Unmoved by the work done

Prepare, perform, do, make, construct, produce; strive after

Work

Such a dirty four-lettered word isn't it? But, like stress, it seems to only kill those who believe it is a negative. The mind is the most powerful tool we have at our disposal as it is the creator of all other tools yet, how many use it well when just the thought of applying it to work is seen as a negative?

The mind is always working however, it is never truly at rest but, it can relax into that work and accept it. Most however tend to force it to act making its performance laboured, uncomfortable and undesired. Most focus their attention under the assumption it is the way to success without recognising that the focus can only point at what is already known, it cannot explore the darkness.

We are all scared of the dark, some venture in regardless.

People think exploring the darkness is to turn attention to the negatives and what they do is pass judgement of wrong and right on what they do or more commonly, what others do. The dark is just what is yet to be known, positive or negative does not come into the equation at all however, assuming a result before the light of exploration is going to colour the outcome of what is found. Rather than exploring what is there, a filter is applied and what is the is what one already expects to find and in so doing, the assumption that one is correct can be made. Confirmation bias.

The brain is lazy, it didn't want to think new thoughts, it was to repeat the well-trodden parts it has always taken and the fee more it walks, the deeper the rut and, the more limited the view of experience. Eventually, nothing is seen but the walled path that has always been walked and the unfamiliar sounds that echo overhead fill the mind with fears of the unknown, under the assumption they are well understood.

Keep looking ahead, do not deviate from your path.

They is the story sold, focus, commit, dedicate yet, where it leads is to blindness and extremism, an inability to consider what has previously lain unconsidered. Why look when one already knows they are correct, just dismiss what doesn't fit the framework as wrong. It is easier on the fragile ego, easier on the habituated mind. Less work.

It is interesting to me that so many want an expansion of opportunity, more provision supplied, more spills of work yet, are unwilling to expand their mind. Mind expansion doesn't require a drug induced trip into hallucination, it is simply learning more than what was known before.

But, learning suffers from the law of diminishing returns and of focus is applied, one can know a lot about a little but be near useless a lot of the time. How useful are you in this world, how useful is your mind and what it holds?

You may treasure it, but expecting that others will value it equally is a poor position as they may know a thing or two also and, they may have no interest in what you possess. You want to be rewarded for what you know regardless of its use to others and without a broader understanding of how what you know affects the environment in which others live? Ego.

You have been exploring the dark you may say but you have failed to recognise the bids of your own views? What could you have possibly found other than an echo of yourself, a reflection of what you already know? You are part of the problem for wrile you think yourself correct, the feedback on correctness is a self-judgement designed to protect itself from harm. Including self-harm.

No one likes to discover they are wrong but, we all will as none of us are completely right for of we were, the conflicts would be gone. All of them. What then? The conflicts are perhaps the driver of discovery and innovation, the catalyst that makes us look again. Not all of us.

It is interesting to not that while people want equality of result, they do not recognise the variance in fear faced. They look at the surface, compare the materials and assume that we journey has been the same without considering the darkness within that may have been explored and, the conflicts of the self that may have been overcome by another.

They do not consider the work of the mind for they have not done that work themselves, they have lived on automatic pilot, directed by the influences of others, told what to look for, find what is told and then believe, that what they found is correct. A conditioned mind programmed for a mental cage of emotional security. The lights are on, but the home is unknown, all there is in its stead is the familiar, an illusion of own.

You think you know, you think you are open-minded and explosive yet, you focus on a point and blur what does not fit into your world view. Hold your hand out and focus on your thumb nail - That is all you are able to see with clarity with your vision and what moves in peripherals is a spectrum of fog and the further away you get from that focal point, the less clarity there is.

You have told your mind to focus, trained it to only see what it wants to see, what it enjoys seeing, what it knows it likes and reject all else as incorrect. You want to be creative but if all you know is already known, the work you do is repetitive by nature.

Rinse and repeat - but are you where you want to be or are you flogging a dead horse, with you also being the horse?

Unmoving.
Is it work if nothing changes?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
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