There are relative standards and *absolute* standards; if you have absolute standards in a world of relative standards you are seem as obsessed, weird, orthorexic - but being judged by people with no absolute standards is as significant as a fart in a hurricane.
To have absolute standards in anything you have to create a force-field around you, as the entire environment and its agents are trying to turn you into a mediocre half-human.
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- Aging is diminishing variation
- The 1st Law of Cybernetics
- The best predictor of your future health is your current health
- Anna Karenina principle
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Ok, this was a paradigm changing day for me; I cycled along the Essex coast, first stop was Canvey Island, essentially a cockney diaspora bubble from London's East End.
This is the FIRST coastal resort where people said "Good Morning" and "Hello" as I walked along the front...
...the whole area was scrupulously clean and tidy. An old man (an eastender) started having a chinwag with me. People were very polite to each other (and the shopworkers were too) and friendly.
The East End of london is practically unrecognisable now (demographically) bengalis..
bangladeshis, muslims, blacks (can I say that) - the real eastenders moved out after the war to new towns with better accommodation and away from the areas that were changing.
Canvey Island is 99.9% white, hardly a hint of brown (I realised I was the brown one) with...
Embracing the idea of failure is the best way to improve (in technical sports). It’s an overused cliché but failures really are a necessary part of progress.
Four examples from sport:
1 - Juggling:
To learn to juggle you shouldn’t focus on catching but on throwing. It doesn’t matter if you don’t catch the ball. Trying to catch means your throwing becomes a desperate attempt to clear your hand for an incoming ball...
...this results in throws which are impossible to catch as you have headlessly thrown them outside your catching range.
- Anxiety
- Fear
- Cynicism
- Tinkering
- No money
- Lots of money
- Celebration
- Inaction
- Random opportunities
- Help from others
- Buying assets
- Making money
- Feeling like a king
- Losing money
- Losing more money
- Having no money
- Debt
- Reframing 'debt'
- No fear
- Not taking life personally
- Taking life personally
- Regular walks thru cemeteries
- False starts
- False dawns
- Determination
- Mental toughness (no longer scared)
- FU attitude (to my situation)
- Finding out what I’m good at (and like)
- Concentrating on that