Dialogue1 

There is no charge for awesomeness and attractiveness.

Dialogue 2

Dialogue 3

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Dialogue 4

The true path to victory is to find your opponent's weakness and make them suffer for it.

Dialogue5

There is just news. There is nothing good or bad.

Dialogue 6

Dialogue 7

The mark of a true hero is humility.

Dialogue 8️

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Personal Development

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Movies & Shows

Kung Fu Panda - Wikipedia

<ul><li>Ask yourself, "Is this book any good?"</li><li>100 pages minus your age - so if you're 30 years old and a book hasn't captivated you by page 70, stop reading it. That way, as you age, you have to endure crappy books less and less.</li></ul>

Stop reading books you aren't enjoying

<ul><li>A collection of quotes, ideas, stories, and facts that you want to keep for later.</li><li>This will make you a better writer, a wiser person, and a more appreciative owner of words and ideas.</li><li>Many famous writers, including Walt Whitman, Walt Carroll, and Thomas Jefferson, kept a version of this for years.</li></ul>

Keep a commonplace book

<ul><li>We cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience; it's why we have to read and reread.</li><li>Because the world is constantly changing and we are constantly changing, therefore what we get out of books can also change.</li></ul>

Reread the masters

<ul><li>If a book changed someone's life, it's worth the investment and will likely help you in the long run, give it a try.</li><li>Ask famous people for recommendations and find out what they read.</li><li>This will deepen your relationship with the book.</li></ul>

Ask people you admire for book recommendations

<ul><li>Read and learn from the experiences of others. Drink deeply from history, from philosophy, and more.</li><li>Study the cautionary tales and the screw-ups, the failures and successes of other entrepreneurs. If you don't, it's a dereliction of duty.</li></ul>

Don’t just learn from your own experience

<ul><li>Re-read something that has really spoken to you in the past.</li><li>Instead of expecting a random book to reach you, go back to something that's already spoken volumes to you.</li><li>You'll discover how much more there is to learn.</li></ul>

Get out of a dry spell

Ryan Holiday shares six tips to become a better reader to lead a better life.

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Reading & Writing

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Books

6 strategies that will make you a better reader — and person

<ul><li>How to master my emotions</li><li>The importance of a meditation practice</li><li>To not take things so seriously</li><li>How to find joy in any situation</li></ul>

The Power Of Now

<ul><li>A spiritual take on the state of modern masculinity.</li><li>This is for those with a masculine edge that want to master their relationships, pursue their purpose, and harness their masculine energy in the modern world.</li></ul>

The Way Of The Superior Man

<ul><li>A compilation of Hermetic teachings based on the 7 principles originally explained by Hermes Trismegistus — the scribe of the gods.</li></ul> <ul><li>This book will give you a foundational understanding of reality, and the material world, and aid you on your spiritual journey.</li></ul>

The Kybalion

<ul><li>I didn't find any teachings that were inherently different from the ones in the books previously mentioned.</li></ul> <ul><li>Alan Watts is just an incredible storyteller. The way he presents his teachings are poetic. They will put you in a proper headspace.</li></ul>

The Wisdom Of Insecurity

<ul><li>The books prior to this are a bit hard to interpret and apply to your life if you haven't dove into the spiritual side of things before.</li></ul> <ul><li>Awareness will make everything "click," allowing you to mentally and spiritually navigate your own suffering.</li></ul>

Awareness

Everything started to click for me after reading this. Why myself and others became obsessed with certain areas of life, went all in, and turned it into our lifes work. This book gives you the step-by-step info you need to do what you love for life.

The Art Of Impossible

<ul><li>Similar to #6 (he references it a lot), Flow will give you a foundational understanding of the "flow state" and how to tap into a degree of it at any moment.</li></ul> <ul><li>A similar goal of most spiritual teachings, but Flow dives into the practical science-based applications.</li></ul>

Flow

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Leadership & Management

7 books that will change your life (that you've probably never heard of):

If you really want to do something you will find a way. If you don't you will find an excuse.

Success is neither magical nor
mysterious. Success is the
natural consequence of
consistently applying the
basic fundamentals.

Motivation is like food for the
brain. You cannot get enough in
one sitting. It needs continual and
regular refills.

