Jeff Sullivan

I recorded a 56 minute conversation in Spanish with my friend from Ireland about philosophy because why not?

Laugh at the absurd beauty of it all

Reading in a eclectic way is a superpower

There is no reason to not be that guy who always encourages people when it makes sense. As long as it is genuine, do it. Someone hints at wanting to start making content, or pursue some skill, or do this or that. If you think it fits them, TELL THEM. You never know how far a little encouragement can go.

Buenos días desde Buenos Aires ☕️ Reading Borges here hits different

There are two types of people: those who are pursuing their dreams and those who are not. Their languages are mutually unintelligible.

AI chatbots are to a curious mind what gasoline is to fire.

Wild thought but maybe just because you disagree with something doesn’t mean it is a threat to democracy?

“As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.” — La Rochefoucauld

Paying attention to the political news cycle and not being a student of history is like reading the last page of a novel and thinking you understand the story.

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” — Charles Dickens

It is so worth investing in a premium gym. The current one I go to in Austin always has me inspired. There are so many people going hard as hell. And it has been an easy way to make friends with great people. Sure, you can save money by going to cheap commercial gyms but you might be missing out on valuable motivation and fun relationships. If you spend a lot of time working out it’s probably worth whatever extra money you pay.

Things tend to be hardest when you want them to be easy.

Tell me what comes to your mind when you read this quote by journalist/historian Paul Johnson: “The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.”

Any sufficiently advanced absorption in the present moment is indistinguishable from magic.

The more consistently you workout the more alive you feel.

“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.” ―Kurt Vonnegut

Have you ready any of these books? A new shipment that recently came in: -Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck -The Pearl by John Steinbeck -The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges -The Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad -Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell -The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins I’m excited.

The first time I read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, it completely changed my outlook on life. It reshaped the way I saw every so-called “problem.” The horrors Frankl endured gave me an almost panicked sense of gratitude. It’s about perspective. The harsh reality is that it’s easy to gain perspectives that can shock you like this. It could always be worse.

You weren’t born to only consume.