2. Alcohol isn't all bad - it's about balance & connection.
Hold on! Let me explain.
The worst thing for longevity isn't the occasional drink - it's stress.
And trying to be perfect all the time? That's lame.
The key is enjoying today while taking care of your future self.
2. Alcohol isn't all bad - it's about balance & connection. Hold on! Let me explain. The worst thing for longevity isn't the occasional drink - it's stress. And trying to be perfect all the time? That's lame. The key is enjoying today while taking care of your future self.
trivial. In an ideal world, we would all have healthy stress-coping mechanisms and drink minimally, having one to two drinks per week at most—but we also aren’t living stress-free existences, frolicking through the woods and picking berries all day either.
Paul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
My active drinking career highlighted a lot of things I didn’t know how to do:
- Be honest with myself.
- Understand my own motivations and needs.
- See my proper place in the world.
- Appreciate my own quirks.
- Believe that I’m enough for the world, as-is.
substack.com • Do the Thing You Don't Know How to Do - By T.B.D.
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Which is -- you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book,
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Your elusive creative genius
Visakan Veerasamy added
In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth. From this perspective, idleness isn’t merely forgivable; it’s practically an obligation. “If the satisfaction of an old man drinking a glass of wine counts for nothing,” wrote Simone de Beauvoir, “then production and wealt
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to ... See more
Simon Sarris • In Praise of the Gods
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This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life
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