Tag: Thoughts
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Musings
If you can reserve judgment of worth (whether someone is “good” or “bad”) and simply assess each action instance by instance and grasp how to frame them as inspirational anecdotes or cautionary tales, you can cast aside the veil of love and hate, of heroism and villainy, of damnation and worship, and surf a river…
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Being prized for your competence—being asked to demonstrate a given skill again and again and being well-compensated for it—is the ultimate compliment, but when faced with someone who feels threatened by your aptitude, someone who turns their nose up at you no matter how good you are, the ultimate revenge is to not lash out…
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If there is some luminous presence that forms everything and destroys all semblance of separation in its unvarnished completion, then it would only make sense that as we jump from style to style, from insight to insight and declare one thing “better” than another, that these “better” things would inevitably disappoint us, forcing us to…
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To have a decent chance at pulling off (and sustaining) greatness, life will ask us to endure monotony and discomfort. Then it will ask us to strive for a transcendent state where the repetitive drudgery becomes a matter of habit, and then stick with it until it becomes an enjoyable ritual—to teach ourselves to love…
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Difficult problems will arrive at our doorstep, whether we want them to or not. And when they do, the question becomes: have we been diligent in our conditioning, so that we can navigate these problems with grace and composure? All the mundane, irritating practices—diet, critical thinking, work ethic, refinement of strategy—are ways of preparing for those…
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It isn’t luxury or fame that makes us happy, it’s meaning and purpose. Consequently, to make my writing relatable and exciting, I believe it must be built around a driving crisis that entices my protagonist to strive and overcome. That crisis has to ring so true that it jumps off the page and electrifies the…
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In those harrowing times when we must take a stand against the majority, competence and clarity become precious beyond measure, for they wield an authority that is much higher than one that’s born from gross consensus.
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If we accept the premise that we’re all extensions of some all-encompassing, all-powerful divinity, then it goes to follow that we chose every triumph and every atrocity that arises in our lives. We would be responsible for every facet of our individual existences. So—if that premise is true—then our existence as limited beings would be…
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I believe stillness and aggressiveness are just tools, not ideals. What’s infinitely more important is to perceive the nuance/context of a given situation, so it becomes readily apparent which mode—calm, aggressiveness, focus, a wild, last-ditch effort—will propagate harmony and serve your aims.
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In order for me to get things done, it is necessary to create a behavioral hierarchy. Certain actions take priority over others. But in the eternal sense, the more I stretch time and culture into an infinite line that reaches out in either direction, it seems that individual actions give rise to results that are…
Kent Wayne 