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Key takeaways from "The Courage to be Happy" by Ichiro Kishimi include:
Today, you see 12 to 10 year old kids thoroughly bored, because they've seen the cosmos through their cell phone screens. They spend all their time on this, and just know everything by information, not by exploration, not by experience. This is a dangerous trend, and over time we are going to pay a huge price for it. A load of information, without any kind of experiences attached to it, can hugely cripple the human mind in the future. This is leading to a rise in suicides, and drugs are playing a significant role because people are trying to enhance their experience somehow, as everything has already been seen through information. We can't stop information because it has done wonderful things for us on one level. But on another level, it is going to extremes. It's not that technology is a bad thing, it's the way we use it. If you use it in one way, it turns against you; if you use it in another way, it benefits you. I think it's up to individual families and parents to bring some sense of balance.
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"Adler’s conclusion is a simple one.
The objective of education is self-reliance, and the work that is required of the educator is assistance towards self-reliance.
Excitement as a compass
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If you can’t sit still, ignore notifications, and focus on one task for eight hours straight, never expect to build something great.
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Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”
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“The rules:
(1) know precisely what you want,
(2) determine the cost of what it will take to get it,
(3) don’t bargain over the price.”
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“Advice for nearly everything: start slowly and maintain traction.”
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“Technology is called an addiction after it becomes fully integrated with our lives and before we've forgotten life without it.”
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If you need to make something longer, don’t add more explanation, add more examples.
“A good example is worth twice as much as good advice” - Albert Schweitzer
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PHILOSOPHER:
You have not yet learned to like yourself. As a result, you cannot believe in others, you cannot believe in your students and are unable to embark on friend relationships. That is exactly why you are now trying to gain a sense of belonging through your work. You are trying to prove your worth by being successful in your work.
YOUTH: What is wrong with that? Recognition at work is recognition from society!
PHILOSOPHER: No. In principle, we may say that it is your ‘functions’ that are recognised as a result of your work, not you. If someone who possesses greater ‘functions’ appears, the people around you will turn to that person. That is the principle of the marketplace, the principle of competition. As a result of that, you will never be able to get out of the vortex of competition and never gain a true sense of belonging.
PHILOSOPHER: In other words, human beings cannot live alone. It is not that we cannot bear loneliness or that we want people to talk to, so much as simply not being able to live on the level of survival. And in order to divide labour with another person, one must believe in that person. One cannot cooperate with someone whom one doubts.
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But who should live your life if you do not live it?
It is not only stupid to exchange your own life for an alien one, but also a hypocritical game, because you can never really live the life of others, you can only pretend to do it.
— Carl Jung, The Red Book
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You can feel terrible and still win
“Advice from a failed practitioner will be better than from a successful theorist." — mmay3r
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Theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard on the power of walking:
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. Even if one were to walk for one’s health and it were constantly one station ahead—I would still say: Walk!
Besides, it is also apparent that in walking one constantly gets as close to well-being as possible, even if one does not quite reach it—but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Health and salvation can be found only in motion… if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
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“Opportunities are grains of sand. They slide right past drooping fingers, but an active palm can gather whatever is within reach and shape it into a little castle. It is the act of engaging with the material that gives it shape.”
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Many things in life go through phases. It can be like the seasons: spring, summer, fall, winter. Each season has its own set of needs and demands.
Think about something important to you. Maybe it’s a project or a job. Perhaps a hobby or even a relationship. What season are you in right now and what does that season require?
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