Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans
Hey everybody! Long time no see
I hope you’re reading this under a palm tree in front of the beach while sipping some exotic cocktail. 🍹❌ Pseudoscience and the gateway to the development of personality
Most people don’t care about the truth, they only search for reassurance that what they believe is true.2 Smart people are always humble enough to challenge their beliefs.
This is the difference between science and pseudoscience: ✅ pseudoscience is the search for evidence that supports its claims, while ❎ science is the search for evidence that challenges its claims.
Seeking support is comfortable, and seeking challenges is uncomfortable, but it is what ultimately builds strong systems (and strong personalities).
The gateway to wisdom and to the development of personality is precisely through the portals that you do not want to climb through. There are a bunch of things about you that are underdeveloped because they’re things you’ve avoided looking at, and there are parts of you you’ve avoided developing because it’s hard for you to develop those parts. It’s by virtual necessity that what you need is exactly where you don’t want to look.
The plot of your life is the overcoming of those limitations. If there were no limitations, then there would be no plot, and maybe there would be no life. You have to accept the fact that you’re flawed and insufficient and live with it and consider it a precondition for being.3
If you’re a scientist, you’re gonna have to let your beliefs go, accept (and learn from) the evidence, and move on.
💸 Who is richer?
Imagine I come to you and say, "Hey, I make $30,000 a year. Here's my friend John. He makes $150,000 a year. Who's richer?" You'll say, "Well, of course, John's richer. I mean, he's five times richer than you are." But is that true?
What if I told you, "I work 10 hours a week, and John works 80 hours a week." Ooh, what is it now? Turns out that John actually makes about $36 an hour, and I make $58 an hour. Starting to get interesting.
Well, what if I tell you John lives in New York City and that's where his job is? He can't live anywhere else because then he won't be able to make that money. But me, I don't have to live anywhere. I could be anywhere around the world and still be making that money. Well, guess what, John's in New York now and he wants to take his girlfriend out to a fine dining place. He's going to pay $200. But, in the country that I'm in when I take my girlfriend out, that's only going to cost $20. Who's richer now? Well, in this case, I'm richer than John is.4
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🦉 Quotes of the weeks
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.— John Lennon
I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.— Morpheus
There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary. Poor is Eternal.— Robert Kiyosaki
They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.— Michael Jackson
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