Life may be a game to some but to make a game out of it is to devalue it. The more seriously you take yourself and your story and the game you play in this world — the more does the moment lose it’s magic. You can’t take the world seriously and retain …
Tag: Success
You’re Not An Exception
You’re not an exception. If you are – prove it ten times over. There are many flimsy reasons to believe oneself to be special but very few real ones. Check ten times before you dismiss a well-proven general rule. The reason to break all the rules is to break them, not your narcissistic whims …
Dichotomy of “Following One’s Passions”
Following/ Not-Following one’s passions must be the most inimical false dichotomy there is. To follow one’s passion indiscriminately is to unawarely set oneself for a lifetime of failures and mediocrity — statistically unlikely ending with a miraculous success. To NOT follow one’s passion at all is to live a life of defeat, meaninglessness and …
Invalidating The Rules
Invalidating the rules is more beneficial then validating them. There is no benefit from validating the held truths. Modus operandi stays the same – and so do the results. There is everything to gain from invalidating the status quo. Including better methods which lead to better yields. When you’re entering uncharted territory …
You Can’t Buy “Success” And “Happiness” At Once
You can’t buy “success” and “happiness” at once. It’s almost impossible for both to happen at the same time. “Happiness through success” is the most preposterous idea there is. If you want success — get success. If you want happiness — BE happy. Anything-through-something-else is just distraction. Not unlike you will have to …
Idolatry Is Simply Absence Of Character, Ability Or Understanding
Idolatry is simply absence of character, ability or understanding. Truly high-ability men don’t idolise. Having developed a single skill to a high level — they no longer view it as some kind of a special talent or something out of the ordinary. If they need to learn something — they simply do. They don’t …
PROFESSIONALISM
One either does something to get something or does something just to do it. If it’s the former then anything less then COMPLETE PROFESSIONALISM is just nonsensical. Professionalism is identical with intelligence identical with awareness, high discernment. You’re either aware what must be done or not. You either do what must be done or …
Getting Smarter
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 …
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 …