108 principles for Authentic Life
– What is Authenticity?
– How do we cultivate Authenticity?
– How do we lead life in alignment with Authenticity?
Here’s what I’ve learnt.
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Understand this, and understand it damn well.
All things in life come at a cost:
1. The price of doing them.
2. The price of not doing them.
Now choose. Which price will you rather pay?
I have been asked to recommend some non-mediocre books. I know many of you are very young, so here are
10 BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE YOU'RE 30
Preferably, much earlier than that. If you're not this young... what are you waiting for to read these books??
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM INFECTION with
#coronavirus
#COVID19
No matter where you live, there are probably asymptomatic carriers of the disease around you.
• Protect yourself.
• Protect your family.
• Protect your community.
Follow these steps to reduce the contagion risk.
WARNING: If you read this, you will laugh a lot and buy many copies of Maestro
@nntaleb
's "Skin in the Game", which was released today in the US.
BONUS: You will also understand the SITG of a well-placed "fuck off".
24 ADULT SKILLS
If you can't take care of yourself on a basic level, how do you claim any agency or independence?
Young men and women, if your parents never taught you this, you should learn it now.
It’s called adulthood – it's the opposite of helplessness and cluelessness.
BREAKING: The
#coronavirus
can travel twice as far as official "safe distance" and stay in air for 30 minutes
Authorities advise people to stay 1-2 metres apart, but researchers found that a bus passenger infected travellers sitting 4.5 metres away
POTENTIAL BOMBSHELL STUDY: Hospital staff were given interferon nasal drops at the height of the coronavirus epidemic in Hubei.
The 28-day incidence of coronavirus was zero in both the high- and low-risk groups. No new infections were found in followup.
@btysonmd
@RWMaloneMD
Alternative treatments for the coronavirus are being suppressed because emergency use authorization can only be granted if "there are no adequate, approved and available alternatives". Big Pharma can't profit from experimental drugs if FDA-approved generics do the job.
If you're one of 1,763,092 people "trying" to build a personal brand on Twitter, get this.
You build a PERSONAL BRAND offline, here you only SHOW WHAT IT IS.
"This is the most frightening disease I've ever encountered in my career. And that includes ebola, it includes MERS, it includes SARS."
The doctor leading efforts to find a vaccine for
#coronavirus
says it is much more lethal than flu.
Why I don't read the news.
Why I don't follow the hot trends.
Why I don't maximize Twitter followers.
Why I don't care about popular books & ideas.
@nntaleb
would appreciate this fusion of Lindy & Eco's library.
MASSIVELY rare social skills nowadays:
– making tasteful compliments
– flirting
– listening without interrupting
– table manners
– touching appropriately
– not talking
– knowing how to mix a classic cocktail
Stack these and you're unstoppable.
1) WHAT THEY WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE
While everyone's obsessed with blockchain, three other budding technologies are poised to change the world in unexpected ways.
When you read this thread, the future will never be the same again.
THE UNLIVED LIFE OF THE PARENT
'Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.'
Carl Jung realized this a century ago. He never realized it would destroy Western society.
NEW: CDC guidance on masks expected to change in next 10 days. Americans will be advised to wear masks in everyday life. Current recommendation is for high-risk groups only.
16 PSYCHOLOGICAL BOOKS THAT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU READ
These books are brutal. They're not designed to be fun, although some of them are humorous. So if you're suicidal, tread lightly.
You asked for fiction. This list will shift your illusion of reality.
"When people speak in a very elaborate and sophisticated way, they either want to tell a lie or to admire themselves. You should not believe such people. Good speech is always clear, clever and understood by all."
– Leo Tolstoy on Clarity
There are two types of people right now.
The first type of people are panicking and think this is the end of the world.
The other type know it's the beginning.
You don't need a PhD to see the Grand Solar Minimum.
This NASA video shows you every single day of solar activity in the last 10 years.
Take a look at the explosions of energy around the equator in the first half of the video. Then look at the second half – dead silence.
You have a spouse? – Take care of yourself first.
You have parents? – Take care of yourself first.
