Lesson Of Life

When you are young, you tend to seek the best looking partner. This attractiveness will be gone in a flash. Instead pick someone easy to live with who has no nerve-grating habits.

Most of your time you spend wishing for things, sometimes things you might buy, but it could be relationships, health, physical fitness, political changes… But think. In past, every time you achieved one of these things, the pleasure is momentary, sometimes over in a fraction of a second, and rarely lasting more than a week. So to achieve continuous happiness this way requires some major achievement or acquisition every couple of days. This is impossible. If you want a continuously happy life, you must do it by learning to appreciate what is under your nose, here and now. Your desires seductively promise happiness if you but become a slave to them, but they cannot deliver.

Do it now! Nearly all the great mathematicians and physicists did their best work in their twenties. If you have grand dreams, realise them now. You may well not have the energy later. Time seems to stretch endlessly ahead of you, but your life is over in an eyeblink.

1. The years pass faster and faster as you get older. By the time you reach puberty, your life is half over in psychological time. Don’t procrastinate the truly important things.
2. If it sounds to good to be true, it nearly always is. Don’t waste time looking for zero-effort ways to do things. You just set yourself up to be conned. Find out what methods the people who actually succeeded have used.
3. Think globally; act locally. Saving the world is a huge job. Yours is just a small part. However, it is a necessary part.
4. The things you worry most about almost never happen. If you don’t believe me, start tracking them.
5. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get a different result. Persistence is great, but you must persist with something that works.
6. Other people do things that annoy you, not to annoy you, but in the usually-vain hope that doing so will make them feel better.
7. Despite the protestations of absolute Truth, there is a tremendous amount of lying surrounding religion and spirituality.
8. At many times in your life it will seem as if you have absolutely no energy or resources. But even then you can find something you can do that will marginally improve your lot or keep it from getting even worse than it would have naturally. ...............  The life lesson we wish  had learned early in life ......