What is scaling — and what it definitely does not concern
A modern person pays a lot of attention to this word: “development,” “growth,” “how to scale” — and, of course, connects it with money. Someone — with the number of children in the family. Someone — with the number of tasks completed: projects, employees. There were 30 employees — it became 300. Earned $10,000 a month — started earning a million. This is what a person sees as scaling.
I’m not saying there’s anything negative in these examples. But the fact is that when a person lives through the prism that real scaling and development is the change of certain indicators, parameters, and numbers, he may come to a state where he feels very unwell.
Achieving certain numbers can lead to severe degradation, not scaling.
Continuity of development: degradation vs. true growth
A person under the word “development” is used to hearing that development exists only in a positive sense. But since we are human, and we constantly experience the movement of life, we cannot stop our internal system, even the physical body — blood, blood circulation. We are in a constant state of development, infinite development.
There is a moment when a person develops — degrades, and there is one when a person truly develops — scales.
And when we move to the real perception of what scaling is:
- Scaling is definitely NOT about increasing your income or social contacts.
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Scaling is growth and increase, a change in your perception of the space around you: perception of your life, the world, cause-and-effect relationships, everything that surrounds you. True scaling is when you expand your perception — the perception of reality, the perception of your observation, the observer in you.
Perception as a fundamental practice
When we say “perception,” it’s not just about understanding that ten events are happening, and we are following them: indicators in the company, relationships at home, order in the apartment.
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Perception is the task of learning to perceive all life: a large number of diverse events that occur during the day, and your reaction to these events.
A sudden income, the sale of a contract for $100,000, if you’ve never earned that, may cause a negative emotion, while a deer you saw in the yard — an emotion a thousand times more positive. So that we don’t go into the aspect of “good” or “bad” emotions, it is important to understand: events must all be perceived, impartially. This is the natural process of human life — not for a day, not for a month, but forever.
A task you cannot lose
To set a goal “to increase income 10 times by next month” or “never quarrel with a partner” are tasks that a priori can lead to failure.
But to concentrate on expanding perception is a task that you are guaranteed to be able to perform every day.
When you say to yourself: “I want to be in a state of scaling. I realize that I will develop through the expansion of my perception all my life,” — you set a feasible task.
The danger of false benchmarks
If you believe that scaling is only the principle of “more money, more projects,” you will most likely lose. You will miss a lot of truly important moments. Many say: “I worked all my life but gave little time to my children.”
But when you understand scaling as the expansion of perception, in this case you cannot miss moments; you notice and live them consciously.
Freedom from the polarities “good–bad”
Perception removes the label “bad/good.” Life becomes solid and realistic. You notice that an event that seemed critically important yesterday has lost its value today. Every event of your life becomes a normal natural process.
I’m not saying that a person should give up emotions. Just treat the significance of any event the same way.
Dangerous crutches of “external expansion”
Many seek the expansion of perception through external stimuli: practices, trips, substances. But if perception is “done to you from the outside,” it can take back with the same force.
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True scaling is your personal, natural process.
Scaling as endless expansion
True scaling is not the fulfillment of certain goals, tasks, and parameters that we are used to.
True scaling is the expansion of your own perception, knowledge, observation of the life events that happen to you, the knowledge of the cause-and-effect relationships of these events. You can start doing this right now and keep doing it constantly, every day. Let this become a parallel task if you can’t make it the main one.
The very fact of this task is much more important than any parameters and indicators. You will feel calmer, stronger, more confident, more grounded, emotionally healthy.