Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing” – The Marginalian
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Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of “Do the Next Right Thing” – The Marginalian
Wise up - Jordan Harbinger
When you don’t know what to do in a given situation, oftentimes the best thing you can do is to just do something.
Why?
Because doing something — even if it’s not right or perfect or brilliantly executed — has a way of cutting through paralysis.
Doing something also removes the anxiety of an open loop. It eliminates the
... See morePHILOSOPHER: All you can do with regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in. On the other hand, what kind of judgement do other people pass on that choice? That is the task of other people, and is not a matter you can do anything about.
Fumitake Koga • The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness
Taken together, Jung’s ideas about happiness and his five pillars of well-being stand up solidly to modern research findings. I propose this practical seven-point summary:
... See more1. Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.
2. Manage as best you can the main sources of misery in your life by attending to
whoever longs for things that are not within his power, or seeks to avoid them, can neither be trustworthy nor free, but must necessarily be subject to change, and be tossed in all directions along with those things, and is inevitably placing himself under the domination of other people, namely, those who can secure or prevent such things; [20] and
... See moreEpictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
But how can I attain the knowledge of the heart? You can attain this knowledge only by living your life to the full. You live your life fully if you also live what you have never yet lived, but have left for others to live or to think.