I have 2-3 conversations a day with my students, conversations that should be made public.
Here is one from today:
Him: Wow. I realized on yesterday’s call that there are memes and voices when I am on the call and they are disturbing me to get things more than I am doing. Or disturbing me t
Most people will never become truly successful.“It’s lonely at the top. 99% of people are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most competitive.”
-Tim Ferriss
Most people will never be truly successful.
The pull towards mediocrity is too strong. As David Schwartz once penned, “All around you is an environment that is trying to pull you down to Second-Class Street.”
Most people will never escape the pull.
Much of the thinking around us is small-minded. Most people are overly conce
I am always looking for guidance from whatever is giving guidance. I am also looking for confirmation. My mind is a meaning making machine, like yours, and I catch myself looking for meaning in everything. I am like a GPS… in order for the GPS give you accurate actions, it needs to know where you […]
This article could be called a “life hack” which is a fashionable word nowadays. I don’t mind… but whatever you’ll call it will define it… Because what you’ll call it will be a context… What? Yeah… And context is the ultimate life hack. Most people don’t understand the distinction: context Why is that a problem? […]
It was about 10 years ago. I was getting somewhat better by drinking energized water. Not well, mind you, better. My skin was clearing up, and I had less occurrences of narcolepsy, where I would fall asleep in the middle of speaking, or driving. I was way up in Colorado. It was a seminar by […]
So I am sitting here… and this wave of hopelessness washes over me. I observe my mind that goes and tries on different memes to make sense of the feeling. “No matter what I do….” the whining voice says. “It’s hopeless… give it up!” says the authoritative voice. “You are worthless… who do you think … Continue reading “The mind is an answer finding, meaning making machine”
I am sitting here, working… but my mind wanders to the movie August Rush. I hear the Catholic church’s call for whatever they do at 6 pm… and today I hum with it, I hear it as music. And I remember that I used to hear it as noise. This brings me to August Rush. […]
Preamble: society, to confuse you, makes the words ambition, desire, greed mean different things… and that is how society controls your mind. By sawing confusion… get clear. It takes energy to get anything done. Even to lose weight. Even to sleep… to sleep well. Getting that everything needs energy and that energy can get weakened, […]
A lot of people have bad skin. Acne, rashes, moles, cellulites… uglies. I put cellulite into this category. The fixit mentality, the mindset where you don’t go beyond first base is making people rich. Not you, mind you, people who are willing to sell you s-h-i-t, that you don’t need. You don’t need it because …
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We are all entrepreneurs, potentially. The principle is: an entrepreneur is someone who remakes the world in the image of themselves. There are a few problems we’ll have with this principle: The main problem is that we have no idea who we are, how we are, what we really like, what are our strengths, what …