Be sure to read the confusing article from the Japanese doctor who died at the age of 105.
*S*: *doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. is that true? *
*A*: the heart only beats this much, then stops, that's all... don't waste time exercising. everything eventually wears out. speeding up the heart
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Before long the five-year plan was compressed into four years, and in February 1931 Stalin declared that it should be completed in three, in 'the basic and decisive branches of industry'. The ultimatum he delivered to his industrial managers could not have been more blunt. After centuries of taking 'continual beatings' from various foreigners –from the Mongols in the 13th century to the Japanese in the early 20th– Russia must now catch up or perish. As Stalin concluded: 'We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or we shall go under.'
A Very Short Introduction & The Soviet Union - Stephen Lovell - Oxford University Press
Though essentialist in a way...
An intrinsically morbid nature cannot become healthy. On the other hand, to an intrinsically sound nature, illness may even constitute a powerful stimulus to life, to a surplus of life. It is in this light that I now regard the long period of illness that I endured: it seems as if I had discovered life afresh, my own self included. I tasted all good things and even trifles in a way in which it was not easy for others to taste them- out of my Will to Health and to Life I made my philosophy. . . . For this should be thoroughly understood; it was during those years in which my vitality reached its lowest point that I ceased from being pessimist: the instinct of self-recovery forbade my holding to a philosophy of poverty and desperation.
Sayfa 12
ruslarda aşk ilga edilmiş...
Love has, of course, taken root here, and often, but we entirely lack any culture of passion. Yes, it looms large in Dostoevsky, Leontiev or Tolstoy, both love and tears, but alas, it hardly figures in the everyday lives of people like us in the twenty-first century. We have become habituated to quiet love, to understanding another person to the depths of their soul. We pity the unfortunate and the alcoholics drinking themselves to death because their souls have been defiled. We have a tradition of making do with love on a shoestring, of living in hope as the years go by, of washing his feet and drinking the dirty water. But passion as a short-lived, allconsuming fire – forget it! We are incapable of a month of passion (even just the one, but sweet, devastating, and luring us towards madness), or even of a passionate break-up to shake our whole organism to the core even though it is obvious that this is the end, so let’s end with a burst of passion. As an experiment, just try suggesting to your gentleman friend parting at the peak of your amorous relations. He will shy away in horror. For us, breaking up means divorce and walking out with all our belongings and all the ancient dust which has settled on them.
Our pro-Soviet love is nothing but rummaging around in ourselves, not a desire to take from our partner every last drop of the happiness he can give, even if these are our final hours together, and to give him in return the same, even though we know the pillow will be empty tomorrow. Passion Russian-style is a trip from A to B. At A we kiss, and at B we saw away at the bed-frame. It is great good fortune if the trip is direct, and awful if the path is tortuous, which it all too often is. But why go on? As if we don’t already know this only too well.
Sayfa 399Kitabı okudu
Killer Instinct
Finishing is the critical part of any project. If we can’t
finish, all our work is for nothing.
Here’s a true nugget from The War of Art:
I had a good friend who had labored for years and had produced an excellent and deeply personal novel. It was done. He had it in its mailing box, complete with a cover letter to his agent. But he couldn’t make himself send it off. Fear of rejection unmanned him.
(By Steven Pressfield – Do The Work )
Old gangsters never die, except for the few that fall asleep in cinemas at midnight. Lay there sprawling in the footlights for the usherette or the ice cream girl to find. And if I die, God knows I might, don’t let me die in black and white, don’t make me share a haunted screen with every other ghost boy who stood trembling in the foyer drinking
2018'DE EN SEVDİĞİM ALINTILAR
The guilt of wanting to leave might kill me before I actually do.
- This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kheryn Callender
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality.
- Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
Saying the words felt like swallowing
Option 1: MagicFormulaInvesting.com
Step 1
Go to magicformulainvesting.com.
Step 2
Follow the instructions for choosing company size (e.g., companies with market capitalizations over $50 million, or over $200 million, or over $1 billion, etc.). For most individuals, companies with market capitalizations above $50 million or $100 million should be of sufficient size.
Step 3
Follow the instructions to obtain a list of top-ranked magic formula companies.
Step 4
Buy five to seven top-ranked companies. To start, invest only 20 to 33 percent of the money you intend to invest during the first year (for smaller amounts of capital, lower priced Web brokers such as foliofn.com, buyandhold.com, and scottrade.com may be a good place to start).
Step 5
Repeat Step 4 every two to three months until you have invested all of the money you have chosen to allocate to your magic formula portfolio. After 9 or 10 months, this should result in a portfolio of 20 to 30 stocks (e.g., seven stocks every three months, five or six stocks every two months).
Step 6
Sell each stock after holding it for one year. For taxable accounts, sell winners after holding them a few days more than one year and sell losers after holding them a few days less than one year (as previously described). Use the proceeds from any sale and any additional investment money to replace the sold companies with an equal number of new magic formula selections (Step 4).
Step 7
Continue this process for many years. Remember, you must be committed to continuing this process for a minimum of three to five years, regardless of results. Otherwise, you will most likely quit before the magic formula has a chance to work!
Step 8
Feel free to write and thank me.
