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What next?
Reframing death
You are what you pretend to be
Keep tuning and adjusting
Take the first step immediately
Why your choice is wrong
Talk with friends to solidify it
Private journal to internalize it
No new instructions for the computer
From explorer to self-leader
How to decide and make the best choice
An awesome collection of great questions
Five tiny tales of reframing
Traits of useful perspectives
Expand your repertoire
Diamond in the trash
Answer great questions
Who chooses your (next) thoughts?
The most useful part of this book
Philosophies are instruments
What is “the truth” really for?
Life is _______
Placebo meanings
Magic mirror shows what you need to believe
Which perspective empowers you?
Judge the contents, not the box
Carpenters’ tools
Religion is action, not belief
Useful?
Beliefs → emotions → actions
A daily run and imagination
Bowling: curve into the target
Fill your senses with reality
Your first thought is an obstacle
The more emotional the belief, the less likely it’s true
Beliefs are not facts
Make believe
Hanging inherited paintings
Re-edit your mind’s movies
You can’t trust your mind
You are the strange one
That was about you, not them
Bridge guard, revisited
Fake or real? True or false? So what?
Even science isn’t true
Wanna bet?
The past is not true
Memories are not accurate
The brain invents explanations
Try to find their incentives
Cultural meanings
Obligations are not true
Rules are a starting point, not the final answer
Bridge guard
Separate events and interpretation
People share perspectives, not facts
No picture is the whole picture
Perspectives feel real
What time is it?
What’s this about?
Why did I move to New Zealand?
How to listen to Ulysses
the birth and reverb of friendship
a relationship that ended, not failed
Have I been married?
Why are my best friends Jewish?
One big choice shapes a hundred more
Come and get me (both you and AI)
I’m in the final third of my life
I love the contradiction of religions
The first time I met someone who believes in God
Dismissed!
I hated Dubai until I learned about it
To question is to consider, not refute
Rats are surprisingly sweet pets
We don’t need to use what we make
Wealth = Have ÷ Want
How to make the best possible translation of a book?
the best book ever written
Ben Kihnel
Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian
walk and talk
dashing dog, searching for purpose
The joy and freedom of harmlessly upsetting social norms
Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship
the Michael Browne suits
Thinking something nice about someone? Tell them.
50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai
Explorers are bad leaders
Travelling just for the people
Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery.
I want to lose every debate.
Conversations with Tyler Cowen
Reading the Bible start to finish
Make believe
Daily run, part two
Daily run, part one
Your explanations are not true
Shortest date, and ketchup
Anything You Want — third edition for 2022