There Is No Tiger Tee
Stress is supposed to be acute, sudden, and temporary in nature. Humans are designed to stay busy surviving, not worrying about likes on Instagram. When a threat shows up, we’re supposed to handle it head-on and either survive it or, well, get eaten.
Mo Gawdat • Unstressable: A Practical Guide to Stress-Free Living
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to d
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Fact-Based Fear and Thought-Based Fear
Laurence Endersen • Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices Make All The Difference
Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits, one of which is a fixation with tribal-style social survival in a world where social survival is no longer a real concept. We’re all here in 2014, accompanied by a large, hungry, and easily freaked-out woolly mammoth who st... See more