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    1.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      Only by constantly being aware is your pattern pure and unique. Like balancing a ball in your hand. You can't robotically move your hand following an algorithm and actually balance the thing.

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    2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      Balancing is something you can spend 10,000 hours on. Think that tightrope walker across the twin towers. To balance well means to understand your world well enough that you can see the precise direction everyone is coming from.

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    3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      A shitty balancer can only distinguish between "bad" and "good". Like a driver who can only turn in 180% degree jerks left and right.

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    4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      The more fine grained your balancing, the more you see those who are "near" you in resonance. You can convert slight-enemies into friends and overtime convert even the most hateful into a friend.

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    5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      E.g. I see someone stabbed a spear at me but it seemed halfhearted and was purposely aiming for my shield. I too don't want to kill the guy. We recognize our similarity because we were both sensitive enough to feel this. Vs blindly following 'kill the enemy!'.

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    6.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      It's what makes japanese culture so interesting as well. The tendency to go so deep into small niche subjects and discover so much more about them than we thought possible. In a world where we squeeze out all the magic (to sell) they find divinity in the mundane.

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    7.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      Specialization is necessary to the point where you understand what high balance is and the amount of work it takes to have it. If you've never 'mastered' something, it's probably because you've never pushed through difficulty. Instead flitting from novel hobby to novel hobby.

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    8.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      You get frustrated whenever the small subtle details start appearing, when your motivation is strained. Getting a perfect body & math are two common scenarios where you decide *not* to push through the difficulty.

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    9.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      The experience of having pushed through a seemingly impossible barrier is a rite of passage to demonstrate knowledge of the subtle. It's why olympic athletes and war heroes and great CEOs and politicians often have a similar 'feel' to them. They're all doing the same 'job'.

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    10.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      Power lies in seeing the subtle differences between everything. To recognize each moment as unique rather than fall into "power saving mode" and lump your life into a blob.

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       🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

      Imagine yourself balanced on a boulder balanced on a pyramid. Imagine the high accuracy and rate of micro adjustments you'd need to do to balance. If that's not a situation you can imagine yourself in. You need to get better.

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        2.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

          e.g. you have to know what your personal max of 'rate of consciousness' is and be striving to improve it. You can say that deadlifting 10 times your body weight is a stupid goal b/c people don't need that much strength but the same can't be said for consciousness.

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        3.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

          The reason strength isn't as valued anymore is because it no longer protects. Someone who can use a gun is valued more b/c of the stronger ability to protect. Same for financial skills. Or friendliness.

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        4.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

          You have to get so good at something through such a long and arduous path that you see that EVERYTHING around you has similar depth. There'd no way to master everything. Knowing your knowledge will never amount to anything is what gives existence mystery and depth.

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        5.  🐈‏ @a_yawning_cat 19 Aug 2020

          The human body has a limit on its strength. It can't ever lift a million times its body weight. Does consciousness? High levels of consciousness seem to feel like slow motion in the moment, but on reflection seem like a blur. Can one moment strength into infinity?

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