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Memento Mori

[Jordan @jriley___]

I love the waiting game

[Jordan @jriley___]

@PathOfMen_ 1) Chase discomfort
2) Focus on the things that can’t be bought
3) Find answers where few go/nobody looks
4) Be an example of how good one can get/be without saying anything

[Jordan @jriley___]

@xKnowledgeBANK Change

[Jordan @jriley___]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Majority of peanut butter brands

[Jordan @jriley___]

@ProfessorAkston Is it true that SE Asia is best chance for survival?

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

At a show on his Solo Tour, John Mayer confessed:

“I wait for most things to be over. I wait for this to be over to do the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next thing...”

To counter this tendency, he implemented a rule.

“Because I’ve realized, he said,

“Everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed: Done. Done. Done. The thing you hate that you have to do tomorrow will be over before you know it, and the thing you're looking forward to tomorrow will be over before you know it.”

“So I have a new rule in my life,” Mayer said, “and the rule is:

Never wish for less time.

Waiting for things to be over is just wishing for less time. Waiting for this to be over to get to the next thing—that's just wishing for less time.”

“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.'

I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out…”

Takeaway 1:

John's realization—that “everything you love and hate leaves at the same speed”—made me think of something that Dr. Anna Lembke writes about in her book Dopamine Nation:

“One of the most remarkable neuroscientific findings in the past century is that the brain processes pleasure and pain in the same place. Further, pleasure and pain work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And one of the overriding rules governing this balance,” she said, “is that it wants to stay level…With any deviation from neutrality, the brain will work very hard to restore a level balance—what scientists call ‘homeostasis.’ … With any stimulus to one side, there will be a tip of an equal and opposite amount to the other side.”

Pain and pleasure, good days and bad days, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—everything leaves at the same speed.

Takeaway 2:

The brain’s tendency to think about the next thing is called “prospection.”

“Our brains were made for nexting,” the psychologist Daniel Gilbert writes in a chapter titled “Prospection” in his book Stumbling On Happiness.

“When researchers count the items that float along in the average person’s stream of consciousness, they find that about 12 percent of our daily thoughts are about the future.”

In other words, the average person spends 1 out of every 8 hours thinking about the next thing, “which is to say…each of us is a part-time resident of tomorrow.”

We are constantly nexting, Gilbert explains, because of “the illusion of foresight”—the illusion that “prospection can provide pleasure and prevent pain.”

The reality is that “the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.”

The reality is that (whether through the prospectiscope or in the present) everything—pain and pleasure, the things you're dreading and the things you're looking forward to—leaves at the same speed.

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“So wherever you go, just make a home right there and do that thing…Wherever you are, go, 'this is where it's all at right now.' ... I’ve been having the time of my life because I figured that out...” — John Mayer

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[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

High School lunch. Rome, Italy. 98% are local homemade with locally grown and produced ingredients. There are no school board contracts sent to the lowest bidder with association to a fast food and or soda company.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Before going to bed, please watch this video again.

It is unbelievable.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A message from April 6th, 1999.

By David Bowie.

[Dr. Clayton Forrester @DrClaytonForre1]

When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of five or six whales, presumably for protection. 1/2

[Discounted Trash Flow @DiscountedTF]

This man started a hedge fund, made 900% in two years, then closed shop and insulted all of his LPs in the process

[Josh Moon 🇺🇸 @Josh_Moon]

Just reading about Calvin Ridley and thinking that NFL players are held to a higher standard than congressmen, who can legally bet through the stock market on every decision they make and all the insider info they receive.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The ancient story of Jupiter as a myth spans ~20,000 years.

These tales are similar over time: A sky god that can protect Earth from attack or hurl down rocks and lightening if upset.

Interesting, that is what Jupiter precisely does for Earth.

Jupiter: Rock collector God…

[Jordan @jriley___]

Dawn FM is simply timeless

[uncle ric @ihatethiskid]

The Boy Who Wished You Would

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

This is Beachy Head.

It is located within the administrative area of Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land.

The cliff is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, rising to 531 feet above sea level.

[Iñigo San Millán @doctorinigo]

Dear Twitter friends,
I just want to alert you on something that may be an inflexion point in our children’s lives.
The more I continue doing research in the mechanisms behind the pathogenesis of T2 Diabetes (T2D) the more we see the relationship w/ mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s

[Justin Kan @justinkan]

At the end of the day, all of us are trying to figure out how to feel like a kid again.

[Ronnie Fieg @RonnieFieg]

The first Kith Bmw M4 has landed.