Ep 79. Beating Boredom

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Today we’re exploring a universal experience that often gets a bad rap: boredom. Picture this – it’s a lazy afternoon, the clock is ticking slowly, and you find yourself staring at the ceiling, unsure of how to fill the time. Maybe you have so much going on that your brain shorts out for a while. So you avoid everything and boredom from the monotony of your routine sets in. It’s a mental state we’ve all encountered, and while it may seem mundane, boredom shapes our lives in surprising ways. We’ll go through it all. 

Nothing But A Pupil

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One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Like A Thunderbolt

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. ~ Sun Tzu

First Burn Within

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What you wish to ignite in others must first burn within yourself. ~ Aurelius Augustinus

Two Sides

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No matter how thin you slice it there always will be two sides. ~ Baruch Spinoza

What God Chose To Make Me

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I’d rather be what God chose to make than the most glorious creature I could think of; for to be thought about, born in God’s thought, & made by God, is the dearest, grandest & most precious thing