“I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as ‘creative’ people and ‘non-creative’ people. There are only people who use their creativity, and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear, it lives within us until it’s repressed, Neglected to death, or suffocated by r…
For all of the most important things… The timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align, and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The Universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pi…
Accept what people tell you at face value. Don’t question authority. Go to college because you’re supposed to, not because you want to learn something. Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work. Go overseas once or twice in your life, always to somewhere safe and e…
“As death is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.” -Mozart- Genius is a word that applies to…
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die; We are taught to compare ourselves with others. Yet when I compare myself with another, I am destroying myself. In an ordinary school where there are a lot of boys, when one boy is compared with another who is very clever, who is the head o…
Our world sits in an imbalance, some inhabitants live in countries that are abundant in luxury, comfort and safety, while most of the third world and tropical countries have to struggle every day to survive. Rich countries have an average household income of 80000 dollars each year, while in some p…
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment, and nature will respond to that commitment, by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under. It will lift you up. This is the trick, this is what all the teachers and philosophers really counted, who…
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. The idea that such complexity can arise not only out of simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of…
A human being is part of a whole. Called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as though separated from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal…
There’s this famous pattern of numbers in Math called Pascal’s triangle, named after the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Even though before it was attributed to him, the triangle was already in use hundreds of years before him in China and India. This pattern of numbers generate…
I’ve recently been listening a lot to classical music, it seems that my music taste keeps going backwards in time. There’s this common idea in people’s heads that classical music is stuffy and boring, but there is a reason these symphonies are still remembered and played after hundreds of years. Th…
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don’t love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it… You would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not…