Pursuit of Happiness

Welcome to the back of my mind

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The squad behind today’s Science… Participants of 5th Solvey Conference

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I am not okay [I promise]

MCR

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THE FEYNMAN SERIES - Beauty

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/thesaganseries Twitter - http://twitter.com/reidgower G+ - http://bit.ly/VpHzQh The Sagan Series is an educational project...

“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing, I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about. But I don't have to know an answer, I don't have- I don't feel frightened by not knowing things. By being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me."

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“I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.” - Steven Spielberg

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How To Make Yourself Do What You Don’t Want to Do

1. Rather than listening to the voice in your head that is screaming “I hate this; I don’t want to do this” think about why it is a GOOD thing to do.

2. Instead of trying to pretend that you don’t feel this way, accept that you are feeling very blah and negative.

3. Don’t think about results and how well you think you’ll do, as this could raise your feelings of anxiety and fear, just think about “right now” and the first thing you can do.

4. Accept that life is tough, and is full of things that suck – but recognise that doing hard stuff is better in the end. You’ll likely have more choices and freedom, if you do.

5. Just do a little bit for now – then give yourself a proper break – then go back and do some more – and soon you’ll find you’re in the flow.

6. Don’t allow your mind to wander and think of other things. Stay focused for that short time – and then stop, and have fun.

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Japanese Proverb

Tada yori takao wa nai :

Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge.

Everything has a cost, however that cost comes in many forms. Whether it is money, time or effort. Even the things that are free have a cost. People in third world countries? They need to walk dozens of kilometres to get to it. That ‘free’ sample? It just costed someone 20 minutes on a toilet. Ensure you are conscious of what is free. Ask yourself the implications. Why is it free? Is it reliable? What will this really cost me?

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humankinds main motivation is to seek and experience personal freedom

brendan burcha

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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

Mandy Hale, The Single Woman

@wordsnquotes | @wnq-quoteoftheday

(via wordsnquotes)

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My philosophy on “work”

I don’t want to have gone through 17-18 years of schooling to get a job for a company where I work 8 hours a day. 

I don’t want to just work 8 hours a day, come home & be depressed, tired etc.      I want to work 24/7 and be content with what I do. 

I want to achieve things, I want to GRIND, to WORK towards something. 

They say the aim is to never work a day in your life but instead, find something you love to do and do it everyday/ 

However, what exactly is that love? That underlying passion for me? 

If not basketball, what then? I would like to pursue careers in philosophy, psychology, engineering, motivation. 

Where to begin?

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How can I complain when this is exactly what I asked for

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[luna---belle]

Saying nothing sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson (via luna—belle)

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“Amor Fati”

Can simply be translated as “love one’s fate”, an idea first promulgated by Nietzche whose life was filled with adversity and hardships. He adopted the belief that all the events that occurred was necessary and therefore, one should accept their fate. It is rather, an attitude which one develops in regards to the events in their lives, whether it may be suffering and loss or success and achievement. One accepts these events whether they like it or not, an acceptance which they learn. 

He also introduced the notion of “eternal recurrence” which accentuates what has been said hitherto. This builds on amor fati and says that one accepts their fate to the extent that they would live it a countless amount of times in perfect detail and sync. 

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If you know how to describe and write down the appearance of the forms, the painter can make them so that they appear enlivened with lights and shadows which create the very expression of the faces;

Herein, you cannot attain with the pen where he attains with the brush.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Now you’re looking for the secret. But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to work it out. You want to be fooled. 

 – The Prestige (2006) dir. Christopher Nolan

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99% inspiration, 1% perspiration

Edison

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[philosophybits]

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne, Essais (via philosophybits)