What are some of your life lessons?

[sweep_shot]

Some lessons life has taught me are:

1) Don't underdeliver or overdeliver. Just give 100%. If you underdeliver, it is wrong. If you overdeliver, people may take you for granted.

2) Don't be a pacifist. Pacifism doesn't work. Just ask the Native Americans.

3) You can deceive people but you cannot deceive God. Keep that in mind always.

4) Don't argue/debate with an idiot. It is pointless and you may end up wasting a lot of time. Time is important. Don't waste it.

5) Don't take opinions from too many people. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

6) Nationalism mostly benefits those at the top. Those at the middle or at the bottom don't get benefited from it; they are simply pawns used by the elites.

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What about you? What are some of your life lessons?

 

[Rajdeep]

"Learn how to Entertain an idiot" - I have followed this principle for a long time and it has made me a better man.

 

[sweep_shot]

"Learn how to Entertain an idiot" - I have followed this principle for a long time and it has made me a better man.

It is time consuming.

Time is money.

 

[Kianig89]

Always stay within your limits, financially emotionally any spectrum of life

 

[sweep_shot]

Always stay within your limits, financially emotionally any spectrum of life

Very good advice. One should know his range (strengths and weaknesses) and should make decisions based on that.

Don't bite more than you can chew, as they say.

 

[Rajdeep]

Very good advice. One should know his range (strengths and weaknesses) and should make decisions based on that.

Don't bite more than you can chew, as they say.

That is not entirely true. They always say enhance your strengths and work on your weakness. If everyone just creates a range around themselves and settle down, they will never improve or reach their full potential. When Bill gates invented Microsoft, he didn't knew his potential and experimented with multiple things and reached a position where he is today. Human's limit is enormous and there should not be any range. One should be humble though.

 

[sweep_shot]

That is not entirely true. They always say enhance your strengths and work on your weakness. If everyone just creates a range around themselves and settle down, they will never improve or reach their full potential. When Bill gates invented Microsoft, he didn't knew his potential and experimented with multiple things and reached a position where he is today. Human's limit is enormous and there should not be any range. One should be humble though.

I didn't say one has to settle down within his range.

Increase that range without crossing it. That's what I meant.

I give you one example. In workout, you have to build things up slowly. You can't go from 0 to 100 right away. A process should be followed. That's what I was referring to.

 

[RexRex]

The key to happiness is high ambitions and low expectations.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

The key to happiness is high ambitions and low expectations.

Big expectations always let people down.

 

[sweep_shot]

The key to happiness is high ambitions and low expectations.

I think high and low are quite subjective.

It is about what the person really wants and fulfilling those wants. Some seek money and fame. Some are altruistic. Some may have other priorities.

 

[ElRaja]

have three tiers of people around u, associates, you are respectful but do not let them use up your time or effort, friends, you are willing to invest time and effort quid pro quo on an ongoing basis, and fam, the ppl closest to you who you are willing to invest time and effort in on a non quid pro quo basis, so you might have times where you will feel like you are making way more of an effort with someone but you persist because the relationship long term is worth it.

if you do this then you can avoid wasting time on useless people, and not losing patience with important relationships, and lose out on important people in feelings of short term anger or entitlement.

 

[sweep_shot]

I learned a lesson today. The lesson is not to eat anything super-spicy.

I ate an extremely spicy burger in the afternoon. In the evening, I was chilling outside. I suddenly felt the need to defecate and it was an emergency.

I sadly didn't find any toilet nearby. I also didn't want to relieve myself outside like some Indians. It was very cold too (below 0-Degree Celsius); so, relieving outside could've given me a frostbite.

After a long struggle, I managed to return home and got myself sorted out. I made a decision not to consume anything super-spicy again.

 

[Champ_Pal]

I learned a lesson today. The lesson is not to eat anything super-spicy.

I ate an extremely spicy burger in the afternoon. In the evening, I was chilling outside. I suddenly felt the need to defecate and it was an emergency.

I sadly didn't find any toilet nearby. I also didn't want to relieve myself outside like some Indians. It was very cold too (below 0-Degree Celsius); so, relieving outside could've given me a frostbite.

After a long struggle, I managed to return home and got myself sorted out. I made a decision not to consume anything super-spicy again.

Just say you killed an innocent bush with your projectile excrement.

You don’t have to include Indians in your spicy burger story

 

[KB]

Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi’i (767-820), famous as the eponymous founder of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, once wrote the wonderful lines:

“Every time life taught me
It exposed my intellect’s deficits
The more learning I acquired
Life expanded my ignorance.”
(Translation from Ebrahim Moosa)

The more I have studied, the more I have understood how little I really know.

This is no bad thing - far from it. Arrogance inhibits learning. A person who thinks they know it all, will not dig deeper, will not ask more questions.

