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One of the biggest enemies of a healthy mind is uniformity (lacking diversity or variation in its interactions). That is, having a homogenous interaction with the world and filtering out everything that does not fit one’s interests.

Imagine a John Doe who only watches horror movies, listens only to country music, eats only chicken, watches TV on a single network, spends all his vacations in Jamaica and all his friends are white, middle-class people from Madrid, Spain - and they have the same interests as him. Other than missing out on many of life’s experiences, this person is also narrowing down his outlook on life and the world around him. And not only will he be useless as the member of a focus group or as a consultant, but he will miss ideas that have the potential to improve him and his life, or the life of others.

Avoiding it sounds simple; living a diverse life. But it is a little too simple perhaps, because many of us overlook it’s importance quite often.

Try not to be like the John Doe in my example.

Avoid homogenous films, TV, music, food, people, books, sex, games, sports and places. Experience life by doing things you don’t usually do, spend time with people you don’t usually spent time with, practice some sport that you don’t usually practice, go somewhere you wouldn’t usually go and so on.

In human history, it’s only been recently that our lives turned to be so predictable. Not saying it as a critique, but the more options we get when it comes to choosing what we interact with, the higher the probability of us making wrong decisions regarding those choices. We are capable of more interesting and creative lives than our modern cultures often provide for us.

Go out of our way to find diverse experiences; waiting for them is just not enough.

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The relationship between money and human happiness is a simple one.

The happiness created by money is abstract happiness (the emotion induced by an increasing amount of goal-achievement), and one turns to it when he no longer is unable of enjoying the real happiness (which is a matter of experience of the mind, or soul).

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and best of a life are devoted to earning that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. - Albert Camus

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People with brilliant minds and extraordinary capacities think little of admitting or exposing their weaknesses and faults. For them, they represent something for which they have paid, something that they deserve to have. They might even feel that their errors do them honor and help define them better.

On the other hand there are the mediocre minds, who would rather conceal and hide their few little faults, as they are very sensitive to any references that are made to them. This happens because the mediocre mind has another scale of values, one in which a person’s worth is defined by its lack of defects or errors, and not by its brilliant capacities or results — which is absurd, for we all know that no man is perfect. Hence, when the faults of the mediocre come to light, they are immediately held in less esteem, for they have lost that which gave them value.

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No one can know what capacities he possesses for doing, happiness or suffering, until an opportunity arises to bring them into play.

Without such opportunity, the best anyone can do is speculate. And that speculation is often times exaggerated, as almost every person wishes, hopes and dreams, or distorts the reality with other, more pessimistic ideas and beliefs.

Those preaching that human beings have unlimited capacities are both true and false at the same time. They are true in the abstract and false in practice, for in the realm of the living we all obey nature’s laws without exception.

If you want to know what you are capable of doing, don’t listen to the well-wishers or the pessimists; look for the correct opportunity to test your capacities. That will provide the only true answer.

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As Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, once wrote, “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

That most of us misunderstand happiness and look for it in the wrong places is not an unknown fact. We constantly suffer its illusion and blindly try to grasp its shadow. We look for happiness in the real world, in the ‘real’ realm of existence.

But the real world has many laws — natural and unnatural — which we must unceasingly overcome, and however fair, pleasant and happy we may be in it, we’re always moving controlled by them.

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