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Stop Trying and You'll Succeed
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This is the backwards law, which states that the more we try to pursue something, the less likely we will succeed. In the case of a restless night, the more you think about your desire to fall asleep, the less likely you are to fall asleep. When your mind is elsewhere, not directly striving to achieve your intended goal, that is when you finally get some rest. It’s funny how this works because it seems paradoxical. Why do our wants come directly to us when we give up and let go? Alan Watts was an English-born pop philosopher who is widely attributed to the backwards law. But Watts didn’t invent the phenomenon; neither was he the first to recognize it. In fact, he got the idea from Zen Buddhism. For Buddhists, desire and ignorance are at the heart of all worldly suffering. By eliminating this desire, you will no longer search for what you lack because you will be satisfied and at peace with your life.

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@rabbit1731

7 months ago

One day I told myself that I don't want to limit my self in words. I don't want to be happy or sad or anything. I let my self to feel everything without wondering what it . And that day I was set free.

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@trappozoiid

7 months ago

“Do or do not, there is no try” -Yoda

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@tigerlilly7070

7 months ago

Alan Watts is one of my favorite philosophers. He has so many good talks that always help me look at things from a new way.

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@gsaad464

7 months ago

I've been using the backwards law subconsciously and I didn't notice I just told myself to exist to be me and strive to be myself, to learn what I want, like and hate Be happy for your existence and do what your body tells you to do

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@CalvinBrawlStarsYT

7 months ago

Reminds me of "Stop asking how to be a good man, Be one" -Marcus

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@Zimboprenuer

7 months ago

Charles Bukowski 1920 – 1994 if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, don't do it. if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget about it. if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else. if you first have to read it to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or to anybody at all, you're not ready. don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it. unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

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@dimitris713

6 months ago

Just as master yoda said : "Do or do not , there is no try"

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@lis7742

7 months ago

This is exactly what I needed now. I'm not going anywhere in life and I'm not able to succeed in anything I do. I'm broke, I don't have a job, no education and no drivers license. I have no hobbies and no friends. I try every day to do something to succeed but, it's just not working, for some reason.

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@my2danimations478

7 months ago

Sleeplessness happens to me quite often nowadays, it is truly very helpful, thank you!

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@jamesbrown3497

7 months ago

He never fails to deliver 🔥🔥

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@SuperYtc1

7 months ago

I tried this once. For 5 years I stopped trying to get a girlfriend. It didn't work. I still don't have a girlfriend.

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@royceb4814

7 months ago

What your looking for is “ the path of least resistance”

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@richyrichisbak

7 months ago

Amazing video Aperture. This is exactly what I needed ❤️

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@chriswilliams8159

7 months ago

Human obsession with having control on all facets of our life, overstretching overselves unnecessarily , and over-analyzing things go against the Taoist concept of YinYang. We tend to focus too much on the Yang aspect while seemingly ignoring the Yin. If one keeps standing on their tip-toes, they'll never stand firm.

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@0ptimal

7 months ago

Only thing ill say to this is sometimes you can be capable of something but you get in your own way. And when we actually allow our mind to do what it knows how to do, we succeed. Its like playing guitar, you can know a song well enough, but when trying to play if you focus in on every note it is hard to play it well, but if you find that zone of letting your mind and hands do what they know how to do, it comes out as it should. Much of life is this way, our minds are far more capable than we assume if we get out of the way and let things flow.

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@loirenhuh

7 months ago

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@mr.lavander7145

7 months ago

Glad Alan Watts ideas have found a place in the 21st century. It's timeless wisdom after all.

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@oye2240

3 months ago

My goal is to be the best or better. This helps really telling me those things that sometimes i dont gotta try. Keep sharing ill keep on learning

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@Legitti

7 months ago

This works for me for example when playing darts, I can win my pro friends with ease when I get into the right mode and not try and play just for the win. I see winning more as by product of the game and it's not the thing I get most out of. It's incredible and works with tons of other activities as well. Even with music and arts if you have the basics.

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@pratikkanunje8888

7 months ago

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