Taitology

Comment from David
Time: February 11, 2008, 9:36 am

Taiter, sometimes your titles are a bit misleading.
One reads the title and starts looking at the list. But they’re not things *You’ve* learned….

Comment from Rob Moshe
Time: February 22, 2008, 12:02 pm

Being REAL is invigorating. Being fake is exhausting.

The less you judge, the more you learn.

Comment from Ang
Time: June 6, 2008, 9:55 am

Most of these are all so true. Te others I have yet to experience and I am sure they will be true also.

Comment from LilyRose
Time: June 8, 2008, 8:07 am

* Complaining is one of the few truly free pleasures in life.

* Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. That’s because by nature things only get worse in the long run

* Being “not truthful” is better than “being dishonest” which is better than “lying”. Can you think of another euphemism?

* Helping other people is asking for trouble, since no good deed goes unpunished

* Organizing a charity group is a good way to get people to give you money for nothing

* Everything I do is something that I didn’t not do

* Drugs feel great.

* Over time I get used to everything and yet still feel like it all sucks big time

* Money does not make me happy. But it makes being miserable SO much easier

* Traveling alone is a good way to get kidnapped, raped, robbed and murdered

* “Assuming is stifling” is an assumption.

* Keeping a diary makes it possible for someone to steal my deepest secrets and blackmail me with them

* Trying to look good is easier than trying to be good.

* Worrying solves nothing. Not worrying leaves you totally unprepared for it when it comes

* Material luxuries are luxurious. Material unluxuries aren’t.

* Having guts has no effect on the outcome of anything

Comment from Sausages Inc.
Time: June 9, 2008, 1:46 am

“Assuming is stifling.”

Very true but one can’t live life without assumptions unless you have the processing power of a quantum computer. Assumptions are necessary to live life, else one would have to reconsider everything a lot of times.. (for example “I assume that I will live eternally in some form of consciousness that I cannot yet understand”)

“Worrying solves nothing.”

Worrying solves everything! If one didn’t worry then one couldn’t identify any problems in life and not be able to do anything about them..

I quite like the rest of the list though, some good stuff..

Comment from The Distorted Fanatic
Time: June 9, 2008, 2:40 am

“when obscenity becomes the norm, AWAKE!”

—80s thrash band, Angkor Wat

Comment from Restless
Time: June 9, 2008, 4:16 am

I agree with some but not all:

1. Complaining is taking action.

2. Thinking that life will be better tomorrow can get you through today.

3. Being untruthful can sometimes work for you.

4. Helping others only repays when others help back.

5. Organizing a charity group isn’t always easy. Hence third world debt.

6. Not everything you do comes back to you. Hence third world debt….again.

7. Drugs are never a drag. Its you thats the drag.

8. If everything was taken for granted we would not move.

9. Heres a winning lottery ticket. Still unhappy?

10. New perspectives are gained through the eyes of others.

11. Assuming is what keeps us safe. Never over assume.

12. Personal development is achieved by doing things. Good luck with that whilst writing in a book nobody is ever going to read.

13. “Trying” anything limits life. Don’t try. Do.

14. Worrying helps keep perspective and helps you to understand what is important in your life.

15. Material Luxuries and having guts I guess I could agree
with.

Comment from The Casual Observer
Time: June 11, 2008, 8:53 am

One that no one has mentioned yet, but deserves the most credit: skeptics who comment make blogs like this interesting and worthwhile… =)

Comment from katy brown
Time: June 11, 2008, 1:57 pm

GOD WAS, GOD IS. GOD WILL BE FOR EVER AND EVER!

Comment from Liz
Time: June 11, 2008, 2:25 pm

Hmm….I think restless is stupid. I would say restless wants to just overdo what you’ve done. I agree completely with all of these. Complaining is a waste of time. It’s not even close to taking action. If you aren’t going to do anything about something, there’s no sense in complaining about it. I wrote a long post just about this on my blog.
Anyway, I agree with you. And it seems to me you are writing this more for you than for everyone else. I do that quite often. I think you’ve realized the things that make you truly happy, and whether that makes someone else happy or not is their choice, but they can’t disagree with whether it makes you happy or not.

Comment from Grant
Time: June 12, 2008, 1:03 am

Damn I quite liked your quotes, you got jacked up by commentors though. Why don’t you guys make better lists? Hopefully they will involve leaving lists you don’t like alone. Shit, that was complaining, do I have to physically force you to make the lists? Or kill someone? Well I’m not gonna.

Comment from Nathan
Time: June 12, 2008, 1:39 pm

David- (first commenter), how are these NOT things the author has learned? Haven’t we all learned these things by the end of our lives? What makes you think otherwise?

Comment from Sean
Time: June 12, 2008, 5:07 pm

Yeah, yeah, yeah. People can recycle these kinds of phrases a million times and that will never ever mean that anyone, including the recyclers, will actually live by their own little code.

Comment from Rev. Hosanna
Time: June 14, 2008, 7:10 pm

Who are we to judge another person’s wisdom learned through experience? We all learn different lessons, gain our own independent wisdom, that’s what makes this thing called life/earth so interesting…fascinating. If we all thought alike, handled life the same, coped, hoped, shared…the same…there would be no greatness. Without greatness to achieve there is nothing to obtain. Aspiration dies. When you aren’t growing, you’re dying.

Comment from Don
Time: June 15, 2008, 4:46 am

“Being not truthful works against me.”

You mean like stealing someone else’s list and posting it as “Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far?”

I think you might still have a ways to go, there.

Comment from NGOs India
Time: June 15, 2008, 9:32 pm

Great ideas, great thoughts to implement in our life.

Comment from Paddy
Time: June 16, 2008, 5:39 am

I think all the points above mean different things to different people. The purpose perhaps isn’t to say these are facts in life, but, that they are things that one person has learned through their own experiences.

Everyone leads different lives, some more different than others and that diversity develops different meanings for different things for different people. Any of the points aren’t factually, but, interpretable. I like to think Sagmeister is sharing some of himself with us, not telling us anything.

Either way, I think it’s great to talk about these things, whatever your opinion. Thinking and especially developing your own thoughts, understanding and opinion is healthy

Comment from Kendown
Time: June 17, 2008, 4:03 pm

Wow, LilyRose, hope you’re being funny. Although, I am not worrying about you.

Comment from Hindi Newspaper
Time: June 21, 2008, 3:18 am

Thanky you Adam Tait for your tips to make the life better and peaceful.
Keep it up.

Comment from ntfaulkner
Time: June 29, 2008, 8:15 pm

Designer Stefan Sagmeister,
You have learned these things from the Tao, you are on the 5th of seven levels. Keep on your quest, you are on a path of greatness and you should let no one, including others that discount your findings, keep you from what you think.

Namaste,
Nathan