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> "If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
Dale Carnegie and Steven Covey have both been heavily influenced by Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychotherapist and founder of individual psychology.
Japan is trying to protect it: comprehensive surveillance of mosques and Islamic-related organisations in Japan includes profiling, cameras, undercover agents, informants, and the collection of personal data. It began shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, became public through a leak in 2010, and the Supreme Court declared it legal in 2016 (stating it was "necessary and unavoidable" for counter-terrorism).
Japan is nice because it is Japanese. And now I'm probably going to loose my hard-earned 46 karma points here on HN. ;-) worth it.
1. The liar: The insidious lie fulfills this criterion, because the liar wants to deceive and is sure of success. 2. The bullshitter: thinks "What I'm saying could be wrong? So what?" 3. The idiot: thinks, however, "What I say could also be wrong? It'll be true!" The idiot just talks like that, or he heard something and passed it on unchecked.
In digital media, bullshitters and idiots - as opposed to liars - are both perpetrators and victims.
All three (liars, bullshitters, idiots) sometimes accidentally tell the truth. But because it is always easier to miss the truth than to meet it, in most cases they increase bullshit of all kinds and thus act at the expense of the truth.
Bullshit only spreads on the internet if many people forward it. If we were all attentive, critical and informed, then this phenomenon would not exist.
source(book): [ Philipp Hübl ] "Bullshit-Resistenz", 2018
Reminds me several times a day of the impermanence of life and of death, with a thoughtful quote. It is a buddhist thing. It somehow makes your everyday world a little easier.
The last quote of the app i took a screenshot of was: "Having no destination, i am never lost." [Ikkyū]
https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/159059960483560652...
In my research i found this clever stair-lift solution https://assistep.com It's mechanical, and helps prevent falling, also encourages to further "workout" and contnue to walk up and down by himself. I contacted this company to see how expensive it is - definitely way more affordable than a chairlift and a more "active" solution.
But here is the bummer: He doesn't want it. Too stuborn, and just turns me down.