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6. Have sex in a public park at 1 am. 10% chance of getting caught = 10x erotic excitement.
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7. Do vacations where you just spend two weeks in a city. You'll run out of touristy things to do and discover the climbing gyms, live shows, art classes that you'll love. You'll also be forced to start actually chatting with the locals.
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8. Ask people to stop giving you non-consumable gifts. A physical thing that's not 100% what you need costs more in storage and opportunity cost than it's worth.
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9. Take a tab of acid and hang out with a 5-year-old as equals.
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10. The #1 measure of an exercise program is "is this fun enough to keep me coming back to the gym?" I don't care how "efficient" HIIT is, it's for masochists.
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11. Binge a show/video game for a couple of weeks, then take a break from TV for a couple of weeks. Trying to limit yourself to an hour a day is less fun and more addictive.
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12. If you're not obese, have you considered that losing 20 pounds will not actually solve your problems? Keep your weight stable, and work on the insecurities that make you scared to take your shirt off.
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13. If you live in a big city, it's fine not to cook. The cooks at the Mexican spot on the corner are better than you and appreciate your patronage.
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14. Any <$100 purchase that may turn into a hobby is worth it even if the hit rate is low. Sports equipment, a musical instrument, art supplies... If it doesn't catch, gift it to a friend.
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15. Find a medium of expression and do it every day for three months. If you're a words person - 100 Tweets. An artist - 100 sketches on Instagram. Music/dance person - 100 TikToks.
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16. Expensive personal lube is worth every penny. Same for hot sauce. Just don't get the bottles mixed up.
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17. You just read 17 tweets in a row. Close your eyes and count to 10 to break the dopamine loop and make sure that browsing Twitter is the thing you want to do most right now.
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18. If you have too little social life, wake up at 10 am every day. Too many people bothering you - wake up at 5 am.
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19. If you can't give it up completely, try to constrain the bandwidth of how much you hear about politics. On Twitter, for example, you should mute 90% of the people on your timeline that talk about politics and mute the least-charitable term in every tweet that makes you angry.
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20. Give meditation a 50 hour trial with a good app or guidebook. If it ain't your thing, give it up. P.S. The best places to meditate are cathedrals and church pews.
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21. Play a competitive team sport, but don't show up if you're not ready for 100% effort - your teammates can tell.
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22. If you're not having fun on dates, think of something you enjoy and do that as a date. Painting class dates, hiking dates, ping pong dates, board game dates...
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23. Learn to be ok with nudity and to disentangle it from shame and sexuality. Go to a nudist lodge, or just throw a nude non-sexual party with your trusted friends.
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24. If you're bored at home and hate it, move to Brooklyn. Stuck on another crowded subway and hate it - move to a college town in the mountains. The city you live in has a massive impact on your life. If you're single, consider also the dating market and gender ratio of singles.
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25. Yes, moving to a new city will make you restart your social life from scratch. But is that a bad thing? Are you sure you have the best reputation / social role / circle of friends you could have?
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26. Any life advice that isn't aimed at you personally is not designed to be followed to the letter. Try to resonate with the overall philosophy that generates it instead.
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27. Do blind tastings of wines, then just keep buying the $10 bottle one you like best. Novelty is good, but let's be honest: you can't really tell different Malbecs apart that much. But buy great wine glasses - they last much longer than the bottle.
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28. Put art on all your walls. If you can't afford originals, buy prints. Can't afford prints, buy posters. The selection criterion is a piece that you can stare at for at least 10 minutes straight the first time you see it. When you find better art, take down the old stuff.
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29. If you're thinking about doing that degree, think twice. Can you start doing now what you hope to do with the credential? If it's a PhD, think ten times. Also underrated: dropping out of grad school one year in.
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30. You won't get money, status, fascination, impact, and career capital at the same job. Pick two, get the rest elsewhere in your life.
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31. Set a pile of bills on fire. Watch your partner kiss someone. Go to an open mic and bomb. Observe in precise detail how you feel. You will learn that your emotions are much more complex than "this is bad and painful", and they're often quite unexpected.
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32. Take MDMA once a year, at home, with a person you care about.
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33. Your parents can handle hearing about your crazy life, dumb mistakes, and weird opinions. How will they learn to respect you as an adult if you don't believe in your own story enough to share it?
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34. If you've been waiting for months for someone to create an event and invite you, whether a book club or a BDSM orgy, just throw one yourself. Most social scenes suffer from lack of initiative, not excess.
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35. Read Emily Dickinson, her poems are both poignant and immediately accessible. Memorize at least 5, they're quite short. The soul should always stand ajar...
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