You’re envious of others if you believe they gain and possess at the expense of you gaining and possessing You’re happy for others if you believe you gain when they gain Material resources Social Status, recognition Power Pleasure Happiness Life Health Self-acceptance Self-respect Love anything At any one of those matters you may …
Category: Lifestyle
That Which Doesn’t Solve Your Problem — Creates It
You have a problem You need a tool, a solution You solve the problem and discard the tool It’s dead weight It could even be used against you Once you have a problem you need solution If you don’t have a problem — then you don’t need solution If you solved your problem — …
Measure Everything
“Effectiveness is the capability of producing a desired result or the ability to produce desired output.” How does one produce anything? One utilises resources time + energy + physical resources + tools + labour + knowledge + skills, etc To produce anything one has to manage resources To effectively produce something is to effectively …
Don’t Be Sceptical — Be NAIVE
In life-living : you want to be NAIVE. You don’t want to be cynical. You don’t even want to be sceptical Of course you don’t want to be too naive. You don’t want to hit an absorbing barrier: you don’t want to die, you don’t want to go broke, you don’t want to damage your …
Conspiracy Theories
conspiracy theories are obviously nonsense but not because they are right or wrong but because they are USELESS conspiracy theories is playing stupid useless mental games — taken to extreme conspiracy theories is distracting oneself from actually doing something, taking responsibility, and LIVING — taken to the extreme conspiracy theories is ignorance of actual …
“Positive” is Nothing but Will to Improve
There’s the situation. This situation has positive aspects and negative aspects. To improve it is to: -amplify the positive aspects -eliminate the negative aspects This is all there is to it. “Positive thinking”, Optimism, “Law of Attraction”… Give me a fucking break THERE’S THE SITUATION YOU AMPLIFY THE POSITIVES So of course you …
Go Harder Yet Go Softer (Blazing Fire, Calm Water)
Go harder Go softer What does it mean to go hard? We put many labels on it, “going hard” “being hard” “hard work” “be very motivated” why don’t you dispense with all those labels… …and just try… FOCUSING ON A SINGLE THING FOR A SINGLE FUCKING HOUR Get a timer — set it …
it’s not that all things entirely disappoint…
it’s not that all things entirely disappoint all things disappoint, but only after 5 seconds or 5 minutes or 5 days or 5 weeks but eventually they do make the most out of those 5 seconds or 5 minutes or 5 days or 5 weeks then move onto the next thing with no …
To Live a Long Life
To live a long life is to have undertaken a long journey To live a long life is to do things To do things is to do many different and new things Long life is obviously not a function of time All the time in the world may pass — and you never …
Perfection Vs Mediocrity
Perfection vs mediocrity is a false dichotomy Perfectionism and mediocrity are both confusion, both are failures of understanding Perfectionism is a delusion You held delusional, non-existing standard in your mind Then you delusionally claim to be moving towards it You’re not moving towards it. You’re moving nowhere. You’re not moving towards it because your …