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Be Extraordinary: How to Believe in Yourself When You Don’t Feel Worthy “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” –Aristotle What do you do when you realize that you’re nothing more than a story you’ve been telling yourself? I’ll tell you: You make that story as interesting and extraordinary as possible. That’s it. That’s all you need. Now get out there and retell/rewrite your story. Not enough for you? Okay then. The trick to hacking your way out of the Labyrinth of Unworthiness is to “act” like your worthy. Eventually, your acting worthy will make you worthy. It’s akin to the expression, “Fake it till you make it.” Or, “Practice makes perfect.” You might “feel” unworthy but if you “act” like you’re worthy then you WILL be worthy. Still not enough for you? Okay. Imagine a first-time firefighter standing outside a burning building with a baby inside, and the building is about to collapse. The firefighter is going to “feel” fear, but if he doesn’t “act” with courage then that baby will die. So he trumps his feeling of fear with an act of courage. He felt fear but acted courageously. Similarly, we can feel unworthy but act worthy. The intent is the thing: if our intent is good, then even if the result is bad our conscience will be clear. The action is the thing: if we act with courage, then even if we fail we can still be proud. The journey is the thing: if we enjoy the ride, then it becomes primary and the destination becomes secondary. Charlie Chaplain said it best, “Smile though your heart is aching.” There’s a Greek word, métis, which is a quality that combines wisdom and cunning. This quality was considered to be highly admirable in ancient Athens. Metis was the Greek Goddess who gave Zeus the potion that caused Cronus to vomit out Zeus’ siblings. Metis was also the mother of Athena, goddess of wisdom and courage. The mythology plays out like this: Zeus became aware of a prophecy that his and Metis’ progeny would one day overthrow him. After coitus, Zeus tricks Metis into transforming into a fly at which time he promptly swallows her. But he’s too late. Metis is already pregnant with Athena and burrows herself into his brain. Then Hephaestus splits Zeus’ head open with an axe at the river Triton, and Athena leaps out fully grown. Métis is the emergence of wisdom from the coalescence of unconscious and conscious energies. But I say it is more than just that. It is a higher state of cunning, a magical cunning, an exceedingly astute meta-wit. It is uncanny creativeness personified. It is neither explicit nor implicit. It is both, somehow: eximplicit, if you will. It’s an almost god-like awareness and sensitivity toward the all-pervasive medium, the “water,” in which we are immersed, and the all-encompassing “fishbowl” in which we are bound. It is an ancient sly orientation with reality and a cosmic wisdom all wrapped up in the capacity to understand that we are beings of limited capacity and rampant fallibility. It subsumes self-actualization, individuation and enlightenment, not merely as means to an end but as ends in themselves. Like Metis planting herself in Zeus’ head, our ability to act courageous in the face of fear, calm in the face of rage or worthy in the face of unworthiness, is our ability to choose to be extraordinary despite feeling ordinary. It’s the ability to tap into our own “magical cunning,” our inner-métis. If, as Kurt Vonnegut said, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be,” then it behooves us to pretend to be extraordinary. It behooves us to allow ourselves to be worthy, especially when we are feeling worthless. It takes some counterintuitive thinking, and perhaps some crown-chakra meditation, but it is possible. Pretend you’re courageous by acting courageous and, guess what? You’re suddenly courageous. Keep practicing it. Keep trumping sadness with happiness, hate with love, paranoia with pronoia, jealousy with compersion. Trick your self into a higher self. Fake it until you make it. Eventually you won’t even have to fake it at all, for you will have subsumed the process. You’ll find, as Alan Watts did, that you’re no longer a victim of the world, you ARE the world. Image Source: Extra-ordinary Be Extraordinary Athena-Metis Counter-intuitive Comments I just discovered your writing. I love it and totally get it. It is exactly the frequency I’m looking for. I look forward to reading much more! Thank you! Its disheartening to see western authors take an Indian theory of karma and bottle it as Greek wine. Krishna proclaims “you are responsible for the action, not the fruits of it”.. Author should do wider research before quoting Aristotle and illustrating Greek gods. I really enjoyed this post. I was just watching Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body language and faking it til you make it. http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are You have it in your power to be a better or the best version of you in the next moment. You aren’t incomplete. Also, you are not today what you shall become. You are still growing, evolving, learning, becoming stronger, becoming wiser, becoming kinder. Thanks for sharing. This is a great way of looking at things.
