The Good Life - 07/26/2023 - Climbing Everest
I’m sleeping every night now, straight through, from the moment I rest my head on my pillow at 9:00 PM until the alarm sounds at 4:00 AM—it’s one long pitch of night, empty and deep, a fall into nothing like when I was a kid. So, it was work all along. And my stress over my job. I knew that. And this wasn’t my job’s fault, it’s just a job. The issue was me, and how seriously I took everything at work all the time. That’s a good thing though, as taking my job seriously made me do a good job, which is what I needed to do to support my family and do my duty. In hindsight, I don’t see how I could have lived any other way. So, those painful years of insomnia and deep stress were something I perhaps could not have avoided, like entering the Death Zone when climbing Mt. Everest. The only seeming other option being to simply not climb Everest—which was never really an option.
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The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle
12. Principle of Family 13. Public Speaking 14. Temperance 15. Life Will Not Go Well 16. The Horror Show 17. That Which Must Be Borne 18. The Feast of Offal 19. Distraction 20. Agency and The Great Indifference 21. The Best Seat in the House 22. The Restless Man 23. The Path of Wildness 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 26. Sin and Damnation 27. Complete Oblivion 28. The Season of Philosophy
29. Scriptwriting 30. Bullseye Aim 31. The Uphill Climb 32. Arena and Utility 33. Nothing IS enough 34. The Principle of Fun
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My name is Kurt Bell.
You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.
Be safe... But not too safe.