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Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by squirrelicus »

lisardo wrote: post #49
squirrelicus wrote: post #35

Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, and his many tens of hours of content on YouTube. If you're willing to entertain the idea for a brief moment that the Bible has any wisdom at all, his Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories is a must. I recommend them even if you aren't willing, in fact. They converted me, and i was a fairly nihilistic atheist for almost all of my thinking life.

I see Jordan Pererson gets downvoted here, but recommend all critic to read “12 rules for life” themselves. This book helped me a lot.

It's worth all the down votes and more. I'm sure you can divide the down voters into a handful of camps. Those who are somehow convinced he has ties to the despicable alt right, those who are annoyed they keep hearing about him, and those who have actually heard him speak but, ianno, think taking responsibility and straightening yourself out is bad or something. Maybe they're just afraid of confronting their shadow.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by squirrelicus »

thundergolfer wrote: post #34
emperor_ wrote: post #31

12 rules of life by Jordan Peterson. Also Peterson's YouTube channel has loads of free lectures.

It's pretty hard to avoid the reactionary politics when consuming Peterson, but if you can yeah you get mostly tried-and-true basic self-help advice.

It's funny. He took like one political stance and then got labeled awful things. We can just skip past the trans thing. It's ok.

For those that don't know: he interpreted a law that was passed in Canada as compelled speech law and decided that was a line that shall not be crossed, no matter the presumed benefit. That line happened to coincidentally involve trans people and, well, it's the late 2010s, so that speaks for itself. It takes about three minutes of listening to him talk on the subject to understand that his singular life's mission is to figure out what is necessary to prevent totalitarianism ever again. Compelled speech laws are something we ought to be on the defensive for in that regard. The fact that it involved trans people is irrelevant to him and should be irrelevant to us.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by afarrell »

godelmachine wrote: post #45
jefflombardjr wrote: post #20

First and foremost, what you are describing is metacognition - thinking about the way you think. Hopefully that will aid you in your search for things! Secondly, here are some of my favorite influential material: - Li Ka-Shing, Tips on Life. My takeaway: invest in yourself. https://addicted2success.com/success-advice/asias-richest-ma... - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture. My takeaway: don't limit yourself https://www.y…

I heard about non violent communication only last week. Heard there’s a course and a workshop too on this. Very eager to master Non Violent Communivation coz more often than not I find myself in loss for the right word.

If you find yourself at a loss for words often, you might find it useful to talk to yourself more often, rehearsing how you would explain something. Showers are good for this. Parks are too, but there you should carry a handful of papers and occasionally pretend to look at them .

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by ai_ia »

lisardo wrote: post #49
squirrelicus wrote: post #35

Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life, and his many tens of hours of content on YouTube. If you're willing to entertain the idea for a brief moment that the Bible has any wisdom at all, his Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories is a must. I recommend them even if you aren't willing, in fact. They converted me, and i was a fairly nihilistic atheist for almost all of my thinking life.

I see Jordan Pererson gets downvoted here, but recommend all critic to read “12 rules for life” themselves. This book helped me a lot.

I agree. I used to watch Peterson's lecture on Youtube even before his rise. It brought me out of despair and my constant feeling of meaninglessness of life.

To all people, who are downvoting Peterson, take some time to watch his classroom lectures on Youtube.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by factsaresacred »

I enjoy the writings of Kapil Gupta. In fact I found them life-transforming. Naval is mentioned here - I believe him and Kapil are friends.

He writes on mastery, seriousness and the Truth.

His Twitter: https://twitter.com/KapilGuptaMD.

And some excerpts from his writings:

> "Cleverness and insincerity are loud. Seriousness is quiet"

> "The Mind does not assault man for his mistakes. It assaults him for the cover-up"

> "If there was one single thing that stands between man and his freedom, it is the belief that he has time"

> "What must be understood is that human beings’ lives harden into routines. They harden into a way of being. At some long-forgotten moment many moons ago, they settled. For things they swore they would not settle for...today's compromise is tomorrow's resentment”"

> "People are who they are. And they will do everything in their power to remain who they are. And the Mind will make certain of this"

> "The common man is afraid of “losing.” The Legend is afraid of not arriving at his ultimate capability. These are fundamentally different paths"

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by cjohnson318 »

liamcardenas wrote: post #4

Naval has a lot of good content. I would start with his tweet storm: How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936?s=21

This is just a bunch of vague garbage. Sure, "don't trade your time for money, invest and make money off of your investments", but saying so is a lot harder than doing. All of this vague garbage is a lot easier for white upper class people that get nice interest free loans from their white upper class parents.

Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?

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Post by kqr »

p1esk wrote: post #41
wtmt wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that a disclaimer and why does your comment sound like knocking on something good? If you haven’t watched the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy” [1], check it out. The amount of harassment (mental and emotional) he faced could also bring most other people to take steps that they never would’ve imagined themselves doing. It’s very easy to knock down others. But you haven’t lived his life, and you just cannot…

On the other hand, someone here mentioned Viktor Frankl, who had been through a lot worse than what Aaron Swartz faced, and survived. Which one of them is more qualified to give life advice?

On what scale could you possibly imagine to compare different people's experiences, without being those people?
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