Christina
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Christina
The bottom line is not whether a thought is positive or negative, true or false, pleasant or unpleasant, optimistic or pessimistic, but whether it helps you create a fulfilling life.
Russ Harris • The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living
fear • anger • shock • disgust • sadness • guilt • love • joy • curiosity. You have just read a list of the nine basic human emotions, from which all others are derived by combination. (At least, this is what many scientists believe—it’s still the subject of considerable debate.)
Russ Harris • The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living
Creativity is not efficient . What is efficient is enjoying your creative process.
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Four of his predecessors had predeceased in this very building.
Terry Pratchett • Going Postal: The hilarious novel from the fantastically funny Terry Pratchett (Discworld series Book 33)
The three basic steps of expansion are: observe your feelings, breathe into them, and allow them to come and go.
Russ Harris • The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living
Do we really need to say that the only viable way for making a difference in the world has to be from this place of deficit? Do we all have to be what psychologists call “insecure overachievers” who are doing lots of things in the world but doing them fundamentally to fill a void or plug a hole?
So where I’m headed with all of this is to try to... See more
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Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here.
The philosopher Kieran Setiya divides our activities into two categories: telic and atelic . Telic activities are those that we do for their end product. The purpose of telic activities is to get to the end. But atelic activities are those we do to do them. The purpose of atelic activities is that the process of doing them has value.
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How to Feel Good About Going Slow
these control strategies have three significant costs: 1. They take up a lot of time and energy and are usually ineffective in the long run. 2. We feel silly, defective, or weak-minded because the thoughts/feelings we’re trying to get rid of keep coming back. 3. Many strategies that decrease unpleasant feelings in the short-term actually lower our
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