Wisdom

Irrelevant in all circumstances →

Published July 9, 2023  ·  All posts on Jul 9  ·  ,

I waffled on my title. I started a draft with the current title, which is simply item #7 plucked from Housel’s post. Later, I misread it as “Irreverant…” and, even after noticing my speling error, still thought myself clever; “Haha, yes, I am irreverant in all circumstances.” Which my mind then toggled back to “irrelevant” and, “Yes, I am probably also irrelevant in all circumstances.” Ouch.

The firehose makes it easy to mirror the poor Oxford boy: since information is free and ubiquitous but adding context has a mental price, the path of least resistance is to know facts without a clue where they go or whether they’re useful.

~ Morgan Housel, from Different Kinds of Information

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And no, it’s not at all a diss on [a]social media. It’s a terrific little post listing different kinds of information. I’d love to be a source of a large amount of #2 and #4. But if I’m being honest, I’m more a source of #5. …and #7, I definitely generate a lot of that. Maybe even some of #8—but only in the, “oh my gawd, no! Spit that out!” sort of way.

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To see beauty →

Published June 8, 2023  ·  All posts on Jun 8  ·  , ,

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~ Franz Kafka

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Miracles →

Published May 12, 2023  ·  All posts on May 12  ·  , ,

A person who is lucidly aware of the miracles that surround him, who has learned to bear up under the loneliness, has made quite a bit of progress on the road to wisdom.

~ M. C. Escher

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Wisdom and learning →

Published May 5, 2023  ·  All posts on May 5  ·  , ,

Seek to learn constantly while you live; Do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

~ Solon

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Clever →

Published April 24, 2023  ·  All posts on Apr 24  ·  , , ,

If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to respond quietly, and how to stop talking when there is nothing more to say.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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An imaginary life →

Published November 24, 2022  ·  All posts on Nov 24  ·  , ,

We are not satisfied with our real life. We want to live an imaginary life, a life in which we seem different in the eyes of other people than we are in reality.

~ Blaise Pascal

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Paying attention →

Published November 10, 2022  ·  All posts on Nov 10  ·  , , ,

To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.

~ Viggo Mortensen

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Quite nice →

Published October 29, 2022  ·  All posts on Oct 29  ·  , ,

[T]oday, let’s seek to be better than the things that disappoint or hurt us. Let’s try to be the example we’d like others to follow. It’s awful to be a cheat, to be selfish, to feel the need to inflict pain on our fellow human beings. Meanwhile, living morally and well is quite nice.

~ Ryan Holiday

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The way →

Published October 4, 2022  ·  All posts on Oct 4  ·  , ,

The way to true knowledge does not go through soft grass covered with flowers. To find it, a person must climb steep mountains.

~ John Ruskin

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A bad example →

Published September 2, 2022  ·  All posts on Sep 2  ·  , ,

Nothing is more harmful than a bad example set by others. They bring into our life notions which never would have occurred to us without an example.

~ Leo Tolstoy

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