Aphorisms to Live By

Things people have said that made me go (😮 OR 🤦‍♀️ OR 🖖 OR 👊)

Co-humaning

• [[keep moving and get out of the way]]
• [[links gehen, rechts stehen]]
• [[see yourself as others do]]
• [[dont be a dick]]

Improving, developing, evolving

• [[This is how magic is done - by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a featherbed]]
• [[life is not about perfection - but making sure every delta is positive]] – Lex Fridman
• [[q.Any talent, wisdom or insight you have that you don’t share becomes pain]] – Elizabeth Gilbert
• [[If in doubt say yes]]
• [[Perfectionism]]
• [[q.pick up your instrument every day]]
• [[q.You can run from those demons, until you are exhausted, one day you will have to stop and question what they wanted]]

Humility and Reverence + Awe and Gratitude + Motivation and Contentness → Equinamity

• [[There is no fundamental notion of meaning in reality – There is no fundamental meaning of purpose – There is no fundamental meaning of value]]
• [[q.Reality is sacred to me, I have a reverence for reality, but I know my best understanding of it is never complete - Danlie Schmachtenberger]]
• [[q.life does not need a purpose, wandering aimlessly, finding things interesting is okay]]

Other

• [[Strong opinions weakly held]] – This is a whole (sub)category itself
• [[become the one message loop person]] – Merlin Mann

Things I fucking figured out by my self (usually far too late)

Inspired by Wisdom From Merlin

• [[never do the best you can]]
• [[If in doubt say yes]]

And lastly, some

Nihilism

• [[Dance and drink and screw, theres nothing else to do]]

related::[[Strong opinions weakly held]] related:: [[I Concur]]