2 cases of people not being afraid of death and about the curse of the professional.

Table of Contents

• If you ask science, “How far has mankind progressed in understanding death since ancient times?” The answer would be 0 (zero).
• We can’t walk through walls.
• So who knows more about humans?
• And the scientists are still ponying up for grants.
• But I liked creating and selling more than asking to create.
• 2 news stories: Good and bad.
• This problem has long been researched and solved.
• So what is the solution and how can it help you?

1st case — When a person has accepted death and is ready for it always, at any moment. Example, the approach to training professional warriors, at least in some traditions.

2nd case — When a person knows that death does not exist. There really are variations here.

In most cases, a person believes that death is only a transition, and fears not death, but pain. In rare cases, a person has learned something that makes it absolutely certain that death is not what most people believe it to be, so death does not exist in the sense that people usually put into the term “death”.

For people see only a certain event, only part of the phenomena that accompany the cessation of the body’s functioning. No matter how hard science tries, alas, there is no definitive solution to this question. Moreover — there is not even a partial, not even a tiny advance.

If you ask science, “How far has mankind advanced in understanding death since ancient times?” The answer will be — 0 (zero).

The body-mind issue is still 100% open.
The question — what are dreams — is still 100% open.
The question of the nature of consciousness is also still 100% open.

Despite the huge number of disparate facts, phenomena, all we have is a lot of speculative theories that have minimal predictive and explanatory power in a local situation. This uncertainty gives rise to a mass of metaphysical theories that attempt to explain consciousness within the paradigm that is dominant at the moment. For example, information technology, algorithm theory, AI, and general systems theory now rule. On the basis of these ontologies, scientists produce a lot of articles, these articles are cited by other scientists, Hirsch is growing, grants are coming in, but ask a scientist: “If you are so smart, go through the wall. At least through a drywall wall.” He won’t pass, he’ll start babbling nonsense about an incorrectly posed question. Bottom line?

We can’t walk through walls.

• We can’t travel instantaneously across distances.
• We can’t travel through time. Not even! It would seem!
• We can’t create things out of imagination (although stop here — entrepreneurs and creators can).
• We can’t even predict the date of death. Let’s say a person wants to go to Kislovodsk, “but he can’t do it”, and we all know why!

Or, take some prominent psychologist, scientist, and suggest to him to make 100 million people simultaneously start jumping, shouting some noise, putting on strange clothes, painting themselves with synthetic colors. It won’t.

And Kim Kardashian can!

So who knows more about people?

The one who is able to control them or the one who says clever words but can’t control people? It turns out that any middle-of-the-road selz knows more about people than a highbrow scientist who writes articles about it.

There will probably be some who think I’m attacking science. I’m not. I am far worse and more dangerous than the average corporate slave who does science for a paycheck. In a way science is my religion, I am a religious science fanatic. I don’t get grants, I don’t worry about citations, I don’t care about Hirsch, I don’t get a salary from the government, and I don’t have bosses and efficient managers, I don’t care about reputation in the professional community. I have no constraints that have nothing to do with science.

Therefore, I can do science. And most importantly — for me there are no uncomfortable, marginal topics, I do not recognize mainstreams. I write about what my intuition and curiosity tell me, not about what they give me money for and send me to conferences to eat and drink for free. Successful startups — doing what they want to do, not who approved something.

And the scientists are still ponying up for grants.

Grants are good, they’re the right thing to do. Otherwise science is impossible. I got a lot of grants once.

But I liked creating and selling more than asking to create.

If you like creating and selling more than asking, you have a lot of experience, expertise, but you do not understand how to monetize it all, you dream of creating a product based on your expertise, I have 2 news for you:

2 pieces of news: The good news and the bad news.

The bad news is that any expert, professional is caught in a dichotomy between the desire to do what they love and the desire to have a lot of money, and, therefore, to sell.

This obstacle is one of many that prevent them from realizing their potential. Not to mention the lack of the right skills and knowledge. We can safely say that for the most part, a specialist, a professional who works for hire has almost no chance to reach a different level and leave the corporate slavery. But there is good news.

This problem has long been researched and solved.

This problem has long been researched and solved, and it is not an easy solution, let’s not kid ourselves.

However, the unanswered question remains — “What to do? How to overcome the curse of the Specialist role?”.