The Stoics were not monks. They didn’t retreat to the sanctuary of a monastery or a temple. They were politicians, businessmen, soldiers, artists. They practiced their philosophy amid the busyness of life —just as you are attempting to do.

The key to accomplishing that is to ruthlessly expunge the inessential from our lives. What vanity obligates us to do, what greed signs us up for, what ill discipline adds to our plate, what a lack of courage prevents us from saying no to. All of this we must cut, cut, cut.

THE FIRST PROJECT IS https://fikirtadesse12-sys.github.io/LUCKY-s-Recipes/

This kid is 10 years old he approach me cause he is interested in coding to mentor him. Me and my friend(TechNerd) try to help him in a way we could. This week he was free cause they're on a break. I gave him command to do 3 top projects this week. He already done one.
This is insane.
The project....is insane.
After some period of time u will see him somewhere incredible. May be Sillicon Valley.

It has been 300 days since I started learning french
Also I added russian after sometime

Am working on to organize an event here in addis with SGAC, YURI NIGHT GLOBAL TEAM AND ESSS. Crossing the finger to make it happen. Praying to make our country peaceful to be selected and held the event. Yuri Night would be the first time in africa to held in here.

Trying everything.

Shabbat Shalom

Am having difficult time finishing this books. I mean collection of Kahlil Jibran book has 12 book inside of it. I read couple of them. Khalil the Hectic and JESUS son of man is the best from the collection sofar.

The book እከይ is more like a spiritual book. About GOD. The book has best insights related to GOD salivation GOD sending his only begotton son.
Tewodross is the best king we got in Ethiopian history in my opinion.
Sapiens needs careful examination cause hararie is clever he point out historical theories to support his claim.

DON’T BE MISERABLE IN ADVANCE


“It’s ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it desires might remain its own until the very end. For such a soul will never be at rest—by longing for things to come it will lose the ability to enjoy present things.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 98.5b–6a

The way we nervously worry about some looming bad news is strange if you think about it. By definition, the waiting means it hasn’t happened yet, so that feeling bad in advance is totally voluntary. But that’s what we do: chewing our nails, feeling sick to our stomachs, rudely brushing aside the people around us. Why? Because something bad might occur soon. The pragmatist, the person of action, is too busy to waste time on such silliness. The pragmatist can’t worry about every possible outcome in advance. Think about it. Best case scenario—if the news turns out to be better than expected, all this time was wasted with needless fear. Worst case scenario—we were miserable for extra time, by choice.

And what better use could you make of that time? A day that could be your last—you want to spend it in worry?

In what other area could you make some progress while others might be sitting on the edges of their seat, passively awaiting some fate?

Let the news come when it does. Be too busy working to care.

Am amazed by the science and technology part but it's disturbing.

Living human in computer 🤔😬

DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF

“It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won’t tire and give up, if you aren’t busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS,

In 1997, a psychotherapist named Richard Carlson published a book called Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff . . . and It’s All Small Stuff. It quickly became one of the fastest-selling books of all time and spent years on the bestseller lists, ultimately selling millions of copies in many languages.

Whether you read the book or not, Carlson’s pithy articulation of this timeless idea is worth remembering. Even Cornelius Fronto, Marcus Aurelius’s rhetoric teacher, would have thought it a superior way of expressing the wisdom his student attempted in the quote above. They both say the same thing: don’t spend your time (the most valuable and least renewable of all your resources) on the things that don’t matter. What about the things that don’t matter but you’re absolutely obligated to do?


Well, spend as little time and worry on them as possible. If you give things more time and energy than they deserve, they’re no longer lesser things. You’ve made them important by the life you’ve spent on them. And sadly, you’ve made the important things—your family, your health, your true commitments—less so as a result of what you’ve stolen from them.

"Become who you are. Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself. "

‒ Friedrich Nietzsche.

I went shopping today
Look what I got

Last night

IT’S IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST

“Therefore, explain why a wise person shouldn’t get drunk—not with words, but by the facts of its ugliness and offensiveness. It’s most easy to prove that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond proper measure, are but punishments.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.27