Just did a wiki rabbit hole dive. The man was all about the collective consciousness that we are who we are because of those before us.

He states that his inspiration towards such a philosophy came from when he was around the age of 5-6. He carved a small mannequin into the ruler and would place it in his pencil case. He painted a rock on both sides and put that into his case. He then hid the case in his attic. From time to time he would visit the case with notes that were coded in a language he created.

Later in life he learned of totems and how he had been preforming a similar ritual to indigenous people all around the world. That a young boy who never learned of any of this would be able to accomplish the same things as a group miles away.

What really fascinated me was the dude started developing signs of schizophrenia and instead of medicating or hospitalization. He isolated himself and let the hallucinations run ramped. Scribbling everything in a note book which later became The Black Book. Full of random dark thoughts and imagery. He later came out of isolation and made a new transcript of the entire thing which is known as The Red Book.

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Have you ever been in that situation? Do you think you could do an hours studying each day after that amount of work?

Not saying you couldn't but I feel that goes beyond motivation. That person is driven by something.

As if the world literally spoke and said : Carl Jung

you're trying to focus on the negative

Keywords trying to focus

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How does cancel culture try to change the past? So are you trying to "cancel" cancel culture?

You never lost five years

That also doesn't really have anything to do with the quote. Your problem has nothing to do with wanting to change the past.

But why are you on this page if you hate motivational things

Sometimes you just have to let things go. That's okay too if that's what you need to do.

Yes.

I agree! I think they refer to gossiping as spreading rumors.

I mean we get it Christianity is bad.

Yes. The past is the past. It's better to leave things in the past rather than let them continue to live in the present in your reality. Because what you're thinking about is what you are experiencing. So if you leave something in the past, that's where it will stay. You can't erase it from the past, but you can leave it there. And you can forget about things.

Gossiping is only bad if it's actually done in earnest. Basically, it's shaming others. If you're just chit-chatting and you don't actually have negative feelings about other people, there's nothing really wrong with that. And we have to be able to talk to one another about life. Just because somebody is talking doesn't mean it's a bad thing. So gossiping is really only bad if you're just talking shit.

For example, in this picture, you see one rabbit with a huge carrot, and one rabbit with a small one. You'd think the big carrot indicates success, but since the stem is so small, the rabbit is very unlikely to succeed at pulling it from the ground.

The rabbit with the small carrot has a lot to grab onto and the stem is strong relative to the size of its root. Even though his reward is smaller, he's much more likely to succeed at pulling up his carrot.

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If someone won’t, or can’t, tell you who they are, then you gotta infer it from other things: what they do, how they do things, etc.

I think op means this as malicious? And it can be. But there’s real, and really helpful, ways this stuff can happen.

This makes a lot of sense to me. I'm gender non-conforming in that I'm a tall guy with masculine facial features, and I'm most happy with my waist length hair down, wearing a long flowing dress and make up. This is apparently extremely strange to 99% of people, disturbing even.

Gender roles are very deeply ingrained in society and our training/conditioning starts early. It never even occurred to me that this is who I want to be until my mid 30s, and it was very painful to discover about myself.

Most of the time I dress fairly normally because it's practical for work as a stonecarver (currently wearing overalls and a woolly hat), and people make hardline assumptions about who I am and how I'm likely to behave. How I ought to behave.

Occasionally I'll slip up and a sudden expression of happiness will come out in a very girly way, like fists balled to my cheeks and little jumps for joy. This is usually regarded as utterly pathetic, by both men and women alike - at least in the straight cisgender world. If I'm working on site I can't express myself freely at all because if my queer side shows at all it can make an entire room of previously relaxed laughing men freeze over and turn sour.

I'm still doing the work of shrugging off these societal shackles in my early 40s.

Carl Jung was a genius but okay

I don't get it

That's an interesting idea. This is actually one of my least favorite quotes from Carl jung. I don't know if it really had that much weight before either. I think older Generations like this quote because it gave them a reason to be confrontational. When in reality, confrontational people are just defensive. They have internalized bullying. So if somebody is being bullied, they have every right to defend themself. They shouldn't really need a reason from a random quote.

So I think older Generations liked this quote for that reason. And I think that partly motivated Carl Jung to say this. But at the same time you can also see how he was just saying that we need to know who we are. Basically it's just saying to know thyself.

He's the father of modern psychology. What more do you want before you admit that something is a deep thought? Is there any such thing as a deep thought?

So if i train hard enough i can become an arsonist

Got it

Sometimes things can be indirectly motivating. This isn't telling you go out there and get shit done. But it is telling you to look Inward and get things done inside.