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Problems. When we think in terms of problems (rather than solutions), it’s a way to avoid having to take on new, potentially frightening challenges.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
feeling is not emotion. Emotion is a short-term experience that peaks and burns rapidly. Feeling is a long-term, pervasive, sentient background that colors whole days, weeks, even years of our lives.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is “solving.” If you’re avoiding your problems or feel like you don’t have any problems, then you’re going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can’t solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in
... See more95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.
You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
Joe Hudsonx.com
There wasn’t much laughter in my childhood. Misery is so comfortable that I sometimes create a crisis where there is none.