Manifesting Reality

*An upfront apology if I use the word Consciousness wrong - I love the idea but hate spelling the word

A Choice

You have a choice of two paths.

The first drifting through life, going with the flow. Whimsically doing this or that being reactive instead of proactive.

The second is designing a life, making deliberate and calculated choices ahead of time. Steering the ship.

Intentional Living

Generally speaking -

The first half of your life is about learning to socialise, how to fit into society, finding out what you enjoy, where your passions are, how to be self sufficient. This period of time is like you are in the back of the bus, you get driven around to destinations not of your choosing. You follow societal norms. School, University, Job, Family. A predetermined human recipe.

The second half of your life should be fuelled by agency from truly realizing - this is Your Last Life. It should be intentional. You have resources, experience, energy to start shaping your reality. This time around you are the driver, you control the direction. Maybe not driving a school bus but a small sports car.

Source of Confidence

What gives me the confidence to say that you can manifest your own reality?

Let’s look at a few examples -

Looking laterally at others - such as business owners, there is clear evidence that they have a strong degree of Manifesting Reality. They have vision, resources and live life on their terms. Traditional rules are broken. They own boats, they fly jets, they build technologies that don’t exist. A 9-5 employee could look at a business owner who is playing golf during the day why the employee is in an office doing a chore they don’t want to be doing. This would look inconceivable to them. Reality shaping in full force.

Regarding the topic of reality - our consciouness is the interface between the external and us. Much like a VR headset abstracts away the complexities of billions of transistors firing on and off across miles of circuitry and voltages. It yields a representation of you driving a car - it feels real, but in reality the complexities are hidden.

The squashing of infinite levels of complexity and information from the macro through to quantum states is done by our consciousness.

This abstraction and encapsulation layer is unique and bound to every individual. The weights/biases of every neuron and synapse connection is different for all humans. Mathematically the differences are unimaginable.

Each of our consciousnesses are different.

Therefore each of our realities are different.

You have free reign of shaping your own reality through shaping your conscious. It’s yours and yours only.

Now if the power runs out on the VR headset - you lose the game play. The same if you walk out in front of a bus. There is a real and absolute connection between low level reality and your interpretation of it.

Directionally Correct

Now we live in a reality where it isn’t a single player game. The underlying base layer is a collective consciousness - billions of participants.

There are two things that impact an investment decision.

Is it correct? And is it the right time? You need both to be true to succeed.

You can be Directionally Correct on something but if you are too early you will never see a gain.

Swimming with the tide is easy. Swimming against the tide is hard.

Making decisions and applying resources when you are swimming against the tide is hard. You must be prepared to wait for the tide to shift before going fully at it. If you start living life in a certain way before the rest of the world has shifted to that reality - you are going to have a hard time.

Something can make complete and unquestionable sense in your mind but if the rest of mankind hasn’t adopted that same mind set (the tide), you will be overwhelmed and negatively impacted.

Being Cognizant

Do I feel that some huge changes are coming globally? Yes

Does the rest of the world’s population believe this RIGHT NOW? No

So whilst being directionally correct - you must take into account the masses opinion (tide).

Benjamin Graham described this in his book The Intelligent Investor as “Mr. Market”. The seemingly irrational flock mentality of people. As annoying as this fact exists - it exists. This base layer collective consciousness is a reality you need to adjust your decisions to.

While I absolutely believe you can manifest your own reality as per your design. You must have a design, you must will for it and you must take into account base realities such as the collective conscious.