Check your posture through consciousness. Be aware of how you sit while you are working. That's how you make progress.

The Thinking Rhythm Smart People Use

It’s about working with 100% intensity and then resting, because that’s the smartest way to readjust the right parameters in your brain. So you do, then you readjust.

From the outside, this can look a lot like ADHD. But for many problems, it’s actually the correct strategy.

So we live in a universe so beautiful that everyone wants to look at it, and so fascinating that everyone wants to think about it. But is that actually fair?

All our brains, linked together, are a bit like the Matrix. We all work for the whole. We all burn energy just thinking about it.

So tell me: is that fair?

Still, it's better than spending the most valuable thing you have on consultancy.

Maybe you recognize this phase: how you feel is the most important thing in the day. After that, what you think becomes the most important thing in the world.

This is Mother Nature making you an adult. When you have to feed somebody else, suddenly what you feel and think becomes way less important.

Buddhists have messed this up so badly that it takes on hilarious forms. The guy sat under a tree, projected an ego, and still didn’t get the metaphor. Or this one: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." The whole point is that in between, you mess this up. You dwell on how you feel, on what you think, until you are a grown-up.

Things happen live. The happening always comes first.

Some (!) forms of thinking are what happen after the thing happened, so you can learn from it. This means that you can dwell on thoughts and thinking, but some thoughts and thinking are there so you can think about things that already happened. So sometimes there is a point in obsessing over thinking, but not always, since it's a reflection of things that already took place.

What's Mentally Hard About Psychiatry

You have to develop a certain kind of trust that the way you see the world works—and that it doesn't have to be the way everyone else does things. It takes years to build confidence in your own way of thinking and your own strategies.

I still struggle with that sometimes because our society is so used to doing things in one specific way. For example, sitting still and focusing on a computer screen for four hours. For some people, it actually makes more sense to be constantly distracted because that's how they work faster. It's simply a different way of doing things—one that not everyone understands.

When you lose trust in your own brain, you also lose trust in yourself, and that creates an enormous amount of mental stress. Learning that your way can work too is something you have to teach yourself.

You didn't spend one minute looking at how thoughts work inside yourself.

You didn't spend one second feeling where power in your body comes from.

Hint: it's not your brain. The fact that our bodies get messed up when a brain malfunctions doesn't mean that brains are important.

This is the same logical mistake as thinking that if the universe expands, reversing it means it shrinks.

If a universe is a trillion things, then expansion is just one of those trillion things. You can't take one element and reverse the entire process. So you don't really know what happened at the beginning of time.

There has to be an element of not knowing, an unknown factor, and an inability to predict the future. Because if everything were already known when the universe started, it would immediately collapse as a whole—the entire line, from beginning to end.

It's beautiful: the universe does not know everything about itself.