Becoming an adult

Children consume and have no responsibility for what they do.

Adults create and have responsibility for their actions.

Being an adult may be more challenging (and indeed many adults would like to keep a child-like lifestyle), but eventually, it's much more satisfying and empowering.

Centralization limitations

• 1 head vs 7 billion heads
• framework vs freedom
• one-size-fits-all vs individualized needs
• tried and proven vs trial and error => few new solutions

Presence is enough

Guilt is a by-product of authoritarian upbringing, and a rather useless one too. 

Presence in the here and now is enough.

Mass production

Mass production requires and generates uniformity in the world that, by its nature, is not uniform. How uniform can we get before we lose the world?

Success

A truly successful career does not pursue goals of future success.

If you enjoy and find meaning in the job you're doing right now, it's already a success.

Teaching children

Children copy everything you do, including swear words, using substances, abusing other people.

Words don't teach. Actions do.

Prometheus and his liver

It's curious how this myth resonates with the harmful effects of eating too much fire-processed food.

Endless evolution

Every living being recreates itself every moment of time by enhancing the things it needs and neglecting the things it doesn't need. The more attention it pays to something, the more expressed this thing becomes in its life.

That's how each creature's look exactly reflects its desires and inclinations.

Artificial paradox

The great paradox of the modern world: Artificial materials and products are cheaper and easier to buy than natural materials and products.

There's a Russian saying that translates approximately as a fish searches where it's deeper and a man searches where it's better. But it should be a man searches where it's easier. People tend to go the easiest way available, and the artificial industry offers that easy way out. 

However, breaking the rules of nature causes problems that are 'solved' with new 'developments' of industry that cause new problems, making another turn in the vicious circle. That's how what was initially supposed to make people's lives easier keeps making them more complicated the further we drift away from the natural world.

Chores

Doing the chores is often taught as something difficult and unpleasant, a continuous nuisance to deal with. This creates a 'family tradition' of hating the chores.

However, chores are a privilege I have in life and my way of playful transformation of my world. 

Think of all the people who have no house to clean, no clothes to wash, no food to remove the remainder of from the crockery. Think of all the people who have no arms to do the cleaning or no legs to take out trash.

Being able to do the chores is the royal privilege of living a full life.

Home

If each of us treats the world the way they treat their property, this world will flourish beyond words.

Imagine a home with 6 billion caring owners.

The QF Attitude

Looking for a 'Quick Fix': the result is more important than the process. The faster, the better.

This leads to frustration: you get only an occasional 'prize enjoyment moment' instead of loving it all the way.

And then, you never go too deep about it.

True love takes decades to mature and then decades to savor.

Knowledge and humility

Being humble and open-minded makes you more open to information contradicting what you believe. The more knowledgeable you are, the more important it is to be humble and open-minded.

A fascinating article on the topic - How facts backfire.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

If you have a trait mocked by others, chances are this trait is indispensable elsewhere in the world.

Watch the 1948 cartoon

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Champagne for kids?

Basically, it's just a soft drink. But children copy the adult habits after their parents, and by the time they're teenagers, it's real champagne they drink.

Some manufacturers make 'Beer for kids' and even 'Vodka for kids'. :(