Thread by @Sykodelic_

Do you want to win in life?

To win, you often have to do the opposite of what your mind says to do.

Paradoxes have always fascinated me. By understanding paradoxes you can 10x your life, fast!

Even better, you can apply paradoxes to Crypto!

Here are the top 5

#Cryto #Life

A quick note before we begin...

Paradoxes cannot be understood through logic. They go against natural instinct and emotional behaviour.

Call me crazy, but I believe they exist in our world by design. Secret codes that unlock a higher level in life.

Lets dive in...

1. The Happiness Paradox

Everything we do in our lives is undertaken with the desire to feel happy. Therefore, when we feel unhappy, we do whatever we can to alleviate that feeling.

This leads people to become takers. Trying desperately to change their inner state by gaining.

But, by always taking you alienate other people.

By alienating other people you destroy your relationships. By destroying your relationships you feel more unhappy, leading you to take even more. Repeat.

True happiness comes from giving. The more you give, the more you receive

2. The Attractive Paradox

We've all experienced it. When you meet someone you like, all you want to do is speak to them, see them, be with them.

Your mind is high on this feeling and it wants more, urging you to chase it. But anyone who has fallen into this knows what happens.

By being over the top you come across as desperate and clingy. This becomes unattractive.

We make this mistake because most of the time we don't believe we're good enough, & we try to secure it as fast as possible. But this pushes away.

Attractiveness comes through the self.

3. The Comfort Paradox

We live in a world of ultimate comfort and convenience. So why are there so many uncomfortable people?

Because too much comfort leads to discomfort.

To truly become comfortable, you must seek discomfort. Discomfort leads to growth, & growth is strength.

Your mind will never stop telling you that fatty food tastes good. It is hard wired to seek out calories to survive. But If you constantly eat crap food, you get fat.

That is uncomfortable.

Whereas if you train hard and diet all week(discomfort) you feel strong = Comfort.

4. The Pain Paradox

Your brain is hardwired at all costs to help you survive. And pain can lead to death, which causes your mind to try and avoid pain at all costs.

But pain is life's greatest teacher. Its pure existence is to tell you when something is/was wrong.

Its like if you see a cat jump on a hot stove... you'll never see it do it again! The pain served as a valuable lesson for the cats survival.

But us humans go deeper than that. We feel emotional pain, which is usually far greater to deal with than physical pain.

Emotional pain, rejection, leads to fear of it happening again. Your mind will try to keep you from that happening again, closing you off from life.

Therefore the paradox here is that only by facing your pain can you transcend it. You can't outrun it...

The only way out, is in.

5. The Fear Paradox

Fear and pain are tightly linked. It's the fear of the pain that stops you in your tracks. But fear is there as a guide, not an absolute.

We humans have a horrible tendency to make our deepest fears into a reality simply because of the fear itself.

If we fear an outcome, we focus on that outcome. We believe in it.

That causes us to behave in a way that supports this belief, which gradually brings our fear about into reality.

If we fear we aren't good enough, we behave in a way that shows that...

Other people see how we conduct ourselves and begin to treat us the same way, which reaffirms our fear. Fear creates itself...

Therefore the paradox with fear is that to transcend it you have to surrender into it.

Only then will it let go of its grip on your life.

So how then do Paradoxes apply to making it in Crypto?

1. When you feel the most danger, opportunity is greatest.

When prices are lowest, fear is highest. The calls for 10k BTC will be everywhere, projects going under. The collective fear is peak.

Buy at peak fear.

2. When you feel the most secure, danger is near.

Prices are pumping, euphoria is everywhere and all your fav influencers are posting wild price predictions. You're on top of the world.

Your mind is overcome with greed, and the "markets are never going down". It's time to sell.

3. When the market gets boring, the opportunity is the most exciting

We've been in a bear market for 7 months & retail have disappeared. Markets are down bad, and so is everyone. You feel like giving up...

But now is the time to find the next bull market winners, for bargains!

4. Buy red, sell green.

Retail investors get rekt because they FOMO into green candles. They only buy when they see people buying. If you wait to buy the green, the best gains have already been seen.

Buying pumps, gets ya dumped!

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