I Turned 72 Today
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I Turned 72 Today
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#2Good list, but it's something that I've seen (at least most of it), for many years.
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#3Good collection.
My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?
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#4Good collection. My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?
Repeat the positive ones, and they will eventually get louder than the negative ones. This is the thought behind daily affirmations: "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me."
I had a childhood where I was brought up to believe I was worthless. One tactic I used to overwrite those schema that imprinted in my personality from early life is to repeat what I believe about myself, like I'm a good person, etc. Eventually those pathways of believing I'm good were more comfortable than those of believing I'm worthless.
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#5This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person
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#6Good collection. My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?
You pick and choose from other people's lists. No one list will resonate with you. Or you just make up your own list.
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#7Good list, but it's something that I've seen (at least most of it), for many years.
For sure. And I can pick at a few of them — or perhaps worse, a few of them are outright trite. And I can gripe too that there are 32 of them (not just 10 or 5) and so I am unlikely to be able to commit them to memory.
But I am nonetheless happy to see a reminder like this from time to time, a reminder to put things in life in perspective. And for sure there are some gems here. And in the comments too.
Perhaps the two that struck me for some reason (perhaps because they seem to speak to truisms about living with other people):
It’s usually better to be nice than right.
Envy is like drinking poison expecting the other person to die.
And from the comments:
People will forget what you said or what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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#8> Work on a passion project, even just 30 minutes a day. It compounds.
I need to do this. I know my project (just a passion, not a side hussle or for income). Tell myself I need to. Then daily life gets in the way. 10 years or more.
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#9> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.
Hard sell on HN :)
This was also one of the more interesting points in Dale Carnegie. Wish I could live up to it more often.
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#10> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.
(Constructive) Criticism is what advances our development as a species, not sure why that is a necessarily bad thing