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My father does not care.
In the same way my wife’s eyes glaze over on NFL Game Day
He does not care
Like talking stocks with six-year-olds
It’s not that they don’t want to listen,
It’s that they don’t care.
Like a butcher at a vegan farmer’s market,
A sober man at an Irish bar,
Like me at your escape room birthday party.
He does not care.
I called my dad when I got my first record deal,
Full of excitement, emotions, feelings.
I said, “Dad, I made it—and the check is pretty big.”
I said, “Dad, you’re gonna have a successful kid.”
I said, “I’ll buy a house,
And one for you, too,
With a gate and the clickers and big open rooms.”
I said, “Dad, don’t you worry,
This is just the beginning,
The tables are tipping,
We’re finally winning.”
He responded like
My 85-year-old grandma, completely unamused
With an iPhone in her hand, like
What does this even do?
Like an American at a cricket match—confused.
He said, “Son, that’s fantastic,
I’m so happy for you.”
You see, my father does not care about anything but my heart.
He knows that wealth and worth have always been super far apart.
And when I showed him my BMW with the new push start,
He faked enthusiasm terribly, like, “Yeah, great car.”
My father’s eyes light up when I talk about my soul.
He wants details of every kid I sang to at the hospital.
We can talk for hours about anything I’ve done for the homeless,
And when my prayer game is strong and I am centered, he notices.
The thing about sons? We just wanna make our dads proud.
We know the songs they like and sing those extra loud.
And I’m pretty clear about how to get my father’s attention now:
Be of service to myself or to others—that’s how.
Someday, I might be massive with my face in Times Square.
Fly only private, lie flat through the air.
Someday, I might become a bajillionaire.
The best part is—
My father does not care.
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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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When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
― Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Sun Tzu on adapting:
“A military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.”
The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize.
Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition.
It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who connect dots.
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When it’s easy, do more.
When it’s hard, do different.
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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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