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This moring i stumbled upon Sahars post in his Blog, where he put up the question: What is the secret of my success? I really love Sahars posts, because in some way they make me think and often I disagree with him.

But lets see, what is the secret in Sahars eyes! It is the faith in yourself, having a library of pictures of your past where you succeeded and as a consequence, believe in yourself when no one believes in yourself. If you do not believe in yourself, if you do not try and if you do not push, you get no reward. Sahar says he never met someone who excelled at anything without hardwork.

Ok, you might say. This is common believe. So do i. Righty, right. Now comes the contrarian Namewise and simply answers: that is bullshit!

What is the secret then? This is the secret! Everything there is is this. This moment! There is nothing else. All the rest, are stories, concepts and theories. A waste of time and simply an illusion. All this crap with ‘You need goals in your life’ and ‘You need a vision’. All this crap with purpose and sense.

The secret is so obvious, that most of the people cannot see it.

What has the library of the past to do with the right now. Nothing! These are images your brain produces in absence of something else to do. Everything in life happens. Try it out! Try to have no thoughts!

Take some of the most brilliant brains and take your life. I bet that you did not plan what you are doing right now. That simply happend and that is great! Take Markus who created Plenty of Fish in one week and ‘works’ 10 minutes a day. It happend! And others go to work 40 hours a week and … that is also great!

It is simply us that labels a lot of stuff with sticker, that say: bad or good. See the current crisis. See people like Bernie Mad-Off. lol. They start to get greedy and they do not stop. Why? Cause they think, that when they have an extra 10 billion, an extra jet, an extra yacht, they might be more happy. This is simply an illusion. There will never be something else than this.

Concepts are like candy for your rational mind - like doing a crossword puzzle. And for sure they give you a feeling of security. It can be fun to think about them and this is also a part of it but an illusion.

Just my two cent and more food for thought!

 

Greetings from Namewise

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