• 3 DIMENSIONAL THINKING

    THE FREE BOOK BY ZACHARY ZIAMUS

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    .EXTRACTS FROM THE CHAPTER ON INTELLIGENCE

     

    There’s 2 types of people in this world:

     

    1. those who approach new research with a closed mind

    2. those who approach new research with an open mind

     

    Wisdom is the opening of the mind to the presence of vast realms of empty space permeating our embarrassingly thin existing framework of understanding.

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    • Knowledge is crystalized from a process of memorization.

    • Understanding is crystalized from a process of observation.

    • Philosophy is crystalized from a process of contemplation.

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    When you can easily resist the strong pull of consensus of all of those around you, then you’ve proven to yourself that your mind is finally yours.

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    Most people feel like a fraud most of the time.

    Some people are just better at hiding it than others.

    Don’t buy the pretence, they’re all imposters.

    Do your own thinking.

    Because the experts aren’t as expert as they seem.

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    Find a lover worth all the trouble.

    Find a project worth all the trouble.

    Find a car worth all the trouble.

    Find a holiday destination worth all the trouble.

    Find a ‘X’ worth all the trouble.

     

    There should be evidence of ample benefit before you volunteer any personal responsibility.

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    Simplicity is always the way. All complication is simply a mess of your own making. You make a big mess with a web of your own many rationalizations. In the end, you will be able to simplify it. In the beginning though, this horrid entangling web is hard to avoid.

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    .EXTRACTS FROM THE CHAPTER ON SPIRITUALITY

    Emotionally, we grow up with each experience of guilt.

    Spiritually, we erode ourselves with each experience of guilt.

    Death is beautiful because it is a full release of your stockpile of guilt.

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    A mind lacking in intelligence concludes that death.... makes life perfectly meaningless.

    A mind brimming with intelligence concludes that death.... makes life perfectly meaningful.

    And so it is that we always find that life is such a simple system:

    You get out of life only what you can appreciate.

    If you can’t appreciate death, you’ll never be able to appreciate life.

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    If I was God for a day, I would ask souls after physical death a single question and watch them judge themselves, “did you back yourself all the way, and I mean ALL the way, or did you let yourself down by treading the waters of fear?”

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    To get in touch with your spirit is to be alone.

    To be alone is to ponder.

    To ponder is to ask “why”.

    To ask “why” is to philosophize.

    Ask why long enough and you become wise.

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    A scientist tries to understand ‘how’ the world works.

    A philosopher tries to understand ‘why’ the world works that way.

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    This world is not perfect,

    you experience some harm so that you may course correct.

    So it is perfect in the end, yet feels imperfect during the process.

    the perfection of imperfection is as close to perfection as you’re going to get.

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    The prettiest sky is not plain blue sky.

    The prettiest sky always has some cloud.

    In the same way, your life needs some moments of tears, like clouds.

    A lifelong journey of million smiles would be utterly meaningless.

    We all cry… and for good reason.

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