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Budite Izvanredno: Kako Vjerujte u sebe kada se ne osjećate Worthy "Mi smo ono što smo u više navrata učiniti. Nadmoćnost, onda, nije čin, ali navika. "-Aristotle Što učiniti kada ste shvatili da ste ništa više od priče koju ste sami sebi? Ja ću ti reći: Ti bi tu priču kako je zanimljiv i izvanredno što je više moguće. To je to. To je sve što vam je potrebno. Sada se tamo i prepričati / prepisati svoju priču. Not enough for you? Okay then. Trik za sjeckanje svoj put iz labirinta nedostojnosti je "ponašati" kao tvoja vrijedna. Kona?no, Vaše djelovanje dostojan učinit će vas dostojan. To je slično izražavanje, "Lažni ga dok ti to napraviti." Ili, "Praksa čini savršenom." Možda "osjetiti" nedostojnim, ali ako "ponašati" kao da ste vrijedni onda će biti dostojan. Još uvijek nije dovoljno za vas? U redu. Zamislite prvi put vatrogasac stoji ispred zgrade u plamenu s djetetom unutar, a zgrada je o do kolapsa. Vatrogasci će "osjetiti" strah, ali ako on ne "djelovati" s hrabrošću onda će beba umrijeti. Tako je adut mu osjećaj straha s činom hrabrosti. Osjetio je strah, ali je djelovao odvažno. Sli?no, možemo osjećati nedostojnim, ali djeluje vrijedno. Namjera je stvar: Ako je naša namjera je dobra, onda čak i ako je rezultat loše naša savjest će biti jasno. Akcija je stvar: Ako djelujemo hrabro, onda čak i ako ne uspijemo mi još uvijek možemo biti ponosni. Putovanje je stvar: Ako ćemo uživati u vožnji, onda postaje primarna i sekundarna odredište postaje. Charlie kapelan to najbolje rekao, "Smile iako vaše srce bolan." Tu je grčka riječ, melez, što je kvaliteta koja kombinira mudrost i lukavost. Ova kvaliteta se smatra vrlo divljenja u drevnoj Ateni. Godišnjica je grčka božica koji je dao Zeus napitak koji je izazvao Cronus povraćati iz Zeusa’ braća i sestre. Metis je i majka Athena, božica mudrosti i hrabrosti. Mitologija igra ovako: Zeus je postao svjestan da je njegova proročanstva i Metis 'potomstvo jednog dana ga svrgnuti. Nakon koitusa, Zeus Ukoliko Metis u pretvarajući se u letu nakon čega je odmah ju guta. Ali on je prekasno. Metis je već trudna s Atene i sama probije u mozak. Zatim Hefest dijeli Zeusov glavu otvoren sa sjekirom u rijeku Triton, a Atena skače iz pune veličine. Metis je pojava mudrosti iz stapanja nesvjesnih i svjesnih energija. Ali ja kažem da je više od toga. To je viši stupanj lukavosti, čarobni lukavi, izuzetno lukav meta-wit. To je jezovit kreativnosti personificiran. To nije ni eksplicitno ni implicitno. To je ujedno, nekako: eximplicit, ako ho?e. To je gotovo kao Božje svijesti i osjetljivosti prema sveprožimajuće medija, "Voda,"U koji smo uronjeni, i sveobuhvatni "Fishbowl" u kojem smo dužni. To je drevni lukava orijentacije sa stvarnošću i kozmička mudrost sve to upakirano u sposobnosti da shvatite da smo bića ograničenih kapaciteta i neobuzdanog pogrešivost. To uključuje u sebi samoostvarenja, individuacije i prosvjetljenje, ne samo kao sredstvo za postizanje cilja, ali kako završava u sebi. Kao Metis sama sadnju u Zeusov glavi, naša sposobnost da djeluje hrabro u lice straha, mirno u lice bijesa ili vrijedno u lice nedostojnosti, je naša sposobnost da se odlučite da se izvanredno unatoč osjećaj obična. To je sposobnost da taknite u vlastitom "magične prepredenosti,"Naš unutarnji-Metis. Ako, kao Kurt Vonnegut, rekao je, "Mi smo ono što smo i pretvarati se da, tako da moramo biti oprezni o tome što ćemo se pretvarati da,"Onda nam dolikuje da se pretvaraju da su izvanredni. To nam dolikuje da se dopustiti da biti dostojan, pogotovo kada se osjeća bezvrijedno. Potrebno je malo kontraproduktivno razmišljanje, a možda i neke Kruna-čakra meditacija, ali je moguće. Pretvarajte se da ste hrabri djelujući hrabro i, pogodite što? Vi ste iznenada hrabri. Držite ga trenirao. Držite trumping tugu sa srećom, mrzim s ljubavlju, paranoja s Pronija, ljubomornim compersion. Zavaravanja sebe u višim ja. Lažni ga dok ga ne bi. Na kraju nećete ni morati varanje na sve, za što će se svesti na proces. Vi ćete, kao Alan Watts učinio, da si više ne žrtva svijetu, Vi ste u svijetu. Izvor slike: Izvanrednu Budite Izvanredno Atena-Metis Counter-intuitivna Komentari I just discovered your writing. I love it and totally get it. It is exactly the frequency I’m looking for. I look forward to reading much more! Hvala! Its disheartening to see western authors take an Indian theory of karma and bottle it as Greek wine. Krishna proclaims “you are responsible for the action, not the fruits of it”.. Author should do wider research before quoting Aristotle and illustrating Greek gods. I really enjoyed this post. I was just watching Amy Cuddy’s TED talk about body language and faking it til you make it. http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are You have it in your power to be a better or the best version of you in the next moment. You aren’t incomplete. Tako?er, you are not today what you shall become. You are still growing, evolving, učenje, becoming stronger, becoming wiser, becoming kinder. Hvala za sudjelovanje. This is a great way of looking at things.