Thread: Most Important Lesson You Have Learned

Originally Posted by tropicalbreeze

never lose your sense of humor.

it doesn't solve all your problems but it has definitely helped my life go by much more smoother and easier.

well, I never had some sense of humor. I guess that is why my life is going so hard for me....

Never take yourself too serriously. In fact find a way to be above your own ego and laugh at it. ^-^

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Never take yourself too serriously. In fact find a way to be above your own ego and laugh at it. ^-^

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then there will be no one laughing

Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.

Nothing ever ends, only changes.

It's a thing, and maybe only temporary, though I hope not. I don't know if it counts as a lesson either, but moving on, not dwelling on things(But at the same time not being naïve). That guy I kind of know who sort of beat me up? I swore to myself that I would stay mad at him and not be friendly anymore. 75% of that was gone the next day. Turns out he's a cool guy, a great friend, and just a confused teenager. It's completely by luck that this happens to me, but it does. It could be the difference between removing yourself from society and not having to be mad at at least one person 24/7.

Life is not difficult, we make it difficult.

Don't trust in anybody, they always end up disappointing you.

The most important lesson overall is too hard for me to distil out of the many significant pointers.
Some come to my mind now - without any rankings:

How you feel and react is not primarily caused by events or incoming information, but by your thinking - by the meaning you attach to them, your attitude, your beliefs - these determine how you ultimately end up feeling and behaving.
And they are within your direct influence.

If you want to develop a positive habit, or change something in your usual behaviour - just start doing little things in that direction - pretend you already have the habit - this will change the way you see yourself and convince you that this "new you" is real - got myself into the habit of eating more healthily like this.

When there is a big project - make small ones out of it, and start out with doing just exactly the next little mini-step in order, and the next and so on for a relatively short duration - like 15 min. - then reward yourself.
Next time - longer.

To draw conclusions - calm down and actively search for your own biases - thanks for the reminder, Xei.

Shut up and listen (or walk away - thanks Mel!).



I wish, I would live a bit more in accordance to these lessens..

Saturday, I was working at Dollar General when an elderly man came up to me and asked me for a box to pack some stuff. I gave it to him, and he thanked me and proceeded to explain to me, in his own words, "I'm retarded. . . but I like to farm."

He told me all about his farm and his crop this year, and then told me: "I'll tell you a secret about the best fertilizer. They don't sell it anywhere. Know what it is? It's the sweat off of the farmer's brow."

I told him that's the smartest thing I've heard in awhile.

How to say 'please' and 'thank you'. Those words can get you to places...

a^2+b^2=c^2

Originally Posted by Alric

a^2+b^2=c^2

This by the way - can tell you how far away the horizon is!
My favourite German band has a song "How far..".
It sounds first of all like some cheesy title - not typical for them - but they then proceed to show, how Pythagoras can be applied for this question.
Since it is with drawing on a white-board - it should be perfectly understandable without German.
And I feel like posting it - so there:

Language.

I find it hard to describe the most important lesson for me. Because just a single idea, could have such a great impact on the whole thinking process. So I rather see all my important lessons as a chain of thoughts, wich together ends up as one important lesson. So that's why it's so hard for me to pick only one important lesson, since every lesson is an equaly important link to build the whole chain of what I value the most.

But to mention one important lesson that I actually very recently learned. Is that life is merely a game. And that words have a huge impact in one's life. Since word easily becomes the illusions of what we then percieve as a valuble life in this modern world.

I just want to end this with saying that I want to honor this great philosopher, Alan Watts. He is a true inspiration to me, and it is also thanks to him that I've gain a lot of important lessons that matters alot.

The realization that if you keep putting off "living your life" until all the little annoying things that need to get done are done first, then you'll never end up actually living. Live always has little tasks that must be done -- learn to work doing them in to enjoying and living life to the fullest every day!

Lord loves a workin' man, don't trust whitey, see a doctor and get rid of it.

1.Always be open-minded.

2.The world is your perception, everything in it is based on how you see and understand its aspects(be open-minded, since your experiences, emotions and knowledge will affect your judgment of this concept)

I saw a post some time ago and I think most of the important lessons I've learned can be found in it, though I can't decide which is the most important. For those of you who haven't come across it yet, it's definitely worth a read:

Spoiler for there's a hundred of them, btw:

That the present is the only thing that really matters. The past has already happened and I can't change it and the future hasn't happened yet. Allowing yourself to be happy in the present time is better than worrying about the past and future.

Don't feed negative thoughts.

If you think too much about something, you're just uping your chances to fuck it up.

Keep loving what you love, if it doesn't hurt you, and never let that love fade