Daytrading...oof

Having a kid with autism.

Realizing how small of a speck I am in this vast universe.

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.

Attending BBB and meeting insanely rad people who were themselves incredibly humble.

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...

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

Every fuckup I have done during traveling

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😂🫡

Competing at the BJJ world championship.

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.

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?

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!

Getting bullied as a kid.

I wouldn't advocate for bullying as it definitely maladjusted me but it did force a reflexive self-consciousness.

Discovering how dependant on nicotine I was. Revelations like that really will open your eyes and bring you back down to earth.

Math

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.

The Lightning network

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.

YHVH.

Willie Nelson “Stardust” Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXYtymba2g&list=FLbk9PNlHdaVmzd0vHigdfNw&index=6

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.

Seeing a volcano erupting repeatedly from a boat not too far away. Makes you feel incredibly small....

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.

Gazing at the Sky