Your opinion about succes & reality

Siebren de Vos

Apr '22 in Other

To all the self improvement philosophers out there ;)

I've been thinking about this for a few months:

What's more important, a clear view of reality or your own wellbeing?

Example:

My friend used an NLP technique to get over his girlfriend who cheated on him. He Imagined her cheating, but added clowns music and gave her a clown nose. So this changes the emotion he had connected to the image.

I think we should do everything as much as reasonable and there is no definite answer to whether this is good or bad.

If you have a headache and you can handle it, you don't take an aspirin. But if you have heavy migraine and it has a significant impact om your wellbeing, you take medication.

Sometimes it's okay to filter out parts of reality.

I think there is just this belief that the truth and reality are the ultimate thing to strive for, but sometimes we just have to trick ourselves to make life a bit easier (blue pill)

Now my next thought is, until what point is it reasonable to trick yourself into disillusion in order to reach success?

So now it's not about tricking yourself to go from miserable to normal, but to go from normal to highly successful.

Or maybe there is no ultimate reality or truth and it's totally up to me how I paint the picture of my life. So it all depend on how willing I am to change myself and my paradigm.

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