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Climate Change Is Good (Even if it’s all in your head)

happiness = perceived reality + hope
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To Burn or Not to Burn, That is the Question

Even 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

It’s not about what’s in the way: it’s about what and who is on the other side.
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The Vitality Scale: The Ultimate Measuring Stick

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 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

We 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

Sometimes 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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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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Take Your Meds

The truth may set you free, butb that does not guarantee that you will fight for freedom.
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Why You Should Fence Yourself In

To 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

My 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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Sorry, around here, safety isn’t even our second priority

Because who you could be is part of who you are, I cannot guarantee your safety.
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