Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
can we live a good life without suffering?
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Many adults are immature and rather childish, and this is a contributing cause of the confusion and misery in the world. It is the older people who are responsible for the prevailing economic and moral crisis; and one of our unfortunate weaknesses is that we want someone else to act for us and change the course of our lives.
J. Krishnamurti • What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Is this why some adults are immature and childish? Respinsbility always falls on someone else to change life for them. E.g. Chavs
If you seek to be a legend in your field, it will help you to understand that you will have to be comfortable being an outcast. For you will not fit into this society. And if you do fit neatly into this society, there is no way that you will be a legend.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
I am defo an outcast
Whenever you can center a story around people, do it. People Magazine is the world’s most popular magazine for a reason: people want to hear about people
David Perell • 31 Ways to Improve Your Writing
Centre stories around people. Writing tip
Every person you meet is a creative artist who takes the events of life and, over time, creates a very personal way of seeing the world. Like any artist, each person takes the experiences of a lifetime and integrates them into a complex representation of the world.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
Attend to your influences.
I suppose this is the ur-message - to be more aware of what’s influencing you and how. Acknowledge just how much of what you think, feel and do is picked up from others, consciously and unconsciously, and try to become more conscious of more of them. Artists pay attention to this because they love their influences, while
When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment.
en.wikisource.org • Moral Letters to Lucilius/Letter 3 - Wikisource, the Free Online Library
“My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).”
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: How to Live a Creative Life, and Let Go of Your Fear
Money is Not the root of all evil. Firstly, it has nothing to do with good versus evil. For it is not a question of good or evil. It is a question of joy and misery.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
This is a essay to explore