Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
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Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
the pressure to be happy. Most of us feel that way once in a while. If you feel like you haven’t made any meaningful difference in the world, consider that you could achieve meaning through devotion to a certain cause, starting out small in your neighborhood. Take your time, and you will make a difference in the long run. The second part of the
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The first insight from the science of happiness is that people overestimate the role of success in their own happiness. The joy of a big promotion, marriage, or a first child is relatively short-lived. It is not a big win that brings happiness. Rather, it’s the small things in life, like having a coffee with your best friend every day, that build
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A psychologically rich life is not for everyone. It suits the curious more than the content.
Shigehiro Oishi • Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
hole. As she read more about Buddhist philosophy, she noticed a similarity in its ideas to David Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, and she began to wonder if there were Eastern roots in the Western Enlightenment. So began her quest to link Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit missionary to Tibet who wrote about Buddhism in 1728, with David Hume, who
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Novelty: there’s something different from the same old, same old. Diversity: a wide range of attention and emotion is deployed. Challenge: life is more difficult and complex than usual. Memorable: life is vivid. Above all, you learn something new. You gain some new perspective.
Shigehiro Oishi • Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
consider the ultimate antisocial behavior, terrorism. The criminologist Simon Cottee argues that one of the main reasons people join terrorist organizations is the desire for ultimate meaning:
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Like Raymond Carver, Jane Kenyon writes about her routines in her poem “Otherwise.” She gets out of bed, eats breakfast, has lunch, takes a nap, eats dinner, and sleeps. Nothing special, except that she might have been unable to get out of bed, unable to do all the routines.
Shigehiro Oishi • Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
shopping. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes, “What you need is a gramme of soma,” a pill that has “all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.” Personally, when I feel down, I listen to my favorite songs. Sometimes I even sing along. Other times, I talk to my wife. If she’s not around, I just take a nap.