🗡 Paper cut

Emerson said “No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.”

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Your mind is the worst place for serious thinking.

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The first step is to get the whole wrestling match out of your head and on a piece of paper.

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A place where you can walk around it and see if from all sides.

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Attack.

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Switch sides and counter attack.

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You can’t do that while it’s still in your head.

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By externalizing your thoughts, you become your own teacher.

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You can judge yourself, give feedback, and provide a more objective perspective.

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When it’s in your head, it’s tainted with discrimination.

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Because the mind is constantly filling itself with delusion.

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Paper progressively strips away the false, leaving only what is true.

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It requires more subtraction and unlearning than learning.

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A process of deprogramming.

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Who you (think) you are is the only thing standing in the way.

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