5 Powerful Ideas That Will Shake You

These ideas will make you think about the most important things in life.

Some of these ideas make you introspect and ponder about life. We go from day to day without giving much thought to these ideas. Remembering these ideas will keep us grounded and see the bigger picture.

We remember these things only once in a while. That once in a while is now so pay attention.

1. You Are Alone, The Others are Just an Idea

We have a delusion that we are with other people. Close friends, family, spouse, kids, etc. However, we are alone. How can we be sure that everything that we see around us is not a simulation? What does real even mean?

Have you seen the movie The Matrix? It looks more like a documentary than a Hollywood movie. While the story in The Matrix might be fiction, you can compare it with your life and feel the similarities.

We don’t know why we are on this planet, who made the planet, and what the universe is all about. It could be an experiment the aliens are doing on one of the billions of planets in this galaxy. We have theories but we are not even close to understanding the nature of our consciousness and our perception of this world.

2. Gratitude and Positive Thinking is the Life Boat

Does our mind create the universe, or does the universe create the mind? Science says that the universe was created in the big bang and then galaxies and planets were made and then human life appeared and the brain created the mind. But it still cannot explain why the Big Bang happened or who intended it to happen.

As I go deeper into meditation, I am leaning towards the science of individual perception. My perception is what creates the universe. Your perception creates your universe. Our universes overlap with each other to create inter-subjective realities. There is no such thing as a fixed reality. Because there is no objective observer in this universe. Everyone is a subject and we only have subjective views of the world.

We have the option to see the world in a positive way and it will make our world positive. We can choose to see the negative and it will make our world view negative. You can either be excited about AI, the Internet, and Bitcoin or you can worry about toxic feminism, conflicts, and nasty geopolitics. We are what we choose to see.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” - Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

So learn to see the positive in every life situation. It might not look positive when it is happening, but in retrospect, you can change the way you look at it and heal your past. Life is harsh, but it need not be if you choose to see the positive.

3. Wealth is for Freedom, Not Stuff

We often think that success is accumulating a lot of wealth. But we think that people who show their wealth are wealthy, but they might not be. Some people have wealth and they don’t buy stuff with it. They buy freedom with their wealth. When they buy freedom, you don’t see those people because they are not buying stuff (car, house, and other fancy stuff).

Now what is your goal? To have stuff or to have freedom? You need to desire to be the person who is happy, healthy and has the freedom to pursue what he wants in life. Not the person who looks successful to other people.

If the goal is to have freedom, don’t make freedom the price of another trivial goal. Everything has a price. Time is limited. You have one life. Don’t be a sheep and wake up. Decide what you truly want and need. Not what others think you should be wanting.

4. The Price of Today is Too High

If you want something now, you are paying for it with your future. This is true in personal life and in business. If you want to enjoy life right now, your cost is 100x more because the money saved can be invested and can grow 100x in 20 years.

Most people are consumers. They want branded products. They want to buy their dream car. The cost of it is too high. They have to work harder 10 years later on things that they don’t enjoy because they didn’t invest in the future. Sacrifice 10 years of your life and live as frugally as you can. Focus on your health so that you can feel young in the future and can have the same life experience that you could have today.

5. They Don’t See What You See

Most of the conflicts between humans happen because of a difference of perspectives. They don’t see what you see because they are seeing it from a different place.

Trying to change people to see things your way is an uphill task. The easier task is to see things their way. Understand what they are going through. Join hands with people who see things your way. Ignore the rest.

I hope you liked reading this post as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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And leave your comments because I want to know what you think about these ideas.