This is really inspiring. Made me think of a couple things. Not really sure if this is the right spot, but just in case... "All truth passes through three stag

This is really inspiring. Made me think of a couple things. Not really sure if this is the right spot, but just in case... "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." The universe makes room for you when you're born, long before your self-awareness and ego develops. Society makes room for you once you can be boxed, filed and categorized, once your "truth" can be domesticated and a watered-down caricaturization of it accepted as self-evident. How to stay focused when "success" is authoritatively measured by a yardstick of abject stupidity, then? If you can find your own unique way to disappear into the Nakatomi space (https://bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/ https://bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1265944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1265944) of how society internalizes a given subject (which is not necessarily the same thing as the Nakatomi space of the subject itself), you can gain awareness of the intrinsics connecting personal experience with social representation, and learn to project "truth" that is perspective-corrected for however you want society to react to it ("enlightenment"). IMHO, winning is using this trick to make yourself appear utterly forgettable/boring while you carve out all the room you'll ever want to play in, find yourself and fulfillment, and do amazing things. As the penultimate fitness-function competition, I think the level of focus required to achieve this is categorically not something that can be learned; it is absolutely intrinsic. ("Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." - Michelangelo) This strategy potentially has downsides though. In order for perspective-correction to have any effect, it must necessarily be an incredibly strong "inverse" caricature, and there's the risk of it taking on a gravitational field of its own, which might have an impact on perceptive folks. I might have completely gotten the wrong take from https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1120303975964774400 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1120303975964774400, but looking at the sentiment from a specific angle and squinting a bit, I've been wondering for a while now...