Simple happiness
Drivers of happiness
Simple happiness
nabeelqu.co • Nabeel S. Qureshi
You will never be perfect, but you can always be better.
-Warren Buffett
Take the dirt road. What is my dirt road?
from Matthew McConaughey in The Tim Ferriss Show podcast #474
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn’t in taking on more, it’s in cutting off everything that doesn’t feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #632
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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Last fall, I ran a half marathon through New York City with 200 strangers. Two hundred crazies in running shorts treating the streets like our personal track. A local running club organized it the night before the NYC Marathon for everyone who didn't get in. We met near 125th with no course markings or finish line. Just a handful of checkpoints and
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Figure out what drives you. Figure out what matters enough to suffer for. You don’t need to know what job you want, or who you’ll marry, or where you’ll live five years from now. You just need to know why you’re doing any of it.
Figure out what gets you out of bed when you don’t want to move. Figure out what makes you feel alive
How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe that’s just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be. It takes more to hope than to remember.
-Darrow
Wish for things in the future, not the past
my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Morning Star pg. 305