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devved by Jess Cummins (@jesscxc)
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning: it’s a lifestyle.
To remember is to rewrite history.
Once you’ve started you’re almost done.
Everyone believes the evidence is on their side.
Your future self thanks you for every second spent improving yourself.
What are you trying to do?
Chase away pain by partitioning your mind and body.
Your life starts now, not tomorrow, and not in the past. Live it the way you want.
The most verifiable truth is that nothing is truly verifiable.
The only one you truly need to impress is yourself.
The journey, not the destination, is what is worthwhile.
Live life like you would want your best friend to.
Do a little every single day, and soon you’ll have a lot.
What is important in development is not merely the tools, but also the environment the tools are used in.
It’s hard at first but just keep doing it and it gets a lot easier.
Starting is harder than continuing.
If you don’t give up you haven’t failed.
Sometimes you’ll spend more time rationalizing why you don’t need to do something than it would take to do it.
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Humans are animals. But some animals are humans.
Things are changing all the time.
There is always someone who would trade everything they have to be where you are.
It’s like remembering reading a book, but also remembering experiencing the book.
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
If it doesn’t work, try something else.
When you are in a cycle, it taints your views of the other cycles. And you are always in some cycle.
Maybe you don’t have the knowledge, but do you know where to find it?
Without work, leisure becomes work.
The clothing you wear affects your own view of yourself.
Before initiating any project, list why you want it to succeed, why you will put in the hard work day after day when the going gets tough.
Obviously a god can exist outside our perceivable universe just as we can exist outside a simulation we run.
Put less food on your plate and eat more deliberately. It will be better.
Your preconceptions of the world can hide opportunity from you.
Act to live interesting stories.
Words are the most powerful things on Earth: they hold the power to inspire and embolden, to weaken and shatter.
Fashion may not be immediately functional, but it gives impressions to others; that is the function.
Mix the old ways and the new ways to find more.
There is so much beauty, if you would only look.
You are the challenges you’ve faced.
Be flexible yet remember the original plan.
Break the ice by stirring the air with words. Silence is freezing.
Any action counts more than nonexistent perfect action.
The number of pages in a book does not necessarily correlate to the impact it can have on you.
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When the perfect doesn’t happen, the good is best.
A messy space attracts disorder.
The potential for creative entities is unbounded.
There are always other ways that work.
If other people can do it, you can learn to do it.
Sometimes you have to really mess things up to straighten them out.
There are so many good things.
Anything you write is a poem.
Don’t condemn what other people like.
Have few things and get good stuff.
You don’t make better decisions while tired.
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Everyone is insecure.
You’d be surprised how much you can learn and remember.
More knowledge means more patterns you can perceive.
Double-checking is almost always worthwhile.
Sometimes keeping quiet when you make a mistake is best.
Sometimes rest is the right answer.
It’s hard to fall asleep while anticipating something.
Don’t run from who you are. Enjoy every step. Enjoy being yourself.
Let go of your fear. It’s not that serious.
You learn when you teach.
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Healing cannot be forced.
When worried, carve out and identify the issue. Write things you can do about it, and things you can’t.
Support local companies? No, support good companies.
Learn something new.
It’s funny when people talk like they know what they’re talking about.
How good you are is how things go when they aren’t perfect.
We love people for what they bring out in us.
Catch the wind and you’ll go further.
Mystery is the entity in control of our simulation.
World peace is composed of many individual pieces.
When there are constant problems within your core the constant reflection blocks your view of the outside world.
It’s not where you live but how you live.
There is a subtle pleasure in experiencing the bad.
Cushion the blows with a pillow of serenity.
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You can tell a lot about a person if you look.
Most people are alone.
The less freedom you have, the scarier it is.
If no one will know who you are, experiment and be someone different.
Life gets more complex.
The small collect and the big grow off from it.
It’s easier to break something than fix it.
There are always great things to experience.
Rules are meant to be sensible and self-aware.
Proceed through how you feel; don’t fight it.
Dress like a peaceful person to be at peace.
Observe what makes a person.
Don’t make people feel bad about themselves.
Keep your eye on the short-term and long-term and the medium-term will take care of itself.
Apples and oranges are different. They can only be compared when an external value system is applied.
Going to a museum is like treasure hunting for curiosities.
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they leave their bed.
