Every dress you own is a loaded gun
Tommi shares his nuggets of wisdom (my translation):
I have been observing people and especially that one special thing called emotional life. The conclusion is clear: emotions are nothing but whining and chaos that annoys other people. Stop it, please. You don't need to be ashamed of this, since shame is unfortunately an emotion, so it is enough that you just stop.
Computer programming, chess, stamps and insects each are vastly richer fields of thought than everyday life, human relationships and politics. Not everybody practises the former because these fields require knowledge. There are no king roads into them. At school they teach you that you shouldn't be interested about anything except other people, since otherwise you become a nazi.
Most mental problems are due to lack of data the same way physical problems are due to lack of exercise. Internalizing new knowledge is usually hard work, but you can't stop thinking. Everybody should have experienced this already.
If no new data arrives, your brain starts recycling the old data. Reinterpret it, as they say. Data that was previously tidy gets mushed into an inconvenient form that is difficult to visualize. Your brain gets fragmented, but no new information is added.
People who are curious or who lead otherwise data-intensive lives have surprisingly few psychic problems, even if the everyday lives of most of them are pretty frustrating.
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