People have a difficult time living out a set of principles that will bear fruit in 200 years.
It is difficult to sacrifice your life today (and endure the pain now) for a distant future that you will not know. More difficult is assuming your sacrifice in the present will be appreciated with a commensurate level of responsibility by future generations.
Tag: time
- Theme: Growth
the time problem with saving environment
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Self
Transfer memory into wisdom
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1–2 minutesIf all wisdom is from memory and you have a bad memory, how can you ever be wise?
You must find a way to embed wisdom/memory within your body: embodied knowledge.
- Theme: Self
Competing against time alone
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1–2 minutesPeople assume they are competing with the top 10% of the world, and they work to be the most attractive, compelling option.
It is not another guy, girl, or business you are competing with: you are attempting to replace their time alone.
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- Theme: Self
how to judge people
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1–2 minutesSome people show up.
Sounds simple, and there are always exceptions, but someone willing to spend their time and take action (not just verbal, digital, and mental time but actual time) are the ones you should prioritize.
- Theme: Self
clockwork man: time uses us
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1–2 minutesSince the invention of the clock, time can be wasted, which converts time into a resource to be controlled and mapped into productivity. Time can be used and optimized, pushed and manipulated, for our desires.
Instead, consider that time can use us.
Each process takes the time that it takes. Time guides our reactions and dictates outcomes. More is not possible; only acceptance (acquiescence) to the pace.
There is fear in the simplicity implied: we are only a mechanical appendage of time, a clockwork man performing at a heteronomic tempo. Yet, this reality has always existed and is quite preferable to modern anxiety and pressures of escalating production.
- Theme: Self
Being Nice
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1–2 minutesBe nice. In a utilitarian or economic sense, it pays off.
Fighting or proving you are exemplary, consequential, or brilliant may feel good, but it incurs wrath in the form of vengeance, obstruction, and spite.The wise in ancient traditions are kind, if blunt. Don’t make your future harder for your ego in the present.
- Theme: Self
Gift appearance
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1–2 minutesThe minute I get nervous, a gift arrives.This is not woo-woo, but simply a reality I have observed repeatedly. It is not a re-framing of the world but an inexplicable generosity from those who love me.
- Theme: Self
recycling happiness
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1–2 minutesCan you envision your a moment of supreme happiness?
Envision a moment of contentment, or when you were firing on all cylinders with glee.
Live in that feeling now.
Bring your positive past into your present. - Theme: Self
Deferred life
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1–2 minutesIf life is anchored to something beyond life (a transcendent plane, such as heaven), you live life waiting or achieving another life elsewhere.
Your current existence is subjected to a future existence.
This can also happen in work, marriage, or ideology: living a life for a promised future, you will never encounter.
- Theme: Self
to reach the next level take a break
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1–2 minutesLike a video game, you must conquer the level you are in to transcend.
Sometimes it takes a change of venue and a long-term release of tension to see your level clearly: take a sabbatical from the game to understand it.
your subconscious continues to work in the background, but you need to remove the repetitive challenges that block the pattern recognition from bubbling up.