I feel like a forgotten superpower is the ability to shut off the external world and focus on that which is in your immediate surroundings. For example when you're learning something, people get crippled by the idea that they will never reach a certain amount of knowledge. What you need to do instead is forget the world and then for the moment the one page you're reading is the totality of the universe. Say you're reading a language textbook and there are 10 new words on that page. When you've learned those 10 words you've learned all there is to know in the world. It might be the same thing with self-improvement. You might have a mountain of problems you need to fix. But when you think of that mountain you're getting nowhere. Instead you need to look at this one day, is there just one thing I can do where I have an option to do it in either of two ways, where one will be an improvement and the other won't, and then you do the former, and you've done all that could be done in that space.
>>526150914>a forgotten superpowerit's not forgotten.people just grow up and don't need to turn the world off to feel content/happy/safe/zen any longer.
>>526151030Totally not getting it.
I don't mean not caring about politics. I mean concentration. Focus. Focusing on the things which you have right before you and forgetting everything else. There's nothing whatsoever immature about that. But it's something most people seem bad at doing. It's always comparing yourself to others. Comparing what you have now to what might be. Etc. If anything that is immature, to lack the ability to shut that off.
>>526151030>safeYeah, as I said, totally not getting it. I'm not talking about feeling safe, I'm not talking about fear of war, crime etc. I'm talking about how people think they can't learn anything, and think it's hard to learn, because they're constantly extrapolating into the world beyond what they're actually experiencing.
>>526151030ngginggyungglyd
>>526150914you're right and this is my current struggle. I am a NEET right now and living off a rapidly diminishing savings account. I am trying to learn spanish and apply for jobs and work out so I don't hate myself in the future for wasting this time.But every time I try to do something I am crippled by a fear of failure or imperfection. I literally leave my family and (two remaining) freinds on read for days because I can't decide what to type and I get frozen up.I drink a lot of alcohol, smoke weed (trying to do that less) and take pills like pregabalin but nothing seems to work. I am getting old and scared I will fail
>>526150914very true words
>>526150914People are too distracted. People believe life is meaningless and consciousness is a cosmic accident. Few people can cultivate the ability now to just be at peace and appreciate the gift of being alive. This used to come more naturally in pre-industrial societies
If anything maturity is the ability to stop needless extrapolation and conjecturing.
>>526152548I guess so. That's interesting. I think it's a powerful thing to know that you don't actually know that anything exists beyond the content of your consciousness in the present moment. If you look out the window and see some cars for example, you don't actually know that there are cars there, all you know is that the image of cars is in your mind.
>>526153272>If you look out the window and see some cars for example, you don't actually know that there are cars there, all you know is that the image of cars is in your mind.I know that there are cars there because of previous life experiences I can recall of touching, hearing and driving cars. Memories validate observations. If I see a flash of colour or a black blob in my vision I know I am probably hallucinating from tiredness or drugs. Not everything you see is equally valid.
>>526150914>>526151772You share nourishing words in a time of constant digital inundation. For that you deserve a bump as proof of sentiment well-received, but I nothing more to add to this
>>526150914Good thread
>>526150914Hitler would approve of your mentality.
