Climbing Mt. Whitney in California...the first real mountain I ever hiked.
Seeing one of the most skilled and famous architects, Mimar Sinan, laid to rest in the small corner outside Süleymaniye Mosque humbled me.
Most likely, many people walk past his tomb without even noticing it, yet many are amazed by his beautiful work.
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This is only one of his beautiful works - he built more than 300+ buildings in his lifetime.
People used to build cool things without any high-tech tools, yet they lasted for hundreds of years.
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Daytrading...oof
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im sure many (me) can relate
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There's no hiding from reality there.
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Having a kid with autism.
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That's some proof of work right there. All the best my friend.
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Thank you, tough stuff sometimes.
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I know your feels.
I also have a four years son with autism.
There is a suspicious on me too, but for me doesn't matter anymore.
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Exactly, we don't matter anymore, I mean, we are doing ok, is the fear of the uncertainty what hits harder. Mine is 6 years old, accepting him as he is without expectations is key to a happy life. At least that is what is working for me.
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Realizing how small of a speck I am in this vast universe.
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There might be a lot of cosmos out there, but there's a lot of cosmos in you, too. This is a great insight from neuroscience.
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well said, we are smaller than ants.
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Marriage, kids, looking at the stars at night, making mistakes, racing events (running, triathlon, etc), seeing others with challenges worse than my own, travel to 3rd world countries, counting blessing, etc.
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Attending BBB and meeting insanely rad people who were themselves incredibly humble.
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Trail runners, was backpacking with my wife a few years back, just a weekend trip one day in and day out to this lake at the base of mountain. We started at 6am , little after lunch time a group of kids come running down the trail, full tilt. Later learned that it was the ski team corss training, they ran the full length of the trail we just trekked , then summited that mountain and made it back to were we started, and they do that 2 a week all summer. I mapped it out and those little psychopaths ran 20+ miles with 3000+ feet elevation change...
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Completely bombing my first physics exam about a week after declaring that my major
Similarly, struggling to keep up with the first couple weeks of my econ PhD theory courses, after having moved my family and quit my job in order to go to grad school
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Every fuckup I have done during traveling
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Flying in the sky during daytime and looking at the horizon. On the top the sky, a perfect blue with a color gradient from ocean blue to blue, then the horizon, a beautiful line with color gradient from sky blue to white. I don't know if the image will get displayed but like this (I took it a couple of months ago): And this:
And also looking at the clouds in the mountains before a typhoon, I always felt humbled when I was looking at it.
Finding out the vaccine did not make me sterile. It was a good humbling though and a blessing in disguise😂🫡
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Competing at the BJJ world championship.
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RESPECT for all mountain climbers! That means now you know what is real life. Indeed, reaching a mountain summit is the most humble moment. You have in the same moment a lot of feelings.
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summiting a mountain is one of life's greatest pleasures
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The landscape is stunning.
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That is my life... where I live. I will not go to any other pace. My heart is there.
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may i ask how you uploaded that image? i see it's hosted in stacker.news (am i missing this option?)
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Use https://postimg.cc/, make a free account for convenience and you get the markdown links to post the image. SN is using full markdown format for posting. See the help in the right side square of the post space.
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oh alright, so it's not hosted in stacker.news, the image address is just a proxy to another location.. i'm aware of markdown links, thank you!
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Wow impressive. I lost to my 13yr old in chess last year (so he was 12 at the time-yikes). I don't want to talk about it. Why did you make me unearth this darkness in my life?
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Being responsible for my four children alone for a week has made me very humble towards all mothers and single parents. What a walking proof of wotk they are!
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Getting bullied as a kid.
I wouldn't advocate for bullying as it definitely maladjusted me but it did force a reflexive self-consciousness.
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Discovering how dependant on nicotine I was. Revelations like that really will open your eyes and bring you back down to earth.
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Meeting other bitcoiners. I'm constantly humbled by the amount of brillant minds in this space, who often aren't the most vocal ones. Hidden gems everywhere.
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The Lightning network
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  • Standing in front of the pyramids of Giza and realising the amazing things humans have done without modern technology
  • Getting my first major knee injury and realising im not invincible
  • Getting my heart broken for the first time and realising im not that cool
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When I found out why we achieved success in a technology development I played a key role in and how easily we could have hit a roadblock we would have been unlikely to overcome with the resources we had then. There was a huge element of luck we did not even notice until years later because of how subtle it was.
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Care to elaborate a bit? This sounds fascinating.
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Unfortunately, it is still very much an important trade secret, but I hope to see it in a museum in a couple decades :)
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Willie Nelson “Stardust” Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXYtymba2g&list=FLbk9PNlHdaVmzd0vHigdfNw&index=6
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Everything going wrong in my life. The victory is found in this scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 - And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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Seeing a volcano erupting repeatedly from a boat not too far away. Makes you feel incredibly small....
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Realizing and actually grokking the fact that a free market (in a general sense) is a distributed computer that performs a computation that no other machine can do.
It takes the BUY and SELL signals from each and every participant (billions of "nodes"!) and turns them into this magical single number per commodity that we call price.
In that moment, I realized the fallacy of all socialist thought, of all regulation, and especially of these handful of men sitting in central bank conference rooms deciding how to best use their ~12 brains in order to work better than the BILLIONS that are used in an unregulated system.
That was the day I stopped being a liberal and became a libertarian.
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Gazing at the Sky
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trial by fire!
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that one's on my bucket list still..
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