Enthusiasm is the Antidote to Entropy (how do we cultivate it?)

Entropy and Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is the antidote to entropy

Everything just naturally moves to chaos and disorder

We don’t operate from a stationary foundation and attempt to ascend into order

No we are all the time existing in disorder and chaos
But for our efforts to be born as new creations out of that chaos

You either busy being born or you’re busy dying as Bob Dylan puts it

So our fight to find enthusiasm in a life’s purpose
Is the same as the fight for survival itself

Life isn’t a waiting room
And won’t allow anyone to reduce it down to that

Almost everyone will try
But at best they will manage a life of empty distraction
Surviving (but barely) with the deep feeling that they’ve betrayed themselves and life

We aren’t meant to be neutered and comfortable
But rather overwhelmed on the edge of our potential

We are meant to be enthusiastically seeking new and more embarrassing ways to fail all the time

And then we are meant to seek presence and silence and understand that it is all an illusion inside a video game anyway

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Our life depends on finding focus and purpose
Presence and overcoming fear

Fear will kill you
Either slowly or quickly

Fear is the foundation of all addiction

And finding an enthusiasm for life is the antidote to all that


The word “enthusiasm” comes from the Greek word “entheos” which means the God within

So how do we cultivate enthusiasm?

The answers are all kinda obvious

We know the secrets to living epic bio hacked lives

We know we should be getting up at 430am
And journaling and then meditating
And then cold plunging
Into a yoga session
While intermittent fasting
And doing barefoot walks
While then spending hours at our desks or wherever diligently working towards our service motivated dream

We all know that
And most of us want some version of that

We want high value lives creating value
For others

And without fear or entropy
We would just forge ahead in that direction
An unstoppable force

But we are hindered and we burdened
And we sabatoge
And get addicted
We run
And we can’t stand to face the lonely desk
We scroll through our phones
We take a nap
We eat ice cream and hate ourselves for caving into distraction yet again
And make promises to overcome the limiting factors once again tomorrow

Chasing an endless tomorrow

Here’s the good news
We all face this same spirit

And there is no bullet proof solution to overcoming the spirit of fear

But there are things one can do to increase their odds that they can make it to the flow state of excitable purpose

1. practicing presence and dis identification with the ego. This helps get us in the state of observation and so when the inevitable voices of fear crop up, we can see them as external forces or spirits that are only pretending to be us. We can then make a practice of not believing them and working through them to break from the clutches of entropy.
2. set reasonable expectations. Don’t expect yourself to make all the progress at once. It’s a grueling and taxing process to overcome old limitations and work through difficulties in whatever task you are attempting to achieve. Celebrate the small wins. Often the big road blocks aren’t even difficult on any level but a psychological one. This is interesting when you crosss certain things off your list that were once hurdles. Celebrate that.
3. All the cliches.
They are cliches for a reason. The early wake up. The cold plunge. The journaling. The keto diet. The work out routine.

Understand that we are in a war that most people lose. What seems like extreme measures to normal society
Isn’t extreme at all
But rather the status quo of what you want is an exceptional like.

You must be exceptional and in every way.

You can’t build your life to perfection and then go out on the weekends and do a bunch of self destructive nonsense.
That stuff takes weeks to overcome if not years.

There needs to be a commitment to the course that is across the board on your life.

4. so avoid sin. And if you sin quickly repent and move on. But do not expect to transcend without transcending.

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