Echo Chamber: An enclosed space where sound reverberates.

I, and you probably also - have an echo chamber. It is located in your head.

This echo chamber is an interesting place to hang out in. It is where plans come to life, anxiety is created and people get lost in their history. This echo chamber is where your hamster lives, where you wonders live, where the uncertainty of your live grows.

Inside this echo chamber, you wonder:

Did she cheat?

Does she love me?

Should I dump Mandy?

How do I build a D/s relationship?

Should I apply for that job?

Why did Joe get the promotion and not me?

Should I try to pull 315, or is 275 good enough?

Where do I want to be next month, in a year, in five years?

Can I ever respect a woman I pee on? Do I even need to?

Your echo chamber is not all bad. It is where Outcome Independence (OI) is born. In competition there are three possible outcomes. Win, lose, tie. When you visit your echo chamber, you are run through the various scenarios so that you can create OI. You can visualize, and hopefully understand that no matter what the outcome is - the only thing you can really control is yourself, and your reaction to external forces.

The OYS you posted last week? That is you living in your echo chamber. Yes - I purposefully posted this on Monday morning to give you faggots time to ditch your OYS for this week. It is why I always start my OYS with "Dear Diary -"

It is a log, an written down echo chamber. I see far to many men on this forum living inside their echo chamber. I don’t give a fuck about what happened last week in your echo chamber. Where are you going this week?

I will admit - I have been spending far to much time in my own personal echo chamber. Thinking about the possibilities of my divorce, child custody, my future and where I want to go. Lately I have been able to escape my echo chamber and make some serious, yet incremental changes to my life which has been great.

I recently made the connection on meditation. In fact, I have never seen it written like this:

"Meditation is a process by which you can escape your echo chamber, and become present in the moment."

Quote me motherfuckers, I just thought that up.

Its true for me, maybe not for you.

You echo chamber can be a very beautiful, healthy place to visit from time to time.

But get the fuck out of there ASAP.

The only place you can make real change is outside your Echo Chamber.