About Yourself: Self-Confidence, Inferiority, and the Unity of Knowledge and Action

About Yourself

1. Stop asking questions outwardly; ask inwardly
1. Do not keep questioning things; keep questioning the facts
1. Don’t create false dichotomies, deny, or judge.
1. Don’t stand in front of the mirror. Stand behind it, then walk around to the front.
As Siddhartha says: The you that you see isn’t the real you, and the you that others see isn’t the real you either. The people you see are the real you.
Summary
- When you understand your goals and human nature, you’ll have a clearer idea of who you want to become. That person is the real you—the person you want to become more than anything in your life.
- The mirror: Goals = action + perseverance
  Action = SOP (keep adjusting to get closer to your goal)
  Perseverance = finding a way that works for you
  - In front of the mirror, check whether you’re following your goals.
  - Behind the mirror, look at the results of following this path, then come back to the front and make adjustments.
  - The most important thing is the “front-back-front” process. Going through it helps you discover your own problems.

Confidence comes from having done it before. When facing new challenges, you’ll feel more confident than most people.
And if you refuse to accept failure, that confidence will most likely lead to new successes.
So if you want to gain confidence, you must give it everything you’ve got to achieve at least one breakthrough or accomplishment.
Experience the sense of accomplishment that comes from winning through hard work.

When there’s a sufficient gap between your confidence and your feelings of inferiority, those feelings will automatically turn into motivation.
If you’re not very confident and feel a little inferior, you’ll keep telling yourself, “I’m not good enough. I can’t do it.”
But if you’re very confident and still feel a little inferior, you’ll recognize it as a weakness and do everything you can to overcome it.
Feelings of inferiority will automatically turn into motivation.

A state in which body and mind are at their best.: You can use your mind to control your body. Whatever you do, let your actions follow your intentions. Don’t procrastinate or make excuses. You can access your best state at any time.
Control your desires: Control your emotions; control your behavior.
Healing each other, and clearly feeling the change: When to rest; when to work hard
A state of complete harmony from within, which minimizes inner conflict and allows you to make full use of your abilities.

Can you truly put what you understand into practice?
Some examples for reference
- Actions are up to me; judgments are up to others.: Can you truly make judgments irrelevant to you?
- We all hope not to have “evil” in our hearts : Are you truly “good” toward the world?
- When faced with enormous temptations: Can you truly remain unmoved?
We often use our own standards to measure things: Once you have standards, you have good and evil; you should remove those standards from the outset and move as close as possible toward “good”
The final result: In my view, it is “the Way”: following every path that should be followed; not opposing nature; not going against nature