Major props. I have to repost this, because I think I am doing this shit to myself right now. I'm subconsciously sabotaging myself. Not in the game, but life in general. This has just been a really shitty week for me, and now I see why!
Quote:
Success barriers and deservingness issues. These are a special
type of bad belief based upon your internal self image. Everyone has an
idea in their head of how cool they are, how much success they should
have, what type of girls they should get etc… Maxwell Maltz’s tackles
this subject in depth in his groundbreaking book “ Psycho-Cybernetics.”
Success barriers happen when the success that you are getting in real
life is more than you think you deserve.
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The reason being that if you don’t feel like you deserve something your mind will find a way to get rid of it. Our brains are set up to hate incongruence. So when reality is conflicting with your self image, you
will unconsciously sabotage the situation to restore order in your reality.
This is where rationalizations, excuses and giving up happen. In order
to deal with deservingness issues and success barriers, you have to
come up with your own reasons for why you deserve to be successful.
Fucking brilliant. A glimmer of hope on the horizon.