LAW 17: Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability.
You can unsettle people who attempt to control you by being deliberately unpredictable and seemingly inconsistent.
Inertia and laziness are common diseases of Mind, so it's easy to fall their prey.
You can unsettle people who attempt to control you by being deliberately unpredictable and seemingly inconsistent.
Inertia and laziness are common diseases of Mind, so it's easy to fall their prey.
1. The only way to deal with uncertainty is to learn to lead yourself. Every other option condemns you to a life of suspended terror.
The fractured culture feeds the illusion that you need information to have control.
The only control you can have comes from your principles, not from conditions.
The only control you can have comes from your principles, not from conditions.
Children look for guidance to the external world – parents, peers, tribe. Adults lead themselves.
Society has become infantile. Those who take responsibility for their actions gain a disproportionate advantage.
Society has become infantile. Those who take responsibility for their actions gain a disproportionate advantage.
Predictability is a kind of harmful addiction. It dulls the mind with the illusion of safety.
If you don’t do the inner work and don’t know what you want, you will be slave of circumstance. There is no alternative.
2. Understand the dialectic: things beget their opposites.
The dialectic rules everything semantic.
The dialectic rules everything semantic.
When you discern pattern, you create anti-pattern. If you become dependent on a pattern, you expose yourself to its opposite.
If you want to succeed with a business model, prepare for the model to misfire.
If you want to succeed in a relationship, prepare for the relationship to fall apart.
If you want to succeed in communication, prepare for failures of communication.
If you want to succeed in a relationship, prepare for the relationship to fall apart.
If you want to succeed in communication, prepare for failures of communication.
Understand that frames are there to serve You, not the other way around.
You haven't mastered a frame until you've learnt to operate outside of it.
You haven't mastered a frame until you've learnt to operate outside of it.
3. Most people waste their time lost in minute details irrelevant to their Being. They have no principles to guide them through turbulent waters.
Every time you settle for less, you surrender to conditions. Out of a need for safety.
4. Accept uncertainty, and gain Power. Become uncertainty, and embody Power.
Since ancient times, dealing with the illusion of safety has been essential to Mastery of Mind.
Do the inner work or be left out.
Your choice.
startupdaemon.net/signp
Do the inner work or be left out.
Your choice.
startupdaemon.net/signp
