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Just a friendly reminder: Comparison is the thief of joy. - Teddy Roosevelt
Hi, I'm Zack Gilbert
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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We went to the desert.
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The Postal Service #inthedesert (at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas)
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It’s choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
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Why Become a Lifelong Learner?
- You’ll earn more.
- You’ll be more interesting and charismatic.
- You’ll be a better leader.
- You’ll be independent and handy.
- Lifelong learning keeps your brain healthy.
- You’ll feel more satisfied with life.
- You’ll become more human.
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My dear Zack and I spent last week in New York city, partially for work and partially for play. The one thing we did pretty much full time was eat- hitting up favorites like Roberta’s, The Meatball Shop, Hungry Ghost, Spitzer’s and more. Our gorgeous AirBnB in Prospect Heights/Park Slope was huge and I’d definitely recommend it. The host was out of town, but left the keys in a lockbox and we had no problem getting in and around. The space could have easily fit another couple or a few friends and the fact that it was just a few blocks from the Brooklyn Flea and Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Gym* made it super convenient. The apartment had two whole fireplaces, a million great books and a perfectly comfy bed. All in all, it was the perfect place for us. I’m working on a little map of our outings and I know Zack has something more robust planned so we’ll hopefully be able to share the trip in more detail soon.
We spent our last day exploring the Natural History museum and I was completely blown away by how huge it was. Gems and dinosaurs were obviously the highlight, but I was totally mesmerized by meteorites*. It was a good trip for helping me realize that I love visiting New York, but It’s just not the city for me. I’ve often wondered if I’d made the right choice by not moving there, but even though those opportunities may have been different, Chicago is just enough city for me.
*You might know it as the Barclay’s Center
**History of the universe in a rock? Oh man.
A lovely visit.
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We are so used to moving efficiently through the world that we operate on autopilot a lot of the time. In fact, the phrase ‘thoughtless acts’ highlights the predicament– we do most of the everyday things we do without consciously thinking about them. So, unless we make a a special effort to focus, we just won’t notice things such as the way we position ourselves in a line, know where to deposit mail, or use information from reflections in a window.
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The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.
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We are, at this moment, living through the end of the storm before the calm. The Internet, globalization, and the absence of nuclear war are not happenstance. They are the almost inevitable products of a species selected for more win-win scenarios. The species stands at a inflection point after which the human future will be much happier than the human past.
