Human behavior

Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.

“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

Creativity is the opposite of anxiety. While anxiety stems from uncertainty and lack of control, creativity channels that uncertainty into optimism.

for example, a depressed brain will show up in cold, brain-inactive deep blues, dark purples, and hunter greens; the same brain when hypomanic, however, is lit up like a Christmas tree, with vivid patches of bright reds and yellows and oranges. Never has the color and structure of science so completely captured the cold inward deadness of

Not knowing how near the truth is, people seek it far away.

Hakuin Ekaku

Barking Up the Wrong Tree by Eric Barker

When you take a job take a long look at the people you're going to be working with-because the odds are you're going to become like them; they are not going to become like you. You can't change them. If it doesn't fit who you are, it's not going to work.