Dave Martin | Sports, stupidity & real-time data analysis ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Philosophy, both reading it, studying it, and most importantly living it, is not about winning, or being the better than others (or the best) at it. In saying that though, in this football game of Germany’s philosophers vs Greece’s (refereed by Confucius), Greece wins. And how. And who else scores the winner, but homeboy #1 Socrates… Goooooo Greece!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA
Karl Popper’s philosophy Science can be applied to real life, for realsies. You don’t know anything. You can just experiment, analyse and reflect to show what doesn’t work, what isn’t right, perhaps what isn’t true. But we don’t know anything. And it’s that open mind that makes life so amazing, that makes you curious for you entire life
When you’re a kid, your vocabulary is limited to what you have learned so far. But with each significant period (1 year, 2 years, 5 years) you expand on that vocab, and upon your experience exponentially. But you’re perception of what upsets you, hurts you, scares you is restricted by how you process it in words. So though you may…
This is a deep dive into the emotion that possibly decides more things in our life (or our whole life?): Fear. ——— How many times have you stopped yourself from asking a question you were wondering, started a conversation with someone you wanted to or even from just saying hi to someone? Maybe never, so well done. But if you…
The most important test of how strong, humble and resolute you are comes when you need to respond to a trial in life. It’s how you respond to a test of your strength during and then after a difficult time has begun. Sure, it’d be great to handle every test in life perfectly, but that’s not bloody likely. So when…
Occasionally as we get caught up in the changes taking place in our lives, or during the course of new situations, we can stray from our personal philosophy and our the approach to our lives that helped us become who we are. It’s important to come back to the thoughts and ideas that matter most to you, the things you…
When someone tells you ‘Don’t panic!’ or ‘Don’t get stressed’ or even ‘Don’t worry’, the last thing that your brain hears is: ‘Panic!’, ‘Get stressed’ and ‘worry’. But it doesn’t only happen with commands. It’s not only when people are trying to reassure you that their intention may have the opposite affect. You may be doing this to yourself subconsciously.…
Most people have a one (or a lot of) songs that when they hear them, the song automatically takes you back to some time. And most times, that time it takes you back to a time when things were amazing, or scary, or unusual or completely not what you had ever expected to feel or be experiencing. So when you’re…
Your body will fail you, at some point. So maybe being invincible isn’t realistic. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe instead of saying ‘Nothing will ever hurt me’, it’s healthier and more constructive to say ‘Anything that happens, I can adjust to. Nothing is too much for me to handle.’
Communication (at least verbal) is incredibly ineffective. For example, when one person says ‘I love you’ it might mean ‘You are the person I enjoy being with’ but if the other says it they may mean ‘If I lost you, I wouldn’t be able to live.’ Those two things are dramatically different. And therefore the consequences of any actions that affect…