146: Only tired in your head

Feeling tired is a mental issue, in other words: Tiredness happens inside your head. You are tired because you think you are tired. It also means that you can overcome feeling tired by thinking you’re not.

Obviously, you can be really tired because of lack of sleep. But I’m referring to the mental fatigue you experience when your moral is low, lazy to start or slow in your execution (slower than you like).

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145: You are no better than a dog

I’m a fan of individualism with sympathies for libertarianism („Libertarismus“). I like the responsibility an individual has to build a strong democracy.

Yet, I want to make you aware of the possible limitations of yourself with regard to your recurring patterns of behavior. When I learned about the fact [1] that you react to particular situations in a certain way and you have a way of doing things, your behavior is foreseeable. You’re like a dog who stems from a particular race whose patterns I can look up on an online encyclopedia.

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144: Observe your human-ness (and preserve it)

From my own experience, I know that working a lot and being productive you can easily be in a robotic mode where you function like a factory, you standing in an assembly line.

Don’t forget you’re not a robot (yet! haha), let your human-ness shine through despite all the duties, responsibilities and goals you have. Preserve you approachability as a human and sustain your human-ness.

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