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A good time as any to revive this fun little untitled poem written by the generally polite and zen-like Leonard Cohen to the macho-posturing novelist Norman Mailer.
We all know pain and boredom are catalysts toward happiness, right? They are gifts, not threats. If you’re not dissatisfied, you have no reason to seek any change. Schopenhauer would disagree because we always find new problems, but that’s a feature not a bug.
Tommy on Purpose retweeted
The happiest people I've met don't necessarily have the easiest lives or the most impressive accomplishments. But they tend to have four things in common:
-They take their faith or life philosophy seriously.
-They invest in their family relationships.
-They cultivate real friendships.
-They find meaning in work that creates value and serves others.
These are the four areas of life worth paying attention to if you want to live a more fulfilling life.
The next sentence:
“Today I can say: I have been true to myself I have done what I could to the best of my knowledge and conscience. Whether it was right or not, I cannot say. Suffering was inevitable in any case. But I want to suffer for those things which really belong to me.”
“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
Something I learned from high-agency individuals is that they neither allow their highs nor their lows to be a judgement of their ego. They measure themselves on whether they chose to act in the first place.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus
The urge to say "this post will go viral" with the wizardry of a kid pointing at a traffic light before it turns green.
More people should practice launching a project only knowing the starting point. Trust your ability to iteratively solve problems along the way. That's it. That's the cheat code.
1/ "There is a kind of knowledge that explains, and there is a kind of knowledge that awakens. One tells us how things work; the other changes how we see them. Scientific knowledge belongs primarily to the first category. It seeks causes, mechanisms, and relationships."
4/ "Perhaps the real question is not whether science has removed mystery but why so many people no longer experience the world as mysterious...The result is not ignorance but a more subtle danger: the illusion of understanding."
5/ "We cease asking questions not because they have been answered but because they no longer occur to us...The world remains extraordinary; it is the observer who has become accustomed."
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