The size of your success depends
on the depth of your desire.

Approach the start of each day
with something in mind and end
the day with one word.. .DONE.

Cause change and lead;
accept change and survive;
resist change and die.

People are anxious to improve
their circumstances, but are
unwilling to improve themselves.
That is why they remain bound.

A compilation of quotes from some of the greatest motivators and businessmen and businesswomen. This book is intended for those who want the motivation and inspiration to achieve the dreams they may have, whether it's to become a better parent, a more successful businessman or businesswoman, or becoming a better student.

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Motivation & Inspiration

Thomas J. Vilord is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Thomas J. Vilord has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Thomas J. Vilord's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Thomas J. Vilord

1001 Motivational Quotes for Success

Humans need an accurate view of the world to survive. If your model of reality is different from the actual world, then you struggle to take effective actions each day.However, truth is not the only thing that matters to the human mind. Humans also seem to have a deep desire to belong.Humans are herd animals. We want to fit in, bond with others, and earn the respect and approval of our peers. Such inclinations are essential to our survival. For most of our evolutionary history, our ancestors lived in tribes. Becoming separated from the tribe—or worse, being cast out—was a death sentence.

The Logic of False Beliefs

Convincing someone to change their mind is the process of convincing them to change their tribe. If they abandon their beliefs, they run the risk of losing social ties. You can’t expect someone to change their mind if you take away their community too. You have to give them somewhere to go. Nobody wants their worldview torn apart if loneliness is the outcome. The way to change people’s minds is to become friends with them, integrate them into your tribe, and bring them into your circle. Now, they can change their beliefs without the risk of being abandoned socially.

Facts Don't Change Our Minds. Friendship Does.

Years ago, Ben Casnocha mentioned an idea to me that I haven't been able to shake: The people who are most likely to change our minds are the ones we agree with on 98 percent of topics.If someone you know, like, and trust believes a radical idea, you are more likely to give it merit, weight, or consideration. You already agree with them in most areas of life. Maybe you should change your mind on this one too. But if someone wildly different than you proposes the same radical idea, well, it's easy to dismiss them as a crackpot.

The Spectrum of Beliefs

There is another reason bad ideas continue to live on, which is that people continue to talk about them.Silence is death for any idea. An idea that is never spoken or written down dies with the person who conceived it. Ideas can only be remembered when they are repeated. They can only be believed when they are repeated.I have already pointed out that people repeat ideas to signal they are part of the same social group. But here's a crucial point most people miss: People also repeat bad ideas when they complain about them. Before you can criticize an idea, you have to reference that idea.

Why False Ideas Persist

Why do you want to criticize bad ideas in the first place? Presumably, you want to criticize bad ideas because you think the world would be better off if fewer people believed them. In other words, you think the world would improve if people changed their minds on a few important topics.If the goal is to change minds, then I don't believe criticizing the other side is the best approach. Most people argue to win, not to learn.

The Intellectual Soldier

The brilliant Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”When we are in the moment, we can easily forget that the goal is to connect with the other side, collaborate with them, befriend them, and integrate them into our tribe. We are so caught up in winning that we forget about connecting. It's easy to spend your energy labeling people rather than working with them.

Be Kind First, Be Right Later

What's going on here? Why don't facts change our minds? And why would someone continue to believe a false or inaccurate idea anyway? How do such behaviors serve us?

Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.

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Philosophy

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Problem Solving

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Communication

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Love & Relationships

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

Who you spend time with will define the stories you hear.The stories you hear will define the stories in your head.The stories in your head will define you.

What's Your Definition

In a world filled with people living their lives for someone else, a truly well-lived life, is the one where we stay true to our own selves.

Be Yourself 

Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results. A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.

Years From Now.

How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.It is rare almost impossible, for a mean, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted person to truly love themselves.

Make Your Reflection Worthy

.... gold is an investment, jewellery is not.When we disguise our desires as our needs, we almost always end up making a mistake.

Need Vs Desire 

No one sees how you overcame your habits and systems despite having ‘failed’, because they focus on the end result, that you failed.

Failed!

The truth is, your current rules of success and failure have been written by the world. Go ahead and rewrite them. For yourselves.

