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How to Want Less
Laura Bernier and added
happiness less as a goal and more as a by-product of mastery and meaning.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- The most unsparingly pessimistic of philosophers, Arthur Schopenhauer, seems to have seen the emptiness of this sort of life as an unavoidable result of how human desire functions. We spend our days pursuing various accomplishments that we desire to achieve; and yet for any given accomplishment—attaining tenure at your university, say—it’s always t... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added