January 2024
- Ask yourself: What can I do? What should I do? What will I do?
July 2023
- You need to maintain some sort of contact with reality (e.g. you can’t just be in idea land all of the time writing for example)
June 2023
- Living life purely based on logic and reason will make you miserable (and non-committal). If you can reason your way into a decision, you can reason your way out of it. Meaning comes from committing to things and committing to things requires faith. Choose where to put your faith. (Side note: this is becoming particularly problematic with the decline of religion).
- Logical coherence is overrated. You can disprove the validity of Christmas, but then you lose Christmas.
- Try as much as I can to trust that the way will make itself know if I make leaps of faith even if they feel scary. Maybe even especially if they feel scary.
- Embrace the centerlessness of consciousness.
- Society is warming up to therapy which is analogous to the doctor for your brain, but we still do not have the analog to a gym for your brain. That feels like an opportunity.
- Relinquishing attachments can result in the release of a lot of energy which can be draining and manifest as temporary periods of negative emotion.
- Wisdom can only be gained from experience. Reading and learning can be help, but they can’t deliver wisdom. They can predispose you to collect wisdom down the line or help you metabolize a prior experience and distill some essence of wisdom, but they can’t deliver wisdom itself.
- Wisdom is the product of experience and knowledge
- It’s hard to get out of a field because we look to others to inform how we act and what we want and most people in that field want to be in that field. This causes us to second guess ourself.
December 2021
- Our generation seeks less meaning from religion so naturally we seek more from our jobs.
- We are not content with simply making an honest living and providing for our family. The bar is higher now because we grew up accustomed to that. We want to make an impact and find meaning which is a much more difficult problem to solve.
September 2021