Adam Mundorf : Philosophical and Financial : Thoughts and Musings

  Whether It's Fat or Muscle Mass, You're Consuming More than Your Fair Share By Adam Mundorf Whether It's Fat or Muscle Mass, You're Consuming More than Your Fair Share Is being big ethical?  This is a question I ask myself often.  Gaining weight purposefully, means that a person is taking in more resources than needed to sustain themselves.  If our survival or our occupation doesn't depend on us being a certain weight, then what's going on?  Shoveling in food you don't need just to be bigger than the guy next door or to impress someone at the beach.  It seems rather empty doesn't it?  This becomes apparent especially when it comes to the consumption of animals.  We are robbing a life just for the vain pursuit of appearance or attention.  Just some things to think about.   Hypertrophy is Largely Unnecessary As soon as I learned how unnecessary hypertrophy was for a long and fruitful life, is when I stopped pursing it.  Nobody ...

One or Two Big Ideas that Stick with you for Life Subjects and my Sparknotes for Them Professionals do the Basics Better By Adam Mundorf "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." -- William of Occam One or Two Big Ideas  that Stick with you for Life Philosophy isn't about lots of boring ideas; it's about one or two very big ideas, which stick with you for life.  There is a saying that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and as I get older, this truth becomes more and more apparent.  Most of us especially of my generation remember having a big book report coming up and all we wanted were the 'sparknotes'.  Sparknotes gives you the meat and potatoes of the book you're reading and eliminates all of the unnecessary information.  In the following section I will list some popular subjects and religions that people overcomplicate.  I will provide you with my sparknotes for them and hopefully you will realize how simple life r...

Parable of the Drowning Man Prayer is Laziness (Unless....) Thoughts and Prayers Don't Build Wells - Hard Work and Money Does By Adam Mundorf Parable of the Drowning Man There is a story that is often told in churches about a man who prays to God to save him from floods.  He has offers from people in rowboats and helicopters to get him saved from the flood.  He refuses each one and says God will save him.  He eventually drowns in the water and goes to heaven.  He asks God : "Why didn't you save me?"  God said : "I tried!  I sent you rowboats and helicopters to save you but you turned each one down."   The moral of the story is that God helps those who help themselves.  How selfish is it to wish for change but not get to work with your own two hands.  What makes you deserving of handouts when you put forth no effort yourself? Prayer is Laziness (Unless....) In my opinion, people use prayer as a form of procrastination and laziness instead...

Why I Like Being Alone : Being Alone vs Lonely Not Everyone Needs a Companion : Toxic Relationships Time By Adam Mundorf "With a crowd of one there is no one to complain or groan, no self-consciousness, no dividing of attention, no one to impress." -- Dave Draper Why I Like Being Alone : Being Alone vs Lonely There is a difference between being alone and being lonely.  Being alone for me means freedom of time, movement and emotion.  I can do as I please, when I want.  I can organize my rooms how I want.  I can do what I want.  Being alone provides freedom to do as I please.  Somewhere along the line people thought that being alone meant being lonely but the truth couldn't be further.  While I do have some self diagnosed health/psychological issues that keep people at bay (especially romantic partners), I am mostly alone by choice.   I find a certain calm when I have a day without plans, a day without structure and a day without obligation.  O...

I Love the Supreme Courts Decisions Toe the Line - Right to Refuse - Abortion - Affirmative Action - Harmful Cultures - Quote from Swami By Adam Mundorf I Love the Supreme Courts Decisions Man, call me a bigot but I love each and everyone of the supreme court's recent decisions.  I'll explain my viewpoints in the following paragraphs.  Hopefully, I can change your mind about something or you may already hold my viewpoints.  I have found that privately people agree but publicly they wouldn't dare, for free of retribution.  If we as Americans, can't hold opposing views and still be civil, what hope do we have of progress?  Anywho, enjoy the following.... Toe the Line Wake up and smell the roses.  I have no fear, no anxiety and never look over my shoulder.  Why do you ask?  I toe the line.  I pay my taxes.  I follow the rules.  I follow the laws.  I follow the rules and laws while expecting everybody else to do the same. Life is e...

What I learned from 29 to 30 By Adam Mundorf What I Learned from 29 to 30 Hm, welp another year has passed and my life couldn't be better.  I am in good health, money in the bank and a roof over my head.  The above things are due to my decisions and actions.  Not once have I worried about an invading nation, a famine, a drought or where my next meal was coming from.  The above things have to do with luck.  The biggest lesson I learned was that our problems aren't really problems at all.  Growing up and living in America is living life on easy mode provided you don't self harm yourself through bad decisions.  We obviously don't all grow up with the same opportunities provided to us BUT if we take responsibility for our actions, realize we start where we are, we can become anything we want. Things aren't perfect but America is pretty darn close.  There is a reason why there are endless lines of people trying to get in but so few are trying to leave....

  The Accumulation Mindset - The Fat Cat Cluttered Mind - Cluttered Car By Adam Mundorf The Accumulation Mindset I first learned of the accumulation mindset from my friend and mentor, Steve Maxwell.  He mentioned how many of life's issues come from feelings of insecurity, inadequacy and the empty pursuit of more.  At the time, it really didn't resonate with me because I was in the accumulation mindset myself.  I wanted more money and more things.  As I began to grow and mature, I started to see exactly what he was talking about.  Everyone has that idea in their head of the 'Fat Cat' businessman.  The man who is grotesquely obese, boisterous, smokes and lives a life of more (greed).  From the outside looking in he's materially successful but his insides show something much much different.  His health is failing, his mind is cluttered with obligation and he is committing the cardinal sin of greed.  As a matter of fact, he may fit the bill ...