Simple happiness

Drivers of happiness

All that we have is that shout into the wind—how we live. How we go. And how we stand before we fall.

-Karnus au Bellona

from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 269

What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?

I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more

Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling

Is land a source of belongings or a source of belonging

-Robin Wall Kimmerer

You can’t outperform your attitude.

What you believe about the work shows up in how you do the work, and how you do the work determines your results.

Your Greatest Competition

Your old identity doesn't have to define your future.

-Theo Shoag

from LinkedIn post

It’s possible that one of the reasons you got on the path of mastery was to look good. But to learn something new of any significance, you have to be willing to look foolish.

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If you’re always thinking about appearances, you can never attain the state of concentration that’s necessary for effective learning and top performance.

Reliability is Magnetic

by George Leonard

It’s better to set off on an imperfect path than no path at all

Things generally don’t happen like you imagined they would—but if you don’t imagine, things generally don’t happen.

from John Green’s Paper Towns pg. 299

People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around

Find present happiness now, future happiness later

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