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e often hear from our friends, family, parents, and teachers that they had it harder than the generation that came after them. Generally, we are expected to have similar struggles as previous generations had in different aspects: education, work, lifestyle, and so on. This is what the next generation also learns and carries the same expectations, and that cycle goes on.
What is the reason for having such thoughts? Not knowing self? Entangled in society's paradigm? We all kind of know our reasons.
What the Visionaries Have in Common
Take a separate set of people: the visionaries. Elon Musk pioneered reusable rockets through SpaceX and helped push forward other groundbreaking ventures like Neuralink. He arguably never got enough credit for being early to brain-computer interfaces, especially now that everyone seems to be getting into BCI.
Sadhguru JV advanced Kriya Yoga practices in a more accessible form that women can also take up. Traditionally, many Kriya practices were shaped around male practitioners and demanding social conditions, but his approach presents these inner practices in a way suited for modern seekers, regardless of gender.
Yann LeCun pioneered practical CNN-based computer vision systems, showing that neural networks could learn visual features directly from pixels using convolutional architectures and backpropagation, a foundation of modern deep learning.
And so on. What they have in common is that they are teachers and visionaries. They faced countless hurdles, yet they laid the groundwork that made it easier for future generations to build, learn, and move forward.
The Teacher We Often Overlook
The feminine aspect has always been a profound teacher: in tolerance, humility, surrender, and in the quiet strength of intellectually contributing without constantly seeking credit or recognition. We have simply not learned to perceive it deeply enough.
"A teacher is someone who lights the path rather than keeping you in confusion."
What Actually Makes Someone a Teacher
A teacher or a leader is someone who advances the next generation rather than having self-serving fears. A teacher or a leader is someone who has altruistic qualities. Being a teacher is a big responsibility towards the future generation.
We are all teachers in one way or another for someone. We shall make the life of future generations easier and more holistic by providing clarity.
Two Things This Points To
- Struggle repeating itself across generations is not a rule of nature. It is an inherited expectation, passed down until someone chooses to lighten the path instead.
- Teaching isn't confined to those with a title. Visionaries who build the future and the quiet, overlooked feminine strength of tolerance and humility are both profound forms of it.
So, raising perception, or self-knowing, is as important as living a routine life.
This is the inquiry at the heart of the Raise Perception initiative, and of Augmented Perception, where we're exploring how a Brain-VR interface might help more people access this kind of self-knowing as a consciously chosen experience. To go deeper into why this matters, read our free e-book, Unfathomable The Silent Knowing.