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Three-Days Priest

The expression of "Three-Days Priest" is a literal translation of "Mikka Bozu" in Japanese.

"Mikka(三日)" means three days.

"Bozu(坊主)" means a monk.

"Mikka Bozu" is an expression for the person who can give up easily. This expression derived from the trainning for Buddhist priests.

The Buddhist trainning is usually known as strict.... See more

Why is my life is characterised by incredible physical and mental energy, shining sweetness of aura, profound emotion, and indomitable intellect? Whenever I consider this I trace it back to a runaway autocatalytic feedback loop formed between the same cluster of causes: rigorously curated mental and sensory diet, cultivated positive delusion,... See more

Let’s use the work of Byron Katie, because when you realize you do what you blame others for, it has a way of instantly invalidating the debt.

What’s the problem?

She trashed my business and got away with it.

Is it true?

No. She trashed my Notion, which I don’t even use.

(In case you’re a salty ass like me, and answered “yes it’s true” you need to ask... See more

Innocence of a Child

Curiosity and Dilettantism

The more doggedly I pursue my curiosity, the more wonderment I unearth in God’s Kingdom — it is truly a shame to behold a person in whom curiosity has faltered and died. Cultivating and indulging curiosity is not only a path to wide-ranging and properly-integrated knowledge, but a heuristic for... See more

any time I get tight about money, I get tight about money. If I’m fighting with someone who does that type of stuff, about an amount I make on a regular old day of the week, I’m acting like that $1750 is the most important money I’ve ever seen. I’m constricting the flow to $1750 when the chances of us doing 180k again this December is high. I can’t... See more

if you’re an entrepreneur, you are a visionary. You see the big picture as well as the small tasks required to reach that goal. Every day you aspire to get closer to the big picture by completing a few small tasks, and every day it feels like you’re not really making progress “fast enough”, but you are. And what’s the destination you don’t feel... See more

The third and deepest kinds of friendship, according to Aristotle, are friendships of virtue . That is, you like a person because of their character. They might be fun, they might be useful, but even if they aren’t, you like them anyway. It is what the marriage vows are getting at with the line: “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for... See more

Cultivated Delusion

There is a near-limitless ceiling on an individual’s potential for freedom and accomplishment once Ultimate Agency is achieved. The only reason to attribute to yourself anything less than limitless potential is to avoid the pain of failing to meet it. This belief in infinite potential is often called delusion, but many of the... See more