Something to remind myself of
If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task. You can't assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.
Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects
“Nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence.”
-Octavia Butler
Have faith: whatever the goal, the universe will provide lessons. Those lessons will either contain the growth to make you strong enough to accomplish the goal, or the wisdom to see a better goal.
Emmett Shear • Tweet
Somewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
all things grow in seasons (limits)
all things grow in silence (attention)
all things grow in ecosystems (the other)
The importance of patience and cultivation in well-doing, emphasizing the long, invisible process between planting and reaping.
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Eugene Peterson suggests that the person who looks for quick results in the seed planting of well-doing will be disappointed.
If I want potatoes for dinner tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes in my garden tonight.
There are long stretches of darkness and invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping.
During
... See moreI am comfortable with doubt and am constitutionally resistant to moral certainty, herd mentality and dogma. I am disturbed on a fundamental level by the self-serving, toddler politics of some of my counterparts – I do not believe that silence is violence, complicity, or a lack of courage, but rather that silence is often the preferred option when... See more
Tom Davenport • Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #337- I’ve had several disagreements with friends about where you stand on things. Where do you…stand?
It’s easy to get caught up in trying to fix all the things you’re bad at. Instead, identify your strengths and play to those.
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