The Stoics called it Amor Fati — love of fate. In Chinese philosophy, we call it 顺势而为, "flowing with the current of heaven." Both traditions arrived at the same insight: resistance to what is creates suffering, while embracing obstacles as teachers transforms them into fuel. Beautiful piece!
Everybody who has ever written, knows the next page is never the same as the prior. It's an impossibility. Life is identical. It's against the laws of physics for things to stay the same. Better use of today, highlights a better changed page. Because the knowledge you gain through your struggles, from today, helps write pages in the future. Nothing one does is for nothing. Becsuse you are always writing. Great article 👏
When I read this, the idea was that if someone adopts such a mentality, they can be seen as delusional. Like what aren’t you sad or angry?
But then I thought about it and it’s not that I’m not sad or angry, it’s just I’m not going to dwell in that state. Ironically in our society you’re supposed to dwell and be held back, with reason enough that eventually you get on.
But to those who can get on right away? Adopt this mentality in the face of resilience? Those are the Brave, the bold, the ferocious. With an almost mad like mentality towards life saying “give me your best shot.”
Fortunately, fortune favors the bold and this is seems to be the energy that life gives and seems to yield to. Life will happen, but by being bold, approaching with a ferocity that rivals the gods, Providence seems to dwell with us — thus fortune favoring the bold.
The Stoics called it Amor Fati — love of fate. In Chinese philosophy, we call it 顺势而为, "flowing with the current of heaven." Both traditions arrived at the same insight: resistance to what is creates suffering, while embracing obstacles as teachers transforms them into fuel. Beautiful piece!
Everybody who has ever written, knows the next page is never the same as the prior. It's an impossibility. Life is identical. It's against the laws of physics for things to stay the same. Better use of today, highlights a better changed page. Because the knowledge you gain through your struggles, from today, helps write pages in the future. Nothing one does is for nothing. Becsuse you are always writing. Great article 👏
When I read this, the idea was that if someone adopts such a mentality, they can be seen as delusional. Like what aren’t you sad or angry?
But then I thought about it and it’s not that I’m not sad or angry, it’s just I’m not going to dwell in that state. Ironically in our society you’re supposed to dwell and be held back, with reason enough that eventually you get on.
But to those who can get on right away? Adopt this mentality in the face of resilience? Those are the Brave, the bold, the ferocious. With an almost mad like mentality towards life saying “give me your best shot.”
Fortunately, fortune favors the bold and this is seems to be the energy that life gives and seems to yield to. Life will happen, but by being bold, approaching with a ferocity that rivals the gods, Providence seems to dwell with us — thus fortune favoring the bold.
Brilliant post and brilliant way to look at the world. This is what it means to change your perspective and change the world: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/change-your-perspective-change-your