Go ahed & For Yourself!

This book is not going to be a revelation. It is meant to be a reminder. A reminder of how life happens to all of us, in a similar yet unequal fashion.
Ankur Warikoo, Do Epic Shit

Ankur Warikoo is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Ankur Warikoo has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Ankur Warikoo's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Ankur Warikoo

Do Epic Shit

Meaning has to be understood as a relationship rather than an absolute state. We feel meaning when we are connecting us to ourselves, to others, and to the world. His perspective is deeply influenced by Daoist & Buddhist philosophies. We face a meaning crisis when  feel anxious & alienated because we’re stuck in our head, lose the sense of our embodiment. When we feel weak connection with reality (the Dao).

Vervaeke's Definition of Meaning

The modern world has gone wrong with its construal of rationality as the logical manipulation of statements. Rationality is not the only form of knowing. "We’ve reduced our understanding of what knowing is to merely the propositional level, and we’ve left out the participatory. We’ve left out all the non-propositional aspects."The rituals, our sensations, intuitions, our insights, the physical activities and so are representing truth and play a key part in creating meaning. It's why Vervaeke thinks the Zen masters have a more complete epistemological framework than the best Western scientists.

Participatory Knowing

Meaning in life is the degree to which people feel that connectiveness to themselves, to each other, and to the world that alleviates or ameliorates that anxiety, absurdity, and alienation, so that life is worth it to them…Do you have those kinds of connections enough that you don’t find life overwhelmingly absurd and futile, that you don’t feel yourself overwhelmingly alienated, that you’re not overwhelmingly beset by both psychological or existential anxiety?

Vervaeke tries to explain meaning to Lex. 

John Vervaeke is a psychologist and cognitive scientist at University of Toronto. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:  - Mizzen+Main: https://mizzenandmain.com and use code LEX to get $35 off  - InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/lex to get 20% off  - Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/lex to get special savings  - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil  - Onnit: https://lexfridman.com/onnit to get up to 10% off   EPISODE LINKS:  John's YouTube: https://youtube.com/johnvervaeke  John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john  John's Facebook: https://facebook.com/VervaekeJohn  John's Website: https://johnvervaeke.com  Books mentioned:  Flow: https://amzn.to/3cQDby9  On Bullshit: https://amzn.to/3PZDvYW  The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/3KsIctp   PODCAST INFO:  Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast  Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr  Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8  RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/  YouTube Full Episodes: https://youtube.com/lexfridman  YouTube Clips: https://youtube.com/lexclips   SUPPORT & CONNECT:  - Check out the sponsors above, it's the best way to support this podcast  - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman  - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman  - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman  - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman  - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman  - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman   OUTLINE:  Here's the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.  (00:00) - Introduction  (00:26) - Meaning  (20:41) - Consciousness  (29:41) - Relevance realization  (41:03) - Wisdom  (48:18) - Truth  (53:02) - Reality  (1:05:23) - Meaning crisis  (1:28:51) - Religion  (1:36:41) - Nontheism  (1:51:50) - Distributed cognition  (2:10:01) - Flow  (2:29:59) - Psychedelics  (2:38:27) - Marxism and Nazism  (2:50:32) - Evil  (2:54:43) - Powerful ideas  (3:01:34) - Advice for young people

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Podcasts

Conversations about science, technology, history, philosophy and the nature of intelligence, consciousness, love, and power. Lex is an AI researcher at MIT and beyond.

Lex Fridman Podcast

#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

John Vervaeke on the Meaning Crisis & the Search for Wisdom

You don’t win alone. That’s just how it is.”

“Bokuto is the kind of person that compels you to give it you all, because you know he’s giving it his all.”

“Even if we’re not confident that we’ll win, even if others tell us we don’t stand a chance, we must never tell ourselves that.”

“It’s not your place to give up.”

“All of you should be able to make it! To the highest limit, to the farthest limit!”

“Today might be the chance to grasp the chance to let your talent bloom.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the "Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to-and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, the King of the Court, Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy who is supposed to be his rival ends up being his teammate?!

