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Why are we so stuck (and the wepons we can forge about it):

When everyone moves in the same direction, don't just follow them. Figure out of they are going somewhere. Or worse; if they are going backwards. If you love yourself enough, you will go to the opposite direction. To the one that matters. To you.

@RyanHoliday Losing the edge of humanity. No one can say they aren't surprised.

Lol. Rolling your eyes at the performative philosophy of a member of the most corrupt family in American history is apparently 'fuming'? Although if there was anything to be mad about these days, I think objecting to people lighting the world on fire so they can make a killing in prediction markets and kickbacks is probably it. yahoo.com/entertainment/…

@SchopenhauerNow Time to read them only works if you have 30 minutes a day. Most have. Rarely anyone spend them.

“That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.”

@bryan_johnson Your methods will only show their fruits when you have spent 100 years while we have spent 10.

3x this week I sat in 200°F (93°C) dry sauna for 55 min to get my core body temp to 102.4°F (39°C) That temp, at that duration, triggers primal panic. Took blood samples before and after each session to measure heat shock protein expression. Sauna is one of the world's best longevity therapies. What we don't know is whether hitting the core temp threshold unlocks a meaningfully superior response or whether the benefits are more fundamental: vascular shear stress, nitric oxide release, sweating. Most people doing sauna never reach 102.4°F. That's high-grade fever territory. I'm excited to see the data.

We cannot love someone who harms himself as that person will sink the one who is deseprate for devotion.

@Kierkegaarddd It's after many failures that we understand we need to accept despair to be happy.

“Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.”

@naval I suppose there is still work to do to decide if Covid was man made or nature made.

Designed by NIH in N. Carolina. Assembled in China.

@cremieuxrecueil They use it to both be more productive and less by trying to be more.

Some people are using AI to *lower* their productivity.

@RobertGreene They need to mean something; they need to mean to us.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

@SchopenhauerNow Yes we betray ourselves to be trusted by others.

“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” – Schopenhauer

@RobertGreene I suppose anxiety in this case is the rush that should be used to handle the issue not to imagine all the greatness that comes when handling the issue.

My advice to all creatives is: embrace the anxiety you feel and channel it properly.

@dailystoic Acceptance means agreeing that something is wrong and that it needs to change. Passivity is not seeing there is a problem.

Let's not confuse acceptance with passivity.

@ProfFeynman By accepting our past self while growing our future self.

You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.

@Kierkegaarddd That is a way to confuse a feller.

“If a woman loves you then in fact the one she loves is not you. But the one she doesn’t love anymore is you.”

Flaws are not meant to be shamed. We are not perfection creatures. Each has something that is not going well. The fix is to learn to accept them and to fight them. So they ebcome less of a nuisance tomorrow.

@naval AI will be our oxygen pretty soon unless we stop it.

AIs replace UIs and APIs.

@ImmanuelllKant Every dog deserves an owner; not every owner deserves a dog.

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

@SenecaQuote Craving for more until we are never satisfied

When Seneca said: "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

@SchopenhauerNow That is working as a peasant to satisfy the king.

“No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.”

@LeoTollstoy That happens when we are more honest about ourselves to others.

Only when you see yourself in every other person will you understand your own life.