Status Updates From İrade Terbiyesi

Instructors in universities are unfortunately oblivious to creating rapport with their students, unlike high school teachers. There is an elitist culture for instructors working in universities to have this unreachable attitude and act like they are the only trustful sources of knowledge. Their “encyclopaedic” approach only degrade the education system to value memory rather than intellect.

It is a nonsense to believe that a) one cannot find time for intellectual development within 24 hours and b) large metropolitan cities are the only places for accumulating intellectual capacity. Both are being told by those who are against decentralising the monopoly of intellectuals in the parliament and those who have internalised sloth to their bones.

Overcoming lust and protecting sexual energy; refusing to be amicable to those who have lustful plans; ceasing to drink alcohol or to eat excessive amount of meat products; only laying down on a bed when needed and getting up immediately after waking up; avoiding to purchase a very comfortable bed; criticism on current literature and on doctors always stating the false narrative that only love is needed in life.

On the idea of marriage in humility: girls or women who are excessively interested in worldly passions are to be avoided by men, as smart girls or women who are exceptionally ahead of them in terms of deep thought and understanding can provide an invaluable bridge between the outer world and the inner world of men; a conjoined life in humility provides stronger bonds in marriage.

Resting and getting energy is necessary for consistent effort: taking breaks is essential; nighttime studies are to be avoided; no matter how much time sleep requires, it is a must not to postpone staying awake at bed as it generally reinforced the idea of self-pleasuring activities; instead of being suffocated participating in indoor sports, it is recommended to go for ice skating, swimming or gardening.

Physical exercise is great for overcoming the dullness of life as well as sloth, yet if the physical exercise is overwhelming it eventually blocks mental capacity; there is a weighing dissent in the idea of athleticism: meaning that it is illogical to be proud of physical qualities that cannot even be matched with that of animals; physical and mental prowess cannot be sustained together, meaning one needs to go.

Stretching exercises where two arms reach up in the air and involves deep breathing, and slowly arching the arms on the sides, therefore repeating the natural involuntary stretching happening in the morning.

Implications of physical soundness and health towards intellectual faculties of mind: considering the effects and providing solutions for warmth, cold, humidity, air quality, food, exercise; it is not advisable to consume meat more than necessary; unusual surge of albumin destructs the body; unnecessary consumption of food consumes too much energy for digestion that it interferes intellectual capacity.

Procrastinating is a crime against one’s own energy; setting clearer goals for tomorrow to avoid vagueness; using stamps or cues in a book in order not to have to read it again; multitasking is degrading the quality of the mind: mind should focus on one task at a time; a life centred around only the responsibilities of work and pleasure outside of it is wretched.

Resiliency involves acting out the necessity in the physical world to avoid worldly passions after producing enough deep thought in the mental world; minute yet consistent efforts are quintessential for pursuing any creative purpose in thought; the opportunity is always available for the one who already sits on the work chair and knows what is needed to do, including planning the day ahead.

Approaching solutions to an addiction involves clear and concise ideas of criticism: one is ought to think even the minute details of the addiction; the amplification of focus involves reading about the topic and reading the words out loud; seclusion in holidays around nature is highly recommended for deep thinking and self-criticism, meditating in daily chores can be done if one may not find the means to do so.

Dreamers, architects, philosophers, inventors played a better role in advancing humanity than politicians, hedonists, conquerors; justifying the idea of white lies and refusing the purist approach by Kant; openly explaining the notion that designing an idea is considered acting; the technique of visualisation is a form of action; initiating protocol for deep thought; words carrying significant value in mind

Exposure of education, family, culture, peers to a growing child; tolerating hedonistic behaviour just because of their youth triggers moral decay; hedonism should be avoided by those who value their mind; the level of lexicon displayed by philosophers and mentally prestigious individuals is naturally larger than the so called nobles.

Psychological exercises including focusing on transient thoughts and flowing emotions, challenging unwanted feelings and passions with dissection by thought and criticism, applying “out of sight, out of mind” rule; introducing the visualisation technique where one dreams of a good life if it is spent on responsibilities and mental development as well as its adverse version called “anti-visualisation”.

Passions disintegrate if presented with wilful dissection by thought and criticism; there are situations where passion can be decided to remain by restricting curiosity, knowledge; if passion fiercely attacks the will of the mind, the author strongly urges the audience to resist by all costs; what we believe comes down to what we are exposed continually; sexual urges can be redirected towards non-sexual activities.

If there is a task to accomplish, an idea to actualise; the author directs the audience to work on the task or the idea instead of being stuck in the loop of sloth. Surprisingly, author inaccurately tries to give an example of sharks needing a “support fish” to guide it towards the victim as they are blind in sight and in smell, yet sharks are quite capable of smelling very well.

Essentially claiming that if one gives oneself a trauma, then this opens the possibility of improving oneself, therefore there is a room for control. If stubborns sacrifice their health, passion and honesty, shall we not have the capacity to devote our time and attention towards intellectual awakening for five ours a day? Novelists are successful because they trigger dormant emotions in crowds.

Concluding that there is simply nothing one can directly do against our emotions, therefore pure control of the will may be achieved indirectly; exemplifying situations of which generates a kind of emotional state: religious ceremonies, ceremonies of the states, how quickly an emotion can spread out to the crowd; one cannot just overcome an emotion such as lust, yet one needs to provide support on resisting it.

The influence of our will towards our thoughts; emotions: how some people discard their purest emotions to become a puppet, i. e. ripped off of their emotions; the influence of emotions on willpower; applying self-restraint, calmness and quietness against “puppets”; revenge is for the unwise; psychic distress is an organic trigger for lust.

Effects of the ideals, e. g. thoughts, on our emotions: how certain thoughts can influence greatly how we carry ourselves by giving extrapolated & unusual examples in order to make a positive stamp on the matter.

Taking a decisive side against the deterministic values put and supported by Kant, Schopenhauer and Spencer that character is genetic or hereditary therefore it shall not be altered; freedom is a prize for the deserving therefore nobody can truly achieve freedom if one cannot deserve it; improvement comes only through internally-validated interest of effort, meaning one needs to be willing to take responsibility.

Resistance to dogmatic ideas of deterministic thought: character is a combination of various aspects and therefore it can be altered, otherwise we would not attempt to educate; mental capabilities will subside as one lives in a way that requires no effort of thought; focusing on sloth and slothful studying that burns like a candle against the wind; creative & independent thought derives from consistent effort.