When you let go, that’s when it will come to you.
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It’s as soon as your limited ego gives up that the power of the universe reveals itself.
The more you learn, the more you realize it’s a complicated issue.
There is already so much known, yet so much more to know.
You don’t learn about yourself when you copy others. You learn about yourself when you create anew.
It’s amazing how old the world really is.
In everything there is good and bad.
Culture is human insight into experience.
Something funny can always be said.
It’s all a learning experience.
The wise accept knowledge from all, even the young.
Keep in mind where people are coming from.
We are the mistakes we learn from.
Life lives on ever higher levels of complexity of action.
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Work with what you have.
Start with the shortest understandable path that will work.
Why continue doing something if you aren’t getting the results you want?
Make time to work on yourself, not just in yourself.
Keep the goal in mind or you’ll tend to optimize locally.
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Pain changes your action.
You don’t have to impress anyone.
You don’t have to do anything.
Be sensitive to others if you want them to be sensitive to you.
You want people you admire to admire you.
To change things you must take them as they are.
Sometimes helping people hurts yourself.
Who are the best around you?
You must give what is wanted to get what is wanted.
Problems can be tied in with multiple levels of themselves.
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We get wrapped up in the stories we believe, even when they’re lies.
The rules change depending on the place.
What is love, to you?
You can get hurt when you try to fit in to other’s ideas of how things should be done.
Is it better to advance the cutting edge or popularize the state of the art?
When you can fly, falling isn’t scary.
Poor needn’t mean dirty.
Keep in mind that you are skilled.
Anything you do is by definition the right thing.
Encourage the irrepressible ‘huh’.
Human communication is improved by adding more senses.
Confidence is a skill.
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We all have our own journeys to travel.
No one owes you anything, and you don’t owe anyone else anything.
Whether you think you’re happy or you think you’re not, you’re right.
Intelligence feeds on itself.
Knowledge forms on hooks in memory.
Speed will come.
Enjoy what you have.
The world is very different elsewhere.
Inspiration does not come at the barrel of a gun.
Different people have different priorities.
The feeling of learning is fun.
Attention to detail separates the good from the great.
Feeling good is worth the investment.
Stop worrying and start studying.
Life is a journey.
Just as optimism can be beaten out of you, it can also be beaten in.
You are not superior nor inferior. You are a unique life experience. Live it.
If you focus on directly where the feeling is you can mentally ramp up or down the sensing neurons.
Don’t expect people to be different just because you’ve changed.
Have good things, but don’t become attached to them.
To-do lists can help you get more done but can also make you feel like you aren’t doing enough.
Don’t forget that nothing is sacred and you can always start over.
The lighter your possessions the lighter your spirit.
Redundancy can prevent adaptation.
All things are connected.
Life should get more rewarding as technology improves.
Survey before you start.
Start with a general outline.
There is always more than one way to fix a problem.
Reinforce what will break first.
No interpretation can be both perfect and complete.
The desire to learn often comes from applicability of knowledge.
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To change how you feel, change how you interpret your experience.
There is more than one road to success.
Whatever you choose is the right answer.
Treat the cause not the symptom.
See how much you can do without.
You’re rich if you aren’t worrying.
When reading, comprehension is the goal, not speed.
You can only cut so many corners before what you’re doing loses all meaning.
Don’t undersell yourself.
Wait until the question is finished before answering.
Don’t feel embarrassed; it doesn’t matter.
More choice can lead to more regrets.
Communication is a hard problem.
If you aren’t earnest and willing to be wrong, you definitely will be.
Mentoring is just as important as access to education.
Love.
Writing solves more problems than just thinking.
Don’t care if people stare.
Stand up for how you feel.
Everything is understandable.
When you think it all the way through, very little things matter.
Don’t succumb to pressure that your life must be a certain way by a certain time.
Enjoy the moment. Smile.
Breathe deeply.
A contradiction is not a refutation.
Be patient.
Don’t repeat things unless you are confident they are true.
You can’t beat a person into submission with facts, you must lead them on their own terms.
You must create, not just learn.
Know the rules so you can break them for effect.
It’s more beautiful after it’s rained.
You’re not the first person with this problem.
Your potential can never be lived up to.
You must earn your inner peace.
Force in the right place can move mountains.
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The urgent will always be there unless you focus on the important.
