The center of the bell curve of humanity is *incredibly* finely grained, sorted, graded, and classified into tiny cells where each person can feel a sense of industrial predestination and chosenness.
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I'm not exactly sure why I'm down this bunnytrail (it's related to, but not the same as, the mediocrity bunnytrail). Ordinariness is more basic. Seeking it reveals a completist attitude to the territory of being. Something like trying to perversely visit every lighthouse in US
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Ordinariness is the Big Data view of yourself. It’s all in scope. Another example: we view relationships through the lens of “special” aspects. But an ordinary view of a relationship is simply “all the time spent entangled together”. Not just the highlights reel of specialness
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FWIW a helpful way I've learned to think about specialness is to think of it as "individualness" - you can't fail at possessing a unique combination and, even if not expressed that way, you have the capability to possess singularly unique experience and pov
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I think my point is that specialness is not special to begin with, not worth as much of a premium focus in self-exploration at all. Focusing on your specialness is like being a tourist in your own psyche only visiting the Eiffel towers.
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