Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Eventually we’ll have machines that can dream. But there’ll always still be the hard, dumb, bottleneck that is human effort. You shape what you make and it shapes you right back. When you get stuck nothing is going to help you get unstuck except sheer stubbornness and self-driven motion. That’s the most rewarding part though: if you expend enough... See more
momentum
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you
... See moreAldous Huxley on approaching life with lightness, even in the face of difficulty:
"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a
... See moreJames Clear • 3-2-1: On Living With Lightness, the Root Cause of Sin, and How to Compete Without Losing Yourself
Whether something is possible or impossible is not your business. Success and failure are ideas that will only serve as a burden to your quest. Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
What can i imagine myself not becoming?
Everything is valid and everything is truthful, because Law of Attraction lets everything be. The question is not whether it’s right or wrong, whether their approach is right or wrong, or whether my approach is right or wrong. The question is: Does their approach feel good to me? And if it doesn’t, then I choose a different approach.
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Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Why the past and future can make us fear
Society operates like a regression algorithm, constantly pulling us back toward the mean. Be professional but not robotic. Be creative but not impractical. Be authentic but not unmarketable. We've somehow created a culture that worships individuality while maintaining sophisticated machinery designed to sand down anyone who deviates too far from... See more
what math can teach us about how to live
Watch this video in full. It's only two minutes, and it's what helped me move on.
It boils down to this:
What choices can you make today that minimize the regret you'll feel as an 80-year-old looking back on your life? When you minimize future regret, you sleep well knowing you're maximizing fulfillment.
Julian Shapiro • Highlights 🍍 So Confused About Life
Minimise regrets.
Decision making