It's really important to put feedback loops in place in your life to change it in the direction you want it to go.
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#22There is a real need for technologic improvements in medicine.
Can you elaborate a bit please?
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#23Chronic diseases suck, and you can definitely get them in your 20's.
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#24There is a life force (energy) that's powering every living thing on this planet.
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#25The unemployment numbers don't mean much. This economy is hanging on by by a few sectors that are barely successful. The 1% won. And when I watch Norma Rae--I realize that movie couldn't be made today. The cotton owners just moved the machines to another county--eliminating unions, and workers.
Oh yea, opiate addiction is not due to befuddled doctors, and corporations. It's due to a country wide depression. People are misserable on so many levels, while spirituality is kinda dead.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). In order to change peoples' minds, they have to want to see that they're wrong. I think certain personality types are innately more disposed to the sort of introspection necessary to evaluate one's beliefs and throw out what's wrong. Really it comes down to how much you care about truth. Coming from the hard sciences, it's surprising how far you can ge…
This is a really important lesson to internalize (the first one). The second is too! I’m telling you, peanut butter is an amazing savory ingredient! You don’t have to go full Hemingway (peanut butter and onion sandwiches), but at least satay is the way. Peanut butter is especially good when it’s spicy. Plus yes, the other stuff, but I just can’t say enough about peanut butter.
There's a type of Haitian spicy peanut butter, sold under the brand Manba in Montreal. I loved that stuff.
https://manba.ca/T31jCjVS/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Box-of-...
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#2799% of anything is something else.
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#28We undervalue ourselves most of the time.
We overestimate our fears most of the time.
An idea is nothing. Execution is everything.
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#30Life can be great and very fun and we always have time to get fit.