the good life

Yet it is in this whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure.

M. Scott Peck • The Road Less Travelled

“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward…Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do.”

- what Krishna tells Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita:

The deepest human relationships come from accepting the best and worst of one another. The greatest love for a craft comes from discovering all the endless ways to be humbled by it.

Have you heard of the Ikea effect?

In one study, subjects were willing to pay 63% more for furniture they assembled with their own hands than for an identical pre-assembled piece.

We tend to love what we pour effort into.

As Charlie Munger says:

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”

We Know What Is Wrong With More Clarity Than What Is Right

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