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So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself
- Whenever you chicken out, you don't just feel the pain of cowardice; you miss out on the pleasure of courage.
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Isaac Friedman-Heiman added 4mo ago
- It's scary to admit that you can't control the future; it's a lot easier to distract yourself by trying to optimize every decision, no matter how insignificant.
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 4mo ago
- every moment I dither is a moment I suffer
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 4mo ago
- About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See morefrom So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
sari added 4mo ago
- You know how, when you go up in a tall building and look down at the street, everybody looks not just small, but kind of silly? Like, “Aww, look at those tiny little guys, walking around in their suits like they're people! They don't even know they're so small!”
This is how other people's problemslook to me. A friend will tell me, “I'm stressed!” an... See morefrom So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
sari added 4mo ago
- About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.
The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See morefrom So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 4mo ago
- People will sometimes approach me with projects I don't really want to do. But if I do them, those people will smile and shake my hand and go, “We feel positive emotions, and it's because of you!” and that will feel good. So I often end up signing on to these projects, feeling resentful the whole time, cursing myself for choosing—freely!—to work ha... See more
from So You Wanna De-Bog Yourself by Adam Mastroianni
Agalia Tan added 4mo ago