Be genuine.
Observe. You don’t have to make an effort to love if you just observe.
Bring yourself into resonance.
Revere mystery. Learn it.
Value differences.
If you were in the same position, you’d do the same thing.
Do what is important.
Combine the technologies.
It’s not busywork that makes dreams happen.
See yourself having done it.
Start moving. Build momentum.
The best food is the kind you have when hungry.
You can’t rush exercise.
Offer a seamless experience.
Invest your resources in what sticks with you the longest.
It can be as hard to remove things as it is to acquire them.
Take out everything and put back only the best.
Memory predicts.
You shouldn’t feel oppressed by your own to-do list.
When you don’t know what to do, simplify.
Just a block of text most people won’t read.
Most important is the takeaway.
Learning is recognition of patterns.
We learn more from solving harder problems.
When you know it can be done, you try much harder.
Life is a steady evolution of applying little tricks and tips.
You can break new ground. You have broken new ground.
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The more rushed you feel the less you accomplish.
Wind makes strong branches.
You are a player in a game.
Never underestimate the power of time.
Comfort traps you with inaction.
You have to act to find out how hard something really is.
Small doubt can bring down big arguments.
Break down your assumptions about life. What do you want?
You do not exist; only perceptions exist.
Don’t try to do it all at once. Separate it.
The cook feeds the activity of the day.
The shorter the feedback loop, the faster the correction.
If your lens is ugly, everything looks bad.
Why believe disempowering ideas?
Being sick is a part of life.
Be thorough.
Do the work. Reap the rewards.
There is always more than one chance.
Deal with others as they are.
Focus on the long-term results.
Focus on the process.
It’s okay how you feel.
What have you learned?
Eating is messy. Life is messy.
You already have the tools you need.
You can always start over.
Learn and have fun.
The future is only hopeless once you give up.
Show appreciation for who they are, not what they do.
It’s healthy to not care, sometimes.
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Your interpretation is never the whole story.
Maybe you’re dreaming now?
Know that you can understand it, when you care enough.
Understand the problem and the solutions will appear.
You pay attention to the urgent by paying attention to the important.
Don’t fear what can’t hurt.
There’s always more than one way to describe something.
Every little bit helps.
You are what you eat.
You can learn whatever you are willing to invest time into.
Be constructive, not defensive.
Look forward. Nothing in your past is as great.
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The more honest you can be with yourself the faster you can grow.
You must give up completely before you will see the path leading out.
It’s never good the first time through. That’s just the scaffolding.
The issue is not that you immediately solve the problem, but that you stick with it until you do.
If other people can do it, you can learn to do it.
Often when doing hard work a part of us craves interruptions. We want the easy way out.
Seek to understand those who disagree. Your own case will improve.
There’s always more than one way to make it work.
The problem is not that someone will steal your idea but that you won’t be able to get it off the ground yourself.
The world will never end.
You can’t rush toward success.
Record what works.
Refraining from gossip is a long-term strategy.
You get more of what you pay attention to.
Sometimes you changing gives the perception of others having changed.
The smallest things can degrade the experience.
Little things compound.
Fit your stories to the interests of the audience.
Your desires adapt to the world you find yourself in.
Your preconceptions control your thoughts.
Regularly take a high-level view.
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Don’t condemn what other people like.
The harder you work the stronger you’ll get.
Listen to yourself. You know in your heart what’s right.
Your ancestors do not determine your skills but they do influence your preferences.
What’s the most impactful thing you could do right now?
It’s when you can let go that you have true control.
Have few things and get good stuff.
Make speed, not haste.
You don’t make better decisions while tired.
If there is a way, you don’t find it by saying there is no way.
Verbalize the little things you appreciate.
Be thankful for the people you make smile.
What do you have to do first?
There is no level cap on consciousness.
Learn how to go.
It’s the cycle up and down that adds depth.
Give yourself time.
You are young.
Consider your ancestor.
There are people better than you, but you aren’t them. There are people worse than you, but you aren’t them.
Why choose to believe that you can’t explain?
You’d be surprised how much you can learn and remember.
More knowledge means more patterns you can perceive.
Double-checking is almost always worthwhile.
Don’t do things you know you shouldn’t do.
Sometimes keeping quiet when you make a mistake is best.
