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The Practical Benefits of Outrageous Optimism
The Optimism Gun
Our reality, our beliefs, and attitudes towards money, fame, fortune, are basically just mental concepts and chemical patterns stored in the minds of a bunch of human beings.
A surprising amount of what happens around us may be our own creation, as it is increasingly clear that human beings may be creating their own reality. The Optimism Gun is a mental weapon that can shape our reality in ways that is beneficial to us, in various practical ways.
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Minimalizing Your Life
To minimize your life is choosing to live by design, not by default. You decide where to allocate your time, focus, and efforts.
Socrates
Why Minimizing Your Life
What minimizing your life will bring you:
- More Efficiency: You finally have enough time to do what’s truly important.
- More Time: Owning and doing things carry high costs. Doing less frees up your time to focus on the essential few.
- Less Stress: No more overloaded schedules, running from one place to the next, always rushing.
- Better Health: having and doing less calms your mind and brings clarity.
- Freedom: things don’t own you anymore, you only own things you love.
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Attachment and control
With attachment comes a very strong urge to control the circumstances.
You put yourself at risk by investing so much of yourself into something, unwilling to believe that there i...
Passion and attachment
Feeling too much passion and attachment towards something can skew our perception of it.
And that's risky because it can make us unwilling to see the flaws in our plan.
Simone Weil
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“Life-Extending” Time
Proactively invest your time in your health by eating well, exercising regularly, getting plenty of sleep, and regularly seeing your doctors.
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“Foundation-Building” Time
If you’re spending more time putting out fires than building the right foundations, you’ll never get out ahead of your to-do list.
Spend time building relationships, identifying opportunities, time for prevention and planning.
“Do-Nothing” Time
Investing in do-nothing time will help us slow down and experience a different pace of life, in which time’s value is not measured by its productivity.