Lifestyle Philosophy

Simple Action, Direct Experience

Firsthand experience makes stronger impression. Some things you’ll never grasp unless you’ve experienced them.   It’s often impossible to get unstuck without getting one’s hands dirty.   The subconscious pulls us back, as we wonder why we’re stuck, We only get unstuck once we believe, truly believe, that something is possible   The subconscious doesn’t …

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Aggregate Willingness Aggregate Unwillingness

Behind what you don’t want there’s a truth concealed as to why you fail to get what you DO want.   The aggregate reluctance, aggregate failure to get-what-you-want comprises of conscious and subconscious WANTS but also conscious and subconscious DON’T-WANTS.   Counting in the *wants* and counting out the *don’t wants* results in net willingness …

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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. …

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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 …

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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   …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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