The pysical world is super slow. The time flows slowly. Everything takes time to perform.
This is really different from the world of mind and the digital world. In the world of mind, thoughts form, flow, transform in seconds. Oh it’s not seconds, it’s milliseconds. the learning moment always takes milliseconds to happen. But after the milliseconds, all things change.
Within your room, within your mind. You can imagine things that take 10 years in physical world to realize in just a few minutes. Yes, you can imagine a startup. You imagine it will succeed, you imagine how to construct the product, you imagine how to sell it, you imagine how the customers will come, you plan how to operate your business, you plan a big amount of money, you imagine what to do with this money, you imagine the next step after the first success, you imagine the next real adventure, the real mission—yes your first startup is just made to pave the path for the greater mission, you are just allocating resource. You imagine how the real great mission will change the world, how you will be recognized by people…
Ok, that’s enough. But come back to the real world, nothing has changed! Just the clock hands have turned a few radians, the bed sheet has been rumpled by your side, the air in the room is eerily quiet, yes, it seems like nothing has happened. Of course, nothing happened. It’s just the ridiculous activation of a few neurons in your brain. During this time, perhaps the autumn wind has scattered the fallen leaves, perhaps pedestrians have trampled on the scattered leaves, the sound of branches breaking, making a subtle noise. But nothing really changes.
The mind functions fast. When Elon founded SpaceX in 2002. He didn’t know it will take him 6 years to lauch rockets, 22 years to realize reusable rockets, and much further more time to clonize on Mars. These thing may form in his mind in a few minutes, in an afternoon, in a conversation with friends, in a meditatio when reading books. The thoughts of mind travel beyond space and time, to the void, to the future.
Even the idea of this article, it took me one moment to get, but mutiple minutes to write down.
In the world of mind, there is no time, there is no limit, there is fantasy.The final…fantasy.
But the physical world, is where your fantasy break down, the final reality.
constructing a startup takes time, from months to years. Everything takes time. Even just cooking a meal, washing your clothes, hand something to another person, or even, opening your computer, messaging to your loved one.
It also takes time for a baby to grow, for a human to die, from apes to humans, from dust to universe.
Yes, and that is the principle of the world, it doesn’t exist in the mind, but in everything else.
That’s why you should be patient. And stop overthinking about everything. In retrospect, I come to realize why I like sitting here still, just turning over everything in my mind. I know it is because I have a kind of subconsciousness. That is, once I think clearly, doing things is simple.
But it is not true. Thinking is easy and fast. The physical world is difficult and slow. I think I just get used to the fast speed of the world of mind in a very long time. I didn’t realize the real slow speed of the reality and I am not accustomed to it.
Fortunately, it is never too late to change.