Daily Musings

July 9, 2023:

Run Uphill: if you’re evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Judgment is underrated. Wisdom is knowing the long-term consequences of your actions. / Wisdom applied to external problems is judgment – knowing the long-term consequences of your actions and then making the right decision to capitalize on that. #Naval
June 5, 2023:
Sharks eat well but live a life surrounded by sharks. #Naval
May 18, 2023:
“Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” – happy is he who understands what is behind things #Virgil
The selection process favors the most communicative, not necessarily the most knowledgeable.
May 8, 2023:

If you aren’t where you want to be, the problem is your choices. Your circumstances are the symptoms of those choices.

Control over doing what you want, when you want to, with the people you want to, is the broadest lifestyle variable that makes people happy.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice of more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance. #Taleb

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. #Hume

Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact – and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.

April 14, 2023:

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. #SorenKierkegaard

Updated: November 11, 2023

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