8702. Ever
notice that sometimes when you care less
about something you do better at it?
8703. What’s interesting
about the backwards law is that it’s called “backwards” for a reason: not
caring works in reverse. If pursuing the
positive is a negative then pursuing
the negative generates the positive;
8704. Being
open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and
charismatic around others;
8705. The pain
of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in
your relationships;
8706. Suffering
through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and
perseverance;
8707.
Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated
negative experience;
8708. The
avoidance of suffering is a form of
suffering;
8709. The
avoidance of struggle is a struggle;
8710. The
denial of failure is a failure;
8711. Hiding
what is shameful is itself a form of
shame;
8712. Panic is
an inextricable thread in the fabric of life and to tear it out is not only
impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else
with it;
8713. Learning
how to focus and prioritize your thoughts effectively – how to pick and choose
what matters to you and what does not matter to you based on finely honed
personal values;
8714. When you
care about everyone and everything, you will feel that you’re perpetually
entitled to be comfortable and happy at all times that everything is supposed
to be just exactly the way you want
it to be. This is a sickness. And it will eat you alive. You will see every adversity as an injustice,
every challenge as a failure, every convenience as a personal slight and every
disagreement as a betrayal;
8715. Not
caring does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being
different;
8716.
Indifferent people are afraid of the world and the repercussions of
their own choices. That’s why they don’t
make any meaningful choices. They hide
in a gray, emotionless pit of their own making, self-absorbed and self-pitying,
perpetually distracting themselves from this unfortunate thing demanding their
time and energy called life;
8717. To not
care about adversity, you must first care about something more important than
adversity;
8718. If you
find yourself consistently caring too much about trivial things that bother
you, chances are you don’t have much going on in your life to legitimately care
about. And that’s your real problem;
8719. When a
person has no problems, the mind automatically finds a way to invent some;
8720. What most
people especially educated, pampered middle-class, white people consider “life
problems” are really just side effects of not having anything more important to
worry about;
8721. Finding
something important and meaningful in your life is perhaps the most productive
use of your time and energy. Because if
you don’t find that meaningful something, your cares will be given to
meaningless and frivolously causes;
8722. Whether
you realize it or not, you are always choosing what to care about;
8723. Maturity
is what happens when one learns to only care about what’s truly worthy;
8724. Because
when we believe that it’s not okay for things to suck sometimes then we
unconsciously starting blaming ourselves.
We start to feel as though something is inherently wrong with us, which
drives us to all sorts of overcompensation;
8725. Practical
enlightenment is becoming comfortable with the idea that some suffering is
always inevitable that no matter what you do life is comprised of failures,
loss, regrets and even death;
8726. Once you
become comfortable with all that life throws at you, you become invincible in a
sort of low-level spiritual way;
8727. The only
way to overcome pain is to first learn how to bear it;
8728. Apples:
Apples only stay fresh a few days on the counter. They do best in the crisping drawer of your
refrigerator;
8729. Avocados:
If your avocados are still hard and green, leave them at room temperature on
the counter to ripen. If you need to
speed up the ripening, stick them in a brown paper bag so they’re trapped with
their ethylene gas. But if you’re trying
to keep a ripe avocado around longer, the solution is simple: stick it in the
fridge. The cool atmosphere slows the
ripening process;
8730. Broccoli:
No matter how many times you’ve seen broccoli tightly wrapped in plastic at
your local grocery it’s not the best way to store it. Raw broccoli requires airflow and moisture to
stay fresh. An ideal way to keep it is
to put it stem-side down in a vase with water in the refrigerator. By making a broccoli bouquet, you’re
providing water and still letting the bushy tops get the oxygen they need. If that seems too intense, you can loosely
wrap your broccoli in damp paper towels and refrigerate;
8731. Berries:
Give them a vinegar bath then store them on paper towels to help soak up
moisture. White vinegar kills the spores
fresh berries accumulate before they arrive in your kitchen. And, if you rinse them well, they won’t taste
like vinegar. This treatment might be a
bit much for raspberries, just rinse before you eat them;
8732. Carrots:
Slice off the green tops, which draw moisture from the carrots, making them
wither more quickly. Place them,
unpeeled, in a sealed plastic bag in your refrigerator’s crisper drawer (for up
to two weeks). If you buy pre-trimmed
carrots, like baby-cut, they last longer if you submerge them in water in a
tightly-covered container. Just be sure
to change the water frequently;
8733. Citrus
fruit: The vegetable drawer is the best spot.
