🔦 Skipping introspection is how we lose our depth & authenticity

Hey guys! So I have this habit of skipping the intro of movies sometimes (stick with me here) 🎬 I mean the beginning feels slow, nothing eventful is happening yet, and my brain is like: aight, let’s get to the good part. however, the moment I do skip that, I usually sense it afterwards. The movie still makes sense… it just feels so shallow. Like I robbed myself of the depth.

Now I got this metaphor that:

👉 skipping the intro in movie => makes the movie experience shallow is the same as skipping our own introspection => makes the experience of YOU shallow. 👈

Lately I’ve been realizing that few years back I did the same thing with my introspection, I wanted to skip it so badly because it felt like such a waste of time — and now I know that if I kept skipping that phase, it would become a great obstacle in connecting with others authentically & feeling the freedom of thought that I have now🫂

It’s so easy to treat introspection like a waste of time. Like journaling is ✨extra✨ Like a long walk is unproductive. Like sitting in silence is something you do when you have your life together...."but right now?! we can't afford to waste time on this!"

So instead, we try to skip straight to the confident version of us. We try to sound authentic. We try to say the right things. We try to be magnetic. But when I skipped the quiet part, I could feel it immediately: I was edited and performish. And that’s the difference between sounding authentic and actually feeling & being authentic.

I'm curious! what’s the “intro scene” you know would help you feel more like you and grounded (journaling, a walk, silence)… but you keep skipping it...and what happens to you when you skip it?

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