Joshua Tanner

notes to my past self

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

@poetengineer__ This is stunning

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

Be cautious:
The worst you’ve ever experienced is not the floor.

Be ambitious:
The best you’ve ever experienced is not the ceiling.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

It is what it is.
Until it isn’t.
THEN it isn’t.

If you try to ignore the ugly and skip to the “good part”, you will only deprive yourself of the life experience that would have gotten you to the good part naturally and permanently.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The ability to get something you want and the ability to stop wanting something are equally effective options.

One just takes a lot less energy.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

Luck: winning after fewer attempts than expected.

Success: winning after an expected number of attempts.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

If the everyone else looks like they’re upside down.. make sure you’re not the one standing on your head.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

“The truth does not change to accommodate our ability to stomach it”

“That which you want most will be found where you least want to look”

The truths that will infuse you with life are the ones you’re scared to death to face.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The best quotes are non-compressible, high fidelity data packets for the mind.

When one “hits hard,” you are literally sensing these two features.

[Chris Reinberg @chrisreinberg]

The risk of genius is going crazy.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

“I won’t do it because it is too difficult”

Completely backwards.

Challenges are only difficult because you have not dared enough.

If you dare constantly, life becomes easier.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The effort to pull away from distractions will always be at a minimum the moment prior to engagement.

Make life less painful by saying no the moment the thought arises.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

If you can be persuaded out of your mission, then you don’t deserve it.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

Forgiveness is a phenomenon, not an action.

It is the natural and automatic result of looking deeply at the situation.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

@veggie_eric “Nothing against Kahneman” 😂

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The problems you’re avoiding become solvable once your threshold for discomfort reaches a certain level.

Unfortunately, exceeding that same threshold is the only point where most are motivated enough to change.

Don’t wait to solve problems.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The hardest thing you’ve ever done is the hardest thing you’ve ever done.

Unintuitive, but the teenager who white-knuckles a whole day without technology may be a greater feat than the athlete who completes an ultramarathon.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

The simpler its expression, the deeper the impression it makes”
- Schopenhauer

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The path from conformity to authenticity will necessarily require the sacrifice of valued assets without a clear means of recuperation.

This is a prerequisite condition for forging character.

Just as a sufficiently hot furnace is necessary to forge steel.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

The universe will sometimes throw insane multipliers at you: People and opportunities that accelerate you further than you imagined.

But anything multiplied by zero is zero.

You must prepare for the multiplier to hit.

[Joshua Tanner @jvtanner24]

Plants grow best with fertilizer.

The best visions rise from the depths.

Don’t curse the sh*t. Use it.