1/ Three major problems with basing your worldview solely on your feelings. A short thread.
2/ Your feelings are self-contained. They are solely experienced only by you, not by the world or the universe or that hot guy you saw at the gas station.
3/ Your feelings are temporary. They only exist in the moment they arise. They often disappear and reverse themselves as quickly as they began.
I asked people to tell me what they would share with every person on the planet if there was a way to reach the ears of every single one of them. This is what they said... (a thread)
2/ Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
3/ Love what you have before life teaches you to love what you lost.
1/ Hey, so what the fuck's wrong with the world, anyway? (A thread...)
2/ While researching and writing an article on news media at the beginning of the year, I was reminded of a famous Bertrand Russell quote:
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are so confident and the intelligent are so full of doubt.”
3/ Russell was describing what psychologists would decades later label The Dunning-Kruger Effect. The Dunning-Kruger Effect shows that the less knowledgeable people are, the more they tend to overestimate their knowledge and abilities.
1/ The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (in a Twitter thread)...
Now, while not giving a fuck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood. I don’t know what that means, but I don’t give a fuck. A bag of burritos sounds awesome, let’s go with it
2/ The point is, most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many fucks in situations where fucks do not deserve to be given. We give a fuck about the rude gas station attendant who gave us too many nickels. We give a fuck when a show we liked was canceled on TV.
3/ We give a fuck when our coworkers don’t bother asking us about our awesome weekend. We give a fuck when it’s raining and we were supposed to go jogging in the morning.