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The greatest sign of an ill-regulated mind is to believe things because you wish them to be so.”
— Louis Pasteur
— Louis Pasteur
- the concept of inverse charisma:
E. M. Forster wrote, “To speak to him was to be seduced by an inverse charisma, a sense of being listened to with such intensity that you had to be your most honest, sharpest, and best self.”
What's in the cards?
The Buddha, at least in the stories, didn't find his answers as a strict yogi nor as someone in the world grasping at impermanent things. Being blissed out is one side of the coin, being active in the world doing good thing is another. What good is enlightenment if it leads to harm others?
Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
Never, ever, tell anyone about your problems. 90% of the people really don't care. The other 10% are glad you have them.”
—Charlie Munger
—Charlie Munger
People who experience flow describe it as “a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems,” and their descriptions of the joy of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an “optimal experience.” Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to raci
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
A wonderful question from Morgan Housel on measuring your results internally rather than externally:
"Would I be happy with this result if no one other than me and my family could see it, and I didn't compare the result to the appearance of other people's success?"
"Would I be happy with this result if no one other than me and my family could see it, and I didn't compare the result to the appearance of other people's success?"
In every challenge or even tragedy, there is an opportunity. And if you train yourself to look for the opportunity, you will be able to take control of the situation and even turn it into a positive or if it can't be turned into something good, at least something good could come out of it."
"You are free to do what you want, but where do your wants come from? ... Where is the freedom in doing what one wants when one's wants are the product of prior causes —which one cannot inspect, and therefore could not choose, and one had absolutely no hand in creating? ... We can't choose what we choose in life. When it seems that we choose what w... See more
Sloww Sunday: Babies, Metacognition, Developmental Deaths, & More
The sense of 'being aware' in mindfulness points to the fact that we generally tend to reify awareness as an inherently existing, separate thing, just as we do with the self, when, in actuality, sensations are awareness. When we see a colour, our sense of 'being aware' of it is a reification: the colour is already awareness itself. But it's importa... See more