This is Kevin Kelly.
The close friend Tim Ferriss goes to for advice.
He taught him a philosophy for life that made Tim stop giving a f*ck.
Here's the philosophy: https://t.co/HKFbx4mkXs
We all have felt the quickening of ambition, the subtle influence due to the active, forceful, positive vibrations which fill the atmosphere of the places of business of successful men. If a business office is dominated by a powerful personality, we feel the dominating force all through the establishment. If, on the other hand, the head of the conc... See more
We are typically invited into new stages of life. Only after many refusals are we dragged. There seems to be so little resistance, in nature—it’s almost as though we’ve come to believe that we are separate to it, perhaps in the hope that we might somehow escape our ultimate destiny.
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
“If there is such a thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own.”