updated clarity vs confidence + nihilism

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@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Ted Gioia
 <p>Before you indulged and abused all of those dopamine releasing poisons, you might have felt pleasure, perhaps even joy from looking at the sunset, from looking at nature, and all the mundane things in life. But after you start to indulge in bigger and bigger dopamine releases (meaning feeling increasingly more pleasure), <b>you end up desensitivizing yourself</b></p>
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 <p>When you have such a huge caliber to shoot yourself in the head with, to feel that pleasure you seek, nothing else can compare anymore, you won't feel any pleasure from anything else. The brain will anyway adapt to it and gradually, you will feel less and less pleasure coming from the same activity. <b>You are essentially reducing your ability to appreciate the world more and more, the more you seek pleasure.</b> </p>
-<p>You need to realize that <b>to pleasure seeking is a path of self-destruction.</b> All the joy, grief, pleasure, pain, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything else you have felt so far, you have experienced from within yourself, you ARE able to generate those yourself and control them, without stimulation from the outside. <u>You are supposed to produce that wellbeing from within yoursel,</u> <b>True lasting joy and wellbeing will never come from the outside, it has to come from within you.</b></p>
+<p>You need to realize that <b>pleasure seeking is a path of self-destruction.</b> All the joy, grief, pleasure, pain, sorrow, ecstasy, and everything else you have felt so far, you have experienced from within yourself, you ARE able to generate those yourself and control them, without stimulation from the outside. <u>You are supposed to produce that wellbeing from within yourself,</u> <b>True and lasting joy and wellbeing will never come from the outside, it has to come from within you.</b></p>
 <p>Hell, why do you think everyone has cannabinoid receptors in their brains right now ? Do you seriously think our ancestors were getting stoned ? On the contrary, it is the brain that is supposed to produce those chemicals from within, rather than ingesting it from the outside..</p>
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@@ -170,9 +170,23 @@ Ted Gioia
 <p>In short, to expel the poisonous identities, beliefs and addictions (since your mind isn't supposed to be society's garbage bin), you must spend at least 5 minutes every day, (ideally 20 minutes a day) repeating those mantras in your head.</p>
 
 <p><a href="../opus-nihil/index.html">Opus Nihil</a> is about dissolving addictions and compulsions, allowing you to remain still and feeling whole.</p>
+<pre><code class="nim">
+I want nothing, I need nothing
+
+</pre></code>
 <p><a href="../scio-nihil/index.html">Scio Nihil</a> is about making you realize that it doesnt matter how much you know, there is always more to know, that way you won't ever be bored or arrogant again, everyday will feel like yet a new adventure.</p>
+<pre><code class="nim">
+I know nothing, I know nothing else
+
+</pre></code>
+
 <p><a href="../sum-nihil/index.html">Sum Nihil</a> is about putting you back in your place since you are a very tiny happening in the universe, Effectively bringing back humility into you and making sure that you are no longer in the way of your own actions.</p>
-<p>These 3 mantras are all tools to restore clarity into you. <b>Clarity is when there are no obstacles in between you and what you want to percieve.</b> Identities, Beliefs and Addictions, <u>these are are all obstacles that you must destroy on a daily basis</u> to be able to maintain that clarity within you. </p>
+<pre><code class="nim">
+I am nothing, I am noone
+
+</pre></code>
+<img src="confidencevsclarity.png" class="imgRz">
+<p>As <a href="../nihilism/index.html">explained in the Nihilism tutorial</a>, contrary to most mantras/affirmations you're going to find online, the Nihilism mantras are not about building confidence (positive affirmations), but rather, <b>these are tools to restore clarity (negative affirmations)</b> into you. Positive affirmations would otherwise bring solace, puff up your ego, empower delusionnal beliefs, and reinforce automatic behavior, at the expense of your Clarity. On the other hand, <b>these affirmations bring clarity, because they are geared to destroy the obstacles and distortions that are in between you and what you are supposed to percieve.</b> Identities, Beliefs and Addictions, <u>these are are all obstacles that you must destroy on a daily basis</u> to be able to maintain that clarity within you. </p>
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 <p>Once you have managed to take your mind out of that poison being spilled everywhere in the world, you'll be able to realize everyone else that's still hooked up on it. But the thing is, the individual has to be willing to expel the poison, it must come from their own individual will, you cannot force them from the outside, it has to come from within them aswell.</p>
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