there is a sneaky way to break flow for another which is to get them thinking. e.g. “nice forehand, do you use your wrist?” the thinking mind always gets in the way and comes up with an incorrect understanding
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the specific thing someone appears to be successful at also often is just the nearest socially accepted label for what the individual really is good at
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“rhythm sense and hand eye motor coordination gooder” isn’t an actual job or identity but tennis player, pianist, starcraft pro, etc… are
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the life story of success is compressed into some form of “hard work and passion” and the life story of lack-of-success is compressed into some variation of “trauma” this is like having only two temperatures “hot” and “cold”
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real life goes through both bc the sensations are relative. the above stories of “passion” and “trauma” are actually the SAME story. the hard work is at its heart an endeavor to conquer the trauma via “passion of christ” dynamics
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one can let the trauma “win” and identify with the static and non-chaotic stable identity of a victim, or constantly “deny Self” and maintain the non-identity of an identity in flux that must always be in the state of overcoming the trauma of simply existing
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this is the real secret to every success. it’s an individual’s specific flavor of trauma that guides their movement through life. it’s not particularly useful for anyone else just like batman or spiderman’s origin stories aren’t helpful in real life
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the solution to being abandoned by parents or dealing with sticky white weblike stuff spurting from the body is rarely, if ever, “become a vigilante fighting for justice”
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