It’s not situations of people that make you angry, upset or feel disappointed. It’s your reaction to it. If something is not going your way, or not how you expect it, it’s not the thing that is making you feel like crap, it’s you. You control your reaction to it.
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There’s a problem with setting lofty goals. Especially ones that are long term. Aiming to do something every day can easily lead you to give up, after being overwhelmed not only by the goal but also the thought ‘When does every day end?’ So instead, try this: Today, I’m going to… Then, tomorrow (assuming you’re fortunate to still be alive), do the same.…
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What’s your answer? What I am and what you are and what every physical thing on this planet is, is a living organism. One that has consciousness. Either with a level of consciousness that perhaps only we understand, or a consciousness that is different than that of every other species, and a consciousness that precludes us from understanding other species’…
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These are the richest people in the world. Wowee. If aliens are watching us from somewhere right now, they would have to ascertain that, based on how much we value money and how much we talk about the salaries of the top earners in the world, (in sports or technology or entertainment), and how one of the top dreams of…
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There is no such thing as “Can’t” (other than ‘I can’t live without water/oxygen etc.’, and those laws of physics which are limiting, e.g. I can’t fly to South East Asia from Australia just by flapping my arms’)*. But for everything else, there’s no can’t, only ‘Don’t’. If you find yourself thinking you can’t do something, it’s possible to ask…
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Remembering what numbers your favourite football players wore in 1995, the capital city of Latvia, Moldova and Belarus are and all the lyrics to about 3 or 4 songs is not knowledge. It is storage of data, and the data is man-made, or arbitrary tags. it’s what Google does. Now, I don’t know what knowledge is but I think the…
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I was previously in a relationship where my feelings for the person were intense and full of meaning when they weren’t with me. But when I was actually with that person, I felt indifferent to them at best. If you want to test and see how much someone or something means to you, the true test is when you’re around them.…
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This is something that my mate Matt said the other day… If Socrates was the wisest bloke human guy there ever was, and he used to say ‘There’s only one thing I know… that I don’t know anything,’ doesn’t that mean that he still claimed to know that fact –the fact that he knew nothing. Homeboy Socrates was probably taking…
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This is a I-don’t-know-how-many-yet part longform examination of insults (and getting offended)… Here’s Part 1: The philosophy of: Stuff they teach kids (Sticks and stones may break my bones…) Part 2: Words are nothing but a series of letters arranged in a certain order to make a certain sound that comes out of the face hole. and Part 3: If you’re insulted by…
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If you drop and break your phone, or get some news that pisses you off, smash your car, or you run into someone you hoped you never would again, do your emotions immediately spiral out of control? Or can you reel them back in? And how long’s it take to get back to a calm state, to ataraxia? A life…