There’s no right answer. The present self usually wins, because he controls the action and so his interests are more important. But the future self actually has a stronger case: he’s actually a bunch of future selves (you in 10 minutes from now, an hour from now, a day from now, three days from now, a year later, and so on). So shouldn’t a thousand future selves outweigh the current self’s interest?
~ Leo Babauta from, Savor Discipline: Merge the Interests of Your Future & Present Selves – Zen Habits Website
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Not claiming I have this one all figured out. Just claiming you should read everything Leo writes…
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The idea of what parkour can be and the current reality of what parkour is are not the same as far as who participates. The issue of gender can’t be ignored in parkour. You hear a lot based around the idea of ‘parkour is for everyone!’, well theoretically yes, but if all you really see is young guys then if you are not a ‘young guy’, it many not occur to you that it could also be for you. Parkour as an activity is not alone in this.
~ Julie Angel from, «http://www.goseeanddo.com/parkour-the-inconvenient-truth/»
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Tracy said, “I wanna’ work turn vaults…” BAM!
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Yeeee-Haw! The UPS driver, (aka ‘our brown Santa’,) just surprised me with this…. didn’t even know it had shipped! Off to Home Depot for steel pipe . . . *squeeeeeeeee*
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A few photos from a sailing vacation in 2001 to St. Martin.
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When an honest man discovers he is mistaken, he will either cease being mistaken, or cease being honest.
~ unknown
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We’re supposed to be thinking people. We’re supposed to be able to question everything.
There are things that happen in the world that are bad, and you want to do something about them. You have a just cause. But our culture is so war prone that we immediately jump from “This is a good cause” to “This deserves a war.”
You need to be very, very comfortable in making that jump.
~ Howard Zinn from, «http://www.progressive.org/zinnjuly09.html»
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During the course of our conversation, I told these researchers about my practice and about the success I was having with patients on low-carb diets. I explained how my patients lost weight fairly easily and experienced significant and rapid changes in blood pressure, lipids, fasting insulin and blood sugar levels. They became intrigued since these changes pretty much mirrored those seen over time in caloric-restriction studies on lab animals. It set them to wondering whether humans following low-carb diets would manifest the same enzymatic changes as calorically-restricted animals. They proposed an experiment.
~ Michael Eades from, «http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/inflammation/can-your-food-make-you-fit/»
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I hear it all the time from people. “I’m passionate about it.” “I’m not going to quit, It’s my passion”. Or I hear it as advice to students and others “Follow your passion”.
What a bunch of BS. ”Follow Your Passion” is easily the worst advice you could ever give or get.
~ Mark Cuban from, Mark Cuban – Don’t Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort | Genius
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