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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:25 pm
about your achievement, how you finally bought yourself your first car for 20 thousand dollars, figuratively speaking, and people, the world is cruel, social, these people, they will immediately say to you: “your car is cheap, mine is more expensive.” Or “John has even more cars,” they will say: “what did you achieve? You are nobody, a nurse.” And so that no one can trample you like that, your whole life, you must not give it to society to tear apart. And somehow in one of the chapters, and I just found it, this eighth chapter in my old childhood book “Three Paradoxes of a Creative Person,” I put emphasis on the fact that there must always be a secret, there must always be a little secret. There must always be something that you still have not shown to anyone, not told, not debased.
But this also, you know, works as if it even works on some subtle level, that it is not even about being prepared in advance, as in the example I just gave, that suddenly there will be an attack on you. No. Here it is as if some process immediately begins to start and work, that if you have little secrets, something unique... A secret is not a lie, so that you understand, a secret is not something bad about you. A secret is the opposite, something that makes your soul happy, but you simply value it very much and do not scatter it. That is the kind of secret we are talking about. And this secret is a crazy, powerful psychological key. It is your mystery, it is your cherished thought, like in the movie “Hook” from the 90s, something you should not tell anyone about or all the more show. You should not show your favorite treasured place or a treasured friend. As if, when you have this little secret and these elements that no one knows about, which are like the foundation of your soul, then because of this your soul becomes very strong, very strong. And all this must be something personal to you. But you see how society has deceived all people? You learn about some movies, and what does society and social networks now propagate to people? That you must immediately boast about it, you must immediately show everyone the café where you are having breakfast, you must immediately show everyone the song that makes your heart sing, you must immediately show your achievement, what you acquired. And as soon as you show it, it loses all its strength. Immediately, in a moment, it loses all its strength and already gives no nourishment, no foundation to your soul and to your heart. That is how it is.
But this also, you know, works as if it even works on some subtle level, that it is not even about being prepared in advance, as in the example I just gave, that suddenly there will be an attack on you. No. Here it is as if some process immediately begins to start and work, that if you have little secrets, something unique... A secret is not a lie, so that you understand, a secret is not something bad about you. A secret is the opposite, something that makes your soul happy, but you simply value it very much and do not scatter it. That is the kind of secret we are talking about. And this secret is a crazy, powerful psychological key. It is your mystery, it is your cherished thought, like in the movie “Hook” from the 90s, something you should not tell anyone about or all the more show. You should not show your favorite treasured place or a treasured friend. As if, when you have this little secret and these elements that no one knows about, which are like the foundation of your soul, then because of this your soul becomes very strong, very strong. And all this must be something personal to you. But you see how society has deceived all people? You learn about some movies, and what does society and social networks now propagate to people? That you must immediately boast about it, you must immediately show everyone the café where you are having breakfast, you must immediately show everyone the song that makes your heart sing, you must immediately show your achievement, what you acquired. And as soon as you show it, it loses all its strength. Immediately, in a moment, it loses all its strength and already gives no nourishment, no foundation to your soul and to your heart. That is how it is.