Control The Narrative Of Your Life
Change what you can control, let go of what you can’t and expect unfairness, difficulties and pain. Everything in your life is your responsibility, and what makes a negative occurrence bad is how you deal with it, not the thing itself.
Accepting full responsibility rids you of excuses and lets you associate the issues of life with your inability to deal with them. It’s important not to be too hard on yourself, but this association leads to proactivity.
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Misery can be influenced by your circumstances, but it is largely indifferent to them because it grows from within. Most of us have everything that we need to avoid it, but our untrained brains are prone to create it through anxiety.
This concept is easy to understand but it requires consistent effort and application. Keeping your brain in check demands that you understand and internalize it into day to day conduct.
“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.”
We only have so much time and energy, so it’s good to eliminate the meaningless things we do. And then spread your remaining time and energy across multiple sources.
Balance work with other hobbies or personal projects, increase the number of people you can rely on, etc. Over a long enough time, something will go wrong, and having multiple sources of fulfillment to rely on will save you from complete collapse.
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Our five senses combine and create our understanding of what's real and what is not. They tell us what to pay attention to, and what to shun.
The physical environment today is complex and there are more 'senses' that we are discovering in our body, beyond the ones known for thousands of years.
- Use analytic techniques that don’t require high accuracy.
- Prepare for multiple outcomes
- Find and rely on the predictable elements of the situation
- Focus your evaluation of initiatives on the inputs (the quality of the process that went into its planning and execution) not just the outputs
- Remain agile, and strive to respond quickly.
- You have to prepare for failure, success, and everything in between. But as long as others find you trustable, you’ll never be on your own
- Don’t Be a Consumerist: keep your expenses as low as possible without sacrificing the quality of life. Spend money on things that yield lasting benefits.
- Have An Emergency Fund: this gives you freedom and peace of mind to deal with issues without having to upset your long-term investments.
- Invest Defensively: investing in individual stocks is a dangerous business and it can take your peace of mind. Index funds let you invest in a whole group of companies, bonds, etc. without the time and risk involved in individual stocks.
- Diversify Income: relying on a single source of income is a dangerous strategy. Multiple sources will make you more financially resilient and give you the resources to acquire assets and invest.
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