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Everybody was moving quickly to deny what was happening. Everybody was avidly not accepting what was going on. That was Part X. When adversity comes, it's an oppertunity for you to face Part X directly. Part X is the judgmental part of you, the antisocial part of you. It's an invisible force that wants to keep you from changing or growing. It wants to block your evolution. It wants to block your potential. It wants to fuck up your shit. It's the voice of impossibility. It creates primal fear in human beings.

How can people defeat part X? You can't. You can defeat them temporarily, but he's always gonna keep coming back. That's why you have three aspects of reality that nobody gets to avoid: pain, uncertainty, and constant work. So those are the things you're just gonna have to live with, no matter what. We need the negativity of Part X, or else we can't grow. It doesn't mean you can't work very hard at a goal, it doesn't mean you can't succeed, but really if you wanna be happy, you have to learn how to love the process of dealing with those three things. The highest creative expression for a human being is to be able to create something new right in the face of adversity, and the worse the adversity, the greater the opportunity.

Failure, weakness, vulnerability, is like a connector. It connects you to the rest of the world. The shame, embarassment, is actually the glue that holds the universe together.

True confidence is living in uncertainty, and moving forward.

Instead of a turd inside of a pearl, there's a pearl around every turd. When something bad happens, there's a lot to be learned and a lot good aound that event. Every event has something in it that you can learn from. When something goes wrong, you have to create a reflex to squeeze the juice out. Squesszing the juice means finding something meaningful. You don't get to the world of meaning through big things, you get it through small things.

I was no longer judging the nature of reality by my experiences in the last five minutes. The sun is always up there. The cloud is always over here, blocking the sun. If you can't break through, you think it's a very bad day. In fact, you think it's a very bad life. That's the secret of life as far as I'm concernted-- Accepting that you won't figure it out ever, nobody else will figure out.

The whole premise of this is, we're not gonna win every time, we certainly can't be perfect, we can't control it, but we have an unstoppable will to go forward.