Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
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Take Control.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
1.
Recognizing the limits of your own thinking is not weakness. It is self-command. When you know where evidence ends and uncertainty begins, you stop defending guesses like facts and regain control of your next response.
2.
Quote:
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
- 1882.
From History:
Meaning:
Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence is asking you to affirm your life eternally. Make sure you live in a way you would willingly repeat forever.
3.
From History:
Build happiness by prioritizing the long-term over the short-term. Use the Epicurean Happiness Toolkit to foster simple pleasures like friendship.
5.
Quote:
- Epicurus.
- 300 BCE.
Meaning:
Happiness fails when “enough” is never allowed to be enough. In other words, if enough isn’t enough, nothing ever will be.
6.
From History:
Build character by practicing virtue and fostering good intent in your decision making. Start by mastering the four cardinal virtues of the Stoic Virtue Framework.
7.
When talking about spirituality, remember to accept personal beliefs as is until you are asked to accept a claim as true. When that happens, the claim enters public belief, and needs to be sorted.
8.
From History:
Your cognitive biases, your predictable distortions in judgment, require conscious correction through disciplined thinking. First step, admit you have them.
9.
Article summary:
Recovery begins when the addicted self stops acting like the highest authority. Surrender craving and rebuild with a Higher Power: whether God, Logos, or reality itself.
Done. Refresh for another set.
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Content and coding by Michael Alan Prestwood.
