Tag Archive: beliefs
If your beliefs conflict with your actions, it’s hard to progress toward your goals.
It’s hard to be a successful murderer if you believe human life is inherently sacred. However, if you believe the world is over-populated, it becomes all the more easier.
Your beliefs must be aligned with your goals for optimal operation.
If you believe you need to be rich to be happy, you won’t be happy till you’re rich. Your belief becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Therefore, it is important to train your mind for success.
I had to do this a lot when I used to pursue price-match and rebate combos. …
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2009-12-20 Update: Being extraordinary is not necessarily positive, so be careful with this.
Extraordinary is an interesting word. It sounds like “extra” and “ordinary.” That means to be extraordinary, you have to be stereotypically ordinary, to the extreme. 
Extraordinary people are usually extremely good or extremely bad. While ordinary folks get B’s, C’s, and D’s, extraordinary folks get A’s and F’s. They’re polarized on both ends of the spectrum. Being at the scary edge of the world is a much more interesting place to be than the safe and secure middle.
It’s not good to be extraordinary merely for the purpose of …
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I left this reply after seeing Sergey Brin’s blog entry on his genes’ predisposition toward Parkinson’s disease:
My Great Aunt contracted Parkinson’s disease in her fifties; she passed on a couple years ago in her seventies. After twenty years, it got progressively worse to the point that she couldn’t move.
I remember my Grandma often having to call her back over the phone, because she’d inadvertently hit the “talk” button from the shaking.
I think Parkinson’s disease has a connection to arthritis and cancer, because all three involve the body turning against itself; destruction from the inside out rather than from
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