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"But how could you live and have no story to tell?" The narrator is unreliable but credentialed.

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I keep coming back to these words from Carl Jung, “Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul, be just another human soul.”

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@NivaBupaSupport Done.

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Intensity of life is only possible at the expense of self!!

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@Markmanson Humans of any era can fight and win anything and everything they face. It's pointless to compare struggles across centuries. Ancestors also believed the Sun revolves around the Earth. Shall we too?

We have our own wars to win.

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I wish more people actually read the books they share pictures of.

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@yoonshabnami Society by Eddie vedder.

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@JrSehgal 🤜🤛

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I wrote this blog post explaining the meaning of The Last Ride song by Sidhu in English about 3 years ago. It has had readers from more than 60 countries. I’ve written more than 100 blog posts, many with far more views but none has reached readers in more than 20 countries. Sidhu’s reach is unreal.

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@The_Chobbar Medium te v hai. But didn't check views there. Aah personal website vale ne.
https://t.co/XbYIJhlSTO

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@Lovandfear The people who wrote the books you chose to read.

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An independent thinker marking the passing of another independent thinker.

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On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

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I’ve read every book you’ve ever recommended.

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If you're a writer, write ‘i love you’ without writing i love you.

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@Lovandfear The Kite Runner.

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@sabeer Na kare bhaijaan🙏🏻

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@QuoteNietzsche Hermann Hesse.

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@sayianwaala @QuoteNietzsche Haven't read Manto and Houellebecq. Hesse parhan to baad dekhda✌️

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The whole idea of becoming better has been sold to us as suppressing whatever isn’t rewarded, treating growth as a matter of mere conditioning. In contrast, Jung’s concept of wholeness says the exact opposite, “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole."

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@Rajjath24 🤜🤛

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Three decades turned the man who wrote "White Nights" into the man who wrote "The Brothers Karamazov." It’s terrifyingly beautiful how much a human being can outgrow themselves.

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@Rajjath24 @Dostoevskyquot Yes. But not that active.

Asked because:

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Three decades turned the man who wrote "White Nights" into the man who wrote "The Brothers Karamazov." It’s terrifyingly beautiful how much a human being can outgrow themselves.

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Three decades turned the man who wrote "White Nights" into the man who wrote "The Brothers Karamazov." It’s terrifyingly beautiful how much a human being can outgrow themselves.