In fact, there is salvation from poverty and suffering. Reading rooms and libraries will save even those who have nothing but hope. Don't rush for money, work half a day to get enough for the simplest food, clothes and a bed in the hostel, and the rest of the time spend in the library and do sports. In less than three years, you will have accumulated enough strength to fulfill any desire.
The most valuable resource of man is himself. Therefore, the most valuable investments are spending on self-improvement, training, spiritual development and sports.
When does not cease to be added, surely there will be a breakthrough. This is the essence and meaning of personal growth, daily small steps to perfection inevitably lead to the goal of accumulation of critical mass and insight.
The human brain is programmed with the information that corresponds to its goals and dreams. The DNA of thought depends on the goals. If a person wants to be an oak, he will program an acorn in himself.
Wrestling (judo, Sambo, etc.) develops self-confidence in children. Such a child is not afraid of violation of the comfort zone, do not confuse him and touches. On the contrary, coming closer, he feels confident that he is in control of the situation, everything is in his hands.
All your skills need to be trained. Especially hard to train the most basic skills. For example, I learned to look into the face of another person only at the age of 39, after two weeks of daily training. It took me a year to learn to listen without interrupting. I had to learn the most basic things. Do not be afraid. Say what I think. Listen to yourself. To act quickly. No doubt. And even the art of going to the potty demanded from me a huge effort and hundreds of workouts.
When you read stories about Roman and Greek heroes in Plutarch's life, you will strengthen your spirit by realizing your contempt for fear and trouble.
Tell the truth. Don't lie in any way. Do what you have to do. Follow the order. Suppress desires and vices. Contempt for pleasures and vices. Contempt for luxury. Contempt for flattery. Playing sports. Reading and self-education. Striving for perfection. Train your ability to believe and not be afraid. Train your ability to admire. Listen to your intuition. Serve your dream, truth, and beauty. Follow the rituals. Restraint.
The realization of your dream should begin with its knowledge. Getting to know your dream you're starting to grow slowly in her direction. Remember, they don't go to the dream, they grow slowly to the dream.
The realization of the expected means that first you have to become inside yourself what you want to be, and then the external reality will harmoniously adapt to you, as you move towards the dream. You can program yourself through books and experience.
You can drink a Cup of coffee, and you can buy 4 great books. You can go to the movies with a girl and eat popcorn (although it is doubtful that you will have enough), or you can buy the complete works Theodora Dreiser, three months to read them, be happy and wise up so that the girls themselves will start running after you, and not you for them.
Read complex books for 30 minutes a day, and no more. Avoid overexertion and exhaustion. Little by little and slowly you can read any, even very complex and heavy book.
A minimum of funds can do more than a maximum. When you have a lot of money, you will do a lot of unnecessary things, thus losing a huge amount of valuable time. When you don't have enough money, you only do what you need to do, and it speeds you up significantly.
Regarding "not have time", "late", "life has passed, it's getting late" you can see that informed people actively lived an average of 15 years and that was enough for anything, even it was possible to take over the world. Now people live longer, and if you have at least 2-4-8 years left, you can have time to achieve anything.
- Working for bread and butter. - Studies and self-education. - Personal life, famil and relationships - Leisure time, sport, travelling - Optional: «hobbies and overarching aims»
These items may often be interrelated and interconnected. There's also an important item called «hobbies and overarching aims». It may replace or go well with any of the first four items. But it's important in this balanced apportionment of efforts and time not to let some item take more than 20% of efforts and energy.
You have at your fingertips all you need to achieve any goal you may have, and you have had it a long while. You are just inattentive to what is available.
The big differs from the small by the way it grew for a long time and nothing managed to destroy it.
Nothing can become big suddenly or unexpectedly. It takes time to grow. And during this growth there will always be something eager to break or destroy you. Sometimes it's better to withdraw into yourself and save strength until branches and bark become strong enough. And sometimes it's necessary to oppose the wind to make muscles grow. All in all, all this process takes time and right strategies.
Resignation, which is necessary for growth, is the resignation of Being and Non-Being. If One makes Nothingness its ally, 10, 100, 1000, 1000000000 will born out of it…
Reading is not about how much one can read but rather about attention and understanding.
P.S. As usual, it's quality and not quantity that matters. Thus, a person who understood only one good book will make greater progress than someone who read a hundred of books for no reason. And if most of this someone's hundred books are shoddy, this person will not be considered a constructive type at all.
Man is the social product of his environment. If you don't like yourself, you should find some privacy with your books. Books preprogramming you. Prevent reprogramming can relatives, work, friends and loved ones.
Newton’s second law says that your growth acceleration depends on your motivation vectors and initial mass. That is, the grain having no doubts in it is capable of maximum growth acceleration. The smaller you are and the fewer doubts you have, the greater your potential acceleration is. Find a goal and fly to space.
A black body absorbs all the light falling on it and, thus, accumulates a maximum of energy. A black body is a maximally cold and, consequently, motionless body. Be calm and passionless if you want to accumulate energy. On the contrary, if energy is to be extracted from objects, you should warm them up and make them move.
Personal growth is growth from grain to dream. The grain is under a thick layer of fear, as under the ground. With the help of knowledge of the truth, overcoming contradictions, the grain rushes to his dream, gradually overcoming his fear.
Healthy habits are one of the most precious things that parents can make their children adopt.
Early rising, morning exercising, healthy diet, going in for sport, household chores (putting things in their place), the habit of working, studying, taking care of oneself, dressing neatly, learning philosophy and ethics, the habit of getting things done, the habit of overcoming difficulties, the habit of reading – all simple things that are difficult to do.
Keeping bad hours, playing computer games and watching TV, surfing the net, overeating, indifference to sport, studying, household chores, literature and philosophy...
I noticed... that surfing the net really exhausts as if plunging the brain into some cluttered mess. And it's social networking and news sites which are the most harmful. The Internet and TV are like two drugs strong enough to cause addiction and paralyze brain work.
A person is ready to do any stupid thing in the name of his love. The rage of love makes the entire world serve it. The world resists the rage of love but… it only makes it stronger. When it encounters a dam on its path, love accumulates its rage with joyful enthusiasm, thus acquiring a cosmic strength. The most important thing is to resist temptation and under no pretext (especially a good one) to leave the true path. The devil makes the chosen one go through fire and water in order to separate the chaff from the grain. The grain is true love and the chaff is false love.
From outside and to onlookers, love seems irrational but it is just the opposite, in reality. Love is the paragon of rationality. Love is millions of percent of profitability. A person in love sees the true value of things and fights for the invaluable. All others see only illusions. Love is an arithmetic progression, a Fibonacci sequence and something that has the property of endless growth.
Before you try to get rich and succeed in business, it is desirable to understand the truth and gain power over yourself, otherwise, as soon as you get out of the nest, you will be eaten by temptations and vices.
Are you looking for the Holy Grail, the source of power and strength, money and sex, health and eternal life? Have you been looking long? You’ve looked everything and it’s nowhere? Go to a bookstore. Read non-fiction books on philosophy, psychology and anatomy. At your 169th book, you will find the map of a treasure island with a gift hidden in it. To get this gift, you will have to give everything you have but, in return, you will receive everything you dreamed of.
Sport and reading sensible books gives a person the strength of will and mind. The presence of mind and will in a person protects a person from fear, stupidity and suffering.
