Nothing last forever. Here are a few great notes on aging from my reading the last couple of years. Memento Mori.
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📝 “By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.” - Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature
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📝 “No one set value on time. All use it lavishly as if it cost nothing. But see how these same people clasp to the knees of physicians when they fall ill and the danger of death draws nearer” - Seneca, On the Shortness of life.
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📝 People have different sensitivity to caffeine. Older people are more sensitive in general.
Notes from Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker.
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📝 A deadly gene could survive in the gene pool by inflicting its damage only after a person reaches an old age, where the victim already produced it’s offspring. Like Cancer.
Notes from The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
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📝 John D. Rockefeller was obsessed with his health and set a goal for himself to live until he was 100 years old. He died at 97.
Notes from Titan, Ron Chernow
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📝 “Whatever the cause of the inverse association between body size and aging, it seems to be found in all mammals” Bigger animals live longer.
Notes from Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi
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📝We know intellectually that we are going to die. But we don’t really feel it. We repress the affects of death to be able to function normally. - The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
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What are your favorite quote on the subject?
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I have had a few days in a row where I didn’t experience any cravings or took any addictive substances (excessive sugar, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol etc..) It was pretty cool. I don’t think I’ve experienced something like this since I my early teens. (No, it was not during my fast. 😉)
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Quotes and Notes on drugs and addiction from my recent reading:
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📝 We Habituate..
Understand: Artificial pleasures (designer food, drugs, VR porn etc..) throws our systems of the scale, making us unable to appreciate the natural. - BEHAVE by Robert Sapolsky
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📝 "We mix up reality with our interpretation of reality. We invent some fundamental lies of how life should and shouldn't be. Then we use food and drugs to temporarily escape the lie we invented." - Radical Honesty, Brad Blanton
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📝 Civilized Man: He can do what he sets out to do without chanting and drumming. Even daily prayer and divine aid is unnecessary. “His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with relentless, vague apprehension, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food-and, above all, a large array of neuroses.”
- Notes from Man and His symbols, Carl Jung
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📝 "Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first but is bitter as poison in the end.” "That which seems like poison at first, but tastes like nectar in the end – this is the joy of sattva, born of a mind at peace with itself." - Bhagavad Gita
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📝 The Amateur replaces ambition with addiction. Drugs, alcohol and other distractions; like drama, social media, porn, the news, and food. This keeps the amateur from doing the actual work required.
- Notes from ‘Turning Pro’ by Steven Pressfield.
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📝 "You stop growing when you start drinking alcoholicly... prevents you from walking through the painful life experiences that take you from point A to point B on the maturity scale." - Drinking: A Love Story, Caroline Knapp
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What’s your history with addiction? Emotional, physical, psychological, and/or chemical? 🤔⁉️
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(Comments will be answered after Sep 17 due to my digital fast experiment.)
📝 “It takes a lot of courage to take the unconscious seriously and to tackle the problems it raises.”
- Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols.
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📝 “As a rule, whatever we don’t deal with in our lives we pass on to our children.”
- Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.
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📝 “Sometime educated guesses can be made about the wounds of childhood by closely inspecting what matters adults irrationally lose their tempers over”
- Clarissa Estes Pinkola, Women Who Run with the Wolves.
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📝 “Those with a negative attitude tend to operate from a basic position of fear towards life.They unconsciously want to limit what they see and experience to give them more control.”
- Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature.
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📝 “In other words, the final terror of self-consciousness is the knowledge of one’s own death, which is the peculiar sentence on man alone in the animal
kingdom.”
- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death.
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I’m working my way through my notes from the last 12 months. I thought it would be interesting to share my notes by subject rather than per book.
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What’s your next read on human psychology?
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(If you don’t have one. Pick any of the books above and you’ll be good!👌🏻😉)
📝 FUNNY STORY: A nobleman approaches a preacher, named Tetzel, and asked if he could buy indulgences for a future sin. Tetzel, always interested growing the churches coffers, said that of course he could. When the peacher was about to leave town the same nobleman robbed and beat him up. Leaving the scene he shouted: “This was the future sin I had in mind!”. 😂😂
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I read this to get up to speed with the Reformation, expecting the book to a drag, but hoping to fill a few holes in my education. It turned out to be one of my favorite biographies in recent memory. ———————
What books do you enjoy much more than expected? 🤔⁉️
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(ps. Right now I review a lot of my notes from the past year. Expect more posts lite this with small gems and takeaways.)
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Recipe for at great start of the day:
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- 1 piece of Stoic literature.
- Blueberries
- Oatmeal
- Banana
- Sliced apple
- Cashews
- Chia seeds
- Sunflower seeds
- Pumpkin seeds
- Raisins
- Some milk.
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“What is it then that will guide a man? One thing alone: philosophy, the love of wisdom. And philosophy consists of this: for a man to preserve that inner genius or divine spark which is within him from violence and injuries, and above all from harmful pains or pleasures; never do anything without purpose, or falsely, or hypocritically, regardless of the actions and inaction of others; to contentedly embrace all things that happen to him, as coming from the same source from whom he himself also came, and above all things, with humility and calm cheerfulness, to anticipate death, as being nothing else but the dissolution of those elements, of which every living being is composed.” - Marcus Aurelius
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What’s your favorite books related to Stoicism? 🤔⁉️
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(ps. I’m reviewing notes from the past year. Expect more post like,this with gems from previous reads, the coming weeks!)
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The stories about online shaming in this book shock me to the core.
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Before entering an flight to Africa a woman makes a (very distasteful) joke about AIDS to her 170 followers. On arrival in Africa she was the most hated person alive; she had journalist waiting for her in the airport to capture her reaction when she turned on her phone and realize the shit storm she has unintentionally had started.
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Two friends joke between themselves about “big” dongles on 10th row of a tech conference. A person in front of them is not as amused by the jokes posts a picture of them online. A few minutes later they are both out of a jobs and just at the starting point of the shit fest to come.
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To me the most frightening aspect of online shaming is the speed of which someone can go from living a normal life to being totally annihilated socially, professionally, and privately.
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📝 “I’m going to get you fired!” vs. “I’m going to rape you!”. Shaming comments follows cultural & gender norms; Men are expected to be employed and the highest degradation of a women is rape. (A bit uneven maybe? 🤔)
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📝 “What the first page (on Google) looks like determines what people think of you”. There are now companies that offer “reputation clean-ups” on the web. Very handy after being shamed!
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📝 Your explanation or apology will never get the attention of the original mistake or misjudgment. Forever alone!!😨
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📝 ”Facebook is where you lie to your friends and Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.” 😂
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⭐️ TAKEAWAY:
Maybe we are “creating a more conformist, conservative age” where “We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people outside it.” I have noticed , since i started this book, that I’m being more careful of how I express myself online...and that kinda sucks.
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⚖️ VERDICT: Scary parts aside - it’s a very funny and seriously entertaining book. It feels really relevant today. You should pick it up!
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