Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
When I see people described as progressive but they spend more energy hating the rich (e.g. landlords) versus helping people (e.g. pushing for more market rate housing), I’m reminded that people love being cruel while protected by the cloak of righteousness.
X. It’s what’s happening
Confucius says you have two lives, and the second one begins when you realize you only have one. When and how did your second life begin?
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
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.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
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
... See moreKay Redfield Jamison • An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
People pay to see others believe in themselves.
“I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS” (FROM A LYRIC BY GLENN BRANCA)
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
In general, even the worst atrocities typically have been committed not simply because they are bad but as a side effect of other actions or as a means to some other end.
William MacAskill • What We Owe the Future
It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.