Being a person without mastery, or even without the will of pursuing the mastery of a useful skill, is the sign of an average person or less. No matter how smart, experienced, creative, funny, handsome, or even lucky you are, unfortunately, a person without mastery is a two-dimensional character. A person without depth is as flat as anyone can be. In other words, a normal, average, everyday person. Did I raise the bar too high? I don't think so. Mastery is easy to achieve. Any average person can become a master in any desired field. The real question is, does the average person want to become a master? The answer to that is the same for the reality we are living in now. It is an average and a mediocre one filled with disguised incompetence and superficial knowledge that added little to nothing to our life. This is as opposed to the master who is filled with natural excellence, the unnoticed finest, the universal virtues genuinely employed, at least in his respected field. That is the result of his mindset.
Thanks to the master’s mindset developed the first time he decided to break out from the crowd to raise himself up, he became a person aware of his existence as an individual. He was awakened. Notice how the crowd mentality kills any chance of awakening. It discourages any sort of creativity, and a sense of adventure is almost forbidden as any discovery outside the main dogma could divide the group. Therefore, it is safer to stagnate. Added to that, as a human, the herd mentality and behavior is embedded in our DNA. Because of that, we can deduce that being a normal person inside the crowd is the most logical way of being. There is nothing wrong with that as nature itself has programmed us to follow that path. It is the safest way to be and to exist. Therefore, creativity must be sacrificed to conformity for the crowd’s survival and happiness. After all, to survive and be happy are the ultimate goals for every living being.
But knowing that is problematic, knowing that nature already built you to follow a crowd is paradoxical. That knowledge could lead you to question your existence inside the crowd, since you already know that you are manipulated and packaged to be a herd animal from the start. So, you begin to question your state, at least secretly.
Why did nature reveal what was behind the curtain? Why couldn’t it stop the enhancement, as we were already happy like puppies? The problem and question it raises can be stated as follows: If nature deeply embedded in us a herd mentality and behavior and the feeling of safety in the large group, why did it then enlighten us by revealing to us a different way, the way of solitude and mastery? The answer for this problem is grasped but not fully understood because nature itself is not fully understood. We don’t know if our enhancement is random or guided, as we don’t know if nature is a higher being or just random events. But we know one thing for sure, our brain, through time, didn’t stop being enhanced. Now our mind’s processing power can, without a doubt, qualify us to choose our existence, as the choice itself is a result of the astronomical amount of data and scenarios that our brain can’t stop producing.
You are no longer slave to your instincts. You can guide your existence at will, and that choice is the final masterpiece of nature, whether it is random or intentional. The result is here – it’s us. The future master, with his new mindset, will overcome his instincts that urge him to stay inside the herd. He will choose also to go beyond his animalistic instincts and behave better than a baboon.
In other words, the future master will choose to reach a higher existence.
Mastery in our open society is easily achievable. Knowing that, a question comes to my mind about other societies, the stagnated ones that cornered themselves in true mediocrity. Could they produce masters? Could they inspire the average person to look up, knowing that he has few or even no masters to be inspired by? I came to the obvious conclusion of answering this question with a big Yes!, because the masters are not the product of the society but the products of themselves.
Their paths tend to be more challenging in stubborn societies. They need to face more obstacles as their herds are powerful. But if they overcome these hurdles, they will become the best masters, sometimes even legends. Their way is more challenging, hard, and complicated as they could face mockery on a daily basis. Hatred and jealousy will be inflicted on these inspiring masters from their close friends and even their own families. Trying new things will build up discomfort in their close relatives that could escalate to violence. This may discourage the future masters, but it will never make them go back to the old way of being, as they already discovered a new way of existence.
The sad thing in this story is not the oppressed masters, but the average persons’ misjudgment of those stagnated and self-closed societies. They may describe those seekers as inept, claim they didn’t achieve any advancements, discoveries, or even self-discipline. With their amateurish analysis, the average crowd will conclude that in those societies, masters do not exist. They deduce that some societies are sterile. Later, some of them go further and qualify those societies as inferior, and some even could go to the extreme and classify the people from those societies as an inferior race. They are close relatives to humans but not really humans.
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