Being Humble in a Hectic World
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- scarabin0
hire someone to do your backstabbing and snubbing for you
then donate an equal amount to a charitable organization to offset the evil
- SteveJobs0
live vicariously though john marston in the old west.
- Continuity0
Consider a new career that is more in line with how you view personal fulfillment.
- Further to this, I recommend 'The Way of the Superior Man' by David Deida. Excellent read.Continuity
- On it...ideaist
- rodzilla0
impossible. piss on everyone's cheerios.
- ideaist0
Escape the city for a humble life in the country; mine begins in 3 weeks today...
Blaze your own trail where their are more trails to be blazed graham414...
Rely less on the external and more on yourself in a world of selfishness and ego...
; )
- pretty good stuff there.
rodzilla - this is real advice. not found often on QBN, as seen below.tasty
- Embrace age and share wisdom(s) good friends... Life is about experience!ideaist
- i like you ideaist :)sea_sea
- Where are you headed? I live in LA, just visited Texas for the first time and can't stop fantasizing about living out there in the country.bruises
- Creemore, Ontario (Northwest of Toronto about 2 hours); hills, fiels and crisp air for fancy walking/talking/cycl...ideaist
- http://www.flickr.co… will give you a good idea of the landscape/character...ideaist
- The building we'll be living in / working beside -> http://www.flickr.co…ideaist
- yeah! that's my jam too.bruises
- grew up not far from Creemore... definitely a lovely area. Doing something similar now but in the mountains.bogue
- pretty good stuff there.
- SteveJobs0
You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.
- tasty0
break your middle finger and get your hand set in a cast, people will never know if you're flipping them off for real or not.
- Mr_Know0
Need help with humility? Try not referring to yourself as "A creative."
- Prev0
Find a way to love your enemies
- IRNlun60
Respect people on your way up. You will see them again on the way down.
- ideaist0
From Continuity's recommendation above...
The Way of the Superior Man
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part one: A MAN’S WAY
1 Stop Hoping for a Completion of Anything in Life
2 Live With an Open Heart Even If It Hurts
3 Live As If Your Father Were Dead
4 Know Your Real Edge and Don’t Fake It
5 Always Hold To Your Deepest Realization
6 Never Change Your Mind Just to Please a Woman
7 Your Purpose Must Come Before Your Relationship
8 Lean Just Beyond Your Edge
9 Do It for Love
10 Enjoy Your Friends’ Criticism
11 If You Don’t Know Your Purpose, Discover It, Now
12 Be Willing To Change Everything in Your Life
13 Don’t Use Your Family As an Excuse
14 Don’t Get Lost in Tasks and Duties
15 Stop Hoping for Your Woman to Get Easierpart two: DEALING WITH WOMEN
16 Women Are Not Liars
17 Praise Her
18 Tolerating Her Leads to Resenting Her
19 Don’t Analyze Your Woman
20 Don’t Suggest That a Woman Fix Her Own Emotional Problem
21 Stay With Her Intensity––To a Point
22 Don’t Force the Feminine to Make Decisionspart three: WORKING WITH POLARITY AND ENERGY
23 Your Attraction to the Feminine Is Inevitable
24 Choose a Woman Who Is Your Complementary Opposite
25 Know What Is Important in Your Woman
26 You Will Often Want More Than One Woman
27 Young Women Offer You a Special Energy
28 Each Woman Has a “Temperature” That Can Heal or Irritate Youpart four: WHAT WOMEN REALLY WANT
29 Choose a Woman Who Chooses You
30 What She Wants Is Not What She Says
31 Her Complaint Is Content-Free
32 She Doesn’t Really Want to Be Number One
33 Your Excellent Track Record Is Meaningless to Her
34 She Wants to Relax in the Demonstration of Your Directionpart five: YOUR DARK SIDE
35 You Are Always Searching for Freedom
36 Own Your Darkest Desires
37 She Wants the “Killer” in You
38 She Needs Your Consciousness to Match Her Energypart six: FEMININE ATTRACTIVENESS
39 The Feminine is Abundant
40 Allow Older Women Their Magic
41 Turn Your Lust Into Gifts
42 Never Allow Your Desire to Become Suppressed or Depolarized
43 Use Her Attractiveness as a Slingshot Through Appearancepart seven: BODY PRACTICES
44 Ejaculation Should Be Converted or Consciously Chosen
45 Breathe Down the Front
46 Ejaculate Up the Spinepart eight: MEN'S AND WOMEN'S YOGA OF INTIMACY
47 Take into Account the Primary Asymmetry
48 You Are Responsible for the Growth in Intimacy
49 Insist on Practice and Growth
50 Restore Your Purpose in Solitude and with Other Men
51 Practice Dissolving- I have yet to read this but I think a lot can be taken simply by each sections title!ideaist
- "Be Willing To Change Everything in Your Life" & "Lean Just Beyond Your Edge "ideaist
- Absolutely; this is by far the best personal development book I've picked up in years, and I'm usually not a fan of them.Continuity
- hun... i'm doing everything wrong according to part 2 then.pango
- _salisae_0
+1 for 'it weirds the language'
- gramme0
Rule #1: Don't turn adjectives into nouns, or nouns into verbs. It weirds the language.
- Or adjectives into verbsgramme
- yes yes... it weirds the language. wtfiCanHasQBN
- previous0
give up hope
- vitamins0
Grow a thicker skin.
- luckyorphan0
Never expect creative satisfaction from your job. You must develop an outlet for your creativity on the side where you have total control in the production of what you choose to do. Then, whatever happens at work will not have as much significance, and you'll be able to let it slide a bit more.
That being said, if people are really being horrible, it's time to move on to another firm. There are good people and good places out there. Just keep looking around until you find one.
But definitely start something creative on your own—not for profit, just for fun.
- d_rek0
lucky is right.
I started freelancing so that I could further control and hone processes i've been introduced to in the 'professional' world. I've found the work on a whole much more satisfying because I can personally guide a client without having to worry about layers of middle men (sales, account managers, project managers, creative directors). Yes, it's a lot more work and even harder to do outside of my full-time gig but DAMN is it much more rewarding.
I think ideaist touches on something that's important to me personally and that's self preservation. Looking out for No. 1. Nobody in this world is looking out for you so you need to do it for yourself. Don't think of it as being selfish but instead think of it as necessary. Not to say you should step all over other people, quite the contrary, helping others in many ways can be helping yourself.
Just remember. It's you in this world making a name for yourself.
- <kona
- Set yourself up in a situation where it's just you, your lady, your two hands and the earth...ideaist
- ...& roll with the punches because that is where TRUE satisfaction comes from...ideaist
- ...Making everything yourself; food, art, design, etc. and relying on no man/woman (other than your community) for prosperity...ideaist
- ...prosperityideaist
- Sounds great if you can get health care on your own, idea...but yeh, I agree with your thesis.luckyorphan