The great challenge today is to remove ambiguity from your mind, actions, and beliefs. Your daily thoughts can harbour ambiguous thinking. Your daily actions can enforce erroneous habits. And your daily routines can enhance errant beliefs.
Ambiguous thinking is murky, muddled, and vacuous. In this state you will allow - even demand - that others do your thinking for you. Today the prime candidates are government who urge you to fear Climate Change, covid-19, inequity [unequal outcomes in life], deviants [the unvaccinated], and all forms of independent thought [ideas that break the mould of "group think"].
Erroneous habits are based on strict rules. It is an erroneous habit to restrict your food intake to follow any prescribed diet. It is an erroneous habit to walk 10000 steps per day everyday just to feel that you have achieved some measure of physical fitness. It is an erroneous habit to take "selfies" and post them on a social media platform. It is an erroneous habit to brag about material possessions.
Errant beliefs are based are often based on utopian ideals. It is an errant belief to imagine that Climate Change will become inert by the actions of those who script International Treaties [Paris Accord and all those that preceded it]. It is an errant belief to have faith in collective behaviour that leads you to forgo you most essential need [an independent sense of self].
Richard.
My mind as a minimalist is developed on a unique sense of what I call minimal-you which, in turn, is based on individual needs not collective wants. For instruction on how to establish your sense of you: go to minimal-you.com and hit the "become a minimalist" button in the banner heading. This will take you to a payment scheme for a 10 day programme that will teach you how to design, enforce, and live with mind filters: these help you to be the best person you can be.
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