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I love the idea of something called the reverse obituary.
Try this: Write down what you want your obituary to say, then figure out how to live up to it.
It's the cleanest, simplest way to plot out what you want in life and what truly matters.
Everyone's self-written obituary will be different. But I suspect most people would want theirs to say: You were loved.
You were respected. You were admired. You were helpful. You were a good parent, a good spouse, a caring friend. You were an asset to your community. You made a contribution to your industry. You were wise, funny, and smart.
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel
Ideas change; in fact, they never stop changing. Thought patterns I assume to be permanent and pervasive—like what is a circle, identity, god, money, language, dreams—are not perceived the same way from culture to culture, or even from generation to generation. Within the semantics and vocabularies of the world’s languages entirely different emotions exist. Ideas are living things. I am suspicious about separating the intellect and the emotions.
Small Arcs of Larger Circles
Nora Bateson
If, as Gopnik hypothesizes, “childhood is a way of injecting noise—and novelty—into the system of cultural evolution,” psychedelics might do the same thing for the system of the adult mind.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
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