No Lies Please

“Some experiences are blessings, others are lessons.” The more you trust life to all work out, the harder you are willing to fight for your long-term interests instead of settling.

To gain insight propose hypotheses and test them. You’ll gain actual data points to base behavior from. “This is an age of experiments.” — Benjamin Franklin Action is feedback, thought is explanatory. You can’t explain yourself into action, you have to lean into it.

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein There will always be work to done. Stop hurrying.

You will succeed either way, but you have to choose: Will you let go of ambitions? Or will you chase them?

The extent of human knowledge is growing at a very rapid pace, and yet very little has caught up with the rest. There are areas of life that are pre-digital. There are even areas that are pre-machine. This is the world we live in, and you can make it better. If that’s the case, you … [Read more…]

How can you let yourself believe? In the case of a wonderful job opportunity, or relationship or spiritual enlightenment, what is actually holding you back is not lack of skills, but absence of belief that you can have what you want. Some ‘rational’, ‘conscious’ part of you believes you cannot have it, and so you … [Read more…]

Sit down and do the work. It will get done and you will feel better for having done it. But don’t let your desires for your future impede your ability to have fun right now. Intelligence can be defined as the ability to adapt quickly. Because we humans are so intelligent, that makes our lives … [Read more…]

Comfort comes from getting rid of pain. There are two ways to do that: decrease the stimulus or increase your perspective. Look at a cloud and you’ll realize how small you are.

Why do you do the things you do? Why not change?

I was told last night that four times as many frequent Facebook users were female. There may be an evolutionary reason. Think of humans as apes that learned to cooperate and form hunter-gatherer tribes. The females need to take care of the babies and they are not as physically powerful. They might tend to gather … [Read more…]