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"Only when the majority of the people on this planet believe - absolutely - that they are dying, minute by minute, will we actually start behaving like fully sentient, rational and compassionate beings."

- Caitlin Moran

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This summer I spent 3 weeks, with around 4 hours each day learning material to earn a CompTIA A+ certification for fixing computers. I worked extremely hard and I drained much of my mental resources during the time. The certification is worthless to me. Looking back, it feels like a complete waste of time. All those hours of struggle for no great benefit to me. I need more intelligent work instead of more hard work. It was a lesson for me.

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Slowly shedding dogma and assumptions, and falling deeper into unknown

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Beboy

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There is the expression “like a deer caught in the headlights” which refers to the instinct that some animals have to freeze when confronted with fear. Now of course in the case of the poor deer this often means an unnecessary death.

Human beings also have this instinct. Fight or flight are...

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Real Simple asked five professionals with (unusually) stressful jobs to share their best secrets for keeping a level head.

1. Before a Stressful Event, Stage a Mental Dress Rehearsal

In surgery, you don’t have the luxury of wondering, What if this doesn’t work? It has to work. That’s why, the night before a big procedure, I run through the entire thing like a movie in my head. I also visualize what I’ll do in the event of major complications—which can make a huge difference. During a recent operation, my team encountered a problem when a hole opened in the vena cava, the largest vein in the body, during the removal of an attached tumor. It’s a terrifying situation: The person could bleed to death in minutes. But I had considered this possibility beforehand. So when the vein ruptured, I knew exactly what to do and quickly restored control. And I’m happy to report, the patient is doing fine.

2. Address the Most Urgent Need First

During my 21 years as an air-traffic controller, I’ve had a number of unexpected things happen, from a bomb threat to a helicopter pilot telling me that he had lost his engine and needed to land right away. I always remember what a veteran controller once told me: “It’s always going to get crazy—just don’t get flustered by it. Prioritize as you go, and that way you’ll get through the decision-making process.” It’s crucial to discern between a real emergency and something that can wait. For example, a departing flight that cannot get its gear to retract is less critical than an aircraft with smoke in the cockpit. For me, safety trumps efficiency every time.

Cherie Hitt is a supervisory air-traffic controller at the world’s busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International.

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“When my sister’s having a manic episode, she thinks she has superpowers. She’ll go outside and strip off her clothes. She’ll develop all these conspiracies about the government being out to get her, and she’ll think that something she’s done has made our whole family unsafe. Sometimes she thinks that I’m not me, but an avatar of myself, and I’ll have to do all these things to prove that it’s really me. One time she stole someone’s bike off the street because she thought she was in a movie and was in a race to the Statue of Liberty. Luckily someone stopped her and took her to the hospital. It’s hard to see her like that, and it’s hard to say that there’s anything nice about it, but then again, I can’t help but feel that she has a certain freedom that I envy when she’s having an episode. I feel like everyone’s a little crazy and we all walk around with this armor of sanity, and she’s just able to cast it off completely. I’d almost like to join her and run around the city if only she could keep it from spinning out of control.”

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“Before I joined the Marines, I used to perform in high school musicals and sing Doo Wop on the subways— it was the Boyz II Men era, so that was ‘in.’ When I came back from Iraq about ten years ago, I was really depressed and almost homeless. I was too afraid to go out and socialize so I met my wife on Match dot com. I went through the Police Academy and became a cop, but I always remembered how much I loved performing, and wondered what it would have been like to have pursued that life. So during my time off, I started trying to be an actor. I’ve been to hundreds of auditions over the last eight years. I did some Off Broadway. Some Off Off Broadway. I got a lot of ‘Under Five’ roles—- that’s what they call roles that have less than five lines. But then recently I auditioned for a recurring role as Detective Alvarez on the show Gotham. I was in Puerto Rico, celebrating my 39th birthday, when I got a call from my manager. She said: ‘I need you to sit down.’ I said: ‘What’s going on?’ She said: ‘Are you ready for this, Detective Alvarez?’ I said: ‘What are you talking about?’ She said: ‘YOU’RE DETECTIVE FUCKING ALVAREZ.’ I just started crying and hugging my kids and thanking my wife for never giving up on me. With this role, I might not have to be a cop much longer.”

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People cannot be stupid only ideas can.

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This statue shows the separation of the body and mind.

At the Haeinsa Temple in Korea.

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There is an old story about a guy on the streets of New York City selling tiger prevention rocks. A tourist came up to him and asked “do they work” and the salesman said “of course they do, you don’t see any tigers around here do you?”

Human beings have a strange tendency to think that worry...

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Imagine if earth was vaporized in the next few seconds. All the history, knowledge, and collective consciousness ceasing to exist. Then what? It would be devastating wouldn’t it? But since everyone would be wiped from existence, there could be no panic, no sadness, no observance, no reaction, no conclusion. There would be nothing. And yet time would still continue