It’s only natural to be REPELLED by behaviors which don’t lead you to where you want to be (providing you know and value the place you want to be). Such REPULSION has nothing to do with “being negative” or “mean”. It’s a natural protection mechanism for values. Conversely: If your values are …
Category: Lifestyle
Convey YOURSELF
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 …
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 …
TRUE Cure For Procrastination
The best cure for procrastination is actually doing WHATEVER-THE-FUCK-YOU-WANT When you truly do what you want — you don’t have time to procrastinate. It’s simply no longer attractive to you. You don’t have time to waste because you could be doing something amazing The simple but profound truth about procrastination is that we are …
Overexcited About Someone Else’s Dream
If we were only half as excited about our own lives as we are about someone else’s lives, someone else’s worlds… You’re excited about stories of man greater then you, who can never be you You’re excited about stories of worlds which exist not, which can never exist You’re excited about everything but what …
Inspiration = The Inspiring + The Proactive
Inspiration is exposure to The Inspiring + Proactive Response To The Inspiring The Inspiring is The New Proactive Response is action, interaction To one uninspired, unmotivated, subsequently unhappy, apathetic — it’s either one of the two Obviously you will not be particularly excited about a boring life. It’s self-evident. Exposure …
Waiting NOT Optimal
Waiting is not optimal either for your goals or your experience of life Wait without waiting Wait without needing or expecting Wait only in stoic understanding of the cause and effect Waiting, psychologically, is a delusion — just like time is. There’s only what you do now and what you do now …
You Are Scared To NOT Be Boring
You are scared to NOT be boring The average is the boring is the accepted The extraordinary is the rejected We wonder why is everyone so dispassionate and generic It’s really obvious. The unification is a coping mechanism Everything of lower consciousness will acquire it’s character from it’s environment The higher the consciousness …