By now you likely know that Robin Williams committed suicide. Not died. Committed suicide. OK, so? Well over 100,000,000 people knew and liked him. Liked what he did. What he said. How he was. Again, so? He would literally have to ignore the over one hundred million people who liked him, to succeed in … Read more
You cannot draw a line using only one point as reference. You need at least two points. OK, so? Well, you also need two events. Two. Not just one. How many things now influence you based on experiencing just one event. One time. One point. The Boston Marathon comes to mind. So does any … Read more
Steve needed $550. by 11am. And he’d pay me back in three days. He knew precisely how much he needed, when and for exactly how long. I felt bad for him, not because he didn’t have the money but because he knew his situation exactly. There were no unthought-of places where he misplaced some money. … Read more
A Penguin is a stupid thing. I was in Antarctica looking at Penguins walking all in-a-row. Once, the first one tried to jump over a fairly large rock, failed, fell to the side, then got up and continued. The second one? Did the exact same thing. And the third, and the fourth, and so on. … Read more
Guilt: Going against your own idea of what is ‘correct’. (see # 53) We usually ‘punish’ ourselves to relieve the burden of this guilt. Once punished we no longer feel that initial guilt. OK, so? You no longer feel guilty for the initial action. Now look at your next action, the one that de-guilted … Read more
Ever do anything you then regretted? So, why did you do it? Because you did not know you would regret it. Because you did not have the experience. So you could not know you would then regret it. Which means you learned something. How does one learn anything? By doing. Then, the odd time … Read more