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11 (Short) Ideas I’m Obsessed with That Can Help You Rethink Your Entire Life

“No one has it worse than the person who is deprived of randomness”

Tim Denning
Mind Cafe

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Photo by Sam Persson on Unsplash

Ideas are the conduit to a new reality.

Soak up ideas and fill up your brain, and new thoughts will start to emerge. These new thoughts will take you down rabbit holes and help you get outside your own head.

These are the counterintuitive ideas I’m obsessed with.

It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything

(Chuck Palahniuk)

This short idea sums up my entire life.

I thought losing everything multiple times in my life signaled the beginning of my downfall that I’d never recover from.

But when you’ve lost everything there’s a kind of freedom that comes with it. The worst has happened so you know things can’t get any worse. It gives perspective. It makes you ready to face any challenge.

This is where my discipline and resilience come from. I’m not lucky or gifted or smart. I’ve just gone through a lot of sh*t so not much phases me.

The fear of losing everything is what’s stopping you from doing anything your…

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