Monday, August 30, 2021

August 30, 2021

Direction is much more important than speed.

"Outside of math, physics, and chemistry, there isn't much "settled science." We're still arguing over what the optimal diet is."
@naval

"Diversification is a hedge against a lack of knowledge."
@naval
"You become what you give your attention to." - Epictetus
"If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end up nutritionally, financially and morally bankrupt."

"It isn’t 10,000 hours that creates outliers, it’s 10,000 iterations."
@naval

"There's a theory that I call 'the five chimps theory'. In Zoology, you can predict the mood and behaviour patterns of any chimp by which five chimps they hang out with the most. Choose your five chimps carefully." -
"Your family is broken but you’re going to fix the world."

Elon Musk famously once said; ‘When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.’ Find your why, find your motivation.


Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time. - Buddha

The best way I know to love my Heavenly Parents is to love Their children. All of their children. Every. Single. One.

"If it entertains you now but will bore you someday, it’s a distraction. Keep looking."
@naval

"We study science to learn how to get what we want. We study philosophy to know what to want in the first place."
"You become what you give your attention to." - Epictetus

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.” —Chuck Close



Replying to
1. "Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is."
"Happiness is a choice. 2. "If you believe it's a choice, you can start working on it."

3. "The idea you’re going to change something in the outside world, and that is going to bring you the peace, everlasting joy, and happiness you deserve, is a fundamental delusion we all suffer from, including me."

4. "Happiness is what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life."

5. "Happiness, love, and passion…aren’t things you find—they’re choices you make."

6. "You can literally destroy your happiness if you spend all of your time living in delusions of the future."

7. "To me, happiness is not about positive thoughts. It’s not about negative thoughts. It’s about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things."
8. "Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something."





Sora-Midjourney comparisons Feb 2014

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