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“We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think."
- L'Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet (The Crosswicks Journals Book 1) (p. 149). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.
Application of knowledge is fundamental to all areas of life. Use the minimum number of available tools to their full advantage.
The balance between what is necessary and what you think is necessary is a slippery slop I’d like to investigate
Side hustle culture shouldn’t replace meaning in our lives. How do we cultivate meaning?
What are the pros and cons of being average? Is this a good, healthy motivator?
Sam Harris once said, about smoking weed, that everyone he knows who smokes weed would benefit from smoking less, and everyone he knows who doesn’t smoke weed would benefit from smoking more. I feel the same way about the pursuit of self-knowledge. If you’ve never looked within, you should probably start. But if you look within all the time, maybe... See more
max nuss • The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
Witnessing the bigger and smaller pictures of our work and ourselves. The harmony between these two sizes is important
Debunking the myth that enlightenment means never comparing yourself to others; true wisdom involves acknowledging transitory human emotions
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So the first myth is that there's some level of wisdom or enlightenment or success that you stop comparing yourself to others. There is no evidence of that. In fact, I find it very amusing how much like pop spirituality and pop self-help, when you actually look at what they idealize, it's basically just being a psychopath. Yeah. They're peddling
... See moreTLDR; self help gurus promote an unrealistic, psychopathic ideology when try self help is understanding how our humanness is given meaning from ourselves
“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”
- what Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:
Translates the idea of enjoying the process via deconstructing a familiar saying (“bearing the fruits of your labor”)
You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.
youtube.comboredom. emotions.
How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
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