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ity — uncorrupted by any belief; be it empowering or limiting. But this is ego threatening, we need the cake and eat it too; we want the comfort of belief somehow.After all, how else would one measure their true potential? It does not matter whether you could reach up to your fantasies or expectation, what matters is to do what is possible for real, and to keep at it.It requires us to be open to what is true in our experience; whether it is doing physical exercise³, learning⁴ a thing, or working on a complex problem, or working with their toxic negative patterns. All that is required of us is to be open to see the truth in reality by engaging in the activity by dropping the compulsion to being a slave to pre-existing beliefs. But this is hard work to see the habitual clinging and to open up to dropping them.When I argue with reality, I lose — but only 100 percent of the time. -Byron KatieDepending always on willpower and motivation will eventually suck up your energy sooner or later. That does not mean giving up or resigning is any better. Both approaches are being a slave to the mind. This does not mean one should resist giving up if that is what naturally happens; maybe one has some mental, or physical pains, or emotional issues to deal with.Say you want to exercise, go and do it and see how much your body can take it: pushups, pullups, squats, or whatever. The mind would never entertain taking any sort of pain, but if one is serious in understanding their true potential or pain tolerance, they will have no choice but to see it in their experience, unadulterated by mental stories.It requires one to dive and pierce through the thoughts unrelated to the activity or task at hand, and actually engage in one’s endeavor and see for oneself, how it truly is.You do not improve your potential or capacity by thinking positively about it, but by going with the reality, day by day in your endeavors; be it learning, writing, exercising, meditating, or any challenges.Especially while learning a new thing, the mind comes up with excuses to get away; it is often because it does not want to open up to the truth. It wants to maintain its beliefs. One could be a true genius and yet not have it revealed when they are depending on the voice in the head, rather than seeing t

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he actuality.“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative BattlesIf you tried to grasp a concept for 30 minutes, what could happen is; you either get it or not in that period. It is as simple as that, everything else is useless.But this openness is what the mind resists. And by giving up or fighting it, one remains closed to what is real. Not to give up does not mean to push yourself, it only means to check in reality by experimenting without any sort of corruption, and not by what thoughts say.The action of learning is the essence of real perception, in the sense that without it a person is unable to see, in any new situation, what is a fact and what is not… But real perception that is capable of seeing something new and unfamiliar requires that one be attentive, alert, aware, and sensitive. -David Bohm⁵As stated by David Bohm, who himself was a scientist tells us this secret of being attentive and aware of what is fact and not what our negative or positive beliefs or thoughts say. And to see the fact, one needs to learn to see and experiment for finding the truth, not for meeting any expectations.We are conditioned to compare with others, and ordered to be better than others, etc. But what we are never advised is to see the fact, to truly discover our potentials in whatever endeavor we engage in. And so we always miss the opportunity for trying to meet some fancy expectations.We are so eager to improve, find the next self-improvement tip, but never bothered to find what is it that we have to improve upon. We are scared that the voice in the head might be true; if it says ‘you are not capable’, then it may be the truth, so I might as well buy into improvement strategies or motivational stuff without finding out my true ability.</article></body>

Willpower Is For Idiots

And why you may not probably need willpower nor motivation but openness to reality

I believe willpower is for those who do not get the point. Willpower is an unnecessary force, if not an evil force.

Let us wonder for a moment: Why would we want willpower anyway? Of course to fight the voice in our head; that nagging, self-defeating, mean voice in the head. And to use willpower is to already fall for the voice in the head. One adds more solidity to the voice or beliefs in the head. A habitual¹ illusory enemy looks real only when one gives up or fights against it.

Yes, both giving up and fighting against it are making it real. Self-defeating thoughts are real, but only in the sense it is happening, not because they are true. And this is true for both self-defeating and self-motivating thoughts.

Perhaps what is required is to do it and see for oneself without falling for thoughts; the mind will always pull one to support the existing belief systems and remain closed. It is like a horse tied to a plastic chair and made to believe that it can’t run; the belief is so hard and frozen² that horse would not dare to check it out for real.

As with the horse, this requires us to forget any expectations, both positive and negative, and instead just go through it, experiment with reality, and see it for ourselves. And what could be sane than that? And if you fail, despite the mentally-uncorrupted attempt, then it is true, why fight with reality anyway.

We do not challenge a limiting belief by adding some other fantasy belief, which is comfortable (just repeat positive affirmations or other tricks provided by self-improvement gurus), but we are not challenging any limiting belief. Challenging belief means to completely drop the belief and see how experience unfolds in reality — uncorrupted by any belief; be it empowering or limiting. But this is ego threatening, we need the cake and eat it too; we want the comfort of belief somehow.

After all, how else would one measure their true potential? It does not matter whether you could reach up to your fantasies or expectation, what matters is to do what is possible for real, and to keep at it.

It requires us to be open to what is true in our experience; whether it is doing physical exercise³, learning⁴ a thing, or working on a complex problem, or working with their toxic negative patterns. All that is required of us is to be open to see the truth in reality by engaging in the activity by dropping the compulsion to being a slave to pre-existing beliefs. But this is hard work to see the habitual clinging and to open up to dropping them.

When I argue with reality, I lose — but only 100 percent of the time. -Byron Katie

Depending always on willpower and motivation will eventually suck up your energy sooner or later. That does not mean giving up or resigning is any better. Both approaches are being a slave to the mind. This does not mean one should resist giving up if that is what naturally happens; maybe one has some mental, or physical pains, or emotional issues to deal with.

Say you want to exercise, go and do it and see how much your body can take it: pushups, pullups, squats, or whatever. The mind would never entertain taking any sort of pain, but if one is serious in understanding their true potential or pain tolerance, they will have no choice but to see it in their experience, unadulterated by mental stories.

It requires one to dive and pierce through the thoughts unrelated to the activity or task at hand, and actually engage in one’s endeavor and see for oneself, how it truly is.

You do not improve your potential or capacity by thinking positively about it, but by going with the reality, day by day in your endeavors; be it learning, writing, exercising, meditating, or any challenges.

Especially while learning a new thing, the mind comes up with excuses to get away; it is often because it does not want to open up to the truth. It wants to maintain its beliefs. One could be a true genius and yet not have it revealed when they are depending on the voice in the head, rather than seeing the actuality.

“We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.” ― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

If you tried to grasp a concept for 30 minutes, what could happen is; you either get it or not in that period. It is as simple as that, everything else is useless.

But this openness is what the mind resists. And by giving up or fighting it, one remains closed to what is real. Not to give up does not mean to push yourself, it only means to check in reality by experimenting without any sort of corruption, and not by what thoughts say.

The action of learning is the essence of real perception, in the sense that without it a person is unable to see, in any new situation, what is a fact and what is not… But real perception that is capable of seeing something new and unfamiliar requires that one be attentive, alert, aware, and sensitive. -David Bohm⁵

As stated by David Bohm, who himself was a scientist tells us this secret of being attentive and aware of what is fact and not what our negative or positive beliefs or thoughts say. And to see the fact, one needs to learn to see and experiment for finding the truth, not for meeting any expectations.

We are conditioned to compare with others, and ordered to be better than others, etc. But what we are never advised is to see the fact, to truly discover our potentials in whatever endeavor we engage in. And so we always miss the opportunity for trying to meet some fancy expectations.

We are so eager to improve, find the next self-improvement tip, but never bothered to find what is it that we have to improve upon. We are scared that the voice in the head might be true; if it says ‘you are not capable’, then it may be the truth, so I might as well buy into improvement strategies or motivational stuff without finding out my true ability.