The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

Anthony Trollope wrote for three hours each morning, before leaving to go to his job as an executive at the post office; if he finished a novel within a three-hour period, he simply moved on to the next. (He wrote forty-seven novels over the course of his life.) The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similar

the months after I met him. His final days were afflicted

The subtext is that if you can’t make yourself feel excited and pleased about getting down to work, then you can’t get down to work.

“Is it other people that bother me? Or the judgment I make about other people?”.’ It

Constantly regard the universe as one living being10, having one substance and one soul,’

Indeed, nothing outside your own mind can properly be described as negative or positive at all.

Most of us, the Stoics point out, go through life under the delusion that it is certain people, situations, or events that make us sad, anxious, or angry.

our constant efforts to eliminate the negative – insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness – that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

a new generation of business thinkers are advising companies to drop their obsession with goalsetting and embrace uncertainty instead;