It is on my reread list.

Luckily, it barely registers as a problem at all. We change. We travel through time.

Wondering about a world in which we didn't is, I guess, for some, interesting. I am luckily kept busy enough dealing with reality to not worry too much about how things would be different if things were different.

I'd say "young" instead of mad as a hatter. A self-limiting condition.

I sympathise with my competition in business and find them to be fine upstanding people for the most part.

Of course, we are all trying to eat the same lunch, so I crush them like bugs (which I also sympathise with to some extent) when the opportunity presents itself. I expect the same from them.

I am lucky enough to not have to worry about such things, but what is needed is nervous sorts who live by strict rules.

That only works on the sub-genius. Many tools are necessary to make sure that the smart people are properly motivated.

Even then, the really smart ones seem to slack off as much as possible.

This is misleading. Most people don't understand "moderation" to mean understanding how to apply moderating variables.

So, it might be correct to moderate behaviors that have negative side effects. It is never correct to moderate behaviors that have only positive effects.

They are best at doing jobs in which rigid rule following is essential. The job of the smart non-crazy people is to give them good rules to follow.

Depressive realism is just the fact that depressed people are good at certain problems of probability assessment than non-depressed people.

They are horrible at solving nearly every other problem.

Particularly those problems about predicting the long-term consequences of today's annoyances.

Your electricity going out is not particularly important.

I'd dispute that except arguing about operators on the empty set is a bit dull


The smart non-crazy people mostly keep out of the way. There are far too many reasons why mediocrity rules in big companies, the biggest probably being that smart people have better things to do.

You can't give an example of this.

A man walks into a bar and the barman says "is this a joke?"

not sure what you mean by this but the sentence below is complete error....
edit: maybe you are saying you were joking in the first place and i missed the joke.

I find that "enjoying oneself" makes the set not empty. Any really smart person will find a way of doing that unless they are insane.

It has nothing to do with companies (big or small). The really smart people, as you say, probably have better things to do.

Moderatord have to act on activities not outcomes.


The dynamics of big are frequently different to the dynamics of the small and it has a lot to do with big companies (and other big groups).

I dont have to be smart, all I have to do is regurgitate what Dan Gilbert said, no real effort on my part.

Okay, fine then change electric company to "anybody I owe money to"


Reality isn't depressing to "who"?

Thank you.

So dont pay my bills? What are you trying to say?

Then go try it and report back.

apparently happiness is the act of smiling accordingly to what others are saying in the thread.

Yes, yes Will to meaning

I dont get it. But on that note, I have started not to pay my bills and started to give my money away to family members because I no longer have that desire for money anymore, I see having money more of a curse now. Its never my money anyway, I'm just a middle man, it passes through my hands like water, as soon as I get its...........its gone, like a magic trick I have become quite good at it and have nothing to show for it.

So what is important?

I found that TED talk interesting Has anyone got any criticisms over it? I'm not really sure how to apply this either =/

I tell you how to be happy, settle for less, lower expectations, dont compare one thing to another, *what you have to what you have not", or *what you would have got*, work less, spend less, sleep more, eat less, reduce the value of things, things are overvalued, people are overvalued, emotions are overvalued, family is overvalued, that way you wont miss it when its gone.....

That strikes me as a bad strategy.

This may or may not produce results tho

Sure but you still may not be able to get them to understand




Reality unclouded by thought, isn't depressing, it has no negative things in it (or positive).

This video wasn't about not paying your bills, its about letting go of thoughts of what could or should be.


(this comment was about peace in jail). Do you feel that we are free? I think we are def in a jail.

I don't really agree with them either.


Somewhat, but really the will to meaning is a search performed because the mind is unfullfilled. To fullfill it won't bring peace and its not really possible. But the trick is to end the search. He seems to think that would bring meaninglessness, but I'd argue society taught him that and really it would bring 'peace'.

I also was gonna suggest earlier that by starting this inquiry you will get some of these things, to me this last paragraph shows that, or maybe you are being sarcastic, but your view on money is proper I think. Its a superstition, will need to admit it.

My point would be pay your bills or don't, it shouldn't effect your soul. We can worry about these things enough to juggle them but it should not shake us to our core. Nobody said we have to do anything, nobody said we are supposed to succeed. There are no rules, we are allowed to be happy with mediocrity. We are not worse in the eyes of some god if we default our financial statements. Our peers may look down upon us but really they can't see past their own blinders.


Then we can trace these stresses, if I don't pay my bills, I lose my power so? I lose my house, I live on the street, I can hold a job, I can't get a wife, I can't have a family, I can't retire, I can't feel success, I won't leave a mark...etc. These things don't come with you when you die, why should there stresses bring us down. Can we trace this to anything that actually matter? I think we'll find nothing matters, and thats the concept that meditation uses to bring about a tranquil mind.

Reminds me of these things...