Wisdom can be acquired in two ways. Painfully and Painlessly. Painlessly is when ordained upon us from classrooms and teachers. Painfully is when inflicted by life itself.
To have always been respected, means to never understand the nature of human society and humiliation. Wisdom comes to those who have suffered violent misery. But we shouldn’t go seeking misery.
We have more profound thoughts when a lover has left us than when listening to a person whom we intellectually admire. I think, it’s because misery self-owned, so we give it higher priority than hearing or learning it second-handed.
Notes from : Clear Thinking, by Shane Parrish.
Our first reaction to things, statements, remarks and snarky comments about something we care, is biological. What biology was programmed to do -> to defend our territory, not just physical but also psychological, and that includes our identity. When our work is criticised or our beliefs are challenged, it comes up as someone is attacking our territory.
Intentional is when thought is given into our actions.
Why do I feel angry and sad when someone cuts the line?
Because our genetic makeup has hierarchical worldview and everyone is waiting in the line equally, so when someone cuts off the line, we get jealous and question why the rules are different for this person. Our sense of equal power feels questioned.
Notes from Mark Manson tweets:
Exercise is not an exchange that by doing that I lose x kgs or I get to eat a burger or an ice-cream every day. Exercise is an investment, which will give returns throughout our lives.
Notes from The Bitcoin Standard – Foreword by Naseem Taleb
Investing in Bitcoin is hedging against an Orwellian future.
Books:
The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
Lovely book with easy digestible chapters, it’s a thriller with slight Fifty shades of Grey vibes, good for a weekend getaway, simple language. The plot is interesting, definitely a page turner.
Before the Coffee gets Cold + Tales from the Cafe by Tohikazu Kawaguchi
If you would have an opportunity to go back in time but knowing full well that nothing in the present would change, would you go? And what will you do? The story revolves around a cafe and several characters who visit the cafe and go and meet their partners who have died, to say things that have left unsaid in the first encounter, siblings who are no longer there and to hear their side of the story. Personally I like this book, with its slice of life genre.
Cheers,
Calra
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