Fear is not completely illusionary. It’s usually 90% illusionary It’s better to be wrong 9 times out of 10 and live then be right 9 times out of 10 and die Fear is duly overcompensating You should learn from that ancient, evolutionary mechanism It’s the one whose over-prepared and overreacting that survives With …
Category: Lifestyle
Make up Twice
Always make up twice for your shortcomings When you always make up for your shortcomings — you don’t lose respect for yourself. And others may even respect you more. Few can admit to falling short and fewer still are generous enough with their efforts to overcompensate When you always make up for your …
Good Deeds
Good deeds don’t make you good Protecting the planet doesn’t make you good Giving to charity doesn’t make you good Not eating animals doesn’t make you good Protecting the oppressed doesn’t make you good Goodness is not some stupid checklist Goodness is not some game Goodness is not scoring points Obviously I’d rather …
Wisdom-Making
You don’t want to pride yourself in your wisdom This will make you foolish When you incentivize this ideal of being wise, saying wise things and coming up with wise observations — you incentivize artificial fabrication of wisdom and self-delusion. this also entails deluding others You go through your single life and all …
Make It Harder AND Make It Easier
Some always make it hard for themselves Some always make it hard for themselves and sometimes it results in arriving where no one else has been Sometimes it results in nothing but hardship Some always make it easy for themselves Some of those find a clever way to solve the same problem: quicker, easier …
Thank You Corona for Less Sports, Panem Et Circenses and All That Fucking Stupid Nonsense
Sport is dumb You watch sports to kill your boredom You end up more tired, more lazy, more bored You hate yourself because you achieved nothing — you were watching sports You hate your life because it’s terribly fucking boring — you were only sitting in front of a tv I sometimes play a …
Lying on the Beach Gets Bad Rep
lying on the beach gets bad rep lying in the sun is meditation lying in the sun is spirituality franticly running around seeing places, scoring landmarks, taking photos, as if to some report, now that is ambitious, that is mundane, that is worldly and lowly and rushed and profane and greedy and low energy …
You Are Wired To Feel Contented When Things Are Simply Normal
You are wired to feel contented when things are simply normal Happiness is not some great mystery It is the opposite — it is SIMPLICITY You are wired to feel contented when things are simply normal When you’re not dying of starvation When you’re not freezing amidst the snowstorm, far away from your comfty …
Do Better Job
Virtually everything can be done better or faster or both If you do it faster you earn faster If you do it better you earn better We over-complicate this business business Money-making business Just do something useful Then do something more useful Or more of something useful, and quicker No job is …
The Right Way
Some do what pays the bills or what’s lucrative, even if they hate it Some do whatever they want, or nothing at all Such a false dichotomy! There obviously IS some middle ground To pay the bills you get a job To do what you’re excited about you do something you’re excited about …