Thread: Most Important Lesson You Have Learned

Humans are inherently irrational creatures.

From my collection of insight found in button-form:

Spoiler for huge:

These words remind me of all the times I have missed an opportunity.

And similarly:

Which I think (if tweaked) could be the basis of a lovely tattoo.

I learned that if I care about what everybody says, I will never be happy.

Learned to try not to burn bridges. Although some bridges need to be burnt the f$@# down. The trick is to know the difference.

Nothing. I've learned nothing in life.

That good information books is one of the best way to spend your time if you want to learn from great people.

To always listen to my parents about the abstract and social issues. I may know more than they do about math, geography, ect, but when it comes to those tricky situations, they always have more hindsight than I do.

That everything fluctuates. Stop feeling bad or depressed, because it will become better at some point.

I've learned that life's too short to let your insecurities and emotions run your life.

Don't be an idiot. Said to me by a cop. I was drinking and driving but made it home safe and he let me go to my apartment... this was a while ago and I have not done that since. I'm not proud of doing that in the past.

We are all brought into this world without purpose, on a one way journey towards death. We are all travelers, traveling together, but sometimes we forget that and feel lonely and isolated. Other times, we are so involved that we make this journey for others. But we each have our own paths to walk; and though we find joy in helping our fellow travelers, ultimately, it is up to each of us to journey through paths never traveled before and create our own meaning.

1. Its okay to fail, so long as you never give up trying.

2. You have to ultimately decide everything for yourself: the point of life (if any), what you want to do with it, what your morals and ethics are etc. If you can't find a good reason for something of your own accord, then it may not have one at all.

That's a tough call. I'd say the most important lesson that I learned in my life is to not be apprehensive to learning new lessons and changing my belief system to fit what I have learned. I used to be disillusioned into thinking that I was perfect the way I was and that I couldn't get any better. Or a little more broadly; don't be resistant to change.

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Originally Posted by nonchalanttrack

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1. Everything has purpose.

2. Practice appreciation and giving thanks for everything.

3. Monitor your thoughts.

4. Face your fears, don't fight them.

5. You are the creator.

Embrace the mind, ditch the heart.

Get out while the getting is good.

"It is always now."
It's the name of a lecture by Sam Harris, but I think that that's my most important life lesson. Not the lecture, but the words. Also, the words itself are not the lesson, the words just describe some motto or attitude that is helpful for me.

A list rather than a story of values, lessons learned, what is most important in life:

Ethics
Self Improvement (a super-set with a huge number of sub-sets)
General Approach To Life - Methods, tactics, strategies
Solve The Mysteries Of Life
Balance Work And Play
Hobbies
Meaningful Friendships

~EnergyWorker~

To stop living my life through my self-image. See life through your eyes as it is, not through your filters of insecurities which creates illusionary fear and self-pitty.

The way to not be sensitive and take things personally is to detach from the self-image and be the real you.

Stop saying "I am ..." and start saying "I feel..."

Even if you have damn good reasons to be prejudiced, always know when to put those prejudices aside.

As a teenager I developed a moderate fear of socializing with people in-person, thinking that others would point out my flaws or be harshly judgmental of my appearance. Attending college and earning a job gave me a social life and I realized that most people tend to be positive thinkers. Their intentions are generally good and others are also afraid of being ill-judged. I care about peoples' opinions but I choose to invest my care in just positive or constructive ones. If someone were to say something intentionally unkind I would regard it as a signal that I should distance myself from that person, and that it's okay.

I wouldn't want to narrow it down to just a single lesson, so I'll go for a few, and since they've already been summed up by other people better than I could, I'll use quotes to sum them all up, in the order that I learned the lessons.

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” - Alan Watts

"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it." - Norman Vincent Peale

"“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” - Marcus Aurelius

"They can because they think they can" - Virgil

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill

"Leap and the net will appear" - John Burroughs

"Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfilment." - Neville Goddard