Simple happiness

Drivers of happiness

Briggs Uhler

We value other people’s opinions the most when we haven’t truly decided our own

-Aidan Steinbach

from Why Adulthood is hard

You will never be perfect, but you can always be better.

-Warren Buffett

from Berkshire Hathaway 2025 Thanksgiving letter

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

Waiting to feel confident is just another way to quit.

-Jo Stephens

from LinkedIn post

Testing The "Impossible": 17 Questions That Changed My Life (#206) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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Lots of good questions to think about every once in a while!

80% of our health comes from our environment

from Julia Hotz in Ologies podcast episodes about Salugenology

It’s possible that one of the reasons you got on the path of mastery was to look good. But to learn something new of any significance, you have to be willing to look foolish.

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If you’re always thinking about appearances, you can never attain the state of concentration that’s necessary for effective learning and top performance.

Reliability is Magnetic

by George Leonard

The world you want requires inputs you don't

Aidan aidansteinbach.substack.com

Solve problems, not symptoms!
Symptom-Fixer vs System-Changer—who are you?
Change the inputs to make meaningful change

instead of tracking every purchase, I’ve landed on something simpler: a money audit. not monthly. not daily. just a quarterly check to make sure I’m directionally correct.

november edition

Instead of a strict budget