242 You Were the Smart Kid. So Why Do You Feel So Lost Now?

 

152 Five steps to control the ego

Five steps to control the ego:
1. Don't get easily offended,
2. Free yourself from the need to win,
3. Free yourself from the need to always be right
4. Free yourself from the need to be superior
5. Free yourself from the need to have more.

Contodalactitud

Source: https://twitter.com/contodalactitud/status/198113367062364160

136 2012 is OVER

123 Creating a Life

122 What's the most a single, average person can do?

What's the most a single, average person can do to help as many people as much as possible?

Consecrate your life to being the embodiment of your own highest ideals. The only thing that is consistent in your life is you. By making this thing, your 'self', as insightful, compassionate, useful, productive, loving, learned, determined . . .[virtue X] you guarantee that all events and relationships you engage in will have this positive aspect. You can't control things beyond yourself, you can only contribute. The quality of your contribution is directly proportional to the quality of your person. Any specific set of actions, philosophies, philanthropies, 'causes' or the like are impermanent and only useful in a proper context and application. Therefore identification with or association of these activities as 'the best' will simply prevent you from actually being in the moment and responding, you will be reacting to your own idealized mental landscape. Moreover your knowledge of the impact of your actions is severely limited. However we might be aware of the impact of our actions in ways we can understand the butterfly affect of causality extends far beyond our awareness. Furthermore ideas are viral in their spreading. If others observe in you the embodiment of ideals they value and they see the effects of this in and through your actions they too may be inspired to refine themselves. This refracts throughout society as we inspire each other to evolve ourselves. To have a more evolved society we need more developed people to create it. To facilitate the development of others we can only lead by example, share the notes of our own growth journey and support each other.

DrunkenMonkey42

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAskReddit/comments/1zy161/whats_the_most_a_single_average_person_can_do_to/cfy06au/

011 Stop trying to define what your brand of happiness looks like

You may hate this answer.

I'm a few years older than you and about to get my math degree so I can't offer you

career advice as I often look for that myself. I have, however, been through the ringer

so to speak and I identify with so much that you are saying.

Stop taking your life so seriously. Stop desperately trying to define what your brand of

happiness looks like with so much detail. If you somehow develop the perfect path for

your life with everything laid out meticulously then you are setting yourself up for

tremendous heartbreak because your life doesn't give a shit about what you plan for it.

Be a good person, take small but thorough steps to overcome your laziness, and try to

accept happiness that comes to you. Never turn down happiness because it doesn't look

like what you planned. You don't want to become so overwhelmed with fear of the

future that you don't recognize true happiness in a different form.

If you don't go to grad school then you still have value. Life in our society is mostly

about selling yourself – hard. Maybe you can't win a Fields Medal or whatever, but if

you can't sell your background to *someone* then you're just a bad salesman, not a

valueless person.

And please understand that I'm dishing out this advice while striving hard to follow it

myself.

NOLANOLA

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/5jg384/slug/dbfxe04

009 Vinieron primero por...

En Alemania vinieron primero por los comunistas,

No dije nada porque yo no era comunista.

Después vinieron por los judíos,

No dije nada porque yo no era judío,

Después vinieron por los sindicalistas,

No dije nada porque yo era independiente.

Vinieron por los católicos,

Y no dije nada porque yo era protestante.

Después vinieron por mí,

Y no quedaba nadie que dijera algo.

Martin Nemoer

008 Prólogo 'El hombre en busca de sentido'

007 This Question will make you immune to failure

Source:
https://medium.com/personal-growth/this-question-will-make-you-immune-to-failure-2c5f39aab55f