Your parents, grand parents and other paternal figures like coaches teachers aunts uncles and siblings
Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
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Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#62I was going to suggest Dr. Peterson, but Ctrl+F revealed a veritable graveyard of downvoted comments about him already. That's too bad.
So I'll go with Steve Pavlina's [0] work instead.
Steve Pavlina's blog is a mix of solid personal development advice mixed with a journal of his self experimentation.
His most interesting work is on belief systems, and on deliberately installing new belief systems to improve your life.
An interesting note is that he has released most of his work into the public domain. I'm working on audio versions of his articles.
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#63Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius. It's the hardest pill I've ever tried to swallow in my life; in fact, I am still in the process of doing so. It goes over the mental process and ruminations of assuming the greatest commitment a human being can make: that which you make to reason and nature. Taking full responsibility of your existence is a daunting proposition, but initiating the process is a fruitful enterprise.
Just a warning, though: be prepared for thanatophobia while reading it, since it has "memento mori" written all over it.
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#64Earlier 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?
Both are qualified to give life advice based on their experiences. In fact, others are also qualified. Good life advice usually stems from struggles that one has gone through. There doesn’t need to be a scale or measure on who is more qualified.
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#65Sam Altman’s blog. I like this article https://blog.samaltman.com/the-days-are-long-but-the-decades...
In particular. Do new things often as it slows down the perception of time.
Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#66I recently finished reading "The Wisdom of Insecurity" (1951) by Alan Watts. I have to go back through it again to grasp it further. It's a short read (~150 pages). I highly recommend it.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There are at least three more reasons why people dislike or even actively attack him:
- he says that there can be value in religion, and it for some reason triggers some people
- he's a critic of the "neo-Marxist post-modern left"
- he promotes emphasis on oneself before emphasis on collective, which in left's eyes is "reactionary". I.e. in his opinion, lots of people have vast room for personal improvement, which will in turn make their life better and easier - while in the left's eyes this is just a diversion, because the best way to life improvement is unionisation, political movements etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are good resources for life advice?
#68Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius. It's the hardest pill I've ever tried to swallow in my life; in fact, I am still in the process of doing so. It goes over the mental process and ruminations of assuming the greatest commitment a human being can make: that which you make to reason and nature. Taking full responsibility of your existence is a daunting proposition, but initiating the process is a fruitful enterprise. Jus…
For people that may want to put a little Stoicism in their lives, you may want to try this book: The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius [1]
This one-per-day, helps me absorb them in a slow and steady manner.
[1]: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Perseveranc...
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#69Naval 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.
Don't be a racist.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Do you not believe that some people might have already watched some of his classroom lectures, speaking tour lectures, and broadcast debates and then decided to downvote afterwards?
Edit: tense