We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Many of our problems come from having too much: rapid technological disruption, junk food, traditions that tell us the way we’re supposed to live our lives. We’re soft, entitled, and scared of conflict. Great times are great softeners. Abundance can be its own obstacle, as many people can attest.
Ryan Holiday • The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
That has made us astonishingly richer, healthier, more comfortable, and more numerous, but it has also incurred a mounting
David Owen • The Conundrum
"It's hard to internalize just how good we have it because our own life experiences are our homeostasis, our base point for comparison. We read about the hardships of history, but we don't experience them. We don't feel them. How could we? Decades of war, sickness, and hardship have been reduced to paragraphs and documentaries."
Young Money • What a Time to Be Alive
