To achieve greatness.
Created by Leonardo Ai by Aeric Adams
Trust Fall
Death can be literal or figurative. A walker on a tightrope, with no safety net (the guy who walked between the world trade centers and lived), Nascar drivers, and astronauts. In the figurative sense, it’s like people who go into politics, or go on stage in theater, or give a speech in front of a large crowd. You risk yourself; your ego, in the willingness to face whatever comes. You give yourself in sacrifice to the moment.
Do you fear being hated, disliked, or mocked? If you do, remember people will thumbs down a laughing baby, or a mother , singing to that baby and bringing tears to its eyes. Take the hate, with a grain of salt. Don’t try to impress those people. Accept their hate.
The Cliché of Fear and Desire
Fear is a fuel. Love is fuel. Pure focus and power are the gifts they bring. They can be opposing. But, together their power is incalculable. Jordan Peterson , a wiser man than me, spoke on how to best the one who came before you. And what if their score was near perfect. He said to dance on the edge of chaos. Throw caution to the wind. Wild abandon.
“Be a Monster.” -Jordan Peterson
Sometimes the risk is your actual life. Most times it’s any level of emotional, or social deaths. You risk ridicule in the court of public opinion. And ridicule is everywhere. It’s the easy button. It’s easier to critique something made out of thin air, than to create something open to ridicule by seven billion people, with internet access and Twitter, I mean “X”.
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” — William Shakespeare
Some people say ‘don’t be afraid to fail.’ I say be afraid. Be afraid in a real and grounded way. Use it. Fear it enough to research and learn any pitfalls. Fear it enough to study every angle of your problem. Fall asleep coming up with backup plans and solutions. Fear it, until you love it.
Enjoy the Ride
No one wants your mediocrity at any level. This is something I say to myself. This is from listening to so many speakers. This is from listening to Michael Jackson at the end of his documentary, “This is It” saying to his band, some of the best musicians in the world, that you have to work from love. This is the separation from extremely good to great. Enjoy the ride of what you’re doing and walk the tightrope without a net.
Average, Mediocre, It’s Fine…
That’s what makes A.I. writing so bad. It’s averageness without the personal (painful, soul wrenching, stomach turning, tear jerking, belly laughing until tears, connecting, angering, inspiring) touch. A.I. has no fear or love which creates the personal touch humans need to be captivated.
Are you regurgitating someone else’s work without a piece of you in it? Are you writing a Piece that doesn’t make you cry or a comedy that doesn’t make you laugh? Many times a bad movie is better than an average one. I would rather watch a fan film of any of the original three Indiana Jones movies than Crystal Skull or Dial of Destiny. Their mediocrity is in the story telling. Let me guess how it starts…is he captured by Nazi’s?
Hereditary Power: Kings and Paupers
You don’t know you can achieve greatness if you don’t know, or believe greatness exists. Imagine, no fear of losing, what you didn’t earn.
Of course I will always be flying in the sky. The sky has always existed. I am the sky. Who is hungry? Let them eat cake! (Marie Antoinette didn’t say that).
Kings, presidents, movie star’s kids may have greatness or seeds for greatness thrust upon them. This power is hard to control without understanding where you are, in relation to society. Not being grounded they are born in the opulent sky and are told about the ground, where mere mortals live. They aren’t afraid to fall. They aren’t afraid of the consequences of failing.
How thick is their skin compared to someone, climbing up from poverty, or bullied in school, or was a victim of domestic abuse and had to survive. They had to fight to get out, in a way that was meaningful to them. This fire can be useful.
Their fear was lived, they chased their love and a great artist can recall it to help us on our own journey, to show we are not alone in our struggle and it can mean something.These people I want to hear, as long as what they are saying feels true. As long as they play from their heart.
The opposing side is like one who only knows the ground. Or a cave. It’s Like the Allegory of the Cave. Someone you trust has to tell you out there is another world and a whole massive sky. Both have their own battles in seeing and accepting the world.
The “Social Path”
Sociopaths, who only want power, can become powerful because of their lack of empathy. Ruthlessness can be repaid with power. The willingness to be bold, and not caring what people think is a massive aid. But, they have nothing to lose. And you can beat them.
Reversal: Having nothing to lose and no fear and massive love can be nearly as strong. The same can be said for having no love and a yearning desperation to not fail and everything to lose. I am speaking from the point of view as one who has lost, but studies greatness, which does not hide. My fear and desire may wane but I feel much more alive when I am focused and there is a battle where I have something to gain and lose.
Begin, and don’t worry if the first draft isn’t perfect. I wish I could see the greatest things first drafts. There’s beauty in there somewhere. Find your beauty and jump into the abyss for love.
Buddha’s Balance
The fear in danger can be chronic. It can lead to anxiety. Fear is a natural development of existence, as an animal in the food chain. Hunt or be hunted. Humans are killed by lions, tigers, and alligators today. We need fear, not anxiety.
- Stress is a tool to survive. But, anxiety is disintegrating.
- Love is a tool. Obsession can be beyond distraction.
- But, Playing it safe isn’t safe.
Life is fair (not fair) equally. Safety is not guaranteed. The Lion can still eat you. And mother nature loves predators and prey. If you fight, and you have to fight, you might as well fight with everything.
Reversal: There is something to be said about not fighting and just focusing on your goal. Have a meditative posture and focus on what you want with non-attachment. Non emotional will.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
The negative side of complacent neutrality is subservience to any controlling power, whether you agree with it or not.
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