Oh you've been able to do it more often? Neat!

I didn't really fly anywhere sadly, I was more like hovering/floating above the ground, then went up almost as high as my house until I got too excited and woke up....

The last (and first time) I flew was about a week ago in my first lucid dream ever! Sadly, it was a very short ride and I woke from excitement :(

I'd love to do it again!

Oh yes, there are quite a lot of useful insights to be found in his articles! I've done a lot of introspection/"self-improvement" during the past year or so, thanks to him. Even though I don't always agree with him, he has changed my life for the better!

If only it was easy indeed..

Hmm, I am glad that I don't live in the U.S.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! Think I'll watch it again tonight.

Byousoku 5 Centimeter is nothing short of a masterpiece. The mood it sets, the raw, painful emotions and of course the amazing graphics... It really doesn't deserve being watched in anything less than HD.

It's quite refreshing to see it with a completely different music style, though I wish the AMV had some moment of climax to really get you involved emotionally.

I'm using Ubuntu day in, day out since 2010. Haven't looked back since.

The #1 complaint I keep hearing from people not wanting to switch to Ubuntu is "can't run my games/this particular piece of software on it, so no thanks". Once this isn't in the way of people, I'm convinced many will give it a try and hopefully make it their main machine.

My dad is also happily using Ubuntu! His first remark was "It's definitely faster than Windows!". He doesn't do more than simple browsing though, but still. He's never complained about it. My plan is to convert some of my techno-illiterate cousins soon, just so I don't need to fix their Windows all the time. I'm no window cleaner. Just need to get them to agree to dual-booting for their games...

Have you considered running Photoshop from a virtual machine on Ubuntu? I do that with Powerpoint when I need it at uni. Photoshop Portable runs under wine, be it with a few minor bugs here and there.

I left Windows for good 2 years ago, when I was introduced to Ubuntu at uni. Now using Windows just frustrates me to no end. Unless it's Windows XP. Never liked Vista or 7... let's not mention 8.

I have no regrets!

A classic. Makes me happy every time. Let It Be

Oh my, she's grown. Reach Out

It's impossible not to get happy from this! Thanks.

Sweet.

These are awesome, thanks for sharing them!

Love that quote! It's on my "favourite quotes" list.

I don't see the point in watching/reading mainstream news. Most of what they report does not concern me in any way. Not to mention that most is negative stuff anyway. There have always been deaths, murders, rapes, accidents, disasters, conflicts,... throughout time, and I don't see how my life would get better by knowing about all of them. I rather block this stuff out than to let it pour negativity onto me. The important things that I should be paying attention to will make their way to me somehow anyway.

I much rather prefer reading news online on sites that I choose, so I get (a heck of lot more positive) news about what I actually want to hear about. E.g. Ars Technica.

Yeah the part where those lines play are my favourite part of the song! Starting from "You realize that life goes fast".

Thanks! Didn't know only one video could be embedded. I thought putting the url in the URL field would make the post link to it. Silly of me.

Nice one! This is the line that hit me: Do you realize, that everyone you know someday will die. It indeed forces you to think about life, and death.

I've checked it earlier but I don't see anything about embedding videos, or am I missing something extremely obvious?

Oh... it doesn't embed like that? >.< How do I do it?

Ohh, thanks a bunch for sharing. This was very useful.

Oh.

I guess no one's problem is a lack of time or money. They are excuses for everyone...

Ahh yes, naive is the word.

So you've read quite a bit of material already! Yeah discussions are very valuable, as I'm currently discovering.

For me, many of Steve's articles evoke emotional responses. Next time I will pay attention to those emotions more closely, in stead of sucking in his every word like a sponge. My emotional push buttons from that list were 3, 9 and 10.

No problem! I'm enjoying the discussion as well. And becoming slightly less naive in the process!

Yeah, exactly.

I was reading another article from Steve yesterday (yep) on passive income that made me think about what I'd do if I had so much money I wouldn't have to work anymore. The End Game Of Passive Income.

I made a list of what I'd do if I had so much money, and another list of what I'd do with all the time I'd have. And I have to say, that thinking trail got me so down that I went off to do some physical chores to get my mind straight. There's nothing down that road if you're not already happy and content now, doing the things that you really want to be doing, right now.

Some examples of items on the "if I had so much time" list were travelling, hiking more, composing music, writing a book, reading more fiction, working in dog rescue shelter, developing games, starting a meaningful website, ...

It made me realize that I could already be doing all the things on those lists (especially the items on the "if I had so much time" list), but that I'm not. I just had a 3 month summer holiday where I did basically none of the things in the "time" list, though I had all the time in the world. I don't seem to be capable to get myself to do them somehow. That's what depressed me the most. But then, perhaps that was Steve's subtle intention... I ended up in the vicious trap of asking myself "what's wrong with me!?" and "why am I putting off doing the things I love?". Ugly place to end up in.

Then I started writing down my excuses for not doing all those things, item per item. It basically came down to either "no one to do it with", "no money to do it", "no time to do it" (lol), "fear of doing it" and "no motivation/energy/drive to start doing it".

Guess my problem isn't a lack of time or money. They're just excuses.

Oh that is nice... Thanks for sharing!

Sounds like a nice and flexible job!

Loved the Chris Rock video btw :D He is awesome. Nice distinction between job and career.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I acted and behold, the duty was joy. -Tagore

I can't say how much I agree.. thanks to this post I've been thinking quite a bit today, especially about what I "would" do if, hypothetically speaking, I were to have so much money / passive income I wouldn't even need to work anymore. Just to test myself. And IMO that lifestyle simply doesn't work out if you don't have something meaningful to devote your life to, even if you have all the money and time you could possibly want.

Thanks for taking the time to pick apart his article like that!

dispensers of for profit self-help can only profit on someone who has a deficiency they can provide a remedy for. What better way then to create that deficiency in the ready?

I see now how he can accomplish this through writing his articles like that (e.g. playing with your emotions). I have to admit, he is pretty successful at this. Or perhaps I'm just a gullible soul that needs a crash course in critical reading x_x I'll be keeping this in mind if I ever decide to read similar stuff.

At least he did convince me that I want to (at least eventually) work for myself. Though probably not with that article alone.

What a powerful statement! It's short but it says so much. I like it. Thanks for sharing!