Perhaps friendship is confirmed the moment when one recognizes aspects of oneself in another.
Perhaps one must be a little afraid of over-rationality when choosing life’s path. Perhaps sometimes we just need to jump in…hard to know when that “sometimes” is though.
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Many things are creations, figments of our mind, and do not “actually” exist.
Have you ever met a company? I haven’t.
Perhaps The United Nations, the idea of a country, human rights, legal contracts and corporations may all be figments, imaginations, extrapolations of modern society. Perhaps lawyers are the sorcerers of our times; enforcing and awarding and punishing those that betray these covenants of reality.
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Flow is just the right amount of difficulty to keep you challenged and just the right amount of ease to keep you entertained. It’s the activity for its own sake.
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Math is often giving you the information again in another form.
1 plus 1 was already 2.
“There’s my wife I married her. You already told me you married her by telling me she’s your wife.”
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Adults tend to operate much more on autopilot: performing the super-familiar tasks of domestic life while most of their attention is on some past, future, or hypothetical moment. As children we’re immersed, quite helplessly, in present moment experience, which creates long, vivid days, with many more touch points for memory and appreciation.
Mindfulness, one of the qualities developed in meditation, begins to shift the balance back, effectively lengthening our lives by deepening our days and years. The more life is weighted towards attending to present moment experience, the more abundant time seems
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Remember, you don’t have to make your money back the same way you lost it.
Embrace being lost
Embrace unassigned time
Efficiency is for machines
Failure and the new requires low efficiency
Don’t become a master too early
Some uber-successful 70-year-olds are still asking what they wanted to do when they grow up
First do what you like
Then what you like and what you’re good at
Then what you like what you’re good at and what you can get paid for
Would you hire someone to teach you how to climb a mountain if they’ve only climbed half the mountain?
No Risk = No Future