stress.....................

 

You've been so focused on the loss of external things that you failed to account for the ongoing loss of internal things.  And unlike money or jobs, time and integrity don't regenerate once spent.  Every day you live disingenuously is a day of your life burnt.  How many more are you willing to torch? . . .

In health terms, chronic stress is deadly when it wrecks your immune system, heart, and brain.  So, keeping the peace externally might be killing you slowly, whereas a short burst of conflict, followed by a freer life, could literally improve your health.  Your contract could be cutting years off your life by keeping you under constant stress.  Loss aversion made you avoid short-term pain as the cost of long-term well-being.  A bad trade.

-Stan Taylor, The Black Book of Power

Music- is there anything it can't do...?

 

     Music has the ability to calm our brains, our hearts, our nerves.  We tend to like music that reminds us of something we've heard before, but not too much.  We like music that strikes the sweet spot between novelty and familiarity, simplicity and complexity, and between predictability and surprise.  The job of the composer, and of the musicians who interpret the composition, is to hit these in just the right balance.  The trick of it is that the sweet spot is not the same for all of us, and often not even the same from day-to-day.  Loving music requires that we be receptive to it, that we make the mental space and time to allow ourselves to give into it, to be won over by it.  If our defenses are up—as they can be in clinical, therapeutic environments—it may simply not work.  Or it can catch us by surprise, evoking some of the deepest memories and deepest feelings of our lives, and in the progress, help us through almost anything.

-Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was A Secret Chord:  Music as Medicine

bridging.....................

 

We may think of science and art as standing in opposition to one another, but they are bound by a common objective.  Science seeks to find truth in the natural world; art seeks to find truth in the emotional world.  Medicine fits somewhere in between, bridging science, art, and the emotions that move us toward the will to survive, to heal, to take our medicine, to exercise, and to put in motion all those things that keep us healthy.

-Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was A Secret Chord:  Music as Medicine

Daring.....................

 

via

Damn.......................

Your health and financial success hinge on a handful of big, boring decisions, not micro-optimization hacks.

anti-fragileness as a goal.............

 

The goal for both your body and finances is to make them anti-fragile systems. Growing stronger through controlled stress to avoid collapse under reckless intensity is the North Star for amplifying wealth and optimal health.

-Tony Isola, from here

Cultural Offering.................

 

..............introduces us to John Dabell and his 200 reasons:

121.  I’m not here to rush healing, I’m here to honour it.

122. I’m not here to be untouched, I’m here to be unbroken.

123. I’m not here to wait for hope, I’m here to practice it daily.

Think I have mastered #37

Thanks Kurt

a healthy outlook.............

 

Since failure is inevitable, we would all benefit from learning how to fail better.

     On a trading desk, you are taught to expect to be wrong.  Surprisingly, that attitude is rare elsewhere in finance.  This is a shame because a healthy outlook on failure benefits businesses, governments, and just about everyone.

-Barry Ritholtz,  How Not To Invest: The Ideas, Numbers, and Behaviors That Destroy Wealth—And How To Avoid Them

The peace........................

 

..................................of vulnerability.

Make everything OK

 

Have been missing the wonderful world of the Eclecticity blog.  Stumbled across this post of his while rooting through the archives.  Hope all is well with you Doug.

Forever is a long time....................

 

...................but life will definitely be more pleasant.

the health of the soul.................

 

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when they are young nor weary in the search when they have grown old.  For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.  And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.

-Epicurus, as cut-and-pasted from this letter

Checking in...........................

 

.........................................with Bari Weiss:

If there is someone that's skeptical about karma, this turn of events may lead you to believe in it.

life its ownself.........................

 

Nothing like a health problem to turn up the contract dial for the rest of life.

-Naval Ravikant

hobbies.......................

 

                         thanks Chris

Uh-oh............................

 

.............time for remedial breathing lessons:

Your nose is literally built for breathing. It’s like that top-of-the-line air purifier but you’re over here using your mouth like it’s some open sewer grate. 

kids of all ages......................

 

Instead of being stuck interacting with electronics, children benefit greatly from interacting with the natural world.  The lack of time that children now spend outdoors immersed in the restorative benefits of nature was coined "nature-deficit disorder" by bestselling author Richard Louv.

-Gad Saad, The Saad Truth About Happiness

Aging like a fine wine.......................

 

“Welcome. You’re one of us now. The Wi-Fi password is getoffmylawn.”

-Eric Barker shares the secret to aging gracefully

The 20-5-3 rule.............................

 

......for experiencing the healing power of nature.

This might explain my remarkably good health....