lifestyle

What is worthwhile?

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

Life is lived in the present moment. Don’t let the pursuit of more stop you from enjoying what you already have - enough.

Ali Abdal

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill - We make a living by what we get, but...

Toolkit to activate excitement:

Act on your highest excitement

Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)

To the best of your ability

Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it

A number of observational studies have indicated that volunteering is associated with improvements in various aspects of well-being. In some sense, volunteering and regularly participating in various volunteering activities and organizations is a commitment to repeated acts of kindness, generally directed to an important goal of improving the life... See more

Harvard University • How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research

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

101 Additional Advices

Kevin Kelly

Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive.

Daily Review | Readwise

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