Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
Use your thinky bits to find your niche—it’s out there
Everyone knows what works. Few do it after it stops being exciting.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #638
Optimism is a performance-enhancing drug that’s both legal and free.
While experts predicted failure, Sam Walton opened discount stores in small towns. When critics said it was ‘too risky,’ FedEx launched overnight delivery.
While pessimists write reports, optimists write history.
While experts predicted failure, Sam Walton opened discount stores in small towns. When critics said it was ‘too risky,’ FedEx launched overnight delivery.
While pessimists write reports, optimists write history.
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The Purpose Check-Up
bluezones.com
we try to measure what we value.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
YES - avoid the latter
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
To believe in yourself. To believe in one another. That's fundamental to being alive
-Ted Lasso
from Ted Lasso S3E5
... See moreWe are nowhere as close to complicated as creatures as we think we are.
We’d like to think that humans are evolved, über complex individuals. And that because we are such complex individuals, our problems require complex fixes.
But often, they don’t. We tell ourselves our problems are complex to avoid the simple solutions that require change and
On humans being simple - we tend to overcomplicate things
my bold; from LinkedIn post
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.