The Tipping Point — Part 2
Folding a page backward, emphasis was laid on the act of walking the wire, making every step and taking what comes while feeling the rush all the way up. Ambition is raw emotion, and it like any other is a tad too agile to command its intensity with little practice.
Let’s zoom out, still fixating on the same picture, and magnify on yet another crucial aspect. It’s not the engine or the throttle of the car on the road, but the driver itself, which as a matter of fact has a massive impact on every excursion it embarks upon. The walk here is as simple as understanding the game of golf. If there’s wind influencing the ball against its projectile, one simply aligns the golf stick to prevent the ball from going astray.
Human minds determine the tipping point. Ironically, they also fall prey to the very thing that is influenced by them, another one of the Walk’s enigmatic paradoxes. Why did I have to make it so confusing? Well frankly, when I thought about it, I was as confused as you are, but it gets linear and simple, sooner than you think.
It’s a popular opinion, our decisions and the doors we pick determine our future. This in essence is absolutely true, which implies we determine our rise and fall, we direct and govern our way through, we establish our own tipping point. What we fail to grasp is that our thinking while making that very choice is subject to imbalance. The concepts of ‘over’ and ‘under’ thinking are the manifestations inside which inadvertently affect our reality outside.
Now I’m getting there.. Overthinking is funny, in a very eccentric way. It’s actually funny, you overthink when one subconsciously realizes you haven’t thought enough about something. And when one is overthinking, he provokes a new seed to sprout in the garden of his mind, essentially a new thought makes way. Since this plantlet is pristine and fresh, we unconsciously feel we haven’t nurtured it enough, which implies we’ve ‘under’ thought about that particular theory. Our mind, quite innocent in its natural disguise, keeps watering that plant until all its utilities are extracted and collected at the back of our minds and replaced by the next one.
By now, it must be quite intuitive that it’s a vicious loop. ‘Under’ chases ‘Over’, and ‘Over’ gives birth to ‘Under’ (we’re still talking about thinking here), another one of mind’s mindless paradox. We’ve all been privy to this at one point in our lives, and I’m certain we end up where Bill Paxton in Frank James did,
“Hell of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.”
What now? Well the answer is right in front of you. Don’t let your mind fall off the tipping point. Easier to preach than practice? Well, how about this. You’re ruminating over something. Keep a track of the number of doors you open in your palatial mind. Five, or perhaps ten? You’ll look for everything to subsume and then turn the knob to the next one. If there’s an eleventh, you know you’re opening rooms you do not want access to. You know the drill, just stop thinking. We don’t know when to stop the thinking, well now you just might!
This article is a part of the Tipping Point series, which aims at directing your focus to the simplest of things which impact our lives in ways we cannot imagine. If you like the article, do drop a clap. Until then.
