read this when the mind is loud
Most trouble is caused by action. No action, no trouble. Most actions are a pursuit of emotions. You think you want to take action or own a thing. But what you really want is the emotion you think it’ll bring. Skip the actions. Go straight for the emotion. Practice feeling emotions intentionally, instead of using actions to create them. You don’t n
... See moreDerek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Emotions over action
When something bad happens, ask, “What’s great about this?” Instead of changing the world, just change your reactions.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
This is something i struggle to do but can do more of
from Peter Watts: "We're not thinking machines, we're feeling machines that happen to think."
We are highly judgmental survival-and-replication machines. We constantly walk around thinking, “I need this,” or “I need that,” trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something. In that abse
... See moreTim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Definition of happiness
Haruki Murakami on how our challenges shape us:
"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.&q
... See moreJames Clear • 3-2-1: The Secret to Creativity, How Our Challenges Shape Us, and the Value of Bad Workouts
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, of one's own investigation, one's own integrity and honesty, but also it implies that your motive in following is the reward. And truth is not a reward. If one is to understand it, any form of reward and punishment must be totally set aside. Authority implies fear. And to discipline onese... See more
This light in oneself
“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said.
We're never going to be perfect—there is no such thing. We’re human. So instead, we should aim for progress, even the smallest amount.
Daily Stoicx.comLimiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope,’ he says, ‘and you will cease to fear.’
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Desire controls fear. Limit desire and limit fear
I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more