Everyone wants to make more smart decisions but no one actively works on getting smarter. Everyone is looking for the next big thing and next cool trick but no one exercises the brain. You lift weights physically to strengthen your muscles but do you lift weights mentally? Do you hit your brain-muscles …
Tag: Success
Own Choices
Few men make their own choices. Usually we only choose from a few alternatives. Often less then that. Often we relinquish all the control, all the responsibility. We are desperately dependent on our environment. Since our choices are not ours – they belong to our environment. Positive influence – positive outcome. Negative influence …
Terrible Shortcomings of the Winner’s Mentality
Does “winner’s mentality” make you win? Is “winner’s mentality” a good idea? Do you want to win? Do you want to do the right thing? What do you want? What’s winner’s mentality? I imagine it’s mentality of a person predisposed to win. If so – it’s related to winning. So does it make …
The Grand Theory of Opportunity, Momentum and Freedom
You are here. You are influenced. You get conditioned. You can only be influenced to the extent to which you are empty. (You can only be sensitive to the extent to which you are empty.) When you have became conditioned – you cease being pliable. When you’re full (of knowledge, beliefs, conclusions, thoughts), …
Value and Consequences
Why is this “success” thing so convoluted and enshrouded in mystery? There’s plenty uncertainty and unknown in life. Doesn’t matter. You don’t have to be certain. You only need to be pretty sure. I’m pretty sure there are consequences. Can you produce value? Can you give value? What are the consequences of producing …
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
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 …
Look At The Intelligent
Our natural instinct is to look for ways to confirm our previous beliefs. It’s called confirmation bias. In fact it is not entirely useless. If we can find circumstances in which our beliefs are true – they practically become true. Pragmatically, your beliefs render you positive results. But for those of us concerned not …