And don’t enclose oranges in airtight bags or containers;
8734.
Cucumbers: They shouldn’t be in the refrigerator. They’ll go soft days in advance if they’re
stored below 50 degrees. They’re
sensitive to ethylene, so keep them away from other countertop dwellers like
bananas and tomatoes;
8735. Fresh
herbs: Rinse herbs and dry them thoroughly in a salad spinner then transfer
them to paper towel rolls or stand them upright in mason jars of water
(depending on the herb);
8736. Leafy
greens: To keep leafy greens like spinach, chard and collard greens fresh
longer, wash and dry them well then wrap them in paper towels. Keep the bunches whole unless you plan on
using them soon. Place the paper towel
roll into a perforated, unsealed plastic bag.
If you’re dealing with salad greens, dumping washed leaves into a paper
towel-lined plastic storage container is your best bet;
8737. Onions:
Don’t store onions in direct sunlight.
Keep your onions in a cool, dark, well-ventilated and dry place;
8738. Potatoes:
Potatoes do best in a cool, dark, dry place, but not too cool. If potatoes are stored under 50 degrees,
their starches can convert to sugar, which is actually (really) bad. Potatoes exposed to too much light may
sprout. They’re still safe to eat, but
you should cut the sprouts off first. You
may notice that potatoes and onions like similar environments, but you’ll want
to find two different cool, dark, dry spots in your house. If you store them together, they’ll both go
bad more quickly;
8739. Life
itself is a form of suffering. The rich
suffer because of their riches. The poor
suffer because of their poverty. People
without a family suffer because they have no family. People with a family suffer because of their
family. People who pursue worldly
pleasures suffer because of their worldly pleasures. People who abstain from worldly pleasures
suffer because of their abstention;
8740. All
suffering isn’t equal. Some suffering is
certainly more painful than other suffering, but we all must suffer
nonetheless;
8741. Pain and
loss are inevitable and we should let go of trying to resist them;
8742. A premise
that underlies a lot of our assumptions and beliefs is the premise that
happiness is algorithmic, that it can be worked for and earned and achieved as
if it were getting accepted to law school or building a really complicated Lego
set. If I achieve X then I can be
happy. If I look like Y then I can be
happy. If I can be with a person like Z
then I can be happy;
8743. The
premise that happiness is algorithmic is
the problem. Happiness is not a
solvable equation;
8744.
Dissatisfaction and unease are inherent parts of human nature and
necessary components to creating consistent happiness;
8745. The
greatest truths in life are usually the most unpleasant to hear;
8746. We suffer
for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring
change. We have evolved to always live
with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity because it’s the mildly
dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate
and survive. We are wired to become
dissatisfied with whatever we have and satisfied by only what we do not
have. This constant dissatisfaction has
kept our species fighting and striving, building and conquering. So our own pain and misery aren’t a bug of
human evolution; they’re a feature;
8747. Pain in
all of its forms is our body’s most effective means of spurring action;
8748. Pain is
what teaches us what to pay attention to when we’re young or careless. It helps show us what’s good for us versus
what’s bad for us. It helps us
understand and adhere to our own limitations;
8749. It’s not
always beneficial to avoid pain and seek pleasure since pain can, at times ,be
life-or-death important to our well-being;
8750. Research
has found that our brains don’t register much difference between physical pain
and psychological pain;
No comments:
Post a Comment