If, like many of us
You get what you want
And you’re still dissatisfied.
Did you really get what you want?
Hell,
Did you even know what you wanted in the first place?
Do you really know what you want at all?
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#ThoughtExperiment – Mistaking ‘gratification’ for ‘fulfilment’ / 04.04.19
#Idea – Happiness Is a Simple Thing / 15.02.19
All you need to do is
Forget to remind yourself
Of your unhappiness.
With thanks to Anthony de Mello for the idea.
#Idea – One Way to Avoid the Echochamber / 15.02.19
You want to cultivate an environment
With friends, acquaintances and contacts
In which
People can cancel out each others’ confirmation biases
Whilst remaining cordial.
#Idea – How to Be a Better Critical Thinker / 14.02.19
#Idea – How to Be a Better Critical Thinker / 04.01.19
Entertain a healthy amount of scepticism
Towards anything
That your mind tells you
Is absolutely true and certain.
Everyone has a fanatic inside of them.
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#Idea – An Argument Against Believing Your Own Press / 03.02.18
One of the problems with having a self-concept
Is that it’s another thing to attend to
Another thing to protect from
All the complications of the world.
Photo by MJ Klaver 
#Aphorism – Thinking / 30.11.18
#Poem – 08.11.18
You know whose name to answer to,
But you do not know who they are.
Photo by Misha Sokolnikov
#Idea – On ‘Taking’ the Offence That People Offer You / 14.10.18
If you take offence where none was intended
You have chosen to take something that is offered to you.
That is entirely your choice,
Your problem
And no one else’s.
Unless,
Having taken offence
You go so far as to make this someone else’s problem.
This is how we conjure new problems out of thin air.
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#Aphorism – Co-Dependency / 14.10.18
Don’t confuse ‘treating someone well’
With ‘allowing someone to treat you badly’.
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