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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." -- Francis Bacon

@PerellClips It's almost like we're saying to ourselves that as long as we know a half truth, that will suffice. Strange! Maybe the obstacles to recalling the full truth are too much for us to handle.

Humans will change history in order to make it more memorable. And we do that by breaking things down into groups of three, even when it betrays the truth of what somebody actually said. For example, Winston Churchill said, "blood, sweat, toil, and tears." But we took out toil and remember it as "blood, sweat, and tears." The lesson is that if you want to make your words more memorable, speak in groups of three. Or just say the same word three times. There are so many examples: - The secret of real estate is "location, location, location." - One of King Lear's great lines is "howl, howl, howl." - Henry VIII's last words are said to have been "monks, monks, monks."

Interesting.

@dailystoic Reading I have found is akin to meditating. Just immersing yourself in somebody else's world takes your own mind, your own life, out of the spotlight. Incredibly liberating and absolutely essential in the modern world as a habit.

Read. Read. Read “Reading," Seneca wrote, "I hold, is indispensable – primarily, to keep me from being satisfied with myself." He liked to do some reading early in the day because “reading nourishes the mind and refreshes it.”

@AlexHormozi Yeh - it's a classic Stoic mindset: be tough on yourself and easy on others. All roads lead back to the ancients.

The people that say I'm hard on myself typically weren't hard enough on themselves. Before following someones directions, look where their directions got them.

“You need to be stubborn on your vision, but very flexible on the details.” — Jeff Bezos

@Docstockk x.com/ThinkingChris1…

Really not sure the "acksherly you're stupid if you object to this very objectionable thing, it is not actually happening - and even if it was happening, it would be really good, as international experts have proven, eye roll, sarcasm, huff, omg" tactic is going to work anymore.

@jaynitx We romanticise the overnight success in movies/TV but it barely exists in the real world. Even with rapidly growing startups, you rarely see the lifetime training montage that's created an environment where they can rapidly build a fast growing business.

Kobe Bryant revealed that greatness is just doing the same “boring” thing longer than everyone else:

Nailed. Most people state they want freedom, whether it be financial, or in a relationship, only to find out that they cannot cope under the most freeing conditions of their current lives. They cannot direct themselves when they have 'free time'. They lose track. Liberty is one of the most overwhelming states.

“The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.” — Aldous Huxley

@aristomarinetti Fear of death is the problem. People think they fear death - but they don't! If they did, they wouldn't throw away the present moment, the opportunities in front of them, so wilfully, so blindly. Genuine fear of death is when man comes alive.

The real tragedy isn’t that life is short. It’s that we keep throwing away the present moment like it doesn’t matter, because we believe we’ll get plenty more just like it later.

@SahilBloom Best thing you can do in a 9-5, particularly in a busy one, if you don't want to be overwhelmed throughout the week. Giving yourself permission to work for a small period on Sunday night makes the week so much easier, especially if you're a junior.

I’m increasingly convinced that 15 minutes of prep on Sunday evening will save you 2 hours of work on Monday morning.

@scottdomes Immensely more rewarding to get your dopamine from long, hard logs than cheap hits. If you embrace the latter, it makes doing things that you know are challenging but you know are also beneficial to you much more difficult.

your resistance to doing the work that matters to you is not a sign there's something "wrong" with you; it's a learned response to a felt experience & such learnings can be changed

Yes, and general aversion to the truth (which is basically akin to facing legitimate suffering). Nietzsche said you can tell a lot about a man's character by how much truth he can tolerate. The truth shines a spotlight on where your insufficient, and this poses the biggest challenge to your conscience. We need to experience suffering to grow. So willingness to embrace suffering, but also the willingness to embrace the truth, are two sides of the same coin.

Do you agree with Carl Jung on this? "The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."

@JamieHuddlest12 @robkhenderson Great satire if so

@ThinkingChris1 @robkhenderson Status signaling, ironically

Got invited to a dinner in NY. Organizer sent out participant guidelines, one is "Avoid status signaling. Everyone at [redacted] is highly accomplished. Only share those aspects of your bio that are most relevant to the conversation or to people getting to know you." Does this mean I'm allowed to mention my blue check on X dot com or no

"The goal of the reader seeks - be it entertainment, information or understanding - determines the way he reads. The effectiveness with which he reads is determined by the amount of effort and skill he puts into his reading." -- Mortimer Adler

Both come hand in hand. The more curious you are, the more likely you are to become confident. Raw curiosity will make you look at your blind spots and question. You'll be forced ask the dumb questions, and you'll be more willing to look like a fool in the process. And this willingness will translate, in the long run, into confidence. Confidence is essentially the willingness to look unconfident, and curiosity directs us on this path.

Curiosity is more useful than confidence.

@owroot Yeh exactly. History doesn't repeat - it rhymes. Waves hype, whether it relates to AI, politics etc tend to pass. They tend to even out. Humans adapt. Our track record for outlasting change is immensley strong, and there is no real reason why that cannot continue.

So people are getting dumber, the brain-rot is getting dumber, everyday here there is something or someone dumber than the last, but once you learn to laugh at it because you can’t change it, ride the wave and know eventually it will wash away you can have some fun and just laugh.

And there definitely is something about someone who appeases which feels commodified. They have packaged themselves into something which can be craved by everyone. They'll tell everyone what they want to hear, and they think that's their USP. They may be good at appealing to the masses, but they forgoe their soul as a cost.

A man who has no enemies has said nothing, done nothing, been nothing. if you are liked by everyone, you are a product, not a person.

@creation247 100% the food pyramid. Scammed us all into thinking that matcha is healthy, meat is bad, and that cholesterol (instead of unnatural sugar) is the biggest evil.

What's the biggest scam in modern society?