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“Just trying to do the hardest thing of all – to understand”

You have to know what you’re doing and why …

You have to know what you’re doing and why …

November 27, 2016 Nate

– How I found freedom in an unfree world p.28

You have to know what you’re doing and why. The Emotional Trap blinds you to what you’re doing because you can’t see the consequences clearly. And the Intellectual Trap cuts you off from the only important why connected with your actions — knowing that what you’re doing will lead to what you know will create happiness.

To achieve genuine, durable happiness, you have to recognize your emotional nature and intelligently think ahead to create situations that will trigger happy emotions from your unique nature.

Then, when your plans have produced what you wanted, you can disregard your intellect, relax, and just feel. You’ll be able to act spontaneously within that context because you’ve eliminated any possibility of bad consequences.

Then you can allow yourself to be engulfed in a flow of genuine positive emotions. And that’s what life is all about.”


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