Eudaimonia & Wellbeing
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has assessed the connection between peopleās habits and their subsequent well-being since the late 1930s.... See more
The happiest, healthiest people in old age didnāt smoke (or quit early in life), exercised, drank moderately or not at all, and stayed mentally active , among other patterns. But these habits pale in
Patricia Mou ā¢ [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole š³š issue no.34
āYes, Iām ambitious,ā a friend told me recently, ābut climbing the corporate ladder does not interest me like it used to. A title, a bump in payāitās not satisfying. What I need to feel successful and fulfilled is completely different. Am I doing something that brings satisfaction? Do I feel like Iām learning? Do I feel like Iām contributing? Do I... See more
Patricia Mou ā¢ [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole š³š issue no.34
Poetry as religion
podcasts.apple.comwe are allowed to know peace, to feel ease, to experience softness and deem it sacred. we are allowed to be well without needing to earn it through agony.
The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.
What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?
How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the
... See morelove the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even... See more