Living a Meaningful Life
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Living a Meaningful Life
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Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#2This article silently assumes that a "meaningful life" means:
- making good choices of the projects you work on
- making those projects succeed, or at least ensure pushing them forward
So it reduces this broad topic "meaningful life" to the aspects of personal time management, project management and motivation management. In short, the article appears to be very work-centric (but including paid work as well as volunteer work).
Within this work-centric view, the article is great. But given the article's title, I would have expected a broader treatment of the whole topic.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#3This article silently assumes that a "meaningful life" means: - making good choices of the projects you work on - making those projects succeed, or at least ensure pushing them forward So it reduces this broad topic "meaningful life" to the aspects of personal time management, project management and motivation management. In short, the article appears to be very work-centric (but including paid work as well as volunt…
If anyone is looking for a work antidote, here is some philosophy http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo5.htm
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#41) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way.
2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#5This article silently assumes that a "meaningful life" means: - making good choices of the projects you work on - making those projects succeed, or at least ensure pushing them forward So it reduces this broad topic "meaningful life" to the aspects of personal time management, project management and motivation management. In short, the article appears to be very work-centric (but including paid work as well as volunt…
Does it even matter? Ozymandias worked in upper management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
#Eeyore
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#61) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way. 2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
3) Think over again the meaning of life, knowing it ends one day for everyone.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#71) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way. 2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
3) Think over again the meaning of life, knowing it ends one day for everyone.
Spend time with people you love and care about.
Work on something that matters to you. But not too much. No one lays on their death bed wishing they had committed another line of code.
Maximize for happiness while causing the least amount of harm.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#81) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way. 2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
> Imagine yourself on dying bed
Do people really do retrospectives of their lives on their death beds? Seems like a really odd thing to do during final hours of life. I am sure everyone no matter how meaningful their lives are, is going to have regrets.
I just hope I am mentally well enough during my final days to enjoy it, not do an inventory of regrets vs accomplishments.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#91) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way. 2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
> Imagine yourself on dying bed Do people really do retrospectives of their lives on their death beds? Seems like a really odd thing to do during final hours of life. I am sure everyone no matter how meaningful their lives are, is going to have regrets. I just hope I am mentally well enough during my final days to enjoy it, not do an inventory of regrets vs accomplishments.
And physically well enough to exact revenge on those that wronged me.
Edit: That came out much darker than I meant it to.
Re: Living a Meaningful Life
#101) Imagine yourself on dying bed - what would you regret/be proud of in your past life? Strive to go that way. 2) Bring good to humanity, and don't do evil. If nothing else, if raising kids, be a good parent and role model - don't bring more unbalanced, fucked up, childhood-issue-riddled people into this world. Too many of those around already.
> Imagine yourself on dying bed Do people really do retrospectives of their lives on their death beds? Seems like a really odd thing to do during final hours of life. I am sure everyone no matter how meaningful their lives are, is going to have regrets. I just hope I am mentally well enough during my final days to enjoy it, not do an inventory of regrets vs accomplishments.
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