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Do the Right Thing

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , on December 6, 2012| 5 Comments »

Staring down a gun barrel

One of my favorite scenes in the movie “Fight Club” is when Tyler Durden drags a convenience store clerk out into the back parking lot and holds him at gunpoint. When the store clerk divulges his abandoned passion to become a veterinarian, Tyler decides to let him go on the condition that he fulfill his dream, or else face certain death. What is so great about this scene is that anyone who can imagine himself in the store clerk’s shoes will know that he will succeed at becoming a veterinarian come hell or high water.

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Infoholics Anonymous

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , on December 6, 2012| 4 Comments »

The last drop of alcohol

Hi everyone. My name is A. T. Bui and I am an infoholic. I would like to share my story for the benefit of other infoholics here today.

For 4 years, I imbibed useless information into my mind for hours each day. I chugged the daily news and took shots of random trivia. I guzzled detailed analyses of the stock market when I had not the money to invest. I drank hearsay of subversive conspiracies when I had neither sufficient ability nor sufficient desire to halt them even if proven to be true. I tossed back tutorials on a hundred new hobbies when I had not even enough time for the few hobbies I already had.

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Resolving Paradoxes

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , on December 4, 2012| 3 Comments »

Walk, Don't Walk sign

On your journey to self-mastery, you will sooner or later encounter paradoxes. The contradictory nature of a paradox often leads to frustration and confusion. You will be tempted to “choose a side” as it were and reject new conflicting information. That’s because to hold conflicting ideas in your head requires a good deal of mental effort and concentration, but if you can keep those thoughts in your head long enough to resolve the paradox, the reward is nothing short of an epiphany. In my own journey, I’ve found that most paradoxes can be resolved by one of the following 3 paradigm shifts. I’ll start by giving an example situation for each one.

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Keep Moving

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , , , on November 27, 2012| 4 Comments »

Steam train

Newton’s First Law of Motion states than an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.

When you are sitting on your butt doing nothing, you will find that it is very easy to continue to do so, and the longer you stay that way, the more effort it takes to change out of that mental state and get your butt into motion. It’s like people who decide to take a break after high school or college before continuing their education. Of course it’s important to take breaks, but if the break is too long, it becomes too difficult to get going again. 1 year off becomes 2 years. 2 years rolls into 3 until one day they’ve forgotten their original intentions.

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The Path to Happiness

Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged , on November 26, 2012| 2 Comments »

a path to the ocean

What is happiness?

Happiness is not mental, physical, or chemical stimulation, though sometimes it may feel that way. Happiness must be earned.

Happiness is not excitement, the anticipation of some future pleasure. Happiness exists only in the present.

Happiness is not just contentment, the feeling that your needs have been met. Happiness also addresses your wants.

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