We sure are a delusional folk. Outside of the exceptionalism lathered into a foamy mess, the bionic fun-house mirror funk of greediness, and the self-justification route preferred by all (and not programmed into GPS, yet), we might imagine a more real reality. In that more real reality there is a world where we are seen as other see us: stupider, less important, and far uglier.
Which is a good touchstone for today's lesson: don't act like you're smart, important, and pretty. In all likelihood, you are not.
Don't despair!
Oh, there I go again, diving us all into a cesspool of depression. That was not my intention. In fact, my intention is to divorce the idea of intelligence and status and looks from decision-making. Because those three things don't bring happiness, and concentrating on those things is purely distracting, in the most banal and superficially serious way. Chasing after happy endings through the ghost of foggy mirrors!
Anyway, the point is that letting go of all that seems incredibly important in regards to looks and intelligence and status will actually free you to do what it is you might enjoy doing without worrying about how what you enjoy makes you unpopular, or whatever, uglier.
Those things have no control over you if they have no control over you.
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