Breaking Bad Habits Means Breaking Up With What You Know to Be True
“Everything you know is wrong.”
You know what my problem was?
I was “the smartest person in the room.”
I always have been. That’s why it was so hard for me to acknowledge that what I knew was a complete load of shit. I was dumb as fuck, behaving without agency or conscious thought.
Alcohol. That made “dealing with stress easier.” You couldn’t tell me otherwise. I’m a genius, after all.
And my life? Being poor? “I was born into that.” I got a fancy expensive advanced degree that taught me all about social stratification.
My brain was the biggest thing in my way. You couldn’t tell me anything. I “knew it all.” I read the books.
What I really “knew” was jack shit. And the books I read? They were only in one area.
I was running old programming. I knew one way to think- and that way to think was outdated.
It had me living in victim consciousness. Everything was happening to me.
I had vices that caused anxiety, not relieved it. And I’d defend that to anyone who tried to tell me otherwise.
I “thought” like a person who didn’t understand money. I “thought” like a person who needed someone else’s approval first.
Everything I “knew” was wrong. The second I could admit that, I began to “unlearn.”
Unlearning over a decade worth of crap was not an easy process, but the forward motion as a result was unbelievable.
Sometimes, what you “know” is actually the thing that is keeping you standing still.
People like to allow themselves to accept only what they already have learned as truth, even though that learning is rooted in an old story of a person they no longer wish to be.
When you begin to unlearn, life begins to blossom in unexpected ways.
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