recovery

Defender • Tweet

Addiction is a progressive narrowing

of the things that bring you pleasure.

Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively.

The latter takes work.

Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. • Tweet

"Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing.

Same direction. Completely different energy."

3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love

The fear of making mistakes is a particularly strong dampener on one’s learning. You can’t learn if you can’t make mistakes. I like the idea that mastery is simply a very intimate understanding of all the possible mistakes one could make.

Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding

Embed future in today. Action bias in here and now. And weave time to unleash compounding. Small steady steps in right direction

I notice this pattern constantly with my hypertrophied left hemisphere coaching clients: they're paralyzed needing to understand before they trust. But transformation happens when we trust without reason…understanding (may) arise later.

Daniel Thorson x.com

At a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people

I remember when marijuana was medically legalized in Los Angeles. I would see massive lines out the door of dispensaries in my neighborhood. Looking at everyone waiting for their kush, I’d ask myself, “Are all these people really here for ‘medical’ usage? This feels more like legalizing mass addiction to cope with depression, anxiety and god knows... See more

Tucker Walsh on Substack

"All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions."

-- W.B. Yeats