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Creativity

Ever since he saw the legendary player known as the "Little Giant" compete at the national volleyball finals, Shoyo Hinata has been aiming to be the best volleyball player ever! He decides to join the team at the high school the Little Giant went to-and then surpass him. Who says you need to be tall to play volleyball when you can jump higher than anyone else? After losing his first and last volleyball match against Tobio Kageyama, "the King of the Court," Shoyo Hinata swears to become his rival after graduating middle school. But what happens when the guy he wants to defeat ends up being his teammate?!

Haruichi Furudate

Haikyu!!

Short answer: Yes. "Your body can't tell the difference between bending over to pull out a weed and bending down to pick up a kettlebell," explains <a href="http://w8lifterusa.com/">Robert S. Herbst </a>, a personal trainer and world champion powerlifter. So, in short, don't discount all the physical activities that you engage in without intending to exercise. Non-exercise activities are a great way to not only improve your health, but also complete tasks more easily and reduce your risk of injury (no more pulling a muscle carrying the groceries in). Here are 10 everyday activities that count as exercise, according to experts.

Can Daily Activities Count As An Exercise

Anyone who's ever mowed the lawn by hand in the height of summer knows that it's a true workout. Nunez explains: "Aside from the low impact and cardiovascular benefits, mowing the lawn requires a lot of functional movement primal patterns in the process of set up, mowing the lawn and clean up."Other types of yard work that are a great workout include gardening, weeding, shoveling snow or leaves and much more.

Yard or Lawn Care

Who says your hour-long daily walk can't be through the aisles of Target? Seriously, though, errands often involve plenty of walking, carrying, lifting and other movements.

Running Errands

Cleaning the house can involve a wide range of physical movements -- going up and down stairs, carrying things from room to room, pushing and pulling the mop or broom and more.

Cleaning the House

Need we say more? You may be more occupied with getting your pup exercise during their daily walk, but don't forget that you're getting your steps in at that time, too.

Walking the Dog

You may have heard that <a href="https://www.cnet.com/health/fitness/the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-health-right-now-standing-up/">sitting for long periods of time is bad for you </a> . But getting up and moving your body every 30 minutes or so is helpful, and walking is great exercise, period -- whether it's to the mailbox, down the hall to wave to your coworker or to grab a snack.

Walking, Anywhere

If you take public transportation regularly, you probably get a ton of light- to moderate-intensity activity throughout your days just by getting to the bus or train. And if you're running late and have to jog a little, that's all the more effort expended.

The 'I'm late' Sprint

Got kids in your life? Getting involved in their play, rather than watching from the nearest couch or bench, will have you out of breath pretty quickly.

Playing With Kids

Maybe you like to go out dancing, or maybe you're more of the "solo dance party in your pajamas" type. Either way, know that dancing can be a full-body workout and great cardio, too.

Dancing

Ever heard of "laughter yoga"? One <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24246140/">2014 study </a>found that laughter yoga is a better ab workout than crunches or back lifting exercises. So, the more humor you find in your day, the better.

Laughing

Sexual activity is also a <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02246-8">moderate-intensity workout </a>. Though, of course, it depends on the specific activity, it uses even <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/what-are-mets#examples">more energy than weight training </a>.

Having Sex

Workout is important. Surprisingly, sweeping, lawn care and even running errands can count as a workout, according to experts.

Sweeping, lawn care and even running errands can count as a workout, according to experts.

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Health

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Exercise & Fitness

You Can Skip the Gym With These 10 Everyday Activities That Count as a Workout

Aldous Huxley warned that we're in danger of losing our ability to entertain ourselves and to think for ourselves, due to the ready-made entertainment we have access to.Nowadays we can reach for our smartphones and have instant access to unlimited mindless entertainment of all kinds (TikTok, YouTube, Netflix etc.). Add to this a 9-5 job filled with mechanical tasks that require minimal mental effort, and our opportunities of using our minds grow thinner.

Unlimited entertainment can decrease our opportunities to think

We have unlimited entertainment at our fingertips. It's up to us if it's a good thing or a bad thing. It can either be a huge waste of time or a blessing that we can find exactly what we want to enjoy in our free time.

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Entertainment

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Society, Arts & Culture

Pleasures - Aldous Huxley | Vanity Fair (1923)

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