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self-awareness is all about being able to recognize our own tendencies and habits, routines, impulses, and reactions. Our lives seem to flow much more smoothly when we’re in control of our own lives, instead of being in a state of autopilot. It’s like a roller coaster. It’s hard to know how to react when your brain is telling you to do something, and you’re not quite sure what to do, so you just do it.
Another thing that people need to realize is that autopilot is simply our habitual response to the environment around us. When we act without thinking, we don’t realize that we’re simply following our natural tendencies in the moment. Our brain doesn’t stop and think, “I need to stop this roller coaster here, this is going to kill me,” but instead it reacts as it would if we were out for a walk and the roller coaster suddenly stopped.
This is the biggest problem with the most common autopilot strategy. We try to control the environment around us by trying to block off every possible way for the environment to respond to us, but in actuality, we dont control the environment. The environment is always responding to us. If you want to control the environment, you have to create a way to stop the environment from ever responding.
Our autopilot strategy is one of the most dangerous ones because it makes us blind to the fact we are always controlling the environment. The environment is always responding as we tell it to. We could use the example of a giant roller coaster, and say that if you want to use a roller coaster as your controller, you have to use it exactly the way it was programmed. If you then want the coaster to go faster, you have to program it to do so.
If we use our autopilot strategy, we’d have to program our roller coasters to go faster, which is impossible. So we’d have to disable the roller coasters. Then we’d have to manually turn them off. The roller coasters would be out of control. We’d be going faster and faster, but our roller coasters would be stuck in the sky, unable to move.
So what does this have to do with my first question? Well, I think I know. A roller coaster is a “controlled” experience. You can’t just turn off and on. You can’t go from 0 to 100 in a few seconds. You can only go from one end of the coaster to the other without stopping. And the roller coaster must also have a speed limit on it, so that means we can’t just start a roller coaster off and have it go straight up.
So that’s one of the main ways that we can prevent our roller coasters from going too fast. We can turn them off. We can turn them off and on. We can turn them on and off and on and off again. In this way we can make them go from a state of being full of free energy to a state of being frozen in its tracks. But the most important part is the speed limit.
Yeah, the roller coaster’s speed limit is pretty much the only thing that keeps it from going too fast. But there’s another thing that keeps it from going too fast, and that’s the fact that the roller coaster is stuck at the start. There’s no way for it to come up, so it just keeps going. And if there were any obstacles to its journey, then it would just keep going.
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