Quotes & Ideas
Create And Move Toward A Goal To Experience Positive Emotion
There are different types of positive emotion, but enthusiasm and joy — not to be confused with satiation — are fully dependent on observing progression toward a valued goal. Separately, the feeling of satiation, or obtainment, occurs when you obtain something you want and feel satisfied. ... See more
There are different types of positive emotion, but enthusiasm and joy — not to be confused with satiation — are fully dependent on observing progression toward a valued goal. Separately, the feeling of satiation, or obtainment, occurs when you obtain something you want and feel satisfied. ... See more
Mondays of Meaning
And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.
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What just happened
mail.google.comIf you get to where you wanted to go, something’s gone wrong.
Riley Brewster - Artist Commenting on the process of creating art
Happiness Is Not Pleasure. I Kill Pleasure.
In a conversation with the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the philosopher Simon Critchley began to define happiness as synonymous with pleasure. “I have to say,” Hoffman intervened, “you’re starting to define happiness in a way that pertains to pleasure. But I would definitely say that pleasure is not happ... See more
In a conversation with the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, the philosopher Simon Critchley began to define happiness as synonymous with pleasure. “I have to say,” Hoffman intervened, “you’re starting to define happiness in a way that pertains to pleasure. But I would definitely say that pleasure is not happ... See more
SIX at 6: The Inverted-U, Killing Pleasure, The Goldilocks Zone, Too Much Cake, Immigrants To Wealth, and Enough
Billy Oppenheimer
“The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.” —Marie Kondo
A System for Tidying Your Home [5S Method]
Space, environment, Future self
An illustrated spell against indifference, a heron's antidote to fear of death, John Berger on the avenging heroes among us and the power of art
mail.google.comWe are broken things, amongst other broken things. We are imperfect and characterised by our capacity to fuck things up, yet still we can move incrementally towards the greater good. This serves as grounds for both self-forgiveness and hope, and reflects our inherent human loveliness.
We all have a job to do, and it is urgent business. We must make... See more
We all have a job to do, and it is urgent business. We must make... See more