Wisdom Builder
Quick Hits
MODE:
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4 minutes
TAKE CONTROL.
Quick Hits
10 random key ideas.
2.
Quote:
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..
- 1858.
Meaning:
Your initial baseline was chosen for you, not by you. Your birth givens are not your destiny.
3.
From History: 1748 with Montesquieu
Your mind belongs to you. Neither church nor state has legitimate authority to dictate what you must believe.
4.
The Nuremberg Trials clarified a worldwide principle: following orders does not automatically erase personal responsibility.
5.
Quote:
- Friedrich Nietzsche.
- 1882.
From History:
Meaning:
The Eternal Recurrence test is asking you to affirm your life eternally. Make sure your journey is one you would willingly repeat forever.
6.
From History: Contemplate the future.
Negative visualization is the technique of analyzing future adverse scenarios including various worst-cases.
7.
Existential givens refers to the facts you are born into or cannot simply wish away. TST uses the common word circumstances in context for this.
8.
Quote:
- William James.
- 1902.
Meaning:
You cannot control every thought that enters your mind, but you can learn to control which thoughts receive your attention. That ability gives you real power over stress.
9.
From History: God is nature, nature is everything.
Spinoza’s monism says there is only one substance: God or Nature. Everything that exists is part of this single, infinite reality.
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