43. If your spouse, friend, or family member is doing something dumb but not strictly harmful, try thinking of it as their artistic expression instead of using facts and logic to fail to talk them out of it.
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54. Take some improvisation classes and realize that the best way to approach most social situations is as an improv scene. This goes double for Twitter.
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58. Order weird clothes off the internet. I just got a package of "Japanese streetwear" that I'm going to wear to a housewarming tomorrow.
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59. Talk to people on flights. Start at the boarding gate. Offer people gummy bears to break the ice. If you're sitting next to boring people, find someone cool and ask to switch next to them.
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60. Learn to make one cocktail really well and always have the ingredients at home. It impresses people, and no one ever expects you to pull off a second one. My go-to: cucumber elderflower gimlet.
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61. Travel with a hiking backpack, not wheeled luggage. You want to move freely, not to be tied down to a heavy box dragging behind you.
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62. If someone could really use your help but it's a big project, ask them to hire you at a fair price. Do the same when you need help. There are amazing win-wins to be had.
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63. Sex doesn't have to be symmetrically satisfying every time. Some nights are just for giving, some are just for taking. Same for relationships in general.
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64. Facebook is for event invites only, not for scrolling. The timeline content is worse than what you'd get anywhere else, the people you know in real life are not the people posting the best stuff online. And the algorithm is designed to fuck with your brain.
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65. Get massages, give massages. You don't have to know what you're doing to make someone feel great. Use scentless baby oil, or moisturizer if the recipient is not going to shower afterward.
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66. Before lying or doing something unethical, consider the possibility that you and everyone you know will live for hundreds of years with enhanced memory and reputation tracking.
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67. Try a much harder mattress. Try a much softer mattress. They all have 100-day free trials now, there's no excuse for spending thousands of hours on a less-than-perfect mattress.
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68. Cars are good now. You don't really have to learn anything about cars to own one. But you should learn some driving skills.
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69. Nice! Keep making this joke, happiness is built up of simple pleasures.
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70. Don't nitpick tweets, that's the opposite of good improv. - "But what you wrote doesn't always apply because..." Congrats, you got someone annoyed and now you'll just sit there getting frustrated because you expect a response and aren't going to get one.
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71. Once in a while let yourself cry, scream, fight, and eat your boogers. That shit worked in kindergarten, there's no reason to completely give up on all of it now.
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72. There are way more fruits in the world than you know about. When you travel to South America or Asia buy a couple of each at the supermarket and try them.
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74. Stop lurking; write that comment. You know the saying about letting people suspect you're dumb rather than opening your mouth and removing all doubt? Fuck that. We know you're dumb, and you get less dumb by saying things and getting feedback.
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75. Should you watch that movie / play that game / read that book? The formula is: # who rated it 5/5 + # who rated it 1/5 - # who rated it 3/5. This doesn't apply to everything, but it applies to media.
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76. Most great music is made outside your country and in other languages.pic.twitter.com/Ym4NsAa6re
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77. In any giant museum, your goal should be to spend 5+ minutes with 10 amazing works, not 5 seconds with 1,000. If it's the Louvre, one of those should be Guérin's "The Return of Marcus Sextus".pic.twitter.com/uMyzSnK6ol
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78. At any massive party/event, your goal should be to make 5 connections, not 500 business cards. Also, throw quarterly parties with only the most recent friends you've made to consolidate the relationships.
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79. Unless the guests haven't seen each other in more than a year, parties with an agenda >> general hangouts. Some ideas: silent party, deep question party, touch/cuddle party, relating games party, art/performance party.
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80. Free will. The anthropic principle. Solipsism. The simulation. Moral realism. They're fun to argue about at 2 am after several beers but don't take any of them seriously as guides to actually living your life. It should all add up to normalcy in the end.
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81. Tell bad jokes as soon as you think of them, even if it's just to your exasperated spouse. You only start making good jokes once you remove the unconscious filter stifling your generative brain.
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82. Unless one of them is your friend or boss, you should spend 100x less time thinking and talking about billionaires than you currently do.
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83. Are you really going to give up on expressing yourself, learning from mistakes, attracting like-minded people, building a reputation, and changing the world because someone may someday try to cancel you? They can smell the fear, you know.
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