Humans are illogical creatures. Logic and reasoning are pretty useful to the mad scientist conducting his 823rd experiment on resurecting corpses before he unleashes another zombie apocalypse but is it really useful on our daily lives? Perhaps doing the illogical could be the best when faced with decisions?
Who would've thought of forgiving his/her enemies?
That having less aspirations leads to more contentment?
And more wealth leads to less happiness?
Or the more cheeseburgers a guy has, the less chicks he gets? (ok, this one makes sense).
And more wealth leads to less happiness?
Or the more cheeseburgers a guy has, the less chicks he gets? (ok, this one makes sense).
Logically, people tell us that hard work leads to success. But what about this thought: The harder you try at something, the harder you fall. Because in our single-minded strive for success, our minds just blind our eyes from seeing the shortcuts that lie along the way. Eveyone uses the example of Thomas Edison as a testament to persevering despite encountering failure. But I'm more of a Tesla guy. When Edison died in 1931, Nikola Tesla contributed the only negative opinion to the New York Times, buried in an extensive coverage of Edison's life:
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene ... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense.
Also, here's a great quote from Bruce Lee. Guy could beat up anyone but lost his life to a little painkiller. How illogical is that?
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
He had no hobby, cared for no sort of amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene ... His method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense.
Also, here's a great quote from Bruce Lee. Guy could beat up anyone but lost his life to a little painkiller. How illogical is that?
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
So instead of making more resolutions this coming year, lets do the illogically opposite and make resolutions for less. Less work. Less expectations. Less KPop to invade our airwaves.
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