When you’re not looking for solutions — you find ideas. When you’re looking for solutions — your vision is constrained by the question you have asked. Question you now feel compelled to answer. You have a certain problem, certain question, and you must solve it. There are many ways of reaching the solution. There …
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The More Relaxed You Are The More Creative AND More Effective
Stress is not concentration. Relaxation is not slacking. Stress, biologically, is an organism’s response to a challenge. To put it simply — it quite simply makes you more suited for the challenge. It makes you smarter, faster and stronger. A lovely thing. Only — what is a challenge? Is life a challenge? I like …
The Problem With Modernity Is That We Are Simply Not Modern
Mankind is not so modern. We are old. Governed by our instincts. Our best response to our bestiality is to hamper it with laws and regulations. Which itself is bestiality (answering force with the threat of a force). This barely even works and we will probably kill each other soon. Whatever. Instead I …
Be Wrong Till The Day You Die
You fail. Then you fail again. And again. And again. You are wrong. Then you’re wrong again. You’re always wrong. Good. That’s what it means to be alive. You fail. You’re wrong. And then you try again. Failure is an inexorable part of life, obviously. So is being wrong. But they will tell …
You Will Be Rewarded
You want a reward. You want a reward because you want things. You want a reward because you want to believe your action, your effort wouldn’t be for granted. You want a reward, because you have a ridiculous idea that the world is just. It is just. Just not in the way you’d think. …
Standards Destroy Creativity And Spontaneity
“You have standards”. What does it mean to have standards? Does it not mean to have limits? Yes, you limit (save) yourself from the possibility of producing substandard work. You also limit yourself from the possibility of producing something brilliant. Do your standards predict genius? Do your standards encapsulate the genius? Standards destroy creativity. …
The Truth About Plans and TO-DO Lists
The truth about TO-DO lists is that you can’t complete them. Why can you not complete those lists? Does this fact render them entirely useless? Let’s enquire. On the basic level – you make a TO-DO list in order to… KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TO DO. Nothing fancy. You make a list of …
You Couldn’t Have Done More
“I could have done more” Could you really? If it truly is so, then please answer me one question: WHY DIDN’T YOU? Oh yes. You just didn’t. You say: “I could have done more but I DIDN’T.” You say you will have done more the next time. Now there is the past, the present …
Excuses Only Indicate Confusion
You have many excuses not to do something. But you want to do this thing. Or you “have to” do this thing. You use excuses to escape the doing of the thing, the doing of something. You find temporary comfort in the lie of your excuse. Until you realise your excuse was… well – just …
Your Attention Is Very Limited – VALUE Your Attention
Our attention is limited. Our attention is limited. We only have so much attention. You can spend your money and get more money but when your attention has gone somewhere – it is gone. You only can have so much attention and you put it into something and you are never getting it back. …