When you're not taking a risk, what really is happening is you are not willing to accept the potential loss. So... there is nothing you need to change while thinking. Thoughts come automatically. It is what you do with them that counts. So ASSESS thoughts, be willing to take whatever negative things come up to you and DECIDE that you will do this no matter what.
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http://www.mysterymethod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24638&highlight=Cartography+Hell
"The models we build are tools, that is their evolutionary purpose, and that is the evolutionary value of them. Otherwise they are just thought patterns that bounce around inside a person's head, and of no use to anyone. Thoughts that do not help you to interact with the real world have no benefit in helping you to survive, or to reproduce. This means that evolutionarily, they are dead ends."
If your thoughts bring you closer to accomplishing something you will feel good about them. That's why depressing thoughts depress you even more. It's bad to think that way for the organism.
"[..] if you get fixated upon the importance of any specific thing, you will be subtly consumed by a destructive addiction in which your entire internal world of thought is re-calibrated in terms of the emptiness of the thing you seek."
Negative emotions are there because your ogranism wants you to fight for life. It wants you to stop whatever you're doing and do what has evolutionary value. Stop trying to let go of the bad emotions, or trying to focus on something else. The negativity will be there until you do something about them. You cannot switch them off. If you feel bad about your life, don't watch comedies to get in a better mood, do something in this moment that will bring you towards a better life.
"This is the situation you face. It is a situation you face because you are a human being, and these things are hardwired into you by four million years of evolution. You cannot escape it, any more than you can run away from your own legs."
"Your fear is your compass - the things you are afraid of will always be the things that you need the most to confront to make yourself happy. Don't dodge around them. Don't work out coping strategies. Fight them like a fucking nutter. Fight them until you have beaten them all to death with the sheer force of your will, your courage, and all of the amazing strength of character that your evolution has placed at your disposal.'
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Why being yourself has evolutionary advantages:
http://www.mysterymethod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23893&highlight=Cartography+Hell
From shy guy to don juan. Daily experiences.
"The secret of happiness is freedom. And the secret of freedom is courage."
