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Trying out different strategies to be more effective in reaching your goals - perfectly ok
Convinging yourself that you have complete control over what's happening to you and becoming too serious about the game - big mistake..
You should always allow a good doze of doubt and be open to the unknown, because ultimately .. we have no clue what a fuck we're doing here...
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And there's a major logical error in it: > At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. This implies that you have some sort of control between the start and the end - which is completely untrue, because: What genes you get from your parents and in what environment you are put will determine everything that will happen in your head…
I've been looking for a book or other source that makes a case for this worldview in a straightforward, logical way that is as simple as possible (but no simpler). Can you recommend one?
Life game. Graphics: 9/10 Pretty good, shadows and lighting effects portrayed quite well. Some really strange pixelation going on though. It's on a very small scale, but still noticeable with the right instruments and upsetting to the general public. Sound: 6/10 Fantastic variety. Only works well for the first 2/3rds of the game or so, then becomes quite buggy. Story: 2/10 It's not obvious if there is really a story…
The first 15 years or so of life are just tutorial missions, which suck. There’s no way to skip these. Umm... right. Seriously? That's all the advice this guy has on the first 15 years of life? Reading the rest, it doesn't look like he has much of use to say about anything else either.
Author here. Originally I had a lot of blather in that section, but given: 1. It's a long post 2. Most of my readers are presumably >15 yrs old 3. I honestly think most people up to age 15 have limited control over their lives I decided to trim it down. Obviously I am not literally saying that a 14-and-11-months year old has no influence over their destiny but a 15 year old does. But superfluous precision is the enem…
Is this supposed to be a joke or there are people who really do think that they have figured out the simple rules of how to lead a good life? Maybe I'm just becoming old, but I already hate this kind of arrogance.
Man, I don't want to get old.
This is a charming article. But it's somewhat sad to read. Because it operates on the nearly universal assumption that life is a game, or a battle, or a scavenger hunt—and the way to win is to maintain a high 'state' and get lots of 'achievements'. The reason this gaming terminology is so appealing to us is that it overlays nicely on the way we already think about life: you're constantly making some grade or another;…
I was used to being one of the least positive people about life prospects, now at least in my circles I am one of the most positive people and others are actually spending time with me just to grab some of the positive energy.
If you have a life style to offer that makes me and the people around me even more happy I would be really happy to learn more about it!
Every time I see an article like this I just want to grab the readers and shout "Read a philosophy book!" to them[1]. Literally every point in every article on how to live a happy life was being made by the likes of Seneca and Aristotle thousands of years ago, and there are good reasons why those writers are still the foundation for philosophy today - they were right. [1] I would recommend something like "Philosophy…
Aristotle thought that women had fewer teeth than men.