Lost everything

It’s when I’m lost everything that I’m free to do anything. That’s right. See, when you loose everything you have you can freely do anything you want. But don’t loose everything you have… yet. Enjoy while it lasts. What we have is not permanent, we can loose some, but we’ll gain some more.

I know that I’m not that special snowflake. I’m just ordinary lazy suburban average guy (that’s what everybody says who they are). But I know I’m unique and so does you. I know what makes us unique, it’s not our appearance cause appearance is temporary. When you change your display image you’re then you’re not so special anymore.

There’s one huge thing that makes our self unique, that separate us from another average person, the one thing that gives us status, one thing that gives us power to be unique. We all have it, right on top of our head. It’s the source of all. Yes, it’s the brain, our mind, our source of intelligence, our smartness. This intelligence level isn’t the same for everyone.

What Does The Brain and Intelligence Have To Do With Uniqueness?

Uniqueness

Of course it’s very related. The way we think is projected on our behavior and personality. Let’s look at the difference of intelligent and dumb person. Don’t get me wrong, cause sometimes the most intelligent person can act dumb too. What makes the difference is they’re aware that they act dumb but that’s what they have to do to reach their goal. But the real dumb person do dumb and silly act every time anytime without realizing and aware of it. They accept that it as their normal behavior. Ironic.

This can be proved every time you meet new person or even your own friends. Just be aware of how they think by what they say. One more time, being silly and dumb or saying something stupid doesn’t judge how dumb that person is. If you often heard words that can enlighten your mind, giving you solution, new ideas or any positive sayings… THAT IS my friend what I called smart. That person doesn’t have to be high status or having high academic achievement although that can be one factor of their smartness.

Oh now you’re gonna judge and put people into two category.. DUMB-SMART, let’s see how SMART YOU ARE by thinking what I’ve said. If you smart enough of course you’ll know what I mean and not digging that information without processing it trough your smart brain.

Smart By Experience

Human brain as belief engine

Some people just don’t have an open mind. What makes people smart besides achieving academic grade is they learn from experience. Of course my reaction or response to one experience isn’t the same as your response to the same experience. If I say my experience of driving a Viper car is the greatest of all because I can’t drive at all but when I’m in viper I just can do it.. that can be different with your response, you may say that’s very-very usual, cause you use Viper everyday or Honda S2000 just to buy vegetables to supermarket. See that? The that experience will carve your mind and the way you behave around expensive car will be different. BUT, if you accept that as one experience that you can learn THEN if someone ask you about it you will tell it as one usual thing and people will amazed to see your behavior.

See, the way people think about one thing can make difference to your behavior. Accept an experience, sometimes we can be too short minded to judge one thing. Being open minded doesn’t mean you always have to accept anything you don’t like or anything that doesn’t suit you but you can always everything good in bad situation or bad choice. So being open minded is don’t judge to quickly and say “oh this is bad, that is bad..”, but saying “although this is looks pretty bad to me, but it is good that.. bla.. bla..”. Small conclusion in this explanation is accept and think one situation although you have to say no or reject it.

Remember, the way you think projected on your behavior and personality. With this alone, you have your own sense of reality. And that’s the difference you and I have on viewing the world.

Experience and Belief

Structure of belief

In this mind, our mind, we collect all record of belief. Belief is defined as mental acceptance of a premise, image, or thought that we held as true, we create this acceptance when we experience one situation, then when we experience that situation like that (at least close to that first situation) once again, we rely on it. We can also create this acceptance without experience one situation first, but we’ll create it based on closest experience we already have. Belief is built in our mind as time goes by as we walk through life. It is the ‘reason’ that we collect when we view one particular event in our life.

Belief is one long topic to explored. But it is one huge thing that limiting us. I’ll talk about this later. I know you don’t get what I mean, so let me explain one extreme example. If I say YOU CAN WALK THROUGH FIRE AND NOT GET BURNED, do you believe it? Yes, because everytime you close to fire you feel hot or even you already burnt. So your belief is.. I CAN’T WALK THROUGH FIRE CAUSE I’LL GET BURNED. That’s what limiting you to walk through fire. BUT, if you clean all your belief and have new belief like I said, you will walk through fire even though you’ll get burned eventually you’ll NOT. This is true, that’s why a person can walk through fire and not get burned or crossed by truck and not crushed. IT IS ALL IN THE MIND..

Josua “Grenseal” Leonard

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