7 Fundamentals to Life – Bruce Lee
1. What are you really thinking about today?
2. Simplify.
3. Learn about yourself in interactions
4. Do not divide
5. Avoid dependency on validation from others
6. Be Proactive
7. Be You
“Only through solitude can we begin to penetrate the secret around us.” – Steven Holl
M: My attempt at Carpe Diem
Do not TRY to “find yourself” –you must make yourself. Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it. Do not let your life and your values and you actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, “This is who I make myself”.
Do not give in to hope. Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which imbue it. Whatever you do, do it for its own sake. When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, “Fuck You!”. Remember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own. Live deliberately. You are free
“The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Paradigm Shift
Sometimes it happens so fast it just catches you off guard. You are one person for such a long time, days, weeks, months, and then you wake up one day, you meet someone new, you read a book, you see someone do something, and it strikes a cord inside you, the world shifts, and bam! Yo’re forever changed.
“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” – Tom Hanks, A League of Their Own
M: On Apologies, Making Mistakes, and Guilt
When due, apologize once, twice, but not for forever. You are human and are liable to be swept up from time to time. You can not sleep with guilt all your life for having made the mistake of being human and being greedy and wanting something too soon, too much, too wholly.