Identity
If you can see your path5 laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
This realisation is alarming at first, but it's ultimately deeply reassuring. As the UK organisation Action for Happiness likes to point out, one of the biggest causes of misery is the way we chronically "compare our insides with other people's outsides". We're all mini-New York Timeses or White Houses, energetically projecting an image of calm pro... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time
Dr. Theodore Rubin in his book Compassion and Self-Hate
Neil Fiore • The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
I solely identified with expectations that weren’t really mine, and with the stories that ran on loop in my head. I didn’t know it then, but I was aware of only a small slice of reality, one that was keeping me trapped in a body that was constantly aching and burning out, and in a mind that was full of emotional anguish, resentment, and bitterness.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
I need a permission slip to stop being so serious and afraid. I need permission to have fun today
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
the elevation of emotion over reason and of the senses over the intellect; an introspective orientation and fascination with the self; hypersensibility and heightened awareness of sentiments and moods; a keen interest in strangers and strangeness; the pose of a contrarian; a belief in community combined with a need for solitude; an appreciation for
... See moreTim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
What’s interesting about tracing the story back is that along the way, the elusive “signs” of the purpose I spent my life looking for were right in front of me
Thought Catalog • From Failure to Fresh Start
