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What is worthwhile?
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Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin
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
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
There is some value to serendipity, but we are overconsuming novelty and under consuming purpose
Balaji S. Srinivasan • Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
Think of life as an opportunity to create and give.
Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that person also has to learn that the experience is a viable treatment for whatever ails them psychologically.
Daily Review | Readwise
Irresistible -Adam Alter
Everything is a process. We’re always changing, growing, and developing.
Lauren & William, Co-Founders, WOYOTE
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.