Do what you are afraid of; that’s how you grow.
Don’t be surprised that others are not sophisticated in the same way as you.
It’s all in your head.
Language is barrier, but also a bridge.
Treat a low-status job as a step for a goal and you will approach it in a different way.
If you don’t speak the language, you’re a foreigner.
Easy and quick fixes are few and far between.
All the little pieces count.
Pay attention to what you’re doing.
Sometimes rest is the right answer.
Gossip releases emotion but cultivates bad feelings.
Sometimes a digression is not productive.
You become used to things.
It’s hard to fall asleep while anticipating something.
You can’t hurry learning.
Don’t run from who you are. Enjoy every step. Enjoy being yourself.
If you’ve done it before you know you can do it.
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You are dreaming.
Let go of your fear. It’s not that serious.
You learn when you teach.
Don’t be embarrassed—be proud.
Do not saturate yourself with busywork.
Sometimes no glasses is better than foggy glasses.
You don’t know what you like until you try different things.
Would you rather receive love or cause love?
It can always be more detailed.
No action chains you like the belief that you have to act as you did in the past.
Healing requires time.
Humans have small footprints, but their feet carry their brain.
Try enough failures and you’ll stumble onto success.
Even the statement “everything is at it should be” presumes it could be otherwise.
It is understandable if you invest the time to understand it.
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What you want out of life will change as you grow.
Keep people in the loop so they feel more in control.
Anything you want you can have, as long as you are willing to transcend what’s stopping you.
Life is lighter without baggage.
The most powerful tool a human has is the ability to imagine something better.
The only way to find your way out is to get lost and learn.
Metaphors are tools of thought.
Imagine someone without fear. Imagine not imagining.
If you can imagine it, it can become your reality.
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It’s not about pushing yourself. It’s about embracing yourself.
Even when you fail, you succeed when you learn.
We can visualize anything with enough practice.
Practice love.
Meditation is not a waste of time. It clarifies the mind.
Rest is part of life.
People like to help people.
When we give gratitude, we receive joy.
You already have what you need to be happy.
Desire to live.
You’ve got to build better tools in order to think higher thoughts.
You’ll always feel poor if you always spend more than you have.
All of reality is symbolism.
Practice smiling.
One candy bar in the hand is worth two in the belly.
It is wise to be unworrying, but foolish to be uncaring.
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Remember who loves you.
Everything you see around you is in the imagination of something greater.
There is no story in your head. You are the story.
Stretching is good for the soul.
You’ll know if it’s working if you test your work.
It feels good to rest after you exercise.
Life isn’t just the exciting.
Don’t rush into marriage with either an idea or a person.
If you have to work for it, it’s sweeter.
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Being good is its own reward.
Look for patterns.
Dogs don’t like to get yelled at.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
There are people smarter than you. Remember that they can learn from you.
The world is getting richer.
Given an infinity of numbers, there are an infinity of patterns. There is no completion of knowledge.
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Breathe. Take a deep breath.
Patterns are digital at the most fundamental level, not fuzzy.
Don’t compare yourself to your neighbors and call yourself poor. Compare yourself to your ancestors and call yourself rich beyond imagination.
Don’t accept people who don’t treat you right.
The wise see further implications.
Don’t stop the blessings.
The more you know the less you feel you know.
Don’t talk about people behind their back.
It works out in the end.
It’s the hard times that cause growth.
Team up.
You don’t have to understand the world for it to be fun.
Close your eyes and breathe. Listen to the breath.
Train for the moment.
Video games are predictions for the future.
Learn every language you can.
What’s important is the rapidity with which you adapt to change.
Love conquers fear.
We are machines.
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Jump in puddles.
Cultivate simple tastes.
Life’s problems exist in the head. Work on that.
Even the sad parts of life are life.
There are no limits to knowledge.
Not dancing doesn’t make you cooler than dancing even when you don’t know how.
There’s always more to learn.
You are not your identity.
There is always more to learn.
If you have a great idea, go do it.
Consider life a marathon, not a sprint. Enjoy the journey.
Don’t let perfection get in the way of releasing.
You can read something, visualize it, then have a dream about it.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Don’t worry about what you don’t know how to do yet. Just do what you can.
You have to learn the basics first.
Programming is like math that you can play with.
Just keep throwing yourself at the problem!
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