Life Not Wasted
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Life Not Wasted
As a clinician later described it to her, addiction always ends up as a “narrowing of repertoire”: life contracts to a fixation on what you can’t live without, and the rhythms of a day, a life, are engineered to secure this thing that never satisfies, is never enough.
from On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
- Addiction is a progressive narrowing
of the things that bring you pleasure.
Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.
The latter takes work.from Tweet by Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.
The life we call “normal” isn’t normal at all. A spouse and kids, a mortgage, a 9-to-5 job... who said that was life? What’s so great about working in a factory or a cubicle? You and I, who are artists and entrepreneurs, live a life that’s closer to natural, if you ask me. We migrate, too. We follow the muse instead of the sun.
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All addictions share,from Turning Pro – by Steven Pressfield by Steven Pressfield
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