20-04-12 Ways in which people tend to be asleep

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1. Self Awareness sleep

1. Not knowing what you’ve been doing
2. Not knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing
   1. Not checking whether your reason for doing what you’re doing is being accomplished by what you’ve been doing
3. Not knowing what your emotional world is like
4. Not knowing who you’ve been being
5. Financially asleep
   1. Treadmill, ‘keeping up with the Joneses’
   2. Paycheck to paycheck with no change in decision making
   3. Lack of financial initiative leading to a deep lack of freedom in life
6. Working life sleep
   1. People going into a job with which they’re disengaged, taking on motions and moving your meaning to other parts of your life
   2. Not applying to new, more exciting roles that would be deeply engaging & growthful
   3. Never overcoming the activation energy of getting into a new job / making progress
7. Ambition sleep
   1. A continual set of ‘until’ which lead to never moving on true purpose
8. Spiritual sleep
   1. Living outside of alignment with spiritual ‘beliefs’ for the sake of practicality, and becoming out of touch with yourself
9. Romantic sleep
   1. Going through the motions in a relationship where you take one another for granted, losing romance and failing to grow until you’re shocked out of the relationship by some reminder of what’s possible
10. Value sleep
    1. Running the value system of others uncritically, or of your old self uncritically, and slowly falling out of line with who you think you are leading to paralysis and uncertainty in your misalignment
11. Social sleep
    1. Same set of friends, all the time, never exploring, never changing for the sake of inertia
    2. Acting as a passive force in group or individual conversations and taking no agency over the interaction
12. Emotionally asleep
    1. Emotional deadness, coming out is a life-changing experience
    2. Out of touch with unconscious emotions, incapacity to be genuinely vulnerable
13. Intellectually asleep
14. No new content, insights, creation
15. A futile sense you’ve maxed your portfolio so learning new things is pointless
16. Googling or looking up answers instead of coming up with them yourself (no matter the domain)
17. Technically asleep
18. No growth in measurable technical skills
19. Creatively asleep
20. Consuming content without producing anything for yourself
21. Deriving aesthetics off others without making your own
22. Feeling no or little sense of a rich inner life
23. Using existing concepts instead of creating concepts and vocabulary to navigate the world around you
24. Narratively asleep
25. Running old narratives that are juvenile or no longer working but not updating them out of inertia or nostalgia
26. Competitively asleep
27. Feeling no sense of challenge or competition, nothing to win, nothing to kill, nothing to live or die for, no opportunity to assert dominance and power
28. No danger in life

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