Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
If you don't believe in yourself, why should I believe in you?
-Coach Greg Harden
from Brain Food #664
pursuing rabbit holes is not always an act of procrastination. Sometimes, it’s simply your mind telling you to follow your curiosity.
Alexi Gunner • Research as a form of pattern disruption
Last fall, I ran a half marathon through New York City with 200 strangers. Two hundred crazies in running shorts treating the streets like our personal track. A local running club organized it the night before the NYC Marathon for everyone who didn't get in. We met near 125th with no course markings or finish line. Just a handful of checkpoints and
... See moreServe something greater than yourself.
-Paul Bascobert
Change your mindset from backseat nap-taker—give up phrases—to be the driver:
That’s just who I amvs this is who I choose to beIt is what it isvs it is what I allow it to be
from Paul Bascobert’s Kettering University 2023 commencement speech
When coming to a fork in your life journey—any fork—ask yourself these two questions:
Can I tolerate the worst case scenario?
Will this be an interesting life experience?
from Paul Bascobert’s Kettering University 2023 commencement speech
The day you stop worrying about with other people think is the day that you begin living your life.
-Paul Bascobert
my italics; from Kettering University 2023 commencement speech
It may not surprise you that your life journey is the net sum of all the choices that you make along the way. What might surprise you though is that where most people mess up is not making the good or bad life choices, it’s actually missing the choices that pass them—unnoticed—as they barrel through life.
-Paul Bascobert
my bold; from Kettering University 2023 commencement speech
All the time that you spend complaining about something comes at the expense of improving where you are
from The Knowledge Project podcast episode about Jim Clayton