on 08-Nov-2018 (Thu)

rural

homecoming

spelling-bee

whiz

serotonin

overrepresented

eminent

originated

dizzyingly

Jimmy Page

Jack White

tackier

self-winding

eternal

second-rate

appalling

dreads

dwells

predisposed

condemns

mediocre

quell

tedious

ideology-ridden

torments

crumble

harsh

self-denigrating

withering

willful blindness

wretched

dismal

A more dismal, wretched, pessimistic philosophy can hardly be imagined: things are so terrible that only delusion can save you

rigged

unbeknownst

If the cards are always stacked against you, perhaps the game you are playing is somehow rigge

your endeavours

denigrating

chatter

cliché of nihilism

If something can be done at all, it can be done better or worse.

omnipresent

stilled

impeccable

flaws

irredeemably

comprehensive

malevolent

obliterated

To begin with, there is not just one game at which to succeed or fail.

sustain

if changing games does not work, you can invent a new one.

oven mitts

artistic endeavors

middling

winning at everything might only mean that you’re not doing anything new or difficult

growing might be the most important form

victimhood and

resentment

bigot

The celebrity you admire is a chronic drunk driver and bigot. Is his life truly preferable to yours?

stellar

As we mature we become, by contrast, increasingly individual and unique.

disarray

veiled

treasure-trove

and compel

You have a nature. You can play the tyrant to it, but you will certainly rebel.

How hard can you force yourself to work and sustain your desire to work?

How much can you sacrifice to your partner before generosity turns to resentment?

What is it that you actually love?

What is it that you genuinely want?

What do you find valuable or pleasurable?

How much leisure, enjoyment, and reward do you require, so that you feel like more than a beast of burden?

How must you treat yourself, so you won’t kick over the traces and smash up your corral?

grind

tick by

entice yourself

Do you ask yourself what you want?

Do you negotiate fairly with yourself?

Or are you a tyrant, with yourself as slave?

When do you dislike your parents, your spouse, or your children, and why?

What might be done about that?

What do you need and want from your friends and your business partners?

lap-dog

Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.

straying

Are you so sure that your partner would be unhappy if more of you rose to the surface?

How do you need to be spoken to?

What do you need to take from people?

What are you putting up with, or pretending to like, from duty or obligation?

evil triad: arrogance, deceit, and resentment.

whining

get on with it

afoot

subjugated

When you have something to say, silence is a lie

When should you push back against oppression, despite the danger?

nursing

devour

Epidemiology has been defi ned as “the study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency,” 1 or even more simply as “the study of the occurrence of illness.”

If we start with a group of people who are 40 years old, on the average they are likely to survive to an older age than the typical person who was just born. Why? Because they have a 40-year head start; if they had died before age 40, they could not have been part of a group in which everyone is 40 years old.

What bias is this referring to? (Immortal time bias)

To determine whether conduct- ing an orchestra is bene fi cial to health, one should compare the risk of death among orchestra conductors with the risk of death among other people who have att ained the same age as the conductors.

When one looks at the average age at death, one looks only at those who actually die and ignores all those who survive. Consequently, the average age at death does not refl ect the risk of death but only expresses a characteristic of those who die.