No matter the level of achievement in external things, mastering oneself is the greatest one.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Learning to write well is a skill that will come useful no matter the industry.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

They (supposedly, originally, Heraclitus) say that the only true constant in life is change.

A JavaScript programmer in you might write that like this:

const life = change();

And, the trick in real life is that the function’s implementation regularly looks like this:

function change() {
    return Math.random();
}

However, when you’d try to output the value of the life constant (see it in action in JS Fiddle), it would be exactly that, a constant (no matter how many times you’d call it or output it).

Sidenote: if you’re puzzled by the fact that you can assign a function to a constant (or to a variable for that matter) before it was defined in the code, then go and learn about hoisting in JavaScript.

Now, you may write the above statement like this:

const life = function change() {
    return Math.random();
}

Now, if you call the life function (again, see it in action), it will return a different value every time you call it.

⚠️ JavaScript gurus among you may chuckle at assigning a function to a constant, but check this StackOverflow answer for its applicability – plus, you’ll learn (or, refresh your memory) about hoisting in JS.

Switching gears; the point of all this is that you can’t expect to be doing the same thing, and getting different results, and no matter what obstacles you face, the key to overcoming them is not in changing the event, but in changing yourself and how you react to it. And that itself is a process. A process that begins with the desire or acceptance to be teachable and improve for the better.

Hope you like this attempt at mixing programming with personal growth topics (for more, check my daily thoughts entries).

Stay safe, friends ❤️

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

In the case of an air pressure type emergency on the ✈️, before helping others you should put the mask on first. The same goes for helping others in any other way; help yourself first. How can you help someone with something if you yourself don’t yet know the best way of doing that something?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

This may come as a shock to learn that (as reported here – and there are many similar reports, just Google them):

Fewer than 1 in 100 stroke survivors met all seven heart-health goals identified by the American Heart Association. And just 1 in 5 met four of those goals.

James Clear wrote the other day:

If you’d like to do something bold with your life, you will have to choose to do something bold on a specific day. There is no perfect day. There is no right time. For the trajectory to change, there has to be one day when you simply make the choice.

So, I really wonder, how sick and tired of something we need to be in order to change that something for the better?

Instead of waiting for tomorrow, why not start today?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Filter bubbles have a task to keep you engaged consuming instead of increasing your education or quality of life.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Don’t expect much from x, if you’re just half-assing your commitment to it. Whatever the x may be. Go all in!

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Social media is all but making us social these days.

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

It would be an interesting experiment to let every person on this planet win a lottery and see which behavior it amplifies in them?

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.

Even when I wrote that we seemingly haven’t learned anything, and that the war should never be the solution, I still didn’t believe that it would come to today’s “news”. I thought that we, as a species, have grown above such behaviors. I only wonder where this ends, and feel sorry for all the innocent humans (on both sides) :/

This is why I write these ‘daily thoughts’ posts.