#74: Everything You Need Is Within
#74: Everything You Need Is Within
#GenuineOptimism #LivingThings #EmotionalJourney #InnerPreparation
👋 Welcome to this week's Pursuit. My name is Amir, and each week I go over 10 hours of content in pursuit of living a meaningful and fulfilling life. I'm grateful to share my findings with you and hope I can make a small difference during your challenging times. If you're on a quest for depth in an era of superficial abundance, make sure to subscribe and join our journey.
This week’s discovery:
💊 Forced False Positivity Vs. Genuine Optimism
🚮 Don't Give a Fuck About Your Work
🌌 The Emotional Roadmap to Self
🌻 Everything You Need is Within
💊 Forced False Positivity Vs. Genuine Optimism
Optimism and forced positivity are not the same thing. Optimism stems from a willingness to confront reality and the belief that the future can be better, coupled with a readiness to work towards improving that future. On the other hand, forced positivity is a mere mantra, a façade devoid of any proactive effort. Interestingly, being excessively optimistic doesn't necessarily translate into better health or well-being. Instead, not being pessimistic appears to be more important. A pessimistic outlook, especially regarding inevitable outcomes like aging, might discourage one from taking care of themselves or acting in ways that could lead to a different outcome. Thus, it's not about always looking at the bright side, but more about shielding oneself from the dark side.
🚮 Don't Give a Fuck About Your Work
Why give a fuck about work? Why love your work? It won’t, of course, love you back. It can’t. Work isn’t a thing that can love. It isn’t alive, it isn’t and won’t ever be living. And my answer is: don’t. Don’t give a fuck about your work. Give all your fucks to the living. Give a fuck about the people you work with, and the people who receive your work—the people who use the tools and products and systems or, more often than not, are used by them. Give a fuck about the land and the sea, all the living things that are used or used up by the work, that are abandoned or displaced by it, or—if we’re lucky, if we’re persistent and brave and willing—are cared for through the work. Give a fuck about yourself, about your own wild and tender spirit, about your peace and especially about your art. Give every last fuck you have to living things with beating hearts and breathing lungs and open eyes, with chloroplasts and mycelia and water-seeking roots, with wings and hands and leaves. Give like every fuck might be your last.
🌌 The Emotional Roadmap to Self
Exploration in life doesn't necessarily have a fixed destination. It's about delving into who we are and how we want to represent ourselves in the world. Often, we're guided by preconceived notions of what we should be doing. But when we dig deeper, we may discover that what we're "supposed" to do or what we're "good at" doesn't truly fulfill us. In the process of transformation, we must be comfortable with others not understanding our journey. It's not about setting concrete goals, but rather understanding how we want to feel. This emotional focus can guide us on an incredible path, leading us where we need to be.
🌻 Everything You Need is Within
The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous with yourself and others; you stay deeply in study about your craft. Whatever is yours will then arrive.
🎵 Music I'm Listening To
You’ll find mostly Ethnotronica, Organic House, World, Disco, and Organic Electronic here:
🎧 If you appreciate the music I carefully select and haven't followed my Spotify playlists yet, now is the perfect time to hit that follow button and join me on this musical journey! 🎶
🌒 Pano: Danceable and electronic obscure songs
🌓 Sisy: Ethnotronica and organic house
🌑 Berghain: Dark, minimal techno and tech house
🌕 Heide: Groovy soul and disco house
🌞 Sonntag: Afterhours shit
🌎 World: From Latin jazz to Turkish psych
🌚 Super Slow: For your intimate moments
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