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10 months ago

in Work from Home & Lifestyle Design Renegades: Chris McCombs on Finance Your Freedom
Very interesting and useful interview! I took notes on a few of the authors mentioned (Dan Kennedy, John Carlton)... Would be awesome if you could post a list of all the resources that were brought up. Additionally, my preference for these would be as 1/2 hour segments (part 1, part 2) versus one hour-long interview. Looking forward to the next one (=

11 months ago

in How to use Twitter as a productivity tool on LifeDev
Great tip Glen, I hadn't thought of using Twitter productively that way. But it seems like a good habit to adopt... It would be especially helpful for accountability when working from home and not being around coworkers.

11 months ago

in Si Dawson: Are You Allowed To Be Happy? on Si Dawson
Si- Enjoying the blog! Sounds like you are talking about what Tal Ben-Shahar calls being a "Rat racer" in his book Happier. This is when you live in the hope of being happy in the future, and are unable to enjoy the here-and-now. I like those questions recommend asking yourself... I need to focus on this more myself.

I'm going to try to create an anti-not-happy habit where I ask myself those questions every time I feel like I can't allow myself to be happy in the present. Seems like eventually, if you ask yourself those questions each time, it will at least lead you to positive action, versus stagnating in the unhappiness. Sometimes negative motions are a good way of alerting you of areas of your life that are not working/unbalanced, but focusing on them for too long is when they become a problem.
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si dawson Thanks Derek! I must say I'm regularly reading everything you're posting over there at life evolver too..

I agree re focussing on the negative too much being distracting.. this is exactly why I just tap that stuff out - then it's permanently gone & I can get on with my life :)

Of course, there's also a meta-level - if you believe (as I have for years) that suffering leads to understanding which leads to enlightenment.. then you will draw suffering to you - whether it's actually necessary for your path or not.

Ahh, the traps for young players!

11 months ago

in The Virtuous Life: Wrap Up on Art of Manliness
Unique series, I'm excited to read through all of these. I like how you are modernizing the virtues... Although wondering if they are all applicable to the present, or if there is too much of an issue of presentism with some of them? Also, it seems as though there's a lack of passion in his virtues. They are all about moderation.

I think that it should be a virtue for people to be passionate about what they do, and that they can still have balance in this state. Although I'm using presentism here, comparing my present day virtues to those of Ben's era.
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