Lifestyle

Force Yourself To Joke

Literally force yourself to make a joke   Right here right now, make a joke Look around and force a joke about what you see Or about what you think Or about anything   Then laugh hard, if it’s worth laughing If it’s not, then find another joke Build upon the previous joke with a …

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Success Guarantees Animosity and Separation

Success Guarantees Animosity and Separation   Success guarantees animosity and separation The more you “succeed”, the more you separate yourself   Obviously you do. You become different to get different outcomes Furthermore in getting different outcomes — you lose interest in the old outcomes Including old people, their old opinions, their old activities, all the …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Give Up To Reallocate Resources

There are only opportunities   You find the best opportunity and then go in that direction   How far you went doesn’t matter — if a better opportunity emerges You just change direction   Why is “perseverance” an ideal, then? Perseverance is an ideal because of OPACITY involved, UNCERTAINTY involved You actually DON’T KNOW what …

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Giving is Selfish, Altruistic and RATIONAL

Giving is obviously beneficial to the receiver — AND the giver Giving is obviously beneficial to the giver, selfishly   It takes advantage of the reciprocity bias — often you’ll get more in return than you put in   In giving you acquire trust You reveal peaceful, helpful intent And in continuing giving you maintain …

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