Curiosity really is a splendid thing and it requires some humility - we acknowledge that there is more to learn, that we don’t know it all.

So my advice for whatever it is worth: be aware of your limitations of knowledge and understanding, have an open-mind, enjoy the surprising, search for a sense of wonder. Be curious and let life expand your ignorance.

 

[Hitman]

I can assure you no bush was damaged. It was -6 C outside.

I mentioned Indians because some Indians do things like that.

Anyway, back to topic. What have you learned from your life?

Well, some M's (in fact a hell lot of them) do things pretty different (if you know what I mean). It offends you when all M's are generalised on the basis of that.

 

[sweep_shot]

Muhammad bin Idris al-Shafi’i (767-820), famous as the eponymous founder of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, once wrote the wonderful lines:

“Every time life taught me
It exposed my intellect’s deficits
The more learning I acquired
Life expanded my ignorance.”
(Translation from Ebrahim Moosa)

The more I have studied, the more I have understood how little I really know.

This is no bad thing - far from it. Arrogance inhibits learning. A person who thinks they know it all, will not dig deeper, will not ask more questions.

Curiosity really is a splendid thing and it requires some humility - we acknowledge that there is more to learn, that we don’t know it all.

So my advice for whatever it is worth: be aware of your limitations of knowledge and understanding, have an open-mind, enjoy the surprising, search for a sense of wonder. Be curious and let life expand your ignorance.

Nice.

Real wisdom there.

 

[mominsaigol]

My life lessons are that I'm a goat.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Try to put yourself in another person's shoes before passing judgement on them.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

I learned a lesson today. The lesson is not to eat anything super-spicy.

I ate an extremely spicy burger in the afternoon. In the evening, I was chilling outside. I suddenly felt the need to defecate and it was an emergency.

I sadly didn't find any toilet nearby. I also didn't want to relieve myself outside like some Indians. It was very cold too (below 0-Degree Celsius); so, relieving outside could've given me a frostbite.

After a long struggle, I managed to return home and got myself sorted out. I made a decision not to consume anything super-spicy again.

When I was younger and smoker I used to eat very very very spicy food and love it. As I have stopped smoking and also got older I've toned down the spice. I still have it very hot but not extreme hot.

 

[The Bald Eagle]

Choose your regrets carefully

 

[ads101]

Try to learn a bit about everything. Don’t need to master everything. Whether it’s football, politics, painting, writing, anime, films etc. It will allow you to socialise with anyone and always have something to fall back on when holding conversation.

A lot of life is making right decisions. So try to make a lot of decisions (including wrong ones) and adapt and learn so the next decision you make is more likely to be right. See a lot of people make wrong decisions constantly because they always believe they are right and even when bad things happen as a result refuse to accept they are wrong. This is something I learnt a lot in life and my job which mostly involves taking decisions. So many people are scared to ever be wrong, which means ultimately they’ll never be right.

I think people tend to overestimate risks. There are so many opportunities out there which really have close to zero risk, but people are too scared to take them. People equate their emotions with risk, which is normally not true. Like going to a social event to make new friends. It feels like you’re taking a risk and it can feel scary or emotionally bad, maybe you’re scared you’ll not make friends or be nervous. But in reality if it doesn't work on, you just move on and try again. It’s funny because so many people are ready to gamble and take unlikely bets with money, and yet don’t take the risk to find new friends, learn new skills, start a business etc worrying over whether they’ll fail.

 

[ElRaja]

I learned a lesson today. The lesson is not to eat anything super-spicy.

I ate an extremely spicy burger in the afternoon. In the evening, I was chilling outside. I suddenly felt the need to defecate and it was an emergency.

I sadly didn't find any toilet nearby. I also didn't want to relieve myself outside like some Indians. It was very cold too (below 0-Degree Celsius); so, relieving outside could've given me a frostbite.

After a long struggle, I managed to return home and got myself sorted out. I made a decision not to consume anything super-spicy again.

do you feel a bit less bengali after this decision? i went to a bengali mates house and his wife took a delivery pizza and recooked it with Mr naga, mrs naga, all the children everything on it. the third hottest ting ive eaten in my life. i got peer pressured into finishing it, lol.

i had multi million scoville unit hot sauces in my twenties, after that i thought this isnt worth it. i still like moderately spicy food, but nothing meaningful by bengali standards, lol.

 

[sweep_shot]

do you feel a bit less bengali after this decision? i went to a bengali mates house and his wife took a delivery pizza and recooked it with Mr naga, mrs naga, all the children everything on it. the third hottest ting ive eaten in my life. i got peer pressured into finishing it, lol.

i had multi million scoville unit hot sauces in my twenties, after that i thought this isnt worth it. i still like moderately spicy food, but nothing meaningful by bengali standards, lol.

LOL!

No. I don't feel less Bengali for avoiding extreme spice.

My health is more important than my cultural identity.