donbachi:
Thanks.u just made my day.

softguy1:
this is awesome!!

very soon we will move to:

How to attain power,

How to make people love you

and much more...

Dpsychologist:

A paradox is a statement that may seem contradictory but can be true (or at least make sense). This makes them stand out and play an important role in literature and everyday life.

Some of the most important truths in life are contradictory on the surface. They seem like impossibilities, yet experience proves them to be obvious over and over again. It is when you look a bit deeper, beneath the surface contradictions, that the wisdom becomes glaring.
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Below are 20 paradoxes I’ve come across which are, paradoxically, still true:

1. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. Every time you gain a greater understanding, it creates even more questions than it answers.

2. The more you try to impress people, the less impressed they’ll be. Nobody likes a desperado.

2. People who can’t trust, can’t be trusted. People who are chronically insecure in their relationships are more likely to sabotage them. For one way people protect themselves from getting hurt is by hurting others first.

3. The more afraid you are of death, the less you’ll be able to enjoy life. How well you live your life is about courage.

4. The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed. Edison tried over 10,000 prototypes before getting the lightbulb right. Michael Jordan got cut from his high school team but now one of the greatest basketballer of all time. Success comes from improvement and improvement comes from failure. There’s no shortcut around it ( i have recently written a book on this)

5. The more you’re afraid to fail, the more likely you are to fail. What you are afraid of can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

6. The more something scares you, the more you should probably do it. With the exception of genuinely life-threatening or physically harmful activities, our fight-or-flight response kicks in when we’re confronted with past traumas or actualizing the self we dream of being. For instance: speaking to an attractive person, going for a job interview, public speaking, starting a business, saying something controversial, being painfully honest with somebody, etc., etc. These are all things that make you scared, and they make you scared because they are things that should be done.

7. The more you hate a trait in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding it in yourself. Carl Jung believed that characteristics in others that bother us are reflections of the parts of ourselves that we deny. For example,the man who’s insecure about his money will criticize others for theirs.

8. The less you care about others, the less you care about yourself. I know this may go against every perception you’ve ever had , but people treat people the way they treat themselves. It may not be apparent on the outside, but people who are cruel to the people around them are cruel to themselves.

9.The more available something is, the less you will want it. Humans have a strong scarcity bias. We unconsciously assume things that are scarce are valuable and things that are abundant are not. This is not the case.

10. The more choices you have, the less satisfied you are with each one. This is the “paradox of choice.” Research shows that when we’re presented with more options, we become less satisfied with any particular one we go with. The theory is that when we have so many options, we have greater opportunity costs to selecting each particular one; therefore, we’re less happy with our decision.

11. The harder you push for something, the harder it will feel to achieve. When we expect something to be difficult, we often unconsciously make it more difficult. For instance, many years ago, I assumed starting a conversation with a stranger was something that was highly abnormal and therefore “difficult.” Little did I realize all I had to do was say “Hi” and then ask a simple question; that would get me 90% of the way there. But because it felt hard, I proceeded to make it hard for myself.

12. Less is more. How can less be more? The concept is that something less complicated is often more appreciated.

13. The best way to meet someone else is to not need to be with someone else. The fact remains that the best way to find a relationship — committed or otherwise — is by not needing a relationship to be happy and investing more in yourself.

14. The more honest you are about your faults, the more people will think you’re perfect. The amazing thing about vulnerability is the more comfortable you are about not being that great, the more people will think you are.

15. The more you try to keep someone close, the further away you’ll push them. If your girlfriend feels obligated to spend her weekends with you, then the time you spend together has become meaningless. Let being with you be a choice not obligations.

16. The more you try to argue with someone, the less likely you are to convince them of your perspective. The reason for this is that most arguments are emotional in nature. They come from someone’s values or self-perceptions being violated. Logic is only used to validate those pre-existing beliefs and values. It’s rarely about the objective or logical truth as much as it is repairing people’s worldviews. For any real debate to truly exist, both parties must be making an honest concession to put their egos aside and only deal with the data. This is rare, as anyone who’s spent any time on an internet forum could tell you.

17. The more convinced someone is that they’re right, the less they probably know. There’s a direct correlation between how open a person is to differing perspectives and how much that person actually knows about any given subject. Or as the philosopher Bertrand Russell once said: “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

18. The more connected we get, the more isolated we feel. Despite being in more constant communication than ever via social media, research finds an increase in loneliness and depression in the world over the past few decades.

19. The only certainty is that nothing is ever certain. This realization almost made my head explode when I entered my tween.

20. The only constant is change. Nothing is permanent it must always change. You are not thesame person you were 10years ago.

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ubunja:
Looks like you repeated number 2.

Dpsychologist:
Here are some honourable mentions not on the list;


¶ "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" :
George Orwell was making a political statement here. Perhaps it's that the government claims everyone is equal when, clearly, that's false. Not everyone is equal before the law.

¶ Death, thou shalt die:
On the surface, this seems absurd Quite the contrary, though, what this means is that, upon death, heaven is imminent. And, in heaven, death shall die, because you are no longer at the mercy of your inevitable demise.


¶ I must be cruel to be kind : On the surface, once again, this statement doesn't seem to make much sense. The fact is that in Life if you allow yourself to be a push over its game over.

Here are others

¶ You Save money by spending it.

¶ If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing.

¶ You education begins after graduation

¶ Deep down, we are really shallow.

¶ "Men work together whether they work together or apart." - Robert Frost

¶ Here are the rules: Ignore all rules.

¶ The second sentence is false. The first sentence is true.

¶ We miss those who do not miss us.

¶ This is the beginning of the end.

Dpsychologist:
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Dpsychologist:
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