3 things I learned while my plane crashed: Ric Elias on TED.com. Just watched this. Puts many life change I’m pondering right now into perspective. Hum. He learned:
- To no-longer postpone anything
- To eliminate negative energy: no-longer try to be right, but try to be happy
- That the most important thing for him was to be a good parent
As an interesting counterpoint to this, I recommend: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/chilean-miners-one-year-on?CMP=twt_gu
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I loved watching this… and his discoveries are so true.
It’s hard though, once your out of that situation, to carry around that wisdom throughout ones daily life. Sometimes i feel as if i reach epiphanies myself, but my thoughts sweep them under the proverbial rug. So many great things are under there, i gotta shake it out one day… perhaps i just need to wait for my plane to start that nose dive : )
When you become older and (I always claim wiser, ahem) you may regret not following your own advice which you give yourself here…
Strike a balance of ‘do it now’ and plan for the future… Both have merits by being close partners 🙂
no more “try to be right” seems like “don’t fight for your right, go with the flow, accept anything, …” attitude which smells like Morpheus: take the blue pill.