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[niilokin]

His definition of success is setting goals and sticking with them. The theme of the speech is "you are what you think."

Similarly to how many questions in this thread could very well be summed up with, "I think therefore I am."

James Allen's "As a man thinketh" is a good book on this

in Earl Nightingale's talk he goes on to say success is not money (you only start making money AFTER youre succesfull) but becoming the person you want to be and finding peace in what you do.

 

[The Rain King]

That's not the craziest thing.

The craziest for me is the existence of the universe, space/time/matter.

Life is only a tiny part of this and an even tinier part of that is intelligence.

Yet, only with intelligence one can notice the universe, the existence of other planets or galaxies and the vastness of it all.

If intelligent beings didn't exist all of this would be just.... there.

Yes. We're just tiny bits of the universe observing itself.

 

[JSoup]

His definition of success is actually money and not being broke when you're old. Not everyone defines success as having a pot of money when retired.

I've looked after entire rest homes full of people who'd call bullshit on that.
Success may not always be money, but money is almost always the result of success.

 

[down 2 orth]

All I can say is that discipline and hard work pays off massively. You just have to have the patience to keep going until the hard work pays off.

 

[triplestation]

yup

 

[Ememee]

When I become contemplative such as that I think about the visceral reaction to fear of immediate death. Kind of puts things into perspective.

 

[nkarafo]

It becomes mind blowing (for me) thinking about the existance in general, Without humans the universe and everything else would still be there... but why? and How?

Why reality exists? (what we call reality)

I think humans are smart enough for earthly things.

Universe probably needs a more intelligent species than us to make sense of. Even our brightest minds have a hard time with it.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

It's a fucking joy to be alive, with just as much likelihood you could have been born a fly that lives for only 3 weeks or not even born at all; a dude's ejaculate contains approx. 15 million sperm per millilitre, so you're about 1 in 40 million. Well done, you won the lottery of life.

Do you have evidence that you're actually real and you're not a figment of my imagination? If so, can we prove that this evidence is actually evidence? Then how can we validate the truth of this evidence? (I do this to you, because what you're doing is dishonesty - you're not building a conversation.. you're just asking meaningless questions instead of acknowledging the ultimate point: we can't know, because we have no way of testing for the supernatural - god)

HOWEVER..

Because without God you cannot know anything. Without God, can you be wrong about everything you think you know?

Existence isn't dependent on a god, therefore you don't have an argument. In fact we have evidence against god or gods being responsible for any aspect of nature and we have proven they didn't do anything. For example ancient Greeks thought Poseidon was responsible for horrible weather, so sailors prayed for better seafaring conditions. We know today just how wrong they were.

I've always disliked that sort of theory or believe about proof of life being real or not. To me it's an easy observable fact that it's real. Look at generations over time, animals before humans/sentience or interactions still occurring when you're not present or away of them e.g. a tree in fact does fall in the forest even if you don't observe or cause it directly. You see the before and after, so does anything and everything around it over time and changes. The idea of a simulation is laughable, the glitches and exploits that would be inevitably possible if we did in fact live in a simulation or a fantastic delusion.

If you want to have your mind really blown then imagine what it was like for someone who may have lived 100 years but was born in the 1880s.


Such a person would have seen the first widespread use of the automobile, Man's first flight, both world wars, watching man step foot on the Moon, and the dawn of advanced technology. All of which would have occurred within the span of his adult life.



Now that is a life that would have been crazy.

My Nana is 99 years old next month. Insane to have grown up listening to her stories around the dinner table. War, TV, cars, phones, radios, computers, cameras, fashion, activities, social changes and more. I wish she could chat for longer then 5-10 mins these days but she is beginning to really struggle at such an age.

 

[LeoLink]

yes,you are right

 

[RoyalLaFlame]

Yeah, being alive is amazing. The emotions, the experience, the knowledge...

After moving to China I really started enjoying my life more, being more fearless. I jumped on a plane for the first time to travel to a country I've never been before (I never left my country as well). The emotions I felt at the time are still glued on me, and I wouldn't trade them for anything else in this world. I left people behind but they are well, and that leaves me in peace.

That moment when you overcome that feeling of discomfort is fucking amazing. Makes you feel alive.

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

 

[StonedRider]

Yeeaah, and I'm thankful I'm alive now, not in some middle ages with plague, hunger, burning heretics. When your life is short, but you are really glad it's short because of all the suffering you should live through.

 

[INC]

We are but grains of sand, scattered by the winds, in the annex of time

 

[E-Cat]

we don't really know what it's like to not be alive so you don't know it might even be better and more amazing to not exist

Not existing is by definition like not anything

 

[Maiden Voyage]