Yes video games are addictive, rather unhealthy and kinda useless But so are most things, to some extent. Like with drugs — video games are not to blame — but misuse The same misuse we make of money and resources and sex and food Video games are no more useless then art, or fiction …
Category: Lifestyle
From Mediocrity to Excellence: Intelligent, Skillful Creativity Manifesto
There’s the Known and there’s the Not-Known. The Not-Known is THE NEW The Not-Known came first. Before we knew anything — we knew nothing. Before the legacy, before the skill, before the craft, before the knowledge — there was only the discovery. The unknown. The CREATIVITY. Creativity comes always first. It has always came first. …
Celebrate Small Succeses
Celebrate small successes — for that’s what gets you going — and makes the going worth it. Complacency is not satisfaction with small successes — but merely smug denial of the existence of grander possibilities, caused by insecurity. Derive pleasure from what you do every day and not from what you get …
Give Up Hope
You should give up You should literally give up. Give up hope. LET GO of hope. Do you need hope…? Hope has positive connotation in our culture. But is hope positive? Is hope positive? What is hope? What different is hope to desire? Why do you need hope? Doesn’t hope imply becoming? Imply your hope …
Dissipation – Moderation – Safety – Exploration
Sensual desires are nothing in comparison with the psyche’s craving for permanence It’s better to be dissipated then safe Dissipation is futile and vain but at least it’s a genuine try Safety it is ever doomed because there is no safety there is no permanence no escape from death no escape from change …
Be Slower
be slower take your time go deeply and attentively We are always in a rush From the earliest age we’re conditioned to DELIVER on time. Be at school on time. Do the homework on time. Pass the test on time. Be back home on time. We develop serious scarcity mentality in regards to TIME. …
Musings: Letting Go
Not-letting-go brought more suffering then letting-go ever did You may not get where you wanted to get but if you transcend the want in the first place — there is nothing that’s ever forsaken. Oft it’s the unwillingness to let go which keeps us from getting where we want to get, Compulsive need …
Perseverance / Stubbornness
When we stumble upon to goldmine at the end of the valley we extol the virtue of PERSEVERANCE When we waste our lives seeking gold which was never there we curse STUBBORNNESS Get over this black-and-white thinking. Be neither stubborn nor persevering but INTELLIGENT instead. Plough on a little bit longer than it seems …
More Optimal Then Gym
Health is imperative but don’t delude yourself 5/7 in the gym is the most optimal either for your health or your life in general. Homo sapiens is not made to carry too much muscle. If you think he is then why it’s so hard to put on the weight? It’s much MUCH easier to stay …
Delusion Will Always Thrive When There Is Not Simplicity
Is psyche simple? It could be. It probably is not, for most of us. Our mind is like a cluttered room. There’s a lot of stuff in it. Some useful. Some useless. Some old and some new. Some at the front desk and some thrown somewhere under the rug. Most of that stuff is garbage. …