7 Of The Most Important Ideas You Never Heard Of
Ideas that might change the way you look at the world
Hi friends,
here’s a quick and wild ride through some of the most important ideas for your life you probably never heard of.
Enjoy.
☯️ #PerfectlyImperfect isn’t just a popular Instagram hashtag.
It’s a Japanese world view coming from Zen Buddhism. Wabi-sabi might be the closest thing we have to a healthy and forgiving view on the world and ourselves.
🙈 You believe the unbelievable.
Asch Conformity tells us how and why we give in to real or imagined pressure from a group. We pretend to believe something although we know it’s false — simply to not step out of line. This can lead to both hilarious and dangerous outcomes.
🧠 Maybe your brain spontaneously came into existence a moment ago.
Including all of your (false) memories. The Boltzmann Brain argument tells you exactly that — and it is a serious thought experiment in physics. Even if kind of scary if you think about it, it shows just how fundamentally mysterious existence actually is.
🌪 Things will always become more chaotic over time.
That’s an actual law of Physics — and it matters for how we live life. Entropy is the fundamental driver behind change and dynamics you maybe never heard of.
🎨 Is there a predefined purpose to our existence?
Not only is this a popular question social media gurus try to answer, the problem of Essentialism vs. Existentialism is a central issue of metaphysics that philosophical heavyweights such as Socrates, Plato and Sartre have debated at length.
😖 Our environments lead to stress and anxiety.
Not because everyone is evil, but because we live in Delayed Return Environments — and our brains aren’t made for them.
🖤 Saying Yes to all the bad in life.
Nietzsche’s Amor Fati is the ultimate perspective to help us accept the negative not as something that makes us better, but as something that makes us more profound.
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