You have kids? – Take care of yourself first.
Otherwise you'll fail EVERYONE.
The "authorities" confiscate almost 1,000,000 N95 masks and other supplies from alleged hoarder in Brooklyn.
He faces charges for coughing on FBI agents who confronted him.
WHAT THEY WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT PERSONALITY TYPES
After 20+ years of study & practice, I still get shell-shocked by the power of personality type.
Expect to be triggered, whether you dismiss psychology because
@nntaleb
or think everything is archetypes because
@jordanbpeterson
.
2. Give everything purpose. If you can’t give it your purpose, don’t give it your energy.
3. Everything you do, do as well as possible; walk the Noble path of Excellence.
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST sold tens of thousands of copies when it came out, and it's been prophetic.
100 years on, Spengler's predictions have been dead-on.
Here's the model he used to crack history, and how you can help ruin his record of prescience.
In 1967, the sugar industry secretly funded a Harvard University research designed for pointing the blame for rising obesity levels at fat rather than sugar.
This is your daily reminder that corporations and their universities are cancer.
Masks are not a sign of respect. Masks are not a sign of fear. Masks are a sign that you have moral compass, you care about your community and you have a functioning brain. That's all there is to it.
6. Humble yourself every day.
Accept that you are not a perfect special snowflake and you are not perfect in any aspect of your Character.
Make time to act and be humbled. Humble yourself to learn and Become better.
No compromise.
No tolerance.
No conceit.
No assumption.
No dogma.
No stagnation.
No bullshit.
No doubt.
No resistance.
No insecurity.
No complaint.
No appeasement.
No inertia.
No distraction.
No defensiveness.
No shame.
No submission.
No validation.
No conformity.
No limitation.
Pro Tip:
If you eat wholesome food, you won't need ranch dressing, barbeque sauce and mountains of ketchup to make it palatable.
Authentic food has its own taste.
The energy released by the eruption of Krakatoa that likely caused the Dark Ages was 2,000,000,000,000 times the size of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
And you worry about recycling milk cartons.
7. Cultivate emotional equanimity. Do not worship your emotions and do not serve them. Realize that they are not you.
8. Develop your generosity. No matter how poor you are, you have something to give.
@ScottAdamsSays
The protests are fine and I am glad that there is some public spirit left to stand against government incompetence. The troubling bit is that the protesters are not wearing masks.
You make the decisions, not the planets or the astrologer.
You make the decisions, not the tarot or the reader.
You make the decisions, not the coin or the seer.
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You make the decisions, even when you refuse to decide.
Only weaklings deny their own Power.
XX || XY = {Antifragile}
Lay off the Adderall. Time to blow your lid off without the pharmaceuticals.
This one is for Women.
For making life so magnificent. And for the inspiration, obviously.
The smartest people I know:
1. Mostly write books
2. Prefer using intuitions to models
3. Rarely waste time in debates/arguments
4. Quickly change course when necessary
5. Avoid having opinions
6. Seek out more intelligent people 1-2 at a time
7. Ignore most perspectives as BS
The smartest people I know:
1. Obsessively read books
2. Pursue new mental models
3. Enjoy intelligent discourse
4. Quickly admit when they're wrong
5. Comfortable changing their opinion
6. Surround themselves w/ intelligence
7. Seek to understand every perspective on a topic
Your children will grow up to be who you treat them to be.
THIS IS A LAW OF NATURE.
Lie to them - they will be insecure.
Talk down to them - they will be inferior.
Helicopter them - they will be weak.
If you want them to be whole adults, treat them as adults.
9. Abandon all attachments within yourself and without yourself.
If you do not allow yourself to evolve, you will become stunted and smol. If you do not allow others to evolve, they will become toxic and resent you for it.
What’s in an egg?
• fat
• protein
• cholesterol
• folate
• calcium
• zinc
• selenium
• phosphorus
• choline
• lutein
• vitamins B2-5-6-12
• vitamin D
• vitamin E
• vitamin K
• omega-3 fatty acids
What supplements are you egging me on about then?