Human behavior
How we think and feel
Human behavior
“The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority.”
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
Viktor E. Frankl
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty w he t he r in a similar situation he might not have done t he same.
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gradually discovered that ninety-nine percent of the things I worried about never happened.
Dale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
40% DECLINE
...from the 1970s to the 1990s in the number of Americans who attended even one public meeting on town or school affairs in the previous year
...from the 1970s to the 1990s in the number of Americans who attended even one public meeting on town or school affairs in the previous year
JOIN OR DIE: A movie about why you should join a club
community is important. It is declining.
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
Curiosity is a stance well suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or dislike—whereas the stance of demanding a certain result is frustrated each time things fail to go your way.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
“The child says: ‘When I am a big boy.’ But what is that? The big boy says, ‘When I grow up.’ And then, grown up, he says: ‘When I get married.’ But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to ‘When I’m able to retire.’ And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;
... See moreDale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
Modern capitalism is a pro at two things: generating wealth and generating envy.