Lifestyle Philosophy

Being Calm vs Being a Calm Man

You don’t want “be calm” — you want to “be a calm man”.   “Be calm” has wrong connotation in our culture. We make virtue out of staying calm when we’re provoked. We remind ourselves to “be calm” when we’re already LOSING our calm.   This already presupposes LOSING one’s calm. Why do you even …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Live Two or Three Lives

You live one life and then you die. That’s what makes it so valuable.   You go on vacations for a week and then you return to your old boring reality. Monday you are on vacations and next Monday you are back at work. Your vacations are even more boring than your work. But it’s …

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Philosophy World

You Are An Individual And You Are The World

Apparently you are not the only human on earth Therefore you invariably impact others — and are impacted by others You came into the world built by others and you will die in a world predominately built by others How much of your life do you think you can even take credit for? You are …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

Solvable and Unsolvable Problems, Overcoming

There are problems you solve — and there are problems you consistently fail to solve.   What characterises problems you consistently fail to solve? -Too big and complex for you to even get going. Barrier of entry, barrier to even starting to make a change is too steep -“Simple but not easy”: hidden layers of …

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Lifestyle Philosophy

OVERTHINKING and OVERACTING

There’s overthinking and overacting. There’s a balance to find.   The QUICKER you can test and tinker and iterate — the less you have to think. Why bother thinking — if problem naturally solves itself anyway.   If the problem is NOT solving itself however — is when you obviously should stop and STRATEGISE. Repeating …

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Philosophy World

No, We Are Not Better Than the Out Modern World

-There’s the mediocre majority -The excellent minority -And the backwards minority -I believe the whole is pushed forward by the excellent minority -The excellent minority, the heroes, the precursors, the visionaries, the saints, are miles ahead -The mediocre majority is slightly behind the average of the whole, because the whole is pushed forward by the …

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