The curse of being smart is that there are few to show you how stupid you are. Unintelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns. Intelligent people fail to perceive meaning and patterns.. The difference between an intelligent person and unintelligent is that intelligent person naturally perceives and understands more. However, being …
Category: Lifestyle
Attached to Feeling Good
“Feeling good” can be an attachment too. You attach yourself to it. Now, whenever you’re not feeling good – you are feeling even worse. Can “feeling good” be captured? Can happiness be captured? Can it be encapsulated in a word? Words? By naming your feeling it now becomes an idea. A standard. Now …
Your Toolkit Expands With Your Creativity
Your toolkit expands proportionally to your creativity. The more creative you are — the broader the range of tools are you using. A huge toolbox of tools you have no idea how to use is useless. By idea – I mean a creative idea. You can have all the instruments in the world …
To Do What You Want
to do what you want this could be everything that ever needs to be said about life the deepest words, most misunderstood of all the words, quite certainly. We don’t do what we want. We do what we hate. We don’t do what we want. We do what we think we want. …
Shitty Life Is Not a Challenge
Shitty life is not a challenge. Being miserable is not admirable. Hard work makes your life hard. Hard life is a hard experience. And then you die. Your ambition to BE SOMETHING fooled you. You die. Today, tomorrow, in a week, in a month, in a year, in 50 years. No one …
The Importance Of Luck
One who underestimates the importance of luck will also overestimate the importance of certainty. One who overvalues the importance of certainty is the one who doesn’t take enough risks. One who doesn’t take enough risks is the one missing on the best opportunities
Beyond Like and Dislike
What is dislike? Is dislike the opposite of like? Isn’t like and dislike just labels? Isn’t like and dislike a spectrum? You like eating sandwiches but you prefer pizza. You don’t like eating tomatoes but you don’t like starving either. It’s all relative. “Like” and “dislike” serve your description of the reality. …
Gratitude Cures Ambition
Gratitude cures ambition. Why would you cure ambition? Would you not want to achieve something? You precisely don’t want. You want nothing. You neither want nor don’t want success. There is no attachment. No desire. This is the beginning of freedom. I view ambition as this hunger. Why be hungry? Why …
There’s An Abyss Between Good-Enough And Not-Good-Enough
There’s an ABYSS between competent and incompetent. Acceptable and unacceptable. Good-enough and not-good-enough. Upon failure you degrade yourself. Upon victory you burst with pride. So much arrogance over something you barely control. Only the best are “good enough”. Only the worst are “not good enough”. Everyone else is welcome on this wheel of …
Do You Believe It Or Do You Want To Believe It?
Do you believe it? Or do you want to believe it? It’s a simple question, a simple idea – but we could all benefit from asking it more often. We want to believe many things. We want many things to be our way. We are petty and loud. We go about this world …