What do we get for pursuing perfectionism to its fullest extent? What do we receive in return for caring about our perfectionistic urges?

Peace.

This is why we bother fulfilling those urges that fall under the category of making everything in our work perfect.

If you keep getting impulses and urges and you repress, suppress, fight, resist, or inhibit these impulses or urges, you will no longer get them as much in the future.

This is what it means to be depressed. Not just sadness, but lack of will or desire to do anything worthwhile, even though you know you’d derive immense pleasure from that activity or thing.

That desire when normally generated, it gets the form of an urge or impulse that needs to be fulfilled, and if that impulse or urge is not fulfilled, followed, or chased, the desire disappears altogether, along with the possibility, willingness, or ability to have any desire of the same thing, or anything else in the world again in the future. In other words, it crushes your motivation or interest in anything that brings you pleasure or any positive effect in your life.

Now not one thing is going to make you depressed beyond help. But if you keep ignoring your desires and fighting your impulses, and whenever you want something, you give up on getting, doing, or having it, you are on the pathway that ultimately leads to major depression. This is how anhedonia develops slowly. By not caring about your urges and impulses, and by never fulfilling, following, or listening to any of your impulses, urges, or desires, until you no longer give a damn anymore, about anything there is in the world. Indifference in this case is not wisdom, but lack of humanity. This is not you being in control of your mind. This is you no longer being alive anymore. This is not enlightenment or mindfulness. This is not expanded awareness or consciousness, this is brain failure, just like there is heart failure, liver failure, Renal Failure, …etc. In other words, your brain is no longer performing its natural or normal functions. This is not just the absence of unessential happiness, this is the lack of the ability to make your brain work and function, even at the minimal level. This is non-functioning. Everything will become a chore. A dreaded activity that you have to get through to avoid criticism by society for not doing stuff expected from normal human beings that have basic levels of feeling. They think you have no emotions. They don’t know that you don’t have the energy to exercise your brain and body and generate those emotions.

Listening to your impulses is not a radical recommendation by an eccentric individual like me. It is basic entry level advice to develop, maintain, grow, and increase your intelligence and creativity. It is the only way you’ll manage to awaken your inner true and authentic self.

This is not a call to abuse people unchecked. This is a call to stop abusing yourself.

The algorithm is not what you think. You are not being tested for how good your post is by how many people from those of whom the post was sent to loved it.

Even if 100 percent of your followers positively reacted to your post, the algorithm will still do nothing about it just because the number of people who reacted to your post is still too low.

The algorithm is not trying to determine whether or not your post is good. The algorithm is trying to determine whether or not it is safe for them to send such post to other people.

The algorithm doesn’t care about the quality of your posts. It just doesn’t want people to get bored prematurely by showing them high quality posts with low engagement.

Think of it like breaking news. You are on the platform to catch up on what is going on in the world to feel less alone or isolated. They tell you what’s happening in the world.

Now the Twitter slogan is starting to make sense. Clearly an epic conversation that took place between two random people on the street is not breaking news.

How do they determine that? Engagement! If something is getting massive or insane engagement, it’s the center of attention at the moment. It’s what people decided deserves the spot light.

I know some people don’t care about what Gary Vaynerchuck has to say. The guy is boring as fuck and is clearly a snake oil salesman. But you have to check him out because this is where the attention is right now. You check out Gary Vaynerchuck because his posts are breaking news. This is what people didn’t hate at the moment. Do something similar. This is the market. This is not my opinion of Gary, this is what I know goes in the minds of the majority of the people who visit his comments section daily to say shit like I needed this today. Even Gary doesn’t respond to all comments not because he doesn’t have time, but because he’s not interested in fake or induced love. Or shall I say, he can’t stand fake news.

The bottom line is this: You are not being tested or evaluated by the algorithm through determining the percentage of the people who engaged heavily with your posts. Even if one hundred percent of the people exposed to your post reacted positively to it, the algorithm will still say meh, we’re not gonna show your post to other people. We’re going to hit the breaks on your post just because the amount (like in kilogrammes) of engagement it got still did not cross the threshold below which we don’t care about or touch your post, and above which, the algorithm will start making its moves.

The algorithm will not push your post any further, aside from what reach hashtags might give you, unless your post hits a certain level of engagement per unit time.

That is why even if the entirety of that engagement came from outside the home feed of your followers or those who are not following you yet, and also not from the explore, …etc. It would still make your post rank high in the algorithm, even though the algorithm never did technically test it on people by showing it to a random sample after the other. For example, if all the engagement came from sharing your post in your story, or just told people to go engage with your latest post through a live stream you did on YouTube, or through a tweet without a link to your post.