I liked a podcast by Bishop Robert Barron: What Makes Us Happy? – YouTube.
The Bishop says that even if Nordic countries like Finland rank very high on measures of happiness, the survey people might look at the wrong KPIs when evaluating happiness.
There are a lot of arguments in the video; if you’re interested in the topic, you might want to check it out.
But it did provoke me to think – is happiness really about healthcare and a good state of being? Or is it much more, a more profound thing?
Why does it make sense to write a memo, even if you remember things now?
So, even if I can remember something right now, why is it worth adding a memo?
The process of typing/writing helps you remember the task better.
Let’s say you want to start a habit. Even if you know it perfectly, you should do it a few times until it becomes a habit.
Thoughts and prayers might be a wrong, naive, and perhaps even silly way to help someone.
It might be nice to think positively, but it might not bring any value.
In my opinion, thoughts and prayer help a lot the person(s) who says them.
Also, what is love?
Love is „To will the good of the other” – Bishop Robert Barron.
Thus, „Thoughts and prayers”, silly to some, is, actually, love.
Of course, if you can give a helping hand, this proves valuable.
But love takes many forms.
I heard an opinion that ChatGPT doesn’t produce anything new and lacks creativity, as it only „recycles” old content.
I think ChatGPT can combine things from very separate domains and produce new things based on that.
But let’s say that ChatGPT only recycles old content.
Compare this to humans – do we create something from scratch, or do we think of what our predecessors did and only build on that?
Put a newborn in a forest, and that person will likely not do anything substantial with their life.
We need to copy a lot of things.
Sure, we can invent new things, after we know all that was in the past, and ChatGPT likely won’t do this.
For a while, at least.
You should, in my opinion, follow up after asking for help.
When shouldn’t you? When offering help.
So, if you ask for something and receive help, say what happened with the help.
When you offer help, you may follow up, but not necessarily so.
La ora 11 noaptea la geamul lui Ștrulă bate cineva.
– Cine e acolo?
– Sunt Bulă, fratele tău… Ai cerneală?
– Nu am!
La ora 1 dimineața din nou se aud bătăi în geam.
– Cine-i acolo?
– Tot Bulă, fratele tău. Tot nu ai cerneală?
– Nu! Lasă-mă să dorm!
La ora 3 dimineața din nou se aud bătăi în geam.
– Am adus cerneală…
“It’s tragic how few people ever possess their souls before they die. Nothing is more rare in any man, than an act of his own. It is quite true. Most people are other people.” — Oscar Wilde
Eu nu joc la Loto, am citit că după 6 luni de când ai câștigat o avere mare, sau când ți-ai pierdut un picior, ajungi la același nivel de fericire.
Te poți obișnui și cu câștigul, și cu pierderea.
Dacă aș juca, strategia mea ar fi să joc 5 numere consecutive, și unul aiurea. Motivul? Dacă cumva se întâmplă să iasă acea combinație, e mai improbabil să o joace cineva decât 6 numere aleatorii.
Iar celor care zic „Nu o să iasă niciodată numerele 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 38. E absurd!” le spun că e aceeași probabilitate să iasă orice altă combinație, contează doar cu cine împarți câștigul.
Dacă nu crezi că poate ieși vreodată 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 38, nu juca, orice altceva ai juca e fix aceeași probabilitate, contează doar psihologia celorlalți jucători și să nu împarți câștigul cu ei.
“Stop complaining,” said the farmer,
“Who told you a calf to be?
Why don’t you have wings to fly away
Like the swallow so proud and free?”
Video:
I think complaining is a form of weakness, and I try to avoid it.
O întrebare care îmi place: „De ce nu ești ceea ce ai fi putut să fii?”.
La prima vedere, creștinismul pare că îngrădește (de exemplu, cele 10 porunci). Opinia mea e că nu face asta.
Întrebări de genul „ce ai putea să faci mai mult?” potențează, dau libertăți.
I liked La sociedad de la nieve (2023). Good movie, not excellent, but good.
One thing, though – it made me think about what people do when faced with extreme situations.
It seems that even in the most complex, most difficult situations, people tend not to use their creativity 100%.
To solve their situation, they had to do two big things. At some point, they did one, and following that, they did another big thing in the movie.
The question is – why did people have to die? What kept them from acting right from the start the way they did?
Even in life-and-death situations, we don’t use our potential enough.
„You’ll die if you don’t do this!”
„Ok.”
(to me, this is not an appropriate answer)