“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” — John Lennon
“What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
“Don’t do what you can do. Try what you can’t do.” — William Faulkner
“Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.” — Michael Jordan
“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” — Rumi
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh
Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and the present, and to mistrust the future. — [@markaurelMeditations2006]
“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.” — Ayn Rand
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — [@hillThinkGrowRich2021]
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner
“They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called ‘work’ in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking ‘outside the box’; and when they die they are put in a box. All boxes, Euclidean, geometrically smooth boxes.” — [@talebBedProcrustesPhilosophical2016]
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” — Frida Kahlo
“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?” — [@markaurelMeditations2006]
“Pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don’t magnify them in your imagination.” — [@markaurelMeditations2006]
“Ask how something can be done rather than say it can’t be done.” — Bo Bennett
“We ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.” — Ellen Goodman
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” — Michelangelo
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale
Self-limiting beliefs/stories, Self-sabotaging behaviors, etc.
Know your limits but never stop trying to exceed them.
The only limits in life are…
- the ones we create for ourselves.
- the laws of physics.
Two of the biggest impediments to life change:
- Emotion: We’re all emotional creatures. We’re so close to everything in our own lives that it’s often hard to remove emotions from our decisions.
- Inaction: It’s always easier to maintain the status quo. It’s a constant fight with yourself to take action when inaction is far less risky and painful.
跨越心理制約的框架
- Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.
- Don’t cage yourself. You are capable of much more than you could imagine. You are much more than what you perceive yourself to be. Don’t be the one to tell yourself no.
- Always think big [@schwartzMagicThinkingBig1987]—when you think big and lose, you often grow more than when you think small and win.
Master Shi Heng Yi – 5 hindrances to self-mastery 1
- “The universal law of being successful and happy at the same time means finding the balance.”
- “There are 2 mistakes along the way to Mastery: Not starting it, and not going all the way.”
- 5 Hindrances
- Sensual desire (pleasures & distractions)
- from the five gates of the body:
- Seeing
- Hearing
- Smelling
- Tasting (口腹之慾)
- Feeling
- from the five gates of the body:
- Ill-will (aversion & negative thoughts)
- Slothful body & mind (lack of energy/motivation, heaviness of body, dullness of mind)
- Restlessness (unsettled/monkey mind)
- Regret about the past
- Worry about the future
- Unable to stay in the present
- Skeptical doubt (indecisiveness)
- Sensual desire (pleasures & distractions)
- How to remove these hindrances?
- Recognize (what state of mind you’re in)
- Accept & Acknowledge (the situations and people to be the way as it is/they are)
- Just let it rain
- Investigate (your emotional & mental state)
- Observe the sensation and ask yourself:
- “Why did it come up?”
- “What is the consequence if I remain in this state?”
- Observe the sensation and ask yourself:
- Non-Identification
- Practice “I’m not the body, I’m not the mind, I’m not my emotion, I can just see all these 3 aspects about me.”
後照鏡症候群 ＝ Rearview Mirror Syndrome, RMS
- 我們的潛在心理都有一面「自我設限」的後視鏡，透過這面鏡子，我們會下意識地重複依賴並複製我們過去，誤以為過去的我們就是現在的我們。這導致我們一直被過去所侷限，而限制了我們現在真正的潛力 (We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our true potential in the present)
- 例如，我們想創造更好的人生，卻不知道如何「用不同於過去的方式」去改變它，而不斷地把昨天的恐懼和擔憂帶到今天。最糟糕的是，當機會來臨時，我們立刻檢視後視鏡，用過去的經驗和能力來評估自己，認為「我以前從未做過這種事」、「我還不到那個水平」，所以「我做不到」
- 後照鏡思維 (以「過去」為起點) → 倒序推理思維 (以「未來」為起點)
“The Psychology of Future Self / The ‘End of History’ Illusion” by Dan Gilbert
- Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished.
- People tend to underestimate how much they will change in the future, despite knowing how much they have changed over time.
- We somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we’ll be for the rest of time. (Hint: This is not the case!)
- The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting, and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been.
- The only constant in life is change.
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Footnotes
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