Simple happiness

We 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

Put good stuff into the universe and most of the time the universe will return good stuff to you

-Sari

Live for more.

Most people see circumstances as fixed; high-agency people see them as variables. When Depression-era customers couldn’t afford shotguns, Rose didn’t complain about the economy; she created a rental program overnight. The line stretched around the block the next morning. High agency isn’t magical thinking; it’s the refusal to accept artificial

Hope is what drives humanity, the root of all motivation.

We hope that we find love, people who see and accept us for who we are.

We hope that our future—and the collective future of humanity—is better than it is now (and now and now).

We hope that …