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What is worthwhile?
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In this new book, Han describes the deleterious effects of that degeneration on storytelling. Storytelling used to bind us communally over the campfire; it connected us to our pasts and helped us imagine hopeful futures. The digital screen has replaced that fire, making us individuals performing factitious versions of ourselves to unseen peers,... See more
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stuartjeffries • The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
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
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.
A Harvard psychologist once asked Amos Tversky why he became a psychologist. “It’s hard to know how people select a course in life,” he said. “The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices tell us more about who we are. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet. Who we marry may depend on... See more
SIX at 6: The Seemingly Frivolous, Reading A Tongue, Experiencing A Spoon, Authenticating Paintings, The Systematic Choices, and Great Revelations
“The child says: ‘When I am a big boy.’ But what is that? The big boy says, ‘When I grow up.’ And then, grown up, he says: ‘When I get married.’ But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to ‘When I’m able to retire.’ And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;
... See moreDale Carnegie • How to stop worrying & start living
"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin
French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:
"All sins are attempts to fill voids."
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Viktor E. Frankl
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.
Daily Review | Readwise
For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.