Hello hello my dear readers, it’s been a long time since I have last disturbed your inbox. Let me share some of the golden nuggets collected by me - Ratip, therefore the Ruggets.
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This nugget is somewhat similar to what you will encounter below, a quote from Oscar Wilde. Be fluid and be fine with it.
Foucault says:
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100 tiny changes to transform your life: from the one-minute rule to pyjama yoga
Here is what I liked the most:
Not setting a morning alarm.
Filling out my calendar for the next decade. (a bit boring?)
Questioning my rationale.
Following the “one-minute rule”. If there’s a task I can do in less than one minute – hanging up my coat; answering an email – I do it without delay.
Making lunch my main meal of the day.
Keeping lists of what I’ve read.
Deactivating X (formerly Twitter)
Being honest in every area of my life.
Removing my work email account from my phone.
Realising that you can’t please everyone
Taking micro moments of rest throughout my day
Focusing on joy, rather than willpower
The art of negative capability
We have done several lessons on Stoicism, and this is one of the very lessons of it: Negative Capability.
Several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason — Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge. This pursued through Volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
There have been 80,000 recorded UFO sightings since 1906. Four-fifths of extraterrestrials have chosen to visit the United States and likely speak English.
Half the protein in your body comes from artificially created nitrogen, a process invented a hundred years ago by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch. This process combines nitrogen from the air with hydrogen to make ammonia, which is used in fertilizer. In the past century, the Haber-Bosch process improved crop yields, saving the lives of 2.7 billion people who would have otherwise starved to death.
The flexibility that comes with remote work is worth, on average, an 8% raise.
Zoom fatigue is real! When people talk face-to-face, they respond to yes-or-no questions in 297 milliseconds, on average, but this number jumps to 976 milliseconds when talking over Zoom. This imperceptible delay interferes with the neural mechanisms that govern the normal back-and-forth of human conversation, and the body’s physiological response is fatigue.
Welcome to 2034 what the world could look like in ten years according to-nearly 300 experts: Some-not-that-positive predictions on future.
The Buddha once asked his student, "If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?"
The student nodded, yes.
The Buddha then asked, "If a person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?"
The student again nodded, yes.
The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional."
Do not treat your life as a project
There was a Oscar Wilde quote that I liked very much about not being fixed.
Here it is, Gosh I love it:
The author says something along the same line : “The more you appreciate the sheer abundance of incident, the more you’ll see any life as an assortment of small successes and small failures, and the less prone you will be to say, despairingly, “I’m a loser”—or with misplaced bravado, “I’m a winner!” Don’t let the lure of the dramatic arc distract you from the digressive amplitude of being alive.”
“We are all virtuoso novelists, who find ourselves engaged in all sorts of behavior, more or less unified … and we always try to put the best ‘faces’ on it we can. We try to make all of our material cohere into a single good story. And that story is our autobiography.”
Kiekegaard has some advice for you on how to live:
Instead of seeking a new life, go deeper into the one you have.
The monotony of life contains a reservoir of ways to find relief, if we can only muster the courage and energy to dive in instead of opting out.
Now this is the kind of post that feeds my appetite for learning. Questions, I adore you.
What are you doing with what you have??
When are you at your best??
What’s the true cost of this decision??
What are your non-negotiables??
Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
I do not know ıf you ever come across TRIZ. It is a structured way of thinking of new ideas. This post is a good summary of simple mechanism.
You can find examples for each principle here.
I have came across this post of me about the lessons I learnt from Mary Oliver. It is worth a read. And what she said that hurt me most you asked? Here:
I accepted to let go since then. Did it hurt? Yes. I am different person now. Up-leveled with my pain.