I think this is probably what the original karma was referring to before it was mistranslated into metaphysics stuff. It’s adjacent to brahmavahara stuff (metta, etc). I think it’s probably right
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It’s also hard to fake because your Self that controls the tension is bigger than your conscious self. If you try doing EA-style good but actually just want a lot of status or something, tension will build unless you address the underlying concern. You can’t outsmart your mind
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In terms of purification or untensioning or whatever, it’s about intent, and you can’t fake it
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Although as the leader of parts, your parts want to see that you can actually get stuff done (address their needs). So intent probably isn’t enough. You need to both have good intent and also be competent. A high bar because they can “see your whole hand”, full visibility
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Succeeding in the “outside world” most of the time is incredibly easier in comparison. I’d guess for most jobs you don’t have to have good intent or good consequences to succeed, you just need to fit in the tribe and not be exiled and look like you’re trying
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(Although that does sound like a recipe for hating your job though, and I certainly don’t endorse it or want to do it myself, but I’d guess it’s honestly probably sufficient at most jobs today)
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I think stuff like this is why it takes thousands of hours. I don’t think it’s a fundamental low-level thing like synapses taking that much time to update or something. I think it’s just really hard and nuanced and takes jumping through a thousand hoops in the right way
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that is, if someone were a prodigy (I’m certainly not) I think they could do it way faster, because the bottleneck is skill
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"...[Y]ou need to become a genius. You need to become brilliant. You will become brilliant, at least along some narrow dimensions, in the course of doing this thing. If you strive for that, relax into it, things will go more smoothly."
meditationbook.page/#64
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wow yeah this screenshot is fantastic
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thank you i am going to very slowly sell people on mark's stuff by linking to bits of it as contextually appropriate like this 😇
I , for some reason , find Mark's stuff incredibly hard to read.
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