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Post by pc86 »

paulolc wrote: post #290
nikivi wrote: post #50

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. - Steve Jobs And in similar vain: Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction? I colle…

"Are you moving one step in 20 directions or 20 steps in one direction?" So what if I'm moving one step in 20 directions but I'm enjoying each one of them? Isn't preferrable to enjoy the journey and never reaching nowhere rather than reaching your destination whatever it takes on each step? :D

If your goal is simply "enjoy the journey" then yes that's fine - you're successful in what you're trying to do.

The analogy is useful when someone's goal is "start a business" but shiny object syndrome keeps them from focusing on actually starting the business.

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Post by natmaka »

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big. -- L. Kohr

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

Most people are not rational, they are TRIBAL: "my gang yay, your gang boo!" It really is that simple. The rest is cosmetics. -- War Nerd

All things come into being by conflict of opposites. ― Heraclitus

More often than not what's new isn't good, and what good isn't new.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey

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Post by GurnBlandston »

sheinsheish wrote: post #203

https://linguaholic.com/topic/1987-famous-greek-quotations/ «Πάν μέτρον άριστον» Everything in moderation. Can’t say I manage to get by following it.

A more modern extension: Everything in moderation, especially moderation.

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Post by dorkwood »

Follow your curiosity. Don't listen to people who say you're spreading yourself too thin. In time, you'll find you've out-paced your detractors, because while they were forcing themselves to focus and be disciplined, you were working on things that interested you, and discipline loses to interest every time.

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Post by jriot »

lnsru wrote: post #109
japhyr wrote: post #28

When I was in my 20s I lived on a bicycle for a year, going around the lower 48 and Canada, and then up to Alaska. I lived for two weeks in Joshua Tree with a guy named Tom, who slept in a cave the whole time. One morning we were sorting our gear and a piece of paper fell out of his wallet. As I handed it back to him, I read the three lines on it: Work hard. Be strong. Don't complain. I asked him about it, and he sai…

That’s exactly the principles my grandfather thought me. But I tend to discuss, if it is still valid today.

How are those principles not valid today?

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Post by badalsurana »

bigie35 wrote: post #284

I sort of cycle through and meditate on the below quotes a few times a week. "Humanity has no forgotten how infinitesimal, how impermanent and how ignorant it actually is. Ptolemy has been ridiculed for conceiving the earth to be the center of the universe, yet modern civilization is apparently founded upon the hypothesis that the planet Earth is the most permanent and important of all the heavenly spheres. Ignorant…

The guy above you just said "discipline loses to interest every time"
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