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Driving factors in society for personal growth
Index note stars & planets; personality labels backfire; augmented senses (vision/sound/touch/temperature/pleasure/pain)
Here is another theory thought or an idea:
What do you think about it when you see someone or something or a group which is better, that you think is better. You may want to align yourself to that goal that they inspire within you. However, many a times, it can be that to become that better version of yourself, the things they do, the things they see, the things they feel to become that version of them which inspires you is different than what you would think, what you would do, what you would see, and what you would feel in order to try to become that better version of you when you see them. Ultimately, many a times you might manage to become better, but to truly become that version that equally inspires , the goal and idea that gives strength internally is equally or even more superior in driving the change within you towards that ultimate version you seek of yourself.
In the society, so called ‘stars’ are heavy persona people ( usually the famous popular) among which the world in the vicinity revolves around them, much like a star and planets. They are the influencing people within society that offer such a prospect of growth for the new ones, for the upcoming, for the becoming ones. However, not all are famous, neither all popular are famous if they are infamous. However, from statistical point of view, it only matters on how many people they are influencing within the society, and thinking about how the society evolves with their presence is a good exercise. One way to imagine it as if many small particles or planet follow gravity force of the star particle, however, there can be many ways.
However, to have the same feelings as they would, world looks as if through a very different lens. The view of the person is merely about the nearby things that affect them, which may seem like big, but for the person they are very easy. I want to point this as a note: no things small or big, as small thing may seem significant when looked through one perspective and a big thing may look insignificant when looked through another perspective. Yea, I know everybody knows this already, but still had to write it down in case some didn’t. However, such lemmas in life create lot of confusion and indecision, as no decision is correct because there is always alternate perspective which can be easily obtained in most cases, however, it may as just be difficult to obtain that perspective against the very good of things. But such perspective is easily used to feel good and become better in bad situations, such as “this is life”, “no pain no gain”, e.t.c. Also, all and any experience are equally valued, unless there is a certain feeling within the person to value some experience over other, which is also good because in the end, one can have only unique experience of life, unlike others’. It becomes a matter of personal preference as the mind evolves, some or most may like pleasure, but some learn to like tolerable pain, or the pain which is not felt as pain but something else, so its not the exact same feeling or thing, or can have dynamic preferences. Some may like smoothness in thinking, while some may be prefer rigid stud type feeling, or can be a dynamic changing type. I often don’t like when someone categories people based on this, as this has reverse effect, the definition of classification of a person being type A may program the person itself to behave like the type A definition leading to unconsciously controlled behavior which is modeled by assigned definition. So, in a sense categorizing people by personality types or astrology signs is another of those backfiring tools in the society, which is only useful to accommodate or study the behavior and learn about stuff, change things that didn’t work to make these models better aligned potentially for future stranger interactions.
” A human thinks like ___, so becomes like ___. ”
However, such thing can support development, if it supports development, and can make one align to their goals and finally attain them. You think like one, you become one, you essentially bring out the soul of that idea within you, nurture it, and its reality because ideas are the real things in the universe, ideas only grow in brains. The neural control which must be brought into existence to drive those changes within and then outside can only be brought up when the neural structure (conscious or feeling producing/linked structure) is programmed in certain way, and it sees a certain way. Maybe: Its like sixth-sense, its your thinking capabilities which leads to ‘seeing’ metaphorically in thoughts, much like other senses. And a closer version of it would be augmented senses, like augmented vision, augmented sound, augmented touch, augmented temperature, augmented pleasure, augmented pain, etc. the feelings which are not resulting from commonly associated mechanism from external world, but from stimulated internally through self or externally stimulated through instruments.
So in all, personal growth is much like adding all such interactions, maybe 100s or 1000s of them, then one of them ticks or becomes possible at a time, and it goes on. The desire deeply programmed in brain drives the organism.
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