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Ask HN: What is the one quote that you carry around in your head all the time?
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#22Redundancy- 2 is 1 and 1 is none.
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#23"If you keep doing what you have been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've got"
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#24“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
C.S. Lewis
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#25"Nothing is fucked, Dude."
- Walter Sobchak
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#26I found something on hn a few days back and i am trying to carry it around and make it a part of me. """For someone who hated routines and felt trapped. The simple advice that schedules are my friend and I should schedule my day in a way that would make me happy when I go to bed. Been doing this for 2 months now. Never been more productive or happier. """ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17159515 The thought that…
Hey there that was a comment that I made. I am glad that it helped you. I learnt it from Jordan B. Peterson. I highly recommend his book "12 rules for life" which has improved the overall quality of my life by a substantial magnitude in the last two months. This book led me to read some of the writings of Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz which were further eye openers. A warning though that he has a polarising ef…
Would you mind posting an example schedule of your day? One that makes you "happy" as you say...
Re: Ask HN: What is the one quote that you carry around in your head all the time?
#27"If you keep doing what you have been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've got"
Recently, I got a different take on this from a book called ‘Mad Genius’. The author says in today’s fast moving world if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will perish very quickly. Like Nokia.
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#28From David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: "no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable"
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#29Unus sed leo.
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#30"If you keep doing what you have been doing, you're going to keep getting what you've got"
Recently, I got a different take on this from a book called ‘Mad Genius’. The author says in today’s fast moving world if you keep doing what you have been doing, you will perish very quickly. Like Nokia.
I like. Smells like the Red Queen hypothesis to me:
"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place..."