Category: Philosophy & Musings
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Musings
All too often, outcomes are decided when everything’s fine–when I’m perfectly comfortable. When I’m lounging on the couch or warm in my bed, am I going to make a charming joke about lazing around, or putting off my work for five more minutes? That may be funny in the moment, but over time, it becomes…
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Musings
Damage is inevitable. But if we can parlay our damage into future success, we can turn it from a curse into a gift. Musings, Volume 1, available on Amazon Kindle: Musings, Volume 1
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Musings
Ironically, in order to become a light unto others, it usually means that someone has to grapple with their own darkness. They must first subdue it, then ally with it, and then integrate it. The common fallacy is that one should always chase what is pleasant and enticing, but that’s really just catering to cravings…
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Musings
“Whose pain is greater than whose” is an endless rabbit hole, a juvenile dick-measuring contest, because there’s always someone out there whose pain is greater. That’s not a game I’m interested in playing. What I AM interested in is trying to make my pain into a tool—pull something constructive out of it—so that others might…
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Musings, Volume 1
Bitefighter, my loyal little buddy, 10 lb. Terrier Extraordinaire, and 83rd level intellect, yells: “ROOF ROWF ARFOLOGIST REX!” (THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN STUPID AND BRAVE, KENT, AND YOU JUST CROSSED IT TEN TIMES OVER! FUCKING DUMB-ASS TWO LEGS!) I lean forward and yell, “STOP BEING RACIST!” He looks over his shoulder and gives me…
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Musings
One of the best ways to bring people together (and inoculate them against pain and discomfort) is to imbue their minds with a sense of meaning. You don’t need a lot of resources to pull this off; you can simply do the best you can with what you have. By consistently striving to do the…
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Musings
Humans have evolved to indulge in immediate gratification and it makes perfect sense; those base instincts once encouraged our survival. They have driven our evolution. But in order to keep evolving, in order to keep surviving, it is essential to reign in our desire for immediate gratification. It is essential to play the long game.…
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Musings
When pursuing your dreams, do what you can as often as possible, or your options will be taken away one by one, and you will be increasingly forced into doing what is necessary. As time goes on, “doing what is necessary” will serve your dreams less and less. I think it’s better to do what…
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Musings
The shallower measure of a test is whether it ends in victory or defeat. The deeper measure of a test is whether I can use it to become stronger or weaker. Musings, Volume 1, available on Amazon Kindle: Musings, Volume 1
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Musings, Volume 1
It has been a long, hard battle. Life has whittled me down to a withered shadow of my former self. A pitiful semblance of what I once was. The fates have conspired to reduce me to a neutered facsimile of Kent Wayne the Man Whore, but it ain’t gonna happen. A spark of defiance still…
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