• Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    “Try not to be a dick” is probably the most base but somehow most meaningful phrase I’ve ever heard and I try to live by it. Sure there is a lot more to me and things go a lot deeper but I feel if everyone at least attempted to adhere to it then who knows what things might be like.

    • Sheltac@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah it’s insane how much time I spent reading about ethics and shit, and then have “don’t be a dick” be one of main driving factors in my decision making.

      You know what? It works just fine.

  • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
    101·
    2 years ago

    “Never trust a fart.” This phrase has inspired healthy skepticism ever since it was coined by Abraham Lincoln.

  • poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago

    I’m trying to be more kind. Normally, I tend to be analytical and abrupt. If someone is wrong, I try to demonstrate it a simply as possible and move on. If they’re right, that is good, there’s no reason to celebrate; move on. I find most people don’t respond well to any of this, for their own reasons. So, I’m trying to set that aside and simply be more gentle when handling interactions with another person.

  • moipe@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 years ago

    Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been… ever, for any reason whatsoever…

    -Michael Scott

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 years ago

    So many to choose from :) I guess for today it will be… Shit happens.
    Bad things can happen to you for no reason. You can agonize over it, wonder why, etc. Or you can accept that it happened, focus on dealing with the consequences and try to make the best out of it.
    It’s not always easy, but I do feel it has made me more laid back and happier in general.

    Edited because Thelsim doesn’t know how to proofread

  • Bldck@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    Not a direct answer to your question, but I read How to be Perfect last year. Michael Schur (creator of Parks and Rec) wrote the book as an exploration of the research they did to make The Good Place.

    It’s a survey of philosophy for non-philosophers and does a great job breaking down how to make good choices without being preachy.

    Here’s the link

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Be excellent to each other and party on dudes. It’s a fun movie with a simple principle which I try to follow. It’s also a reminder to have fun and enjoy the little things. The world would be a much better place if everyone followed it.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    That stupidity is worse than malice.

    It’s a relatively uncommon moral value that I follow. Without going too much into details, I picked this up after realising that people caused me more harm through actions that didn’t benefit them, than through ones that did it. And then realised that it was not just towards me - people cause more harm to everyone else due to stupidity than malice.

    This has the following consequences for me:

    • If I do something wrong, I can’t excuse myself through “I had good intentions”. I actually need to fix it, or admit that I don’t care.
    • It made me more lenient towards people acting on their own interests, in a selfish albeit transparent way. Including myself.
    • It makes me avoid fools that keep screwing everything up, and then saying “but I thought that…” (no, you did not think - and that is the problem)

    [Edited for phrasing.]

  • Katie Ampersand@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    2 years ago

    I believe that curiosity is a virtue. Identifying and Explaining are the two tenets of my philosphy, to seek out and to understand is my way of living.

    (this is a reference to somehting, but that something has influenced me so much)

  • TokyoCalling@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Overwork and the pursuit of wealth is detrimental to you and your relationships. Earning enough for a simple life and then stopping allows time to be a decent human.

    I walk an average of three hours a day. My young adult children ask me to go with them to the movies. My wife works enough and no more. We split the chores and have few resentments. The crows along the river swoop down when I pass by. I stop and feed them peanuts.

    I learned this by becoming aware of just how little it served me and my family to really put in the hours and take every opportunity that came my way.

  • arthur@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 years ago

    Everything is a story, the only bits of truth we will ever find will come from nature if we make the correct question and understand correctly the answer.

    Everything changes.

    Work, on physics, can be defined as force*distance. It looks like what we do for living. A big effort does not guarantee big results. So work smart.

    Some people say that war cause technology leaps. I think that “a lot of people working together to achieve a difficult goal” is the source of those leaps. War is just a sad instance of that setting.