Embrace being Delusional

Being delusions always gets a bad rap, right? Nobody wants to be bad at accessing reality right. Nobody wants to be delusional in the first place. In reality however, being delusional is one of the single greatest sources of energy for your life. One of the best things you can decide to indulge in. If you only bite enough as you can chew, you will never improve your bite. Without a sprinkle of delusion, we mentally lock ourselves away from reaching our true potential. We learn to bite better and chew more, and that's important. I am convinced hell is a a place. Where you just hang out with the dude you could have become, but hesitated. Realizing the differences and the many small bad choices build up over a lifetime which made you not live up to your potential. That is true hell. Getting to know the person you could have become. You Quit. You doubted. Yourself. Second guessed too much. Didn't listen to your inner voice. Ignored your stomach feel. Didn not follow through with your own principles. Didn't walked the extra mile. Or when walking the extra mile at a stupid competition where it wasn't needed. We castrate ourselves and we think: I am not able to do what these other people are doing. It hurts to watch.


That's part of your shadow dragging you down from your true potential. A myth you tell yourself. It's a lie. Don't fall for it. The people who are considered "the greats" had an immense amount of self-delusion. If you don't, nothing ambitious would ever be started. Too much risk, what if I fail. I could go bankrupt, what will the neighbors think. No scientific paradigm shifts, no company, no product, no service, no great piece of art that changes the world, no nothing nada. Just our default potato mode. Ether, you have a sense of delusion to get started and believe you have any chance of succeeding in the first place. Or you don't. Stay in your line, walk save circles around the same routes in your life and your potential lies dormant.


Don't get me wrong, I hear people state I am not special; I am not like the other people. I can't do this. I am not like you. I can't do x. Yes, you can and yes you can't. The person saying ether thing is usually right. It's just this sprinkle of delusional thinking, which is missing for you. Takes a split second to make the decision. Which builds momentum enough order to have stability and at the same time embracing enough chaos to make it count. To excel, with trial and error to excellence. Don't do that to yourself. The self-limiting believes, vanish them with a sparkle of madness a sense of healthy delusional thinking. Don't tell yourself you can't do the challenging thing. You can. I can't carry you there, others also not. The impulse must come from you, and you alone, but you can.


Think about your life. To remember the easy tasks, jobs, or duties does that happen often to you. I forget about them quite with ease. The toughest thinks I did. I am the proudest of. They create lasting memories. Don't get wrong. The delusional spark will invite suffering in your life. There will be considerable suffering and pain achieving something worthwhile, something to be proud of. Without pain, there is no gain. Building the courage and delusion to take these calls for greatness head on, with a smile. Is a damn superpower if you ask me. It's lived resilience, and it's teachable. For the most part even self-taught.


Stop wasting time thinking you aren't "the chosen one". Don't waste your lifetime feeling you can't, you lack competence, or privilege or whatever excuse your thoughts act here often as stoppers of momentum. With another thought, another doubt. You are just making reasons up to why you aren't on the track, that's all. You should be running with full speed up a hill where you dream life waits for you to be enjoyed. Free yourself from doubts. Don't ask for permission from anyone. Be delusional. Just do it.


Do or die. 8o


Take care,

Able


Ps: Stuart Vyse wrote even a whole book about positive effects of delusion, and he is a behavior scientist he should know: "The Uses of Delusion: Why It's Not Always Rational to Be Rational