- Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative is positive, backwards law
- Not giving a fuck doesn’t mean being indifferent, it is being comfortable with being different
- To not give a fuck about adversity, you must give a fuck about something more important than adversity
- Don’t hope for a life without problems, there’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life with good problems
- Instead of asking “What do you want?” ask “What pain do you want in your life?” “What are you willing to struggle for?”
- Problems may be inevitable, but the meaning of each problem is not
- Freud “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful”
- Values are about prioritisation, and that therefore influence your decision making more than anything else.
- Responsibility
- we don’t always control what happens to us, but we always control how we interpret what happens to us s well as how we respond
- Uncertainty
- we don’t actually know what a positive or negative experience is. don’t trust your conception of positive/negative
- Failure
- don’t just sit there, do something. The answers will follow.
- Rejection
- the ability to both hear + say no
- Mortality
- i) a deep existential anxiety that underlies everything we think or do
- ii) we have 2 selves - one is physical self that eats/sleeps, second is conceptual self - our identity, or how we see ourselves.
←The bookcase
One of the books Shaun rated five out of five.