Write for the wastebasket – Johnny Mercer.
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Achievement
To live a sustainably extraordinary life, you need the skill of the science of achievement, and have to master the art of fulfilment – the latter may be more import than the former. more
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Arguing
“Don’t wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”–Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
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On stuff
Things in excess becomes their opposite.
Heads of states given too much freedom becomes dictatorships
Money becomes golden handcuffs
(Tim Ferris show #41, Rolf Potts)
This phenomenon is called enantiodromia, the tendency of things to change into their opposites, especially as a supposed governing principle of natural cycles and of psychological development.
“the remorseless enantiodromia between good luck and bad”. From the Greek meaning ‘running in opposite ways’. Cute.tldr; Maintain a mindful relationship with stuff, time and energy. Conspicuous consumption is A Thing.