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Philomath 
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"If you want to earn respect, just take on responsibility."
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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.
- B. Pasternak
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The act of always trying to fit in,
is caused by the feeling of insecurity.
OK that's really pretty darn good.
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Advice for living:
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In this clip from episode # 235 of The Drive, I highlight the relationship between strength, VO2 max, and longevity. I cannot emphasize this point enough - regular exercise is the most potent longevity “drug” we have.
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You cannot engineer your own enlightment.
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We need an early structure, an early set of rules, to first embody and then rebel against in order to find ourselves.
Without order, we cannot build the foundation on which to explore.
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If you ever want to find yourself, get away from the herd.
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Redundancy is not defensive; it is more like investment than insurance
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The more you try to control life, the more your mind will revert to obsessive thinking.
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What most often weighs you down and brings you misery is the past.
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Marshall Goldsmith on the number one problem with leaders.
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I've never bought something that's been advertised in a podcast ad.
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“You can tell what’s informing a society by what the tallest building is.. when you approach a modern city, the tallest places are the office buildings, the centres of economic life." ~ Joseph Campbell.
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The state of abundance is connected with a deep sense of gratitude. When we open to abundance we can enjoy the fog lifting from the morning's melting snow.
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#abundance #gratitude #mindfulness #meditation #jackkornfield #spirituality #buddhism #love #grateful #simplicity
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Certain types of problems are best to ignore, but there are also problems that if ignored grow exponentially and eventually become so large they suck all of the air out of the room.
I wish there were an easier way (other than experience) to identify which is which.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
- Goethe
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The fearful ape hypothesis: Humans show higher levels of fearfulness than other great apes, which has been adaptive for care-giving. cambridge.org/core/journals/ A similar hypothesis has been proposed for human suffering
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Humans may have evolved to experience far greater pain, malaise and suffering than the rest of the animal kingdom, due to their intense sociality giving them a reasonable chance of receiving help. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10
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6 High ROI Razors
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Three questions to help decide what to give a fuck about:
1. Can I control the outcome?
2. Does it add good problems to my life?
3. Does it help myself and/or others?
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Benefiting from bad things… without the world ending.
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Avoiding late-night snacking has long been recommended to those trying to lose weight. Two recent randomized trials found that biasing food intake toward the end of the day increases appetite and may reduce energy expenditure.
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It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.
- Josiah Warren
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If you are making money illegally (or even immorally) you are accumulating risk faster than you are accumulating capital.
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To live is to desire and to desire is to affirm the existence of life along with the suffering.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The highest level of intelligence:
being able to keep your calm and clarity even when surrounded by anger and injustice."
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Your hand is useful because it goes where you want it to go.
How about your Mind?
The Longest Lasting Cars, in Miles 🚘️
To see the full graphic and lineup of cars: visualcapitalist.com/infographic-th
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“Having a sense of purpose, a feeling for your calling in life, is a great way to immunize yourself against envy.”
- The Laws of Human Nature,
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Solid Advice!
Run towards not away.
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Sticking it to the man is not a good reason to work for yourself. You should consider self-employment only if it would improve your life and that of your family.
If you happen to get some revenge, treat it as a bonus. But please ignore the “revenge startup” advice.
We tend to see people for what they do in the moment.
Not for what they have done for moments together.
“Never forget that your unconscious is smarter than you, faster than you, and more powerful than you. It may even control you. You will never know all of its secrets.”
— Cordelia Fine
Optimism bias is a tendency to believe that things will turn out well in spite of past evidence or circumstances.
It can be extremely helpful. Optimists are often healthier and happier. But it can also undermine us. May your optimism be well-founded.
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You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
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We are status-drunk.
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