During reading The Inner Game of Tennis
When God created humankind, He first equipped us with a genius-level module: Self 1.
With it, humans gained an almost divine power—learning anything at lightning speed purely by intuition. Self 1 excels at absorbing images, sensing them, probing them, and then mastering them.
After finishing His work, God realized He had made humans a bit too OP (over-powered). Everyone was practically running with cheats enabled; the world hit the fast-forward button—rapid progress, followed by rapid ruin.
So God set out to retrofit humanity. He devised another device inside the human brain, called Self 2. Its job is to interfere with Self 1’s genius: it generates noise that disrupts Self 1. With Self 2 in place, human capability toned down, and worldly development slowed to the pace God intended. God has kept this Self 2 version of humanity ever since.
A small number of “mutant” humans have discovered this pattern and tinkered with methods to silence or slow Self 2, allowing Self 1 to take the wheel again. Yet because these techniques are so hard, they circulate only among the few. The wisdom of Chinese Taiji, and modern classics such as Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, are all related to this craft.
In short, the craft boils down to:
- Shift Self 2 from thinking to merely observing, reducing its interference with Self 1.
- Feed Self 1 images or videos—observe, ponder, practice, then internalize.