You're In A Vicious Cycle Of Self-Reflection

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Eventually, reflecting on your life experiences becomes more of a hinderance than a help.

Think about the process of learning to ride a bike.

When you begin, you really have to think about what you’re doing.

You’re looking up tutorials on where to start, how to stay balanced, and what you can do to quickly improve.

Through those discoveries, you make an active effort to apply what you’ve learned.

You hoist yourself onto the bike, and wobble back and forth. You keep telling yourself, “use the forward momentum, eyes on the road, focus on where the weight is being distributed.”

Eventually, the more that you consistently bike, the less you have to remind yourself of these lessons. They are intuitively embedded into the act of biking.

If we had to hyper-focus on every bike ride forever, I don’t think we’d enjoy biking nearly as much as we do.

Self-reflection should follow the same sort of structure, but for many of us, it doesn’t.

And this could be the reason your life is less enjoyable.

Like a beginner biker, we hyperanalyze every decision we make. We wonder whether we really made the right decision about that job 2 months ago, why we got so angry at that person for the comment they made about us, where that random wave of depression came from…

As many of us learned from the online space of self-improvement, every thought and act MUST have an underlying purpose you have to figure out if you want to know yourself.

This creates a vicious cycle of thinking about every little thing you’re doing while you’re doing it (or right after you do it), rather than letting yourself come to a natural understanding of the thing with enough time invested into it.

Life is obviously more complex than a bike.

While our lives our in a constant state of evolution, bikes keep the same structure. And that means reflection will always be useful.

Regardless, there should come a point where you should be able to simply live life to get answers, rather than being in a constant state of reflection to pry the answers out of your life.

Not everything has to have an answer. Not everything has to have a purpose.

Have the courage to decide to commit to a path you don’t fully understand, and through that commitment, you will naturally come to understand it.

In other words: Don’t act, be.

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Thanks for reading, everyone. Hope you enjoy your weekend.

-Cole