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berean jones
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Bitcoiner. Engineer. Christian. Theologian Writer. Husband. Father. Trapped on Prison Island UK. #Bitcoin #Christian #Family

Home education in a quote.

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I started this year with a footprint on personal empowerment. I couldn't help but notice how different these philosophical ideas are next to each other, but as a whole, it's a nice balance.

Buddhist Teachings (Thích Nhất Hạnh, Dalai Lama) - ego and attachment to desires causes suffering. True happiness comes from selflessness.

My take - I love this, and agree entirely, but love yourself first, so that you can be whole as you love others.

Napoleon Hill (Think and Grow Rich) - tap into your inner ego. Align purpose with actions.

My take - Over the years I’ve realised that good intention is more important than anything else.

Marcus Aurelius (Stoicism) - accept what we cannot control, and strengthen resilience when facing challenges. Virtue and rationality are core Stoic principles.

My take - I’ve grown to appreciate the wisdom of emotional detachment. It’s not about suppressing love or your deepest desires and drive but ensuring you don’t succumb to emotional prison that carries destructive emotions like anxiety, fear, and insecurity - as it can rule you and ruin your relationship with those around you.

The Secret (Law of Attraction) - visualise and live in a positive bubble with gratitude, till it becomes real.

My take - manifestation is great BUT those who manifest without reality check can be imposing, manipulative and egoistic.

Rhonda Byrne, in The Secret - our thoughts shape our reality

My Take - it leans towards the mystical part of manifestation, not my cup of tea.

Prayer (Christianity) - manifestation with a reality check (God’s will is the arch)

Reality transurfing - let the universe decide. Tweak your thoughts and intentions so that you can shift your energy and awareness to align with parallel realities

My take : I love the energy and universe concept, but I also believe you determine your own destiny.

Gabby Bernstein - don’t trust the universe. Trust faith, fate and divine energy

My take : I love the romantic notion of fate, but not one out of despondency. And I also deeply believe that our actions and choices shape our destiny, and this is how your soul’s call to greatness is defined.

Faith-Based Self-Help (e.g., Zig Ziglar, Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking) - trust in faith and miracles without tangible evidence.

My take : I am my father’s daughter and believe in the strength of faith especially as it provides a sense of purpose and resilience during challenging times. But faith also changes the structure of your brain so I am more realistic than mythical about it.

Tony Robbins - you decide and act on it.

My take : makes me want to run a marathon after listening to it.

David Goggins - you are 100% responsible for your life.

My take : Absolutely. But it comes with the understanding that everyone has different levels of challenges.

Jocko Willink (Discipline Equals Freedom) - rigid discipline for daily structure and self control is non-negotiable.

My take : this is my 6am - 8am motivation for pilates and sunrise walks.

Eckhart Tolle (The power of now) - live in the present, discard ego’s obsession over past or future

My take : agreed, but reflection and striving makes you whole.

Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up) - keep what “sparks joy” .

My take : Agreed. We all should definitely declutter life every now and then - remove noise or ambivalence that drains us and focus on the signal

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REMT - Albert Ellis) - logical thinking improves emotional responses.

My take : I love this. It sets the stage for modern concepts of “reframing” and “mindfulness”

Atomic Habits (James Clear) - on small, incremental improvements.

My take : I find this to be most helpful when you go through an extreme period of pain and you find it hard to carry on and so you start with small shifts until you gradually see yourself getting better.

Overall these books have similar goals - empowering yourself, strengthening your mind, resilience, growth. It depends on what you need when, for example :

self awareness & compassion - Buddhist teaching, stoicism

moments of crisis - Atomic habits, stoicism

long-term goals - think and grow rich, Tony Robbins

clarity and balance - Marie Kondo

positive mind - faith based, the secret

discipline - jocko

spirituality - Gabby Bernstein, prayer

relationship & teamwork - REBT

For all other times, a balance of these philosophies can be pretty powerful (but with a reality check)

Super helpful roundup nostr:npub1pvgcusxk7006hvtlyx555erhq8c5pk9svw57snlxujpkgnkup89sekdx8c.

Of course, once Jocko's voice gets into your head and starts saying "get up get after it" when you're lazy, or just "good" when something bad happens.... there's no turning back. 😂

Something's off today.

replacing Lucifer and his co-conspirators... as the new sons of God, through Christ.

I think we'll have some botched hybrid globalist thingy for a bit, as a fuzzy transition from USD to BTC true global reserve. It'll be uncomfortable but better than a hard transition.

When all the nations have been weakened by the collapsing hybrid globalist thingy, then they'll be ready to submit to Bitcoin. Including, and especially, the US.

Nation states happily buying up the corn and agreeing peacefully to adopt it as global reserve in some kind of gentlemanly Bretton Woods 2.0 is just fantasy. Current game theory is shore up your failing system with Bitcoin and hope everyone else falls apart before you do. Whether that's at the corporate, state, or nation level. This isn't the path that leads to utopia, but it's an important stage.

Bitcoin won't be subverted that way for long.

GM

What false hopes and phantom fears do you need to throw out today?

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"Men think about the Roman Empire every single day'.

Years ago I watched a movie series by Jim Stovall, The Ultimate Gift. Basically about teaching trust fund boy to value his inheritance before receiving it. Common theme among old money and family estates, less common to us plebs who are moving into wealth. But the 'how to endure family understand the value of what's being prepared for them' is still a good question for us to ponder. You pay off their mortgage but their mindset doesn't change, so instead of opportunity they just take on new debt for other pursuits. You set up your kids for life but they squander back to zero, or worse lose the hunger for life and achievement, ending up depressed, spoiled, or both.

These are the things that weigh on my mind.

Years ago I paid off my parents debts the fiat way. It felt good but it didn't solve the root issue that got them racking up debts in the first place.

Sigh

It's a bull run and none of you are nostalgic for Parabolic Trav?

What's wrong with you?

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I mean... it's true... somebody out there wants my pounds more than they want their bitcoin. Crazy world.

it's all about the board.

Not just the execs but the independent directors too.

You're right that's the way to go. I have to step up and become Uncle Jim, and rely on the likes of Blue for reasonable UX/UI.

I've been running a raspiblitz forever, not the most reliable hardware or intuitive software, but maybe I'll take another look in Q1.

What's your node setup nostr:nprofile1qqsxzsz83jdwztcapd2qulzhspnyjvn6jxcypvrl0w3aahp40j4smfgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn976av6t?

Discontinued the custodial wallet. Creating that same "withdraw your sats before this date or lose them forever" problem.

Which makes it harder to distinguish ourselves from the banks we love to hate on. So far, revolut hasn't messed with my fiat spending wallet, but over the same lifetime of that account I've rotated through all the wallets in my meme.

Hard to get the kids or the normies started... miss that 'Nostr + WoS' energy we had going last year.

I get the non-custodial ideal and practice that for bitcoin in cold storage. I guess I was hoping one of these services would find a sustainable business model, to enable convenience.