Some ideas to keep coming often
An informed world view, or personal orientation, can be derived from the neurological, linguistic and behavioral consequences of acknowledging the inevitable limitations of both differences and similarities
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Gambler’s Conceit : People hooked on a risky behavior (e.g. gambling, smoking) reassure themselves they’ll be able to quit while ahead (before bankruptcy, lung cancer). However, their future-self tends to act a lot like them, so if they can't quit now, they likely won't quit later when they’re even deeper in.
“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Pascal…but …..The reason has its heart of which the heart feels nothing…
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.
Brian Eno
Apophenia : A tendency to perceive correlations between unrelated things, because your mind can only deal with tiny sample sizes and assuming things are correlated creates easy/comforting explanations of how the world works.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Causal factor in our hand = State of our body + Story in our mind + What we Focus on …Quality of our Attention = Quality of out Life
Who becomes a good sailor without knowledge of storms?