It can be difficult, in times of crisis, to keep a cool head. That is the way the mind works, our brain pumps out emotions to react to situations that befall us. The key to frame, the cornerstone of TRP's ethos, is to keep calm and carry on. Here our some sayings and meditations I like to repeat to myself when things get a little rough.
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Life would be a lot easier if everyone won. Everyone would be successful, no one would be feel pain. But that is not how life is, some people have to lose and some people have to win.
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Do not curse your circumstances, like a fool or a defeatist. You can change where you are, all it requires is effort and perseverance.
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Do all tasks with a joy in your heart. Your enemies will see this and curse you gravely.
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Joy is not something that takes time to manifest. Remind yourself that it is a miracle you are here today, and live as if you may draw your last breath at any moment.
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Time doesn't give up just because you do. The world will keep going, you're failure irrelevant in the cosmos.
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Why should I complain, like those who have no hope? I have hope, and I have purpose.
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Why shouldn't I go talk to that girl? Even if bad comes of it, the possibility of good or even a neutral outcome far outweigh the bad.
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Keep working. Never stop, lest time stop you.
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Why should you let whisperings affect you? Even if they mock you, at the end of the day they still have to go home to themselves, and see their own flaws.
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Be kind to people. Not in a meandering, desperate way, like those who seek validation, but because your life is so great you want to spread your blessings to others around you.
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Words only affect you if you let them. So don't let them.
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Never chase women.
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Never follow a crowd, as a charlatan is probably leading them forward.
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Make friends with leaders, but don't follow them. Learn from them and lead yourself.
- Be content in the fact that you do not matter.
dulkemaru51 5y ago
You don't worry about the superheroes in a video game, only about your own, lame character.
You're the center of the world, literally. It's yours and it's all for you, like the good examples and advice of better individuals than you. It's still ultimately your call. Only do what you're 'supposed to' do. In the end, it's all particles in spacetime, including you, it is what it is, it couldn't have been any other way, anyway. It doesn't make sense to let anything faze you.
flapjacksrbetter 5y ago
All just particles in space time I kinda like the perspective
red_philosopher 5y ago
Emotions are not created by circumstances, they are created by what we think about the circumstances. Adapting one's thoughts allows one to decide how one wants to feel about a particular circumstance.
Never forget that we are what we think. Descartes was right, you think, therefore you are.
togetherforyou 5y ago
Descartes was wrong though
Wabbajak 5y ago
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
We tend to think that those thing which make it harder for us to advance and lead an easier life prevent us from thriving. By realizing that in overcoming our obstacles, we exercise and train our abilities, we discover that the process of overcoming is the definition of thriving. To live means to suffer. Suffering is not only a consequence of living, without suffering there would be no point in living.
But not the thing itself causes suffering, our impressions and judgements about these things cause distress.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Better yet, put yourself in high stress complex situations where you must work with others. Sailing is one example. Some kinds of sports are another.
Practice in this helps you keep a cool head and prioritize and execute.
D1rkMcg1rth 5y ago
Apparently bill Clinton reads meditations by Marcus Aurelius once a year. He was getting his pole smoked in the White House so there's that. Great post, that book is just full of fucking gems.
EP13 5y ago
I do love that book, but this was a reference to Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O' Hara, one of my favorite poets and a man who rejected what society taught him. He did have Onetis for Jane, but I can look past it.
D1rkMcg1rth 5y ago
Ah, a couple of those run extremely parallel to Aurelius' meditations. Thank you for the clarification, Ima have to check that book out.
riskitit 5y ago
Is asking a girl out considered 'chasing' them? I'm confused
Edit: or by chasing you mean being desperate/needy?
dulkemaru51 5y ago
Invite her to your valuable life. Don't meander yourself into hers.
I'm perfect and you look fertile, I want to enjoy you and give you the privilege of witnessing this awesomeness.
Not: Excuse me, sorry, I want to fuck and you'd do me a great favour if you allowed me to, just for two minutes.
Pope_Shea 5y ago
If you find you 'need' her more than she needs you, you're doing it wrong.
Asking girls out is one of the best ways to get things going. Working on your approach will help you a lot.
Peter_B_Long 5y ago
I just go in the restroom and do pushups.
Aroundwork 5y ago
seems like a sanitary thing to do, especially this time of year
Aestheticcunt1996 5y ago
Fuck that. I do them in front of everyone.
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Daylt0n 5y ago
Well most ppl don't do it on the floor but rather use the sink for it...not the sharpest knife in the drawer, eh?
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warlordchad 5y ago
12 fuck yes! Maybe the single most important thing you can do in the short and long run to do better with women.
A girl doesn’t text back? Next.
Third date no sex? Next.
Too busy? Next.
Flakes? Next.
You will do far better to just move on and cold approach more women than chase any particular one, and what’s funny is the second you start ignoring them, the hamster starts to spin.