Human Condition
One marker that I’m seeing someone clearly is when I understand how their strengths are also their weaknesses, how their genius lives right next to their dysfunction. I know that I’m further away from clarity when I am overly excited or overly skeptical.
Graham Duncan Blog • What’s going on here, with this human?
... See moreThis helps explain why why stuffing your life with pleasurable activities so often proves less satisfying than you’d expect. It’s an attempt to devour the experiences the world has to offer, to feel like you’ve truly lived — but the world has an effectively infinite number of experiences to offer, so getting a handful of them under your belt brings
Don’t worry, I won’t tell you to abandon your goals and detach yourself from desire. I’m just observing that even if you achieved your goals, you’d need to make a huge number of decisions to convert them into a “life” and then (hopefully) happiness. And people don’t seem to think much about those decisions.
dynomight • Nobody optimizes happiness
I think one of the most frustrating things in the world is being lazy ambitious. having dreams but no drive. having all the ideas in your head but doing absolutely nothing about them. it’s exhausting, honestly. to want something so badly and still not move a finger. to tell yourself “i’ll start tomorrow” and then repeat that same sentence for... See more
Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive.
Ayesha Khan • 6 things to do to navigate an existential crisis & find meaning
i’ve found it incredibly difficult to come to terms with the fact that people can just come and go out of our lives and all we are left with is grief and loss. most of the people we meet in life are just passing moments. you’ll know them for a brief period before they are a stranger again and there’s nothing you can do about this. you don’t want to
... See moreSomewhere in the future, your today is the good old days. There is a good chance later in life, you want to live your today’s good old days, despite its shortcomings.
Stoic #1: Use Prospective Retrospection to Minimize Future Regret
