Minimalist.me

We must learn what’s already known, and build upon that. Every once in a while we should reeval­u­ate the foun­da­tions and ques­tion what we know. Thought is an evo­lu­tion process. The ideas with the most fit­ting answers (or enough belief to have blind faith), sur­vive. While oth­ers die off. So a hint of truth is gen­er­ally in all sur­viv­ing beliefs. New ideas must be pre­sented and com­bined with cur­rent ideas or else human­ity will always be on the same level.

Alot of peo­ple are scared of new ideas. Can you peg it as scared? No they can’t com­pre­hend the idea of not under­stand­ing an envi­ron­ment in the same way. Same stage, mood change audi­ence. We mark off peo­ple with rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent ideas as insane, but look how often we have been wrong. The sane peo­ple are really insane by not lis­ten­ing to “insan­ity”. They will bend and shape the way the world works to fit their view. Sci­ence does it, Reli­gion does it, humans do it naturally.

It’s hard to tell the dif­fer­ence between a prophet and crack pot.

It is impos­si­ble to sep­a­rate our­selves from our ego. We can become dis­tant and emo­tional detached of the out­come, and eval­u­ate our posi­tion like that. Still the per­cep­tion is one of ego.

This is the way it is meant to be. The only lim­i­ta­tion we have is a point of view, and that we base real­ity on that point of view. Which is crazy because no one else has that exact point of view.

So our lim­i­ta­tion is our view-point, yet there remains a loop­hole; our imag­i­na­tion. Our imag­i­na­tion is cul­tur­ally bound to limit orig­i­nal­ity, so this is too much over looked. How­ever our brains are pow­er­ful enough to cre­ate orig­i­nal thought, and thus cre­ate new per­cep­tions and real­i­ties. The stage stays the same, but the audi­ence has mood changes.

It’s easy to put down your own ego to feel hum­ble, but in all real­ity you are feed­ing your ego. There is no sep­a­ra­tion, you must for­get your ego; yet remem­ber what it can do to your thought process.

Don’t make goals, make direc­tions.
Every step for­ward is a step worth cel­e­brat­ing.
Stuff doesn’t mat­ter.
Dance, just do it.
Music can be replayed in your head.
Dwell on what you enjoy.
Mod­er­a­tion.
Pro­duce more, con­sume less.
Be the change.
Speak in Cliché.
Speak to your­self.
Speak to no one.
Be no one.
Be every­one.
Be who you want to be.
Dis­re­gard rude­ness.
Cut out the fat.
Don’t do what you feel you shouldn’t.
Some­times you must.
Do it well then.
Fail. Learn.
Think. Do.
If. Be.

Women are emo­tional, men are logical.

I am sex­ist. To the very core I am sex­ist. We func­tion dif­fer­ently, and that is okay. How­ever in mod­ern soci­ety, it is easy for these func­tions to be dys­func­tional and be a dis­ad­van­tage to both sexes; con­sid­er­ing our bod­ies are nat­u­rally respond­ing to unnat­ural stim­uli. The biggest dif­fer­ence between men and women is that women base actions on emo­tion, while men base actions on logic. This causes women to seem over emo­tional to us at ran­dom moments, while men seem to lack emo­tion even at appro­pri­ate times.

A lot of men are emotional.

As a man, I suf­fer no short­age of emo­tions. I almost feel as if I am cursed to be more emo­tional than other men, but I have encoun­tered many men who feel the same way. Well guess what? It is a weak­ness. We do have an advan­tage of really expe­ri­enc­ing life, but we also expose our­selves to the enemy; that is the enemy and women. I recently started pay­ing atten­tion to how guys use emoti­cons, and I real­ized how much it exposes you. This may not seem like a big deal and it might seem like I am stereo­typ­ing manly men, but think about it.

So emo­tions are bad?

Women do not want an overly sen­si­tive man, as much as they wish you would relate more to them. This is not to say that expos­ing your emo­tions is always wrong, far from it. Show­ing your true emo­tions and being vul­ner­a­ble at the right time is pow­er­ful. How­ever typ­ing in an emoti­con to show your emo­tion, is actu­ally going out-of-the-way to tell peo­ple how you feel.  This sub­con­sciously affects women in a neg­a­tive way. Is it a huge deal? Not most of the time. How­ever if you already have a prob­lem with women, it may be one thing you should try cut­ting back on.  The key to remem­ber is that show­ing your emo­tions is attrac­tive, going out of your way to show your emo­tion isn’t (Espe­cially if it is to just any­one.); since it really just rep­re­sents the need for atten­tion, which trans­lates to being needy (We don’t even need to cover why that is bad.).

Okay, any­thing else?

As an addi­tion to cut­ting out emoti­con usage, I sug­gest you prac­tice writ­ing in more effec­tive ways. Effec­tive writ­ing will relay your emo­tion much bet­ter since women are so in tuned to emo­tion. This will come off as more sin­cere, instead of show­ing what emo­tion you are feel­ing, she will just feel it.

So why should every­one give up emoticons?

Effec­tive writ­ing works well with both men and women. Shar­ing your feel­ings in this way will cre­ate a much stronger bond, since you have to work to relate.  Which would make you feel closer to some­one? Two “=)” smiles exchanged to show both are happy, or hear­ing why some­one is doing well (with­out even hav­ing to say they are doing well.).

Con­clu­sion

While emoti­cons aren’t inher­ently bad, the state of com­mu­ni­ca­tion is. With short atten­tion spans, we try to deliver con­tent as rapid as pos­si­ble; so why not state the emo­tion in a flash. These emoti­cons are dis­tant from any real con­nec­tion. A few smi­ley faces here and there won’t hurt, but I rather aim to get the other per­son to show a happy emoticon.