Human behavior

How we think and feel

"A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a... See more

goodreads.com • Search Results for "Mark Twain"

It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.

David Foster Wallace • The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.”

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

Rob Henderson on X

To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.

David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship

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Writer and activist James Baldwin on the power of reading:

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been

I have over a decade’s worth of eating disorder experience at this point. There were the anorexic years, the binge-eating ones, and the current bulimic ones. The more experience I’ve got, the more I recognize that the body is hardly a reliable reflection of what’s going on inside it.

Jennette Mccurdy • I'm Glad My Mom Died

Notes From Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter

J. R. Moehringer

I am a part of all that I have met.” It might’ve been that first night, or another, but at some point I shared that line from Tennyson, and Andre loved it.

Daily Review | Readwise

“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”

James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com

“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more