Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
Once the vessel starts to crack open, the end becomes inevitable … But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time what we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs.
-Quentin Jacobsen
Do the cracks start forming as soon as were born?
from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 302
Philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote that the self is made through story. Not a fixed thing, but an unfolding—stitched together by time, memory, retelling. When you stop telling the story, the self begins to fade.
Lauren Razavi • You Can’t Live Everywhere: What Comes After the Plot Collapses
What you find interesting is a better predictor of success than what you’re good at.
Curiosity isn’t random; it’s a compass.
-Shane Parrish, Brain Food #627
Where does your curiosity lead you?
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
Replace brackets with your own project
from acknowledgements in Morning Star
One of the worst things you can do to yourself is assume you can’t do something.
Assume you can do a pull-up. Assume you can bake a cake. Assume you can found a company.
The past is a teacher, not a judge. Your next move matters more than your last mistake.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #631
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
-Steve Jobs