Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
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
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
Think of diet as a lifestyle; 120-160g/day protein
To know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing.
-Picasso
Begin, and figure things out as you go
Harvard University social psychologist Daniel Gilbert gave hundreds of people the opportunity to pick a free poster from a selection of art prints . Then he divided the participants into two groups. The first group was told that they had a month in which they could exchange their poster for any other one; the second group was told that the decision... See more
Gavin O'Hara • The Optionality Fallacy
Study called “Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes
All the time you spend worrying about the opportunities you don’t have comes at the expense of maximizing the opportunities you do have.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #646
80% of our health comes from our environment
from Julia Hotz in Ologies podcast episodes about Salugenology
For a truly memorable trip, go without reservations, just winging it along the way. If you like somewhere, stay a day longer, or if you don’t, split a day earlier. If the train is full, take a bus. That freedom can be liberating.
Kevin Kelly • 50 Years of Travel Tips
home isn’t something you find or inherit. It’s something you build, piece by piece, when you stop chasing the next better version of your life. Because the irony is, that’s when you actually become her—the future you you’ve been running after all along. You root, not because you’ve given up, but because you’re finally ready to stay.
Cosmopolitanism vs. Displacement: Running From Where We Came From
... See moreYou come to realize that missing out on something —indeed, on almost everything—is basically guaranteed. Which isn’t actually a problem…because “missing out” is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place. Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that