Lovely Mind Candy: The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness

If-life-was-fair-2Article is by Oliver Emberton

Unless you’re winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you.

he truth is, life is just playing by different rules.

The real rules are there. They actually make sense. But they’re a bit more complicated, and a lot less comfortable, which is why most people never manage to learn them.

Let’s try.

Rule #1: Life is a competition

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I laughed out loud, some are so nasty it’s funny

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50 Brilliant Sarcastic Jokes That Will Crack You Up When You’re Feeling Snarky 1
  1. Always remember: You’re just as unique as everybody else.
  2. Did something bad happen to you, or are you just naturally this terrible of a person?
  3. Did you fall from heaven? Cause your face looks kind of funky.
  4. Don’t you hate people who use big words just to make themselves look perspicacious?
  5. Even people who are good for nothing can bring a smile to your face—once you shove them down the stairs, that is.
  6. Hear that? It’s the sound of you not talking for once.
  7. Hi there, I’m human. What are you?
  8. Honesty may be the best policy, but insanity is the best defense.
  9. I always tell new hires, “Don’t think of me as your boss, think of me as a friend who can fire you.”
  10. I can totally keep secrets. It’s the people I tell them to who can’t.
  11. I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
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67 days to a new you: health, money, relationship?

67stepsSometimes I wish I could force you to buy something I know you need, and I know you’ll really benefit from.

I have signed up to Tai Lopez 67 steps program. He says that research now says that it takes 67 days to establish a new way of being, a new take on life… That is why it lasts 67 days.

It is dripped out one session a day, for 67 days. I signed up yesterday, so I had two sessions, two audios to watch today.

I don’t know if he can keep this up, but both sessions talk about something I should talk about, and as soon as I make it mine, I will… I do have a commitment to never just repeat something, but make it mine first.

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An Atlantic article: What does ISIS really want?

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from the Atlantic

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

What is the Islamic State?

Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State’s appeal. “We have not defeated the idea,” he said. “We do not even understand the idea.” In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as “not Islamic” and as al-Qaeda’s “jayvee team,” statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.

What to Do About ISIS?

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Doctor Who… how the doctor lost sight once

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Why I love all the Doctors
I love Doctor Who… My favorite thing about the doctor is that he never forgets, never loses sight of the big picture… almost never.
In one of the episodes he does… and it is the episode I go back, and watch it again. To watch the transformation back and forth from doctor to stupid earthbound human back to doctor.
The Doctor is the best illustration I have for living out of the Observer, the Watcher… the part of you that doesn’t get entangled… that doesn’t lose sight of what you are about, what it is about. Brilliant.
1: Because he’s adorable when embarrassed, he’s always learning and growing, and he’s still very much a Time Lord.  Because he’s got precisely the reverse of Matt Smith going on: he’s young by the standards of his own species but old by ours, and it creates the most fascinating dynamic.
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Osho: Why does it hurt so much to be jealous?

I have been spending the last few days meditating, muscletesting, contemplating why it is that different people from different ethnic cultures are so different in one main aspect: caring.

Caring means that you are willing to consider another as important as yourself. And just the way you would not hurt yourself consciously and intentionally, you would not hurt another. Continue reading “Osho: Why does it hurt so much to be jealous?”

Another great article from Roy Williams: The Measuring of Success

measuring-of-successThe most important sentence in this whole article is this: “If you’re not taking action each day, you don’t have a goal, you have a delusion, a wish, a fantasy, a dream.”

What are you trying to make happen?

Is your goal actionable, or is it ambiguous and vague?

Do you have an empirical method for measuring daily progress?

Empirical: adjective, based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation rather than theory or pure logic.
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