Alexandr Korol

a boy named Maxim. When Maxim interacts with his friend Alyosha from the world of the mind, Maxim begins to behave more properly, greet people, come on time, and refrain from swearing in front of his parents. However, when Maxim stops interacting with Alyosha and starts spending time with his friend Alyona, he starts drinking, smoking, making crude jokes, and reverting to his old behavior. At times, he’s pulled back into his previous world, the one he’s emerging from, and then he’s pulled towards the future world, the world of the mind, which is the one he’s most closely interacting with. As a person delves more into the world of the mind, what is this world of the mind? It’s when someone has bumped their head against all the rules in the first world, the world of instincts, so many times that they now understand what is good and what is bad purely through experience. They’ve learned all the rules and know them well. It’s akin to a robot that’s been trained in this way – this is what a person of the mind is like. When such a person has maximally subdued and controlled all their animalistic feelings, they feel like a victor, as if they’ve achieved something grand. They become like a soldier who can wake up at 6, 5, or even 4 in the morning and do what is required without being distracted by false emotions. These people are naturally much more successful and stronger than those from the first world of instincts because people from the second world have suppressed all their primal instincts and have learned to function like robots. Many celebrities, successful people, and entrepreneurs emphasize this, showing off their development as if this is the pinnacle of growth. But in reality, it is merely the second stage. When a person has freed themselves from the first stage and reached the second stage – let’s say, they have finally stopped engaging in indiscriminate sex – they naturally take pride in this and talk about how they have disciplined themselves. They can now regulate their eating habits, restrict themselves from eating anything they want, and can force themselves to exercise and build their bodies. And now, a person in this stage can also control how they present themselves to others, unlike before when they could not restrain themselves and were constantly driven by their emotions and instincts, which led to various consequences. They’ve taken control of their entire life, thinking, “I’m invincible.” When a person reaches this state, they truly become exceptional because they’ve moved beyond the first world, where there are countless people, and entered the second world, the world of the mind. However, at a certain stage of development, this person will start to experience moments of sentimentality, naivety, vulnerability, and sudden