I may have come to a realization I'd like to share.
I have been trying to come up with a solution to people who struggle with self discipline. They ask me "how" they can stop caring what others think, or "how" they can stop being lazy, and I think I understand the problem.
You need to develop the ability to envision the goal to stay motivated, which requires abstract thinking and the ability to have an internal model of the world.
This requires an IQ above 100.
Is weakness a product of IQ?
@Tfmonkey - I dunno about generalization, but I can add my own account, for what it's worth.
As a kid, my IQ was evaluated at 147 during the process of joining a "talented and gifted" program. I've done some additional developing, and killed some brain cells since then... so give or take. 💁🏻♂️
I was very neurotic when young, and overly concerned with everyone else's opinion. I was raised very blue pill, and bought into it completely.
I can remember exactly what it was that inspired me to➡️
@Tfmonkey - ...no longer care what others thought of me.
Ironically enough, it was falling in love as a blue-pilled simp. She was all that mattered, and nothing else did anymore. Of course, she eventually did me very dirty, time and again. 🙄 😮💨
But I guess you could say, that it was finding something that (ill-advised or not) mattered more to me than myself.
Hope that helps your formulation. 🍻
@Tfmonkey - On the bright side: There is a naturally occurring short-cut to finding something more important than one's self though, that doesn't necessarily require any simping. Have children.
And though I may not yet be able to articulate the exact mechanics of it, patriarchy once again appears to be an answer.
Through the process of having children under patriarchy, men would have access to a readily available source of instant perspective. And they would be better caretakers of society. 🍻
@Tfmonkey - I just noticed that I may have tripped over a paradox.
If finding something that matters more than one's self is key to letting go of ego, and what the world thinks of one... then that may present a problem for a philosophy that stresses the importance of the self.
I'm confident there is a resolution, if true, but I wouldn't know what that is yet.
Perhaps the reason our numbers are so small, is because a specific sequence of events is required to reach the mind-set. 🤔