON THE SIDELINES?”

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Most people have trouble grasping that there is knowledge they have that they can’t articulate, and have even more trouble acting on it. Your body is a truth mechanism. You already know the answer, you just gotta not be a bitch and listen to it.

The Self-Discovery Trap

You can’t download unearned wisdom. The universe has leveling mechanisms. You are where you’re at because of you, and only you can bring you up.

“People think ‘self-help’ is misleading because it assumes u have 2 fix urself. This is incorrect, because u will never fix urself. U simply DISCOVER urself (aka u clearly see how the hardwiring is designed) & then u learn how to construct environments around urself that are conducive 2 ur own success”

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Self-discovery and self-awareness plus environmental curation. That’s the formula. It’s not “I am broken and need to fix myself.” It’s “what barrier of my design am I running into and how can I creatively re-position this situation?”

The only way you develop self-awareness is by getting into situations, exiting them, and then reflecting on what the fuck just happened. You learn the most about yourself by getting into shit situations, exiting them, and then studying the deltas between the prediction and the reality.

“If you pay attention to your life, you will often find what I call ‘intersections’ where 2 ‘patterns of neglected order’ meet at a head and continually ‘loop’ on identical timelines”

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The Lazy Myth

Lazy doesn’t actually exist. You’re not lazy. Lazy doesn’t actually exist. The problem is you have atrocious self-talk and no awareness of it.

“You’re sitting there thinking ‘oh i’m a little lazy fag who’s never going to amount to anything!!!’ #1 - you’re not lazy. Lazy doesn’t actually exist #2 - You’re misunderstanding of human nature is being projected onto yourself, trapping you in what YOU think is true, but actually isn’t”

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Can’t get yourself to do any work? Your energy sucks due to bad diet/sleep. You are confused on the steps in front of you. You are horribly uninterested in the thing you have to do anyway. No fucking shit you can’t do any work.

In that condition, that is human nature stopping you. No man can out-strongarm biology. Biology always wins. The entire game is understanding your biology and creating solutions to get around the rules of the game.

“Most people quite literally spend their ENTIRE FUCKING LIVES… DENYING truth. Their ENTIRE orientation is DESIGNED to run away from it. You need to quite literally be the COMPLETE OPPOSITE.”

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Reading the Room (Your Own Psyche)

Most people have zero awareness or concept of momentum. Literally no mental model for it. The reason for this is because it is purely a “see it with your own eyes” phenomena. It has to be felt, discerned towards, found, then studied.

You need to develop what is perceived as highly narcissistic tendencies to get anywhere in the real world as a man. You have to genuinely believe you can literally do anything if given enough time. You have to believe God chose you to impose your gift onto the world.

“That may SEEM like narcissism to the outside world who is not as aligned with reality as you are - but it is actually a psychological REQUIREMENT to break through the barriers necessary to taste your own greatness.”

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The most self-aware people on earth ironically can’t “see into themselves” like most people think they’re able to. What they’re exceptionally good at is reading their own body. Do I actually like this or not? The feeling and the actions have the wisdom that your mind might be hiding from you.

“Self-awareness often comes down to observing your own actions/body & allowing what is real (biology) to ‘anchor’ or ‘ground’ what isn’t ‘real’ on its own (aka a thought/idea).”

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The Energy Game

Understanding and managing the ebbs and flows of your personal energy on a day-to-day basis is the foundation for everything you will ever do or want in life. Everything is downstream from your energy.

“If you are tired af/exhausted you will not be charismatic, not write well, not be able to do anything. That is biology. MOST of the population is attempting to fight a biology problem with therapy. Wrong solution.”

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Most of the population hasn’t even discovered “attack energy” / applying pressure is a thing, let alone sustained attack energy plus using higher cognitive functions to analyze the shards that fly out as a response to it.

A lot of people’s “problems” aren’t from “trauma” or “being raised incorrectly”—they are from a lack of energy awareness. If you are tired as fuck/exhausted you will not be charismatic, not write well, not be able to do anything. That is biology.

The Comparison Trap

The average person is now going through the motions while dead inside. You are now forced to will your own reality into being both financially and socially.

“Most fucked up situations perforate into ur life as tangential consequences of u ignoring blaring intuition U know @ soul level ur actions aren’t aligned with what u ACTUALLY want 2 do for whatever reason Then shit goes sideways w/ micro blackswan & ur like ‘Fuck. Knew it’”

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How you judge the external world is how you judge yourself. Your harshest critiques are the exact same shadows that are stopping you from output. If you dropped content, you’d rip yourself. You say “people will think x” when in reality the truth is you think people will think x.

Before you actually get the thing you want, you have to make an educated guess that you’ll be able to get it by calculating ease of previous results times size/difficulty of the new opportunity.

“You have to extrapolate your estimated potential into a spacial guess on how far your skillset will be able to take you.”

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The Mental Model Problem

Your mental models (how accurate your perception of reality is/works in your head vs how it actually is/works) are quit literally everything. They are all you have. Get these wrong—by being unaware of how yours are structured/how to diagnosis/fix them—and you’re simply fucked.

“Once you align your mental models WITH reality the world moves FOR you If you’re not getting results in ANY area - it’s because your mental models are INCORRECT. You are WRONG about how REALITY WORKS. Accept this and FIX IT or continue failing at x thing. Very simple”

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If your awareness of human nature is higher than another person’s, they become predictable. You can “see” what’s happening. Your pattern recognition simply trumps theirs.

Growth is the active restructuring of relationships you have with specific words/concepts. When you change definitions, you change your reality. Words are quite literally our life. They are how we make the infinite “real.”

“GROWTH is the active restructuring of relationships u have with specific words / concepts When you change DEFINITIONS - you change your REALITY”

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The Liberation

You reach a point in your awareness journey where your entire life becomes a meditation. Instead of struggling for clarity, you are clarity. Your default state is awareness.

“Anytime negativity wanders into ur psyche it is automatically registered & immediately swiped away. Back 2 default”

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The journey of self-knowledge and the tools acquired on its path are reflected in all things. The deeper you understand your own psyche, the deeper you understand the universe. As inward so outward.

There are infinite levels of self-awareness and each level gives you more and more power to create the reality that is the truest expression of your highest self. A perpetual deepening of understanding on where you truly “fit in” to the systems in your life to maximize the percentage chance that it plays out exactly how you want it to.


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