every single person you meet...

[givememyleg]

The only change is a very slow process. If you are unhappy and want to be a different person, you probably want to make rapid changes, but you'll find you can't keep them up and when you do them they don't make you feel the change you think you should. This is because true change is stupidly slow process. So you should take your idea of what slow change you would like to do, then only do about 20% of that. Then you'll finally be that turtle in the race that ends up winning

solid. yeah everything is being marketed as "instant" these days and most people give up not seeing results in a short period of time.

also like to add that 100% of change comes only with action. logically, it's so painfully obvious, yet many people (myself included) want to change certain aspects to their lives, come up with well thought out ideas or research a plan... then become stagnant when it comes time to move their feet. ideas are worth nothing if they aren't succeeded with action.

[rpm]

also like to add that 100% of change comes only with action. logically, it's so painfully obvious, yet many people (myself included) want to change certain aspects to their lives, come up with well thought out ideas or research a plan... then become stagnant when it comes time to move their feet. ideas are worth nothing if they aren't succeeded with action.

bang on point. i'm so incredibly guilty of this despite coming to the above painfully obvious realisation myself, and being reminded of it, many many many times.

ps i like the points you made re time. not really new ideas to me as i studied alot of buddhist philosophy in my undergrad. but you explained it really well and made good points

[Poopadoop]

There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined.

[givememyleg]

There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in all the world's oceans combined.

love stuff like this. another amazing one is the shannon number which describes the varying possibilities of outcomes in a game of chess. if you were to take a guess at how many different outcomes are possible, what would it be? over/under on 10 trillion? i took the under, but the answer is actually pretty damn fascinating: the number is so large that it outnumbers the total number of atoms in the entire observable universe. (10^123 vs 10^80)

[Poopadoop]

love stuff like this. another amazing one is the shannon number which describes the varying possibilities of outcomes in a game of chess. if you were to take a guess at how many different outcomes are possible, what would it be? over/under on 10 trillion? i took the under, but the answer is actually pretty damn fascinating: the number is so large that it outnumbers the total number of atoms in the entire observable universe. (10^123 vs 10^80)

Very cool. Here's another: If the Earth were the size of a grain of sand the Sun would be the size of a tennis ball 25 feet away. And that tennis ball would produce enough heat to warm the grain of sand by a dozen or so degrees for billions of years.