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Having an intense need to be alone. You’re suddenly disenchanted with the idea of spending every weekend out socializing, and other people’s problems are draining you more than they are intriguing you. This means you’re recalibrating.
the interim between knowing and doing is the space where suffering thrives.
We are programmed to seek what we’ve known.
Life did not get easier; you got smarter.
You believe that creating your best life is a matter of deciding what you want and then going after it, but in reality, you are psychologically incapable1 of being able to predict what will make you happy.
Living in the moment isn’t a lofty ideal reserved for the Zen and enlightened; it’s the only way to live a life that isn’t infiltrated with illusions. It’s the only thing your brain can actually comprehend.)
The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.
To speak definitively about any one person or idea is to be blind to the multitude of perspectives that exist on it.
you’re operating on a scarcity mindset, you’ll always be unhappy, no matter what you have or get.
Taking small steps will remind you that this is true. It will soothe you in a way that just thinking about taking action never will.