lifestyle
What is worthwhile?
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At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Low expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we aim high, we’ll get better results.
Ted Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
Having a strong sense of controlling one’s life is a more dependable predictor of positive feelings of wellbeing than any of the objective conditions of life we have considered.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
"The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous
... See moreOne of the most interesting lessons I’ve learned along the way is how much in the world of business happens just because it has always been that way. For us setting off to build a sustainable product and socially conscious business from the start, we’ve run into tons of pushback that when you dig into it is just there because that's how people are... See more
Conner Tidd, Co-Founder, Just Vertical
To neglect any one of the three marriages is to impoverish them all, because they are not actually separate commitments but different expressions of the way each individual belongs to the world.
David Whyte • The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you
-rumi
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.