happiness
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happiness
Things you control:
Your effort.
Your beliefs.
Your identity.
Your actions.
Your attitude.
Your integrity.
Your thoughts.
The food you eat.
How kind you are.
The media you read.
How reflective you... See more
nametwitter.comThe happiness that someone like Mark misses is unreal and unhealthy. He needs to learn to want a different type of relative happiness – that is, a state of reasonable contentment, with intermittent joy and pain, which, unlike the myth of a permanent bliss, can potentially be achieved. Switching from one goal to the other will involve a process of... See more
Rafa Euba • As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen how chasing happiness leads to misery | Psyche Ideas
The Psychology of Your Future Self and How Your Present Illusions Hinder Your Future Happiness
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgOliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
theguardian.comtheguardian.com
When I say you’re not getting your joy back, I mean that you’re looking in the wrong direction. What brought you joy in the past might not be what brings you joy in the future. And looking to recreate the past holds the risk of speedrunning you right back to the present. So when you say that you now loathe what you used to love that might be your... See more
How to get your joy back
the more attention we need to pay to things outside of ourselves, the less time we have to dwell on the monsters inside our heads