Non-practice

You can live your life in various ways; I am rather radical when I say that you must live it intense & keep things fast. Are there counter examples? Praying should be slow; eating should be done slower; some sports require relaxation, rather than intense concentration; doing things fast can lead to mistakes. But, overall, I consider that a fast & intense life is the way to go.

You can consider this – the whole creation of the Universe, then the world, the history, each person in the past, pretty much everything in the past helped, little or more, so that you are where you are today. It may have been with a purpose or without, but to me it’s very uplifting to consider that the whole past determined, in one way, my presence on Earth today. (I’ve heard this at a coaching NLP class, but it was a thought by someone not in the room, and I don’t remember who it was)

I like this classic quote: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Very uplifting; it mostly refers to a specific situation – getting fooled by somebody else; but, in a broader sense, one can get “fooled” by life; it’s somehow life’s fault if it surprises me with something I’m not prepared for; but the second time, it’s only my responsibility. George BUSH knows this well:

There are three ways in which you can read: Pleasure – “I like Science Fiction, I read SF books”; Random – “I’ll read everything; can I take it? OK, I’ll read it then”; Design – “In the next years, I’ll focus on reading only titles based on this criterion: …”; I like the latter one best; it lacks creativity, it may shape you into something you don’t want to become, but I consider it better than the two previous ones; I don’t think you can become good at something by chance; solution? Pick a criteria and stick to it. PS, 2018.08.03: Idea via Andrei Pleșu.