July Meditations

Thoughts to ponder and act on this month

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1.

What people tend to become while doing this, do I want to become it, too? Ask this when contemplating a course of action. It could be when choosing professions or when entering into relationships. There are exceptions, but you’ll most likely become what everyone who has played a certain game has become, because games both choose and mold their players.

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Money is sweet, but money while doing a job you find meaningful is purposeful. Being loved is sweet, but being loved by one you love is love itself; it’s the definition of a good life. Getting things is the happiness of children; getting them how you like them—on your own terms; from sources you find worthwhile—is the joy of being mature and a grown-up.

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3.

The amateur and the insecure do many things. They want to prove to everyone that they can do things. The secure and skilled do few things, and on their timeline. They are good; they don’t have to prove it to anyone. They are beyond validation. They do things because they need doing, not so that anyone can clap for them.

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Life is hard, and nothing happens immediately. Those who aren’t patient with you are telling you that they aren’t your people.

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5.

From romance to investing to the foreign policy of nations, risk is what remains after we’ve accounted for what we know. Risk, then, is a function of knowledge. The more we don’t know, the riskier everything remains, and vice versa. The point is to know more over the years. Otherwise, we will be grown-ups facing the risk levels of adolescents.

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6.

If one is evidently wise, know that they aren’t thinking what you are thinking, because they’ve already thought it and moved on. The wise are calm because they are beyond what everyone else is panicking about.