Speed is usually a byproduct of good design. This is why it does not make sense to try to go faster.

What you should do is to eliminate the bottlenecks that are in your way.

Then you will become faster as a consequence.

A good car on a good road will travel at good speed. There is not point trying to burn extra fuel on a crappy road with a crappy engine. Those are the bottlenecks hampering your speed.

See speed as a healthy indicator. And a lack of pace should be a negative indicator of critical
design flaws in your system.

Genius is virtually indistinguishable from magic.

All that magicians do is to trick their viewers into not seeing a small insignificant aspect which they themselves found after hours of playing around and exploration.

The real magic is in the contrast the magician has spend time in exploration and learning, which led him to uncover a secret which he pulls as a trick on the viewer.

Now a genius has also spend a lot of time playing around, and found stuff that are not accessible to the average person.

What makes the genius is essentially hidden from the normie. The genius is in hiding all that they learned from the access of the normie.

This is why once they reveal the trick, you feel disillusioned and even silly. How did I not see it?

The whole trick was to hide it after all.

You hide things from yourself only for the pleasure and joy of finding it our later yourself. This is all that you do in life.

Exploration and Forgetting in a never ending cycle.

The state of mind is the cruicial determinant to how you gauge your performance, well being or consciousness.

The state of mind is the enabler or inhibitor. If you want to do things smoothly find the state of mind that lets you do things smoothly.

It will differ a lot from person to person, contingent on your emotions, ambitiousness, openness, genetic makeup etc.

The state of mind that helps you be a great boxer is not the same state that allows you to be a good student or a musician.

Once you find your ideal state of mind and learn to seamlessly switch to it on demand, then everything else that you need to do to excel in the said domain would become a lot more easier.

The more sad, depressed and anxious you are, the more likely you are to spend time using technological devices, mostly to doomscroll on social media.

This in turn perpetuates an vicious negative cycle where you keep getting glued to the screen for hours and then you are unable to do anything. This is the worst of states your mind can be in.

Brain rot happens when you let every other idea infect your mind with no filters on. Have solid boundaries. Your mental diet is as important as the physical one.

To live with a coherent and consistent philosophical world view in this world while also making sense of everything going around us, is close to impossible.

So much has happened in the past 4 years. Slow Down if you may. Things will get sorted out.

Using social media(all of them) is as toxic as watching the news and you couldn't convince me otherwise.
(Unless you are using it for strictly educational purposes.)

"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived".

- Niccolo Machiavelli.

"The greatest deception men suffer from is from their own opinions".

- Leo Da Vinci.

The ego is a survival mechanism that is constantly deceiving you, about everything. This is the meaning of "you are your biggest enemy". You should be able to see through the deceptions of the ego to forfeit some short term benefits for the sake of long term returns.

To protect one intellectual integrity you have to do a great deal of work to undo all the garbage that society pumps into your head.

This means reducing the intake while also working to deconstruct the shit that is already up there. This trash will drain your capacity to be happy.

A fat person can never be happy because of the garbage accumulated in the body. Even more important factor in your well being is the garbage accumulated in the mind.

This is also why almost noone ever has an original thought. Most people will never think of anything original in their life ever. That requires you sit with your thoughts for lots of time and purify your psyche from the inside out.

Do not copy wise minds. Seek what they sought.