You likely didn’t upset that person. They were upset to begin with. It’s very easy to upset a faceless stranger. It’s very easy to impress a stranger. You don’t want to impress random strangers. You don’t want to cater to the mob. You don’t want to make it happy. Make your loved ones …
Month: November 2019
Fear As The Truth About Risk
Fear is exciting until it is overwhelming This nature of fear reveals the truth about life: Risk is advantageous until it is excessive. Then it becomes harmful. (At least when you’re antifragile) Your default risk-management system — FEAR — doesn’t always understand the risk concerned. Most people overestimate the risk in their own lives. …
You Always Get What You Deserve
You always get what you deserve. In an infinite time scale the chance of you getting exactly what you deserve is precisely 100%. Getting-What-You-Deserve is a function of number of iterations. Sometimes you can increase the number of iterations — sometimes you have to rely on the time to do your bidding. If …
POMP
Pompousness is not just painfully turgid but it outright betrays incompetence, sentimentality and delusion. If it’s pompous and “inspiring” then it’s probably not very meaningful and intelligent. You probably want to avoid it. Energy spent on appearances and emotion is energy not spent on competence and not spent on what actually gets results …
Idealisation Is Escapism
Idealisation is escapism There’s nothing “ideal” about idealisation. It’s simply avoidance of reality. There’s nothing ideal about idealisation. Nothing aesthetic about it. Reality is all there is and is therefore perfect. Idealisation is escapism and nothing else. CREATION has nothing to do with idealisation. What is ever created — future or past — …