Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil. Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness. Nature follows unbroken mathematical laws and a chain of cause and effect from the Big Bang to now. Everything is perfect exactly the way it is. It is only in our particular minds we are unhappy or not happy, and
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Peace
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
I know a painting coach who tells her students to listen for resistance in the copying process. “Do you hear that?” she asks. “It’s the echo of your unique style.” Those moments highlight the second benefit of copying: it reveals your voice.
Ironically, the more we imitate others, the more we discover how we’re different.
David Perell • Daily Writing #27: Imitate, Then Innovate
Imitate so you can feel the friction. Listen out for this to develop your own unique style.
Please understand this: Man’s greatest dilemma is that he lives in a prison and he believes that he is free. The man who knows that he lives in a prison will find a way to break free of it. But the one who believes that he is free while being imprisoned will remained imprisoned forever.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
Damn - is everything a prison?
We think of ourselves as fixed and the world as malleable, but it’s really we who are malleable and the world is largely fixed.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Moudling
