Time spent learning is never wasted. Learning something hard is confusing, frustrating at times. It’s like being a kid again. That feeling is good, though. The more you feel in over your head, the more you’re growing. But don’t forget to rest, because the battle begins anew tomorrow.
In recent days I’ve been talking with a good friend Ricardo about the self and the future of technology. I stumbled upon an idea that cleared up a problem I had with whether you’d experience a copy of your brain. Imagine you’re cloned by creating an exact copy of your cells and memories. It would … [Read more…]
There is something to be said for successfully understanding yourself. Reach down into your actions of the past and trying to discover out why you did them. Sure, you might be making it up. You might be rationalizing. But repeat this process of reflection on behavior and soon enough you’ll come to understand why you … [Read more…]
We can get caught up in the idea that the future is something that will come whether we do anything or not. You have to work, but work is beautiful. It’s beautiful because of how well you improve through it. People are not born with skills, they develop them with time and effort. Everything about … [Read more…]
I was talking with my neuroscientist roommate Spencer about some ideas of brain chips, and I remembered this journal entry of mine: 2011-12-25 Future Failure Oh great mystery, external master of this simulation, speak your thoughts with my words. For now I ask a difficult and personal question, and I always want more objective input. … [Read more…]
The task of life is to understand yourself and the paths you want to travel. But the best way to find that is to start moving. Plan less, move more. “Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” — Buddha
The only time you’re really alive is when you’re having an emotional experience. Emotions are made of the same stuff as thoughts but they touch on many levels of the human experience at once. Fear and hope are each built up over time though specific experiences. Carl Sagan said the only fears primates are born … [Read more…]
“The situation is always changing.”
There is always time to learn something new. The sense of urgency to complete a work is in fact a limitation you place on yourself. The haste that you embed in your life can only hurt you. Rushing makes you stumble. Opportunities will come again, always. That is an important fact to understand, because then … [Read more…]
Mastering a skill of value in the long-term is hard. Here are two ways to help that: increase your love of curiosity, and improve your attention. Arguably the first is the seed of a happy life. When constantly curious you’ll always be looking for why things work and how to make them better. Learning is … [Read more…]