No Lies Please

When in doubt change the environment. Nothing is keeping you how you are situated. Don’t like how things are? Stop wondering and change them. The time will pass anyway, make the best of the moment you have now.

There is a tendency to over-think. Self-consciousness destroys the habit of using intuition. Behold the power of your unconscious, the holistic view that sees the gaps as well as the parts. What can be done by looking intently at the details of the parts, unless they bind together into a whole?

Life is about action not reaction. What can you do that you aren’t doing? Why not?

There is a choice to live the moment, and it must be continually reinforced by your action. It must be continually adapted by your brain and your philosophy of life, so that you exist in harmony with yourself. Move long-term goals forward, break them up and order them. Progress is almost always evolutionary, not revolutionary. … [Read more…]

Craftsmanship gives life meaning. It’s easy to bow out of work, but disuse and idleness drains energy.

The world is your function, what you put in you get out. It’s really not that hard, life has a feedback loop. If you require vast machinery and the comforts of life to be happy, you will be unsatisfied. If instead merely observing a bug crawling on a rock, or a hawk perched in a … [Read more…]

A hard thing is done by becoming motivated. Study what makes you excited, and why so. In that is the key to bliss.

Friend, there is the old saying, “begin with the end in mind.” Applied to life, what does well-lived look like to you? Long-term satisfaction is difficult to stumble into, we must set up the causes. And the principles of those causes, that is what is important. Different people are different, but you are you. What … [Read more…]

The belief of eventual immortality through science and technology is relatively rare, but I hold it close to my chest. Channelling the strength to ignore the precepts of current civilization, favor a bolder freer future, and break down the barriers of death is difficult, at times seeming impossible. Yet this belief is not magic, but … [Read more…]

If you always do your best you leave no time for rest. Think long-term strategy, not short-term tactics.