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Assured Misery
Lillian Sheng and added
- Personal experience how to guarantee misery. Carson’s prescriptions for sure misery included:1) Ingesting chemicals in an effort to alter mood or perception;2) Envy; and3) Resentment.
from “How to Guarantee a Life of Misery” by Charlie Munger
Lillian Sheng and added
- Success has a nasty tendency to increase confidence more than ability. The longer it lasts, and the more it was tied to some degree of serendipity, the truer that becomes.
from Dangerous Feelings by Morgan Housel
sari added
- “Success is largely the failures you avoid.
Health is the injuries you don't sustain.
Wealth is the purchases you don't make.
Happiness is the objects you don't desire.
Peace of mind is the arguments you don't engage.
Avoid the bad to protect the good.”from Highlights From jamesclear.com by James Clear
Isaac Feldman added
A lot of people seem to have a necessary level of stress, and when their life is going well they make up imaginary problems to fill the void.
from Some Things I Think by Morgan Housel
sari added
- My third prescription for misery is to go down and stay down when you get your first, second, third severe reverse in the battle of life. Because there is so much adversity out there, even for the lucky and wise, this will guarantee that, in due course, you will be permanently mired in misery. Ignore at all cost the lesson contained in the accurate... See more
from “How to Guarantee a Life of Misery” by Charlie Munger
Lillian Sheng added