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grounding — virtuous reminders, identity-reinforcing truths, your guiding maxims
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I love the way this frames wealth as a tool for generosity - the kind of giving that changes lives in small but meaningful ways.
Scripture says you can’t love God and hate other people.
You can’t love God and abuse the immigrant.
You can’t love God and bully the outcast.
You can’t love God and oppress the poor.
In the face of a neighbor, we glimpse the face of God.
- James Talarico
Love the concept of interconnectedness expressed here, as in other religions. It especially reminds me of Ubuntu: I am doing as well as you are doing. I am doing as poorly as you are doing.
I want my sons to be proud of how I behave at all times.
To really extend this, I'd like my sons to be proud of each thought I have.
The average person “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting and inhales without awareness of odor or fragrance.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
Be mindful of each moment that passes and each action you take. There is much lost in the busyness of modern society.
If from the moment they get up in the morning they adhere to their ideals, eating and bathing like a person of integrity, putting their principles into practice in every situation they face - the way a runner does when he applies the principles of running, or a singer those of musicianship - that is where you will see true progress embodied, and
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Subtract and simplify before you add and complicate.
Simple is often best. It is more adaptable, easier to troubleshoot, and dramatically more likely to be Antifragile. And it most readily leads to contentment.
Be vigilant to quickly and accurately identify “fragilistas.”
A "fragilista" is a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb to describe individuals who, despite good intentions, cause fragility in complex systems by overestimating their understanding and control over them.
These individuals are characterized by a tendency to mistake the unknown for the
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