Simple happiness

Drivers of happiness

Briggs Uhler

Why Aristotle would hate Valentine’s Day – and his five steps to love

Ian James Kidd theconversation.com

Your story won’t look like anyone else’s. And it shouldn’t.

-Aidan Steinbach

from Why Adulthood is hard

The loudest signals come from the emptiest sources. Those who truly possess something rarely need to announce it.

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

Philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote that the self is made through story. Not a fixed thing, but an unfolding—stitched together by time, memory, retelling. When you stop telling the story, the self begins to fade.

Lauren Razavi • You Can’t Live Everywhere: What Comes After the Plot Collapses

Take the dirt road. What is my dirt road?

from Matthew McConaughey in The Tim Ferriss Show podcast #474

To know what you are going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

-Picasso

Begin, and figure things out as you go

enough-money

enoughmoney.life

Stop chasing more and more - learn when enough is enough for you

There’s a lot of alpha in being willing to do “menial” work (take notes, send out agendas, order pizza, manually inspect raw data, whatever). Beware over-delegation and being too far from the details.

nabeelqu.co • Nabeel S. Qureshi

Is land a source of belongings or a source of belonging

-Robin Wall Kimmerer