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Axel Deussen retweeted
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Nietzsche believed that the desire to be liked can become a prison.
When you constantly seek approval, you begin to shape your personality around other people's expectations. You hide your opinions, abandon your ambitions, and avoid making choices that might invite criticism.
Eventually, you stop asking what you truly believe and start asking what will make you accepted.
Nietzsche challenged people to question conventional values and develop the courage to think for themselves. Becoming who you are requires the willingness to disappoint people who prefer the version of you they can easily understand.
Not everyone will approve of your choices. That is the price of living according to your own convictions.
Stop sacrificing your identity for the comfort of being accepted.
“Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.” ~ M. John Harrison, Things That Never Happen
“Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.” ~ M. John Harrison, Signs of Life
“…there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.” ~ M. John Harrison, The Course of the Heart
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“I’ve been banging away at this thing for 30 years. I think the simple math is, some projects work and some don’t. There’s no reason to belabor either one. Just get on to the next.” ~ Brad Pitt accepting a Screen Actors Guild Award
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Axel Deussen retweeted
The first step in creating the life you really want is to stop caring so much about what other people think.
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“About once every two years the market falls 10%. Every six years the market’s going to have a 25% decline. That’s all you need to know. You need to know that the market’s going to go down sometimes. If you’re not ready for that, you shouldn’t own stocks.” – Peter Lynch
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“Having an ‘edge’ and surviving are two different things: the first requires the second. You need to avoid ruin. At all costs.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Every ship that crosses the galaxy in Dune is steered by someone so high on spice for so long that they've mutated into a fish-looking thing living in a tank.
And the reason anyone signs up for that goes back about 10,000 years, to when humanity banned AI.
Humanity fought a holy war against thinking machines and won, and the rule they came out of it with went straight into their bible. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Problem is, somebody still has to do the math that gets a ship safely across folded space, and doing it with a computer was now a sin.
So the Spacing Guild built the computer out of a person.
You soak a human in spice gas for years and their mind starts seeing a little way into the future, just far enough to spot the one route through folded space where the ship actually shows up on the other side. The body doesn't come through that in any shape you'd recognize. By the time you meet Edric in Dune Messiah, he's a stretched-out, finned thing swimming in orange gas, and Villeneuve finally puts him on screen December 18 in Part Three.
As for why anyone takes the deal, the Guild runs every ship between every star plus the banking system on top of it, so every noble house in the empire pays whatever the Guild charges. If your family loses a war, the Guild is who flies you to a hidden planet only they know how to find. The Emperor can't move his own army without them.
And all of that power hangs on one drug from one planet. When Paul took Arrakis and threatened to destroy the spice, the Guild ditched the Emperor on the spot and threatened to leave his whole army stranded in the desert.
Paul figures out what's wrong with them pretty fast. They can see the future, and every time they use it to pick the safest option, which he says is exactly why they've been slowly stagnating for centuries.
Herbert came back to them almost 20 years later. In the last two books, the Ixians build machines that can steer through folded space, and the navigators fade out while the Guild goes off to partner with the people building their replacements.
So the whole job only ever existed because AI was illegal, and once the machines came back, the people who'd turned themselves into computers were stuck in their tanks with nothing left to sell.
Can any dune book reader explain why anyone would choose to become a navigator in Dune?
In the world of Dune, navigators are barely human anymore. They spend years immersed in highly concentrated spice gas, causing their bodies to mutate severely until they resemble strange fish-like creatures. So, why would anyone accept such a terrible price?
Axel Deussen retweeted
A Monday morning question for you:
What would the best version of yourself do today?
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The older I get, the more I respect people who can admit when they're wrong without a 10-minute explanation. No excuses. No blame shifting. No clever attempt to make it not their fault. Just a simple, "You're right. I got that wrong." An incredibly underrated quality.
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
— James Baldwin
