A friend wrote to me today telling me it’s been an ‘interesting’ time for me lately. Now, you don’t need to know what ‘interesting’ means in this case, but interesting is the right way to put it. There is no good, no bad, no sad, no tough, no difficult things that happen. Everything just is –we exist as part of humanity and…
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Blink. Done? Okay, so in an average life of 75 years you’ve got 2.4 billion seconds. A blink of your eyes takes about half a second. So, say your life is the history of Earth (4.5 billion years)… then your entire existence on it is nothing but One. Single. Blink. Or one 4-and-a-half billionth of the total (or if you really want to…
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What do you consider ‘successful’? Being rich? Famous? Attractive? Running a company that sells millions of dollars worth of some shit people don’t need? Sure, those are types of achievement, but what’s the common thing among all those? They’re external, they’re superficial and most notably, they’re entirely reliant on and decided by the opinions and behaviours of others. Success is someone who doesn’t…
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The principles of Stoicism are easy to put into practice when stuff’s going well. To express gratitude for what you have, to aim for tranquility to be your core emotion, and that you only control what you do and you have ZERO control over what others do. But it’s when things are turbulent that they’re put most to the test. When…
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This happened today (well, actually last week, but I don’t check my Facebook because I have 0 Facebook friends): That’s pretty cool. Especially since it’s Ben Lee –someone whose music I not only love, but whose philosophy on life is one I try to live by in many ways. Another thing I try to live by is to enjoy the…
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Spanning over 2300 years, there’s one thing that bound Plato’s Socrates, Henry David Thoreau and Confucius together: They all knew nothing, and they knew it. This was a song Thoreau sang to himself while cutting, hewing and chopping wood in 1845¹: Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, – The arts and sciences, and a…
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If this were the last day you were going to be alive, what would you do? And at the end of it, would you be happy with how you spent it? I’m sure you’ve seen this kind of thing before: or: or the lamest one of all: Shitty. And the last one’s twice as shitty because the guy on the right spent…