You can read or hear something, Let’s assume that thing to be true, or useful Now there’s a number of things that can happen One option is that you DON’T UNDERSTAND it At which point — you can either be aware of this failure of comprehension, OR NOT The latter is of course …
Category: Lifestyle
Private Worth vs Seriousness
Seriousness should be earned, respect should be earned Your viewpoint is worthwhile merely because it is yours, when it is honest. I agree But that doesn’t mean it earned the attention of others (NOR does it mean that those viewpoints that have the attention of others — were earned) A viewpoint can be …
Getting an Opportunity vs Taking Advantage of an Opportunity
There are opportunities You get more of them or less of them And then you succeed at taking advantage of them, or fail to take advantage of them We often fail to take advantage of our opportunities That’s because we don’t view them as opportunities We don’t view them as opportunities because we don’t …
Better to Do Too Much Than Too Little
-you’re ungrateful -you’re greedy -you’re distracted but other than that, you’re not doing enough, you’re not active enough not ALIVE enough Setting aside motivation, and likely poison of delusion in it, setting aside frenzy, restlessness, compulsiveness, distractability DOING MORE is better than doing less directionally it’s right doing LESS is closer to death …
If You Got Lucky — You’re Left With a Tall Order or Stagnation
Let’s say you got LUCKY, what now? -you think you deserve it, naturally -you think you’ve earned it -you think more great things will keep happening to you, your growth will continue at this dazzling pace Ironically it sometimes works this way, At least you’re not lacking confidence And you can use the accumulated …
“Good Enough” Not Good Enough, “Not Good Enough” Good Enough
People mistake “good enough” for NOT good enough and people mistake NOT good enough for good enough A thing has attributes If you need something for its particular attribute — all things that have that attribute are good enough Optionality however, the extra potential utility — doesn’t make it better now — but …
Vice Spreads and Corrupts The Rest
I once wrote: Weakness Transcends the Weak and Corrupts the Whole I was too narrow. I should have written: “Vice spreads and corrupts the rest” or maybe simply: “Corruption spreads” See there are two paths: 1) You’re already mediocre and complacent, and complacently let yourself gradually sour, corrupt, rot 2) You’re doing quite …
Think Big and Give Up are Not in Contradiction
Similar idea is explored here: The World as Paradise and Great Disappointment consider this a more practical extension going after what you want striving trying things exploring evolving are obviously good What does good even mean here? Selfishly, solipsistically, they make you happy They make you thrive, before you die We don’t have …
The Software and Hardware of Mind
There’s a computational theory of mind Maybe it’s right maybe it’s wrong It’s cute, philosophically But isn’t it profound practically? Your results are downstream from your actions, which are downstream from your mind Isn’t your mind quite like a computer? We speculated about our nature since time immemorial But aren’t computers some of …
Reset Your Life by Asking What You Love
I surely wrote about it a rather immature piece before, but there is truth in some simplicity You really should reset your fucking mind, life, goals, attitudes, every now and then By asking yourself “WHAT I LOVE” and then either doing it immediately, or asking what STEPS are necessary to take, then taking those …