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Climate Change Is Good (Even if it’s all in your head)
Read more: Climate Change Is Good (Even if it’s all in your head)happiness = perceived reality + hope
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You Might See Better With Your Eyes Closed
Read more: You Might See Better With Your Eyes ClosedIt is only with the heart that one can see rightly;what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from The Little Prince I think of this cartoon every time my neighbor’s crazy dog begins barking and runs full tilt after my car. It seems painful every single time: He reaches the end of…
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To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the Question
Read more: To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the QuestionEven if we don’t play with matches, life does. We all find ourselves on sinking ships and must learn to swim before we are ready.
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Marcus Aurelius Was A Musclehead
Read more: Marcus Aurelius Was A MuscleheadIt’s not about what’s in the way: it’s about what and who is on the other side.
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Start With Why – And With Why Not?
Read more: Start With Why – And With Why Not?It was you in the study with the lead pipe.
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But Which Way is Up?
Read more: But Which Way is Up?Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation. Simone de Beauvoir Yes, this was the quote of the day yesterday (I recommend reading it first). Same words, different perspective. We…
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The Vitality Scale: The Ultimate Measuring Stick
Read more: The Vitality Scale: The Ultimate Measuring StickLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation. Simone de Beauvoir Is this not the scale by which you use to determine who you befriend and spend time with? On…
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Quote of the day: Be the CEO and the accountant of your life
Read more: Quote of the day: Be the CEO and the accountant of your lifeWe don’t live up to the goals we set, instead, we fall to the level of the standards we live by.
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Quotes of the day: B.S. – Part III – Deep [Bull] S**t
Read more: Quotes of the day: B.S. – Part III – Deep [Bull] S**tSometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. Frederich Nietzsche The antidote to falling for your own s**t is not about lying yourself down on a couch and psychoanalyzing your thoughts. The rational mind created the problem, and, to paraphrase Pascal – it has its reasons that the…
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Worth my time: Infinite wisdom
Read more: Worth my time: Infinite wisdomIn this episode of The Drive podcast one can’t help but ask what’s next. More importantly, we ask what now? Junger outlines how Dostoyevsky’s near-death experience – facing a firing squad – transformed his approach to life. Surviving led him to vow to turn every moment into an infinity. How often do we do that…
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Quote of the day: Your teenage genius
Read more: Quote of the day: Your teenage geniusI have a single definition of success: you look in the mirror every evening, and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18, right before the age when people start getting corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge; not your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community,…
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Quote of the day: Is that really it, or is it a proxy for it?
Read more: Quote of the day: Is that really it, or is it a proxy for it?But is the thing you want what you really want? Think hard about the regret that weighs tons we considered from the Rohn quote or the lousy bargain Kipling speaks of. It might not be what it seems on the surface: a possession, a title or career, or a specific relationship. It may not be…
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My First Lesson of 2024 Came From This Guy
Read more: My First Lesson of 2024 Came From This GuyThe mostimportant things in our lives don’t follow a script “It’s not LEGO.” I couldn’t help but think that as I watched my young nephews eagerly assemble their new LEGO kits over the Christmas break. I understand the pull, the result is dazzling, Star Wars spaceships, architectural marvels, and dinosaurs are recognizable and much cooler…
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Why You Should Fence Yourself In
Read more: Why You Should Fence Yourself InTo choose who we will be when we desire to be many things is as much an act of violence as it is an act of love, it requires much courage.
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Why I Hate(d) Ryan Holiday
Read more: Why I Hate(d) Ryan HolidayMy Confession of My Un-Stoic Ways It is foolish to be unhappy now because you were at some time past. RIFFINg on SENECA Dear Ryan, “I hate that guy.” That’s what I heard running through my head when yet another of my favorite podcasts, perhaps The Tim Ferriss Show, Impact Theory, or James Altucher, to…
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The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part I
Read more: The Rise of Jordan Peterson and Stoicism: No Mere Coincidence – Part ISearching for meaning The divergent points of view of the existentialists and the Stoics on the nature of our suffering show that over two millennia the theory regarding the cause of the dis-ease has changed, but the medicine remains essentially the same. In an age where half the population never reads for pleasure, and fewer…
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