One of the most valuable mental heuristics i’ve adopted for my life is:
“what you have is what you deserve”
This doesn’t mean you don’t have the potential to become the type of person who “deserves better”. You do. Probably 10X or even 100x so.
But you, as you... See more
My definition of “Life’s Work:”
“A lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are”
-via Patrick O’Shaughnessy
Maybe it’s not the achieving stuff that makes us happy, but rather the act of chasing after achievements. Most people need to feel that they are contributing to society. At least for me, when I try to picture my ideal days, it doesn’t matter if I’ve accomplished anything in the past. But my visions always involve working towards some kind of goal... See more
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place... See more