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Category: Philosophy

  • Aim for the middle – contentment vs pleasure [Jocko Ted Talk]

    Just some random shit I was thinking about… People who seek pleasure, tend to be very up and down. Not that I’m judging – but boxers and MMA fighters for example, you get a massive dopamine hit and euphoria when fighting (and winning) in front of a crowd, but the downs are massive. I thought…

  • New Philosophy on Life

    Combing the Teachings of Aristotle & Rocky Sorry – my posts are very short at the moment as I’m working from home and juggling looking after the kids – one who’s just started walking Decide on Your Virtues Every tribe has a code, every religion, every civilization, traditionally – has had a written or unwritten…

  • The Book of 5 Rings – Summary

    Born in the 16th century, near the end of the Japanese civil war, Miyamoto Musashi was a nomadic samurai who fought in a small number of battles, but dozens of duels. He is known as Japan’s greatest swordsman. The book has had a huge impact on culture in East Asia and on business etiquette. There…

  • The Chimp Paradox – Stone of Life

    Not really MMA related, but I’ve been meaning to do this for ages In the book the Chimp Paradox – the author suggests creating your own ‘stone of life’ which are basically 3 or 4 principles or rules to accept and live your life by. My Stone of Life example There will always be uncertainty…

  • The Importance of Competition – In Any Sport

    A really positive way to look at competition: 1. Every time you compete and win – you feel great and you feel like you’ve achieved something, especially if you’ve trained hard. 2. Every time you lose, you test your character and more importantly perhaps, you make someone else happy (see point 1.) It also makes…

  • Dunbar’s number

    Some fella called Robin Dunbar; researched the ‘Gore Tex’ model – the model which states that human beings can only hold meaningful relationships with up to 150 people. I’d like to suggest this is taken a step further – we can only have empathy for up to 150 people.  In today’s age, we are bombarded…

  • Love is the answer – Ronnie Pickering

    Well, this is confirmation that love is the answer, and anger and hate is just for bellends. Ronnie Pickering is embodiment of your average British angry helmet. You see it on FaceBook everyday, people moaning and generally complaining and being angry and blaming everyone else for their 99 first world problems – like being delayed…

  • The Law of Non Judgement

    So whether you’re reading Deepchap Chopra, or some other spiritual guru’s book, one of the underlying themes appears to be that judgement, just causes you suffering. In addition to what I have read, I’ve also noticed for many years, that the people that tend to judge the most, are generally absolute grade A bellends themselves.…

  • Thoughts and Anxiety

    Great video by Noah Elkrief, the man’s a legend: So Noah’s concept is that it is your thoughts that cause your emotions, not your actual situation. For example, work doesn’t cause you stress, your thoughts do. So to explain the video – just in case you don’t have 18 minutes to watch it: He starts…

  • Hippy Walking

    Always mean to get round to that meditation lark, but never have time? Yea me too, well, I never manage my time well enough to get it done anyway. I downloaded the HeadSpace app and think I got to about day 2 before forgetting for a fortnight, that I was supposed to do day 3.…