Mindset
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Mindset
Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life
Kelly McGonigal • The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and H…
“Every group of people who think for a living is going to be sad. Ignorance is bliss. So what’s the opposite?” – Chris Rock
This is an incredible insight by Jason Fried, on looking back less:
I have a theory.
One of the reasons companies have a hard time moving forward is because they've tangled themselves in the near past. Eyes aimed backwards rather than ahead, staring at the dark, feet in their own concrete.
They've trapped themselves looking for certainty where there
“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”
—Simone Weil
—Simone Weil
You cannot be an instrument of peace if you have no peace within yourself.
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
Pessimists see problems. They worry about what could go wrong in the future. Optimists see possibilities. They focus on what could go right in the future. Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future.
Adam Granttwitter.com"Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future."
Believing we’re separate, we seek control to remain safe. Releasing that belief, we discover our safety always lies in cooperation.
Dr. Steven Brownlowtwitter.com“Everything that you want is on the other side of hard.” ~Chris Paul