Life design
Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality.
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Life satisfaction levers / research
The â90s version of not selling out meant refusing to play certain spaces or not letting your song be in a beer commercial. The â20s version of selling out means making things in limited quantities to play against mass culture. Though different, the responses come from a similar place. Theyâre both sensing a culture where, to quote Claire L. Evans... See more
Sell out without selling out
Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel:
âHope (...) is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we... See more
âHope (...) is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we... See more
Question on rejecting the status quo:
Is it time you start living outside the box?
There's a passage from Nassim Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes that hit me hard:
"They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the
... See morePerfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loopâan obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
... See moreNo one benefits from you scrolling on your phone and feeling sad and then going to Starbucks.... See more
The antidote is figuring out what you care about, what you're good at, and what you like doing that can make the world a little bit better.
Then, really do that thing.
You canât do everything, but there are a few things you can do really well. You have to
Alex Dobrenko âą No one benefits from you scrolling and feeling sad
