Stay alone. Get bored. Talk to yourself. Write. Discover what you really think when you are the only audience. Constant connectivity is the biggest enemy of original thought. Disconnect. Disappear.
Treat ideas like clothes. Try them. See if they fit. Discard them when they no longer serve the purpose. Separate the ideas from the person. Strip ideas to their core. Reject processed ideas. Consume them raw. Test. Observe. Unlearn. Update.
Let go of biases. Let go of attachments. Let go of the fear of being proven incorrect, being proven stupid, getting isolated. Welcome being wrong. The level of criticism you can take without defending yourself is the degree of your maturity.
Sit with uncertainty. Thinking starts at discomfort. Think. Read. Speak your heart. If you can’t say it, you don’t understand it. Teaching others is an even better way of learning.
Don’t assume conclusions. Don’t borrow convictions. Step outside the scene to understand it. Free yourself of concepts that bind you. Separate yourself from the labels that society uses to define you. Do not let your opinions become your identity.
You are not your profession. You are not your money, not your country, not your religion, not your family name. You are neither the story you keep telling yourself nor the version of you that society wants you to be.
Strip it all away. Your beliefs. Your past. Your trauma. Your achievements.
Strip it all away and ask what remains.
That. That remainder. That which quietly watches all of it come and go without becoming any of it.
That’s worth knowing.
But it’s highly unlikely that you’ll ever get there. Not because it’s hidden. But because the stripping away is uncomfortable. And society keeps handing you new things to wear.
It seems that what I read is what I seriously needed to read. Thanks