Topics that fascinate me

 

1. What is the unconscious? What does the unconscious know? If you dive into lucid dreaming research, you find out that lucid dreams enable us to see the future and transfer thoughts, among other things. I have the theory that the unconscious is all-knowing and that savants can tap directly into it.
2. Is there any limit to our true potential?
3. Are we all savants?

Your life is what you do

Your life is not what others make it. Unless you’re inactive.

Your life is not your circumstances. Most successful people have risen far above their circumstances.

Your life is not how other people put you down. Unless you never stand up for yourself. And maybe leave those people behind.

Your life is not your past. Your life is now. Your choice. Your decision. Your action.

Your life is what you do. Everyday. Each day is time and chance for practice. Full of challenges enabling you to gain energy.

Obstacles are those challenges which you refuse to accept. Obstacles cost you energy and bring still stand. Challenges give you energy and progress.

Each challenge gives you the drive to pursuit your own dream. You gain courage and euphoria, which chase away your fear. Euphoria is  the body of energy.

With each challenge you solve, you become truer to yourself. You ignore fear and face growth.

Do you best with your challenges. You probably cannot win all of them. However, a faced challenge, even if failed to succeed, is no obstacle. It does not cost you energy. Instead, accept the outcome and learn your lessons. Everyday lessons are the best teachers.

 

Be aware of what you do. Make sure your actions propel you towards energy. Then your life will be energic and euphoric.

Your life is what you do.

I feel extremely useless

I feel like my entire thinking and knowledge was neglected by my surrounding and I don’t know how I could change this.

How can I show my talent? I fail in tests for multiple reasons.

One being that I cannot properly prepare. As a visual thinker, I cannot learn in sequences, which is how the material is taught and how questions are asked. I learn best if  I can start with the whole subject at once. Now even if I have the idea for the answer, I cannot answer it verbally.

Another reason being that I cannot vomit knowledge back. I am forcefully creative and unstructured in my thinking.

How can I prove my knowledge?

One suggestion: How to prove your usefulness

• Show Flexibility
• Acquire Marketable Skills
• Be a Problem Solver
• Have a Positive Attitude
• Don’t Become the Only Expert on One Topic

See also: How to prove your work makes a difference

• Are your skills state of the art?
• Is your educational background different from peers?
• Can you be replaced?

The article “Do you need to prove yourself?” takes the opposite approach, which is a very interesting one, claiming that you don’t require external validation and should only seek it within yourself.

Quote:

• Spend some time looking for ways in which you seek approval from others. Journal about it.
• Imagine how life would be different if you didn’t spend so much time and effort doing things in order to gain approval from elsewhere. You’d have more time and energy to put into doing other things, for instance. You’d also feel more confident.
• When you recognize that you are seeking approval from someone else, instead, ask yourself how YOU might approve of yourself.
• You don’t need to prove anything to anyone. You are whole and complete and wonderful.

The piton technique for progress

Ice climbing (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have invented this technique for myself. It’s all about focussing on a goal out of your current reach in order to get there.

Imagine a mountain climber who wants to reach an edge far above him. According to my technique, he throws a piton up to that edge and then pulls himself up the rope.

It’s that simple.

The core message of this technique is that you must have the courage to aim at goals which are yet to complicated for you to achieve. Move straight up and you will learn your lessons on your way up.

How to detect manipulators

Hannibal Lecter (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I am totally naive and therefore a very easy victim to manipulators, which is partly due to my Asperger.

Over the last years though, my autism has changed, allowing me to identify my problem and gathering information about how to detect manipulators.

This list is no way finished, so please add your own ideas! I will add them to this list.

1. The Good-girl-manipulator: my most experienced one. Usually male, mid-age, deep voice, relaxed/serious style. He is a complete stranger. He identifies or assumes me as inexperienced and parent-dependent. He always talks to me as “good girl” and shifts himself into a dominant position, from where he now plays the moral reverend. He pushes me into questions which hide amoral answers: “Do you like black people?”. In case I say no, he claims that all the people around ( even if we are alone ) feel insulted. If I say yes, he praises me, tries to clap on my shoulder, which makes me smile, and then pushes me into the next dilemma. His goal: use me as a toy for his short-term pleasure.