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Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#2Seeing "the light" in a lucid dream.
Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#3Lucid dreaming.
Realising spiritual development (not religious obviously) isn't the antithesis of technology.
Realising being a dad isn't scary, it's incredible.
Realising that to be an awesome coder doesn't require 30 years of experience, it required perspective and the ability to ignore the 'common' wisdom when needed.
Living in a world of 'magic' by choice, embracing stuff I don't understand, and being blown away by the tech of nature.
Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#4Not really an epiphany, but when I started a consistent meditation practice. I've been significantly better about viewing myself objectively without emotions, I'm not as held back by fears or insecurities, and life has become quite a bit more interesting as I've been able to notice the smaller details more.
Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#5Many things which you consider out of your reach are achievable. And they are not as difficult as they seem. You just have to set goals and start working towards them.
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#6Sat at the piano, aged about 10, when I realised that my experience is one of billions and no more real than any other, and that everything we see around us is only so because we say it is so, and that power only exists in the minds of those who witness it.
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#7Technologies advance the fastest in societies that invest heavily in war/defense all throughout history.
Human advancement has come mostly from markets and freed up the thinking man.
People aren't interested in facts or the truth, they want the story.
Human change is extremely slow and only happens in iterations.
Poor people pay interest, rich people collect it.
If you put something out there for sale, people will buy it, somehow.
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#8God and Luck both doesn't exist.
Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#9Sat at the piano, aged about 10, when I realised that my experience is one of billions and no more real than any other, and that everything we see around us is only so because we say it is so, and that power only exists in the minds of those who witness it.
Nice! "I think, therefore I am" -> is the only thing we can confirm. The rest is our choice to believe a narrative that suits us.
Re: Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany?
#10Exercise feels good.