the good life
Fantastic and original insight. Unpacking as a decision making tool. Powerful coaching advice.
While our brains naturally conserve energy (the "law of less work"), studies consistently show a powerful link between embracing optimal, meaningful challenges and greater life satisfaction—what researchers call eudaimonic well-being (fulfillment through growth and purpose), which often surpasses the fleeting pleasure of mere comfort (hedonic... See more
Martin Why Are Older People More Boring ?
instagram.com“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 problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
— Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
You chase novelty
Social media has rewired us to constantly seek novelty. You swipe until you find the fresh, new thing that grabs your attention. But unfortunately, that obsession with novelty is the single greatest risk to building the life you want.
The most meaningful things in life are built through the consistent execution of the very boring... See more
Social media has rewired us to constantly seek novelty. You swipe until you find the fresh, new thing that grabs your attention. But unfortunately, that obsession with novelty is the single greatest risk to building the life you want.
The most meaningful things in life are built through the consistent execution of the very boring... See more
Sahil Bloom • How to Live a Miserable Life
top tier sentence. top 10 sentences of all time for me
> If years were letters, the average human lifespan would not be longer than this sentence.
Sagar Menonsubstack.com