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Self respect is a healthy function of 360 critical feedback
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> The Bible is merely psychologically profound. Sure, I think everyone agrees that some wisdom is to be found in ancient texts. Along with a whole crock of false claims. When you say you believe in God, you are making claims which are unproven, such as recurrence of souls, heaven, and hell. You also are making claims that are verifiably false, such as Earth being 5000 years old, Noah saving species in a boat etc. Fin…
I do not make any claims about souls or afterlife. I explicitly stated that the Bible is metaphor. Almost nobody is a young earth creationist anymore, including myself. Almost nobody who isn't Muslim believes in killing non believers anymore, including myself. Empirical data man.
Wow, not sure where you live but come check out rural Texas. I’ve lost friends to Christian extremism here. These guys are stockpiling weapons and organizing. Also, I’m sure you caught the last presidential election? Even if they don’t directly believe those things, they support someone who does. It’s a serious situation when people use belief to disprove science and empirical data man.
I've learned that if you don't make a decision, that decision will be made for you. This is the most important lesson i learned this year. Never procrastinate on making important decisions, be decisive and be ready to weather consequences.
So many. Really good year. Lots of them feel like I've been in a cave for awhile and am just coming back, so maybe these are table stakes for other people. 1) Intentional vulnerability Intentional vulnerability is really good stuff. Withholding emotions to look stoic, or out of shame that it's "not manly" to feel them, or because feelings are somehow lesser for being irrational.. all really toxic ways of being, and t…
What I love is how explains the various tradeoffs and opportunity costs of having one thing, but not the other.
His book the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a must-read too: https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitiv...
This year I learned that God is real. I'd been an atheist since 14 and have spent the majority of my life an atheist. I believed that there was insufficient evidence for the existence of God. In many ways I still believe that. I dont believe in a magic transdimensional entity most people believe in when they talk about God. However, much like you feel the spirit of celebration when your team scores a goal, or the spi…
I found that to be very true. After 2 years abroad and living through a lot of very intense experiences and changes I thought I was a "new man", and indeed, I learned and changed a lot.
Then when I came back home I hang out with my old friends in our old places and I fell back into my old behavior immediately. That's why its so hard to start working out at home, because your walls of your apartment\house tell you to keep doing what you always do in there, i.e. not working out.
I learned... I do get burned out. Intermittent fasting works. React redux is clunky together at best. To stop complaining to others, on internet, and to my self, it kicks starts cycle of medicority. Phrase next Facebook won't look like Facebook really settled in when I saw rise of twitch despite there being YouTube. Very few actually want to do startups or at least sacrifice that a founder ought to make. There are no…
This is very interesting and unexpected. I'd always thought that telling someone would help with follow-through since you're now committed. On a side-project I was working on, it started out well, but as I kept discussing what was next, I found myself completing less and less. The trick here must then be just to discuss what you've completed and any discussions of next steps should be open rather than 'decided'.
Your Environment is more powerful than you willpower. I found that to be very true. After 2 years abroad and living through a lot of very intense experiences and changes I thought I was a "new man", and indeed, I learned and changed a lot. Then when I came back home I hang out with my old friends in our old places and I fell back into my old behavior immediately. That's why its so hard to start working out at home, b…
In reality you influence nothing unless you have something they want.
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Could you list some of the truths of being human? Also give some examples of psychological realities of the human brain? The only ones I know of are biological in nature, as we are living, breathing, conscious, sentient organisms. I used to think us humans were all skeletons, but in reality we're just brains. And our brains, like all matter, are made out of atoms. The body parts are just the physical layer. Think abo…
.... cont from previous > Laws, ethics, and morality are human/social constructs that are characteristics of our society. Uncontrovertibly true. And I am infinitely grateful for that. We are truly privileged. Almost everybody reading this is, even those in the developing world. History was a lot worse in too many ways for the vast majority of the globe. > There are no divine, absolute, or deep truths to be found ther…
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.... cont from previous > Laws, ethics, and morality are human/social constructs that are characteristics of our society. Uncontrovertibly true. And I am infinitely grateful for that. We are truly privileged. Almost everybody reading this is, even those in the developing world. History was a lot worse in too many ways for the vast majority of the globe. > There are no divine, absolute, or deep truths to be found ther…
Thanks for taking the time to form your perspective in words. It was an interesting read and one which I (at first pass) agree with.
You know, there's a lot of videos of Jordan Peterson being randomly harassed in public by people with a political agenda trying to make him look bad. Even though it's an obvious bad faith harassment situation, he takes the time to answer the questions anyway. Likely because he has full knowledge that even if his answer isn't for the "interviewer", many others will see it too.
I've tried to learn from his example.