Comments by "Leo" (@Leoo117) on "Most people are DELUSIONAL: the psychosis of everyday life" video.

  1. The only true way out of it is to humble yourself, and admit that you don't know everything, or that you could be wrong about your beliefs when an honest challenge comes up that makes sense. Face the fear that you might not know as much as you thought you knew. Do not run from that discomfort and that fear. I guarantee that this is literally the only way out of the constant projection of our beliefs and its the only way to truly step into reality. Humility leads to true wisdom. There is a saying by Confucius that says "real knowledge is to know the extent of one's own ignorance". In other words, the prideful and the haughty keep themselves blind and cannot truly learn anything. Thats why pride really does come before destruction, and a haughty spirit before stumbling. That's a proverb from the bible that backs that up. Thats why the issue you mentioned is so prevalent. Most people in this world refuse to humble themselves.
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  2. @Toni  I think you're right about being excited, having an interest, and believing in your potential being necessary. I also believe that you will not achieve any of these states of mind without humility. I think we just have different definitions of humility. I look at it as being the opposite of a prideful and haughty mindset. If you are haughty, then there is no reason for you to feel excited or interested, because you already know everything, so you feel above all that and like it's unnecessary. Also, you think you've already reached your potential, and you think there is nothing left to learn, therefore you block yourself from learning anything else, because you leave no room for it. Being humble just allows you to leave room to grow. That's what I mean. Perhaps you are not on the same page as me when it comes to the word humble, but you seem to agree that we need to leave ourselves room to learn. That's really the main point I'm making.
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  3. @Toni  Sure, you'll probably always be challenged, and you can do lots of challenging, but its worth it to get to the truth if you are genuine about it. I understand time and resources potentially being an issue though. We can't deal with everything at once. When you find the truth, challenge tend to be much easier to deal with and not as time or resource consuming, because it becomes simple to understand and explain. Also, willingly humbling yourself is the path to rid yourself of uncertainty, insecurity and lack of knowledge, because you are willing to honestly admit these things about yourself to yourself, which allows you to address them and fill your knowledge gap and conquer the insecurity and become certain. Admitting one's long-held belief might be wrong when in the face of obvious proof or something that makes sense can be scary, which is why so many are unwilling to do it. Humbling yourself is just being modest, and saying "perhaps I have more to learn", which helps you to look at yourself. It allows a person to examine himself inside, which is the opposite of projection. Or, in other words, drop one's puffed up pride. When we are learning anything, we are being humble in that moment, because we have to first admit that we have no clue. So it's just ADMMITTING that we are uncertain, so that we can start down the path of eventually becoming certain. It's not that you base anything off of your ignorance. That saying just means that you are leaving yourself room to continue learning, and you aren't afraid to do some honest introspection and find the areas in which you have knowledge gaps or uncertainty. It's basically also saying to be modest.
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