So I stumbled across this randomly. It's based on a seemingly cheesy self-help type book called "If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules", written by a life coach. I figured in between the posts on networking at gas stations and bulge bracket upholstery, it might be a nice change of pace, so I'm posting it here.
Curious to hear what y'all think. Thoughts? Additions? Comments? Don't care?
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1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "Life on Planet Earth". Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation. "Failures" are as much a part of the process as "success."
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it -- then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here."
8. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting. Take charge of your life -- or someone else will.
10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines what energies, experiences, and people you attract -- therefore, the only foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing doesn't help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.
12. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others; as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written. You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to do is to look, listen, and trust.
fuck, this is some awesome shit! Going Concern never fails to deliver! Not only he is a great troll, but a very deep human being. I love it when you guys go deep.
Oooooh LifeHedger, I want you inside me...deep inside me. Shall we meet at Cipriani to seal the deal?
You mean "seel". Seel evolves into Dewgong, which has a pretty big head if you know what I mean.
hmmm, I just generously posted my dream types which were probably buried among other posts. Check if you resemble any one of those. thanks
http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/wonder-what-your-dream-types-are-…
Thanks for posting this.
Stick to the original 150 brah...
I want to hyper beam your Voltorb and Zapdos inside your Starmie while you Pinsir my Wigglytuff.
151 brah. Don't leave out Mew.
Nice catch. But just one question brah: do you even lift ?
Lol, I am so confused right now. Looks like this thread is turning out to be kind of a waste. Anyone have any thoughts at all about the OP...
"You always get what you want."
While not literally true, it's useful metaphorically. It does make me think about what happened with this thread and what lesson to take from this though.
Hey dood, I can assure you that I did NOT want this thread to turn into an examination of Pokemon (or whatever some of these folks are talking about - I honestly don't know). I thought this thread might spark some good honest discussion about life to be honest.
I agree that this is one of the more interesting points. Personally I'm going through some life changes right now, and part of me agrees that deep down there are things you don't want to accept for a variety of reasons but which you fundamentally know are true, and your life ultimately converges to what you know is true not what you seemingly want to be true. Where I disagree is relating to one's starting point - you don't always want what you start out with, but that's just the hand you're dealt.
Going Concern,
I would like to apologize for causing this thread to take a turn... I was confused about the pokemon shit too, and that response just came out. Looking at this again, I feel terrible, especially because it could have been a great discussion.
That being said, I would like to touch on a few of these points. Many of them have not been my experience, but are lessons I have heard again and again. I certainly cannot get behind all of these, but that is probably just because of my personal experience. IMO, believing in and chasing some of this shit caused some problems for me, but I do agree with the overall tone and message.
Pretty much do not believe in #s 3 and 8. I have made mistakes. Those mistakes were in fact lessons, but if it hurts someone, and you can't fix it, its a mistake. I have made some very painful mistakes. Also, I used to really believe #8, but not anymore. Not everyone on earth is a reflection of me... I don't believe in the "We are One" shit... Sorry.
Definitely believe in #s 1, 2, 5, 9, 11, and 12.
's 6 and 7 are tough. I have recently had some great changes in my life, and now I feel more confused than ever. When do I, or did I, cross the line? Do I believe in the notion of #10, and say that I created this for myself? Do I get to say I believe in that, as well as the notion of #12? What about #5? How come it seems that just as a huge question mark in my life is answered, another one forms? My life has become much brighter recently, but I feel as if there is a storm inside me. Why is this not reflected externally, then? Or is this #5 brewing on a grand scale?
Perhaps I decided to troll this thread because many of these points are scary for me personally. Scary that some of them have not been my experience, and scary that some of them have. I used to stress about this stuff all the time. At some point you need to just let go of them.
With respect to the idea of "there are no mistakes, only lessons", I think that speaks to the author's deeper point about acceptance. People you care about will inevitably get hurt in your lifetime. That is just the nature of this thing we're involved in, I think. Ultimately life has too many factors that are outside of your control. The only thing you are guaranteed to always have control over is your attitude towards what happens.
I agree that the "others are mirrors of you" idea is one of the more controversial ones on here. While it reflects many eastern and philosophical ideas about oneness and interconnectedness that have been written over time, I'm not sure what I think. The other day I was watching Schindler's List (yeah yeah, I hadn't seen it before, big whoop), and seeing the actions portrayed of the Nazi officer Amon Goeth during the Holocaust, made me think of how I refuse to believe that there is any part of me that is a reflection of that. Yet that's what one would have to accept if subscribing to the "we are all one" ideology - that the potential for extreme evil lies inside every person, and if given different circumstances, could be made real.
I think the answer is time. A lot of the points the author makes imply that they should always be true, but like ideas in finance, there may always be short-term aberrations but concepts hold true over a long period of time, like if you took a 30,000 foot view of the timeline of your life.
Going Concern wtf do you do for a living dude? Just tell us already.
p.s. I've really appreciated your posts so far. Lots of wit.
Right now I work on the investment team of a relatively large FoF investor. Side note: "for a living" and "career" are such strong words. I prefer "latest arrangement".
While this compliment is most likely alcohol fueled given the date and timestamp...I'll take what I can get.
sexy
Also, 8 and 11 are on point.
I think the hate aspect of it is much more subtle, and really only shows when people are being hypocrites. You tend to "love" in others what they have in common with you, or something that they have which you strive for.
For 8, many times it's the other way, though: You love something about someone else that reflects what you hate in yourself, and vice versa. Sort of like a validation. But, you only love or hate that thing for a short while, until you're reminded of how you're lacking or exaggerating in that capacity.
Just a thought...
Interesting, didn't think about it that way. Maybe some cognitive dissonance at play.
Dude, why the fuck can't I learn not to eat the hot pocket right when it comes out of the microwave? I swear to god there's not a single person here who has learned that lesson.
That's the great cosmic lesson. You learn it at the very end.
The fucking cosmos can blow me. I WANT A GOD DAMN HOT POCKET THAT'S NOT SCALDING ON THE OUTSIDE AND FROZEN ON THE INSIDE
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