How To Live An Interesting Life
If you are human you are always presented with two choices. Two extremes. 

One is to think you're more important than you are. Getting too big of a head.

The other is feeling los
Tai Lopez Mar 05, 2015
But if you live by either of these two extremes your quality of life on earth will plummet. You won't really live an interesting life.

Today's Book-Of-The-Day, "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, gives one of the most clear examples of the correct way to set up your life.

He opens the book by saying, "The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. "

You and I are just dust.

"The size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most humans concerns seem insignificant, even petty. "

Now some people realize this and lose all hope, all ambition. They figure since they're so small in the universal perspective, that nothing they do will ever have any meaning. 

Well obviously there's a little truth to that.

But you can also invert it. Flip it around.

If we are relatively insignificant then the pressure is off. Who cares if you have big dreams and you don't quite fulfill them all?

A clear understanding of our place in the universe actually frees you up - it doesn't paralyze you. 

You can also take it as freedom to do even bigger things than you had imagined because after all, if you fail you're still headed to the same place as everybody else.

You and I are just dust moving through time.

Keep things in perspective.  No matter how successful you become, remember you're just a blip in the sands of time and the universe. 

If you can't find motivation because the fear of failure paralyzes you, you're now set free to just try.

Everything good starts by just trying.

And it starts with knowledge. 

Sagan writes, "Our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos.… They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prequisite to survival. "

With this all in mind, what's one thing you can do today to try and live a more interesting life?
 

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Knowledge - Survival. I can begin to understand something I know little about and really learn it; make it work for me and survive a little bit better each day. That works for me.
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