To my future child,
Over the years I have collected a lot of advices and kept the ones that are quite useful. Here are some simple rules so you can navigate the boring stuff of life and enjoy the less boring parts of it.
I hope that they will help you and that you may add some more to them, pass them along so people you care about will enjoy life with you, because a life in solitary and with no one to share what you know with, is a life not well lived.
When you don't know what the job is about, hire somebody that is liberal and creative.
When somebody says that this never happened before is no indicator that it may not happen in the future. When white swan's are observed, doesn't mean there aren't any black.
Game of thrones got it right. You always have to prepare for the winter. When times are good go the extra mile and try to grow as much as possible. When they go bad you have to accept that you may not grow. The game then is to try to survive.
There is a concept called survivor bias. It is the same as the winner is writing the history. The book how I lost 15kg in one week will make it to stores so you can read about it. You will not find a book titled how I lost 15kg in 10 years. For every story of success there are a lot of stories of failure.
When you have less, you are more antifragile to life. You have less to lose, less of a status quo to lose, less financial burdens, less psychological problems.
1. You can focus on how many times you have been wronged. or 2. Work with what you have got.
Keep in mind the signal to noise ratio that you have for a particular topic. When you read the news every morning, you have a lot of data but also a lot of noise which may hide the signal. Important stuff will always reach you when needed.
Lust, Attraction, Attachment are the three stages of love and hormones. First comes lust, then attraction and finally attachment
If you are on a caloric deficit in order to loose weight watch out for the small stuff you may do every day that will add up calories. If you put milk in your coffee that could be ok, but if you drink five coffees per day then this can add up.
Get out, walk, leave your house, drive somewhere, do something different.