1) Do hard things (Embrace adversities)
Post traumatic growth is possible, rather than Post traumatic stress
"The blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything thrown into it"
- Marcus Aurelius
"I finally got being a good startup founder down to two words - relentlessly resourceful"
- Paul Graham
When luck gives you lemons, you make lemonade
2) Go through life as a Flaneur. My translation of this is Be Adventurous.
Flaneur: Someone who unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained.
An adventurer likes disorder, has a different mindset than a tourist. Adventurers welcome uncertainty.
If you know in the morning what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead - the more precision, the more dead you are.
3) Develop an anti-education. My translation here is Follow your curiousity and passions
Great scientists like Darwin and Einstein didn't like the education system. It kills creativity. It's better to read a lot of books. Focus on things that are really important to you.
An apprenticeship is more important than an academic education
"Only the autodidacts are free"
4) Develop an anti-fragile life philosopy. My translation here is develop a Stoic philosophy (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca)
Keep the upside; don't be hurt by the downside
A Stoic is someone who transforms:
- Fear into Prudence
- Pain into Information
- Mistakes into Initiation
- Desires into Undertaking
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