Sunday, May 23, 2021

May 23, 2021

To retain innocence, reduce judgements.

Don’t use your energy to worry! Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think, and to grow.

From inflation to gas lines, the American economy today looks more like it did in 1979 than 2019—when wages were rising, businesses were growing, and unemployment was at record lows.

Colocate the creative team, remote everyone else.

Generation Y is going to be the first generation where obesity is, mathematically speaking, the norm for their entire lives. Knowing someone fit is going to be the equivalent of knowing a millionaire.

No expectations for the world. High expectations for yourself.

"The biggest asset in the world is your mindset."


Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their "betters."

Getting along with people you don't like is a top-level life skill.


"Education isn't something you can finish." -- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)


When you fully recognize who you are, you will experience a life without problems, upset, hurt, worry, or fear, and you will be filled with joy, positivity, fulfillment, abundance, and peace. The Greatest Secret


When you make an error or deviate from what you know you should do, it produces a state of internal chaos, worry, and concern. You're thrust into the unknown.

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Your goal now is to notice this behaviour, figure out why you're acting that way, and understand it so that you can part with it.

What are you afraid of? What are you avoiding? What are you failing to develop?

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So can the opposite be applied too? When you make the right decision to do what you know you should do, you enter a state of resistance to future lurking chaos, and increase the likeliness of repeating that decision


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It’s called cognitive dissonance and it’s been known about since 1957. But the assumption that any contemplated new course of action will lead to better outcomes than the habit we’re reluctant to break is wrong. It could just as easily be the opposite.



There's a massive loneliness epidemic happening right now and it's probably the biggest problem in the country, by a lot.

Jawdropping NYT story: From South Korea to South America, from Italy to the U.S., we're witnessing an epochal fall in fertility: "Like an avalanche, the demographic forces — pushing toward more deaths than births — seem to be expanding & accelerating."Down pointing backhand index nytimes.com/2021/05/22/wor

This global birth dearth puts our economy, our polity and our very way of life in the modern world into question.

George Freidman discussed this in his underrated book, "The Next 100 Years", where he makes many salient predictions. One reflects the posted passage; by 2070 the world population will be in decline. This will affect fears of overpopulation, climate change, and other issues.




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