Why life?
What is the purpose of life?
You just fell into the teleological trap. Begging the question.
Assuming the truth of your claim. Your claim: life has a purpose, life has a reason for existing
suffering = pain x resistance
peace = pain / acceptance
Problem: I’m bored or sad.
Fix: You need to give yourself AMP projects.
AMP projects fufill these criteria
- Autonomy - It's a project you choose that you want to do: “We want to do this.”
- Mastery - The project is challenging enough to force you to continually learn: “We can always get better.”
- Purpose - The project helps the community: “We’re helping people.”
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May 24, 2024 14:17
daily reminder - what should you do with your life
TLDR - Work on any project that gives you motivation: Autonomy - you choose what to work on Mastery - you can always improve your skills Purpose - your work helps a lot of people
Knowing what you want to do and what you might be capable of is half the battle, I can no longer live my life with no direction. This is simply a reaffirmation of who I am. I already knew this a long time ago, now I need to assimilate the hobby into my daily life.
People you admire?
According to clinical and community psychologist David McMillan, a community is defined by four criteria:
- membership
- you must feel a sense of belonging (membership),
- influence
- feel like you make a difference to the group and that the group makes a difference to you (influence)
- integration and fulfillment of needs
- feel like your needs will be met by other group members (integration and fulfillment of needs),
- shared emotional connection. To be part of a community
- feel that you share history, similar experiences, time, and space together (shared emotional connection). High school, college, and retirement communities, McMillan says, are examples of community
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May 17, 2024 17:41
philosophy - alan watts: to be faithful is to be open-minded / connection to universe
No good god would force our belief based on a single book like the Bible. Religion wants belief in certainty.
Be open-minded about the universe, even in its uncertainty. That is faith.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/27/alan-watts-taboo/
His perspective on our connection to the universe reminds me of awe.
Awe is an emotion that makes us connect to others, the opposite of the separateness when we define our own egos.
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May 17, 2024 17:09
philosophy - Seneca on shortness of life stoicism
He suggests that protecting our time is essential self-care, and the opposite a dangerous form of self-neglect:
Nobody works out the value of time: men use it lavishly as if it cost nothing…
We have to be more careful in preserving what will cease at an unknown point.
He captures what a perilous form of self-hypnosis our trance of busyness is:
No one will bring back the years; no one will restore you to yourself.
Life will follow the path it began to take, and will neither reverse nor check its course.
It will cause no commotion to remind you of its swiftness, but glide on quietly.
But no learning is harder, or more countercultural amid this cult of achievement and actualization we live in, than the realization that there is no final and permanent triumph to life. A generation after the poet Robert Penn Warren admonished against the notion of finding yourself and a generation before the psychologist Daniel Gilbert observed that “human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished,” Gardner writes:
Life is an endless unfolding, and if we wish it to be,
an endless process of self-discovery,
an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our own potentialities and the life situations in which we find ourselves.
The purpose is to grow and develop in the dimensions that distinguish humankind at its best.
In a sentiment that mirrors the driving principle of nature itself, responsible for the evolution and survival of every living thing on Earth, he considers the key to that growth:
The potentialities you develop to the full come as the result
The past is history,
the future is a mystery,
but today is a gift,
that is why it is called the present. - somebody
Now
the past has gone by/
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