Simple happiness

Drivers of happiness

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as of you were to live forever.

-Mahatma Ghandi

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We live in a time of uncertainty which is breeding a pool of fear, a fear that is leading us to avoid risks. This avoidance is in turn creating a downward spiral in the accumulation of disposable possessions, in an effort to validate themselves. This saturation of the meaningless has distracted us from what’s important in our lives and has... See more

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Being wrong isn’t something to fear but rather something to expect.

-Shane Parrish

from Brain Food #629

Be an agent of change.

Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Sir Richard Branson

Her extreme frugality – refusing to take carriages despite being worth millions – wasn’t miserliness but rather an understanding that every dollar spent was a dollar that couldn’t compound.

[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street

Always look at opportunity costs!

in regards to Hetty Green

Darrow says of refugee Reds living in Tinos:

I stare down at the city, unable to find the words I need to say. I feel like a prisoner who spent his whole life digging through the wall, only to break through and find he’s only dug into another cell. Except there will always be another cell. And another. And another. These people are not living. They

from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 71

Notes from podcast about somnology (study of sleep):

Three kinds of sleep: light sleep, dark sleep, dream (REM) sleep
Light sleep is roughly half of your sleep, leaving about a quarter of your sleep split evenly between dark and dream sleep
Sleep knowledge is elusive
The main cause of insomnia is the fear of insomnia
A great way to be rid of insomnia

There’s a part one and part two; each are